Bacterial degradability of an intrafeather unmelanized ornament: a role for feather-degrading bacteria in sexual selection?

Plasma Antioxidant Capacity and Oxidative Damage in Relation to Male Plumage Ornamental Traits in a Montane Iberian Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleucaPopulation

(2011) Juan Moreno et al.   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Melanin coloration has temperature-dependent effects on breeding performance that may maintain phenotypic variation in a passerine bird

(2010) P. M. SIRKIÄ et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Haste Makes Waste: Accelerated Molt Adversely Affects the Expression of Melanin-Based and Depigmented Plumage Ornaments in House Sparrows

(2010) Csongor I. Vágási et al.   PLoS One

Distinguishing between male and territory quality: females choose multiple traits in the pied flycatcher

(2009) Päivi Maria Sirkiä et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Individual quality and reproductive effort mirrored in white wing plumage in both sexes of south polar skuas

(2009) Sveinn Are Hanssen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Interactions between sexual and natural selection on the evolution of a plumage badge

(2009) Brian J. Olsen et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Predators and microorganisms of prey: goshawks prefer prey with small uropygial glands

(2009) Anders P. Møller et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variation in effects of male plumage ornaments: the case of Iberian Pied Flycatchers

(2009) ISMAEL GALVÁN et al.   IBIS

A future with feather-degrading bacteria

(2009) Edward H. Burtt   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Evidence that plumage bacteria influence feather coloration and body condition of eastern bluebirdsSialia sialis

(2009) Alex R. Gunderson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Seasonal, sexual and developmental differences in hoopoe Upupa epops preen gland morphology and secretions: evidence for a role of bacteria

(2009) Manuel Martín-Vivaldi et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

SEASONALLY CHANGING PREEN-WAX COMPOSITION: RED KNOTS' (CALIDRIS CANUTUS) FLEXIBLE DEFENSE AGAINST FEATHER-DEGRADING BACTERIA?

(2008) JEROEN RENEERKENS et al.   AUK

FEATHER-DEGRADING BACTERIA: A NEW FRONTIER IN AVIAN AND HOST–PARASITE RESEARCH?

(2008) ALEX R. GUNDERSON   AUK

The roles of ecological factors and sexual selection in the evolution of white wing patches in ducks

(2008) Gergely Hegyi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The importance of white on black: unmelanized plumage proportion predicts display complexity in birds

(2008) Ismael Galván   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Symbiotic association between hoopoes and antibiotic-producing bacteria that live in their uropygial gland

(2008) J. J. Soler et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Resistance of melanized feathers to bacterial degradation: is it really so black and white?

(2008) Alex R. Gunderson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Female ornamentation and territorial conflicts in collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis)

(2008) Gergely Hegyi et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Do feather-degrading bacteria affect sexually selected plumage color?

(2008) Matthew D. Shawkey et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

An update on the honesty of melanin-based color signals in birds

(2008) Kevin J. McGraw   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research