Darker female pigeons transmit more specific antibodies to their eggs than do paler ones

Melanin-based coloration reflects alternative strategies to cope with food limitation in pigeons

(2012) L. Jacquin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Pigments, Parasites and Personalitiy: Towards a Unifying Role for Steroid Hormones?

(2012) Silje Kittilsen et al.   PLoS One

Melanin-based coloration predicts aggressiveness and boldness in captive eastern Hermann’s tortoises

(2011) Alia Mafli et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Impact of urban environment and host phenotype on the epidemiology of Chlamydiaceae in feral pigeons (Columba livia)

(2011) J. Gasparini et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Association between melanism, physiology and behaviour: A role for the melanocortin system

(2011) Alexandre Roulin et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Melanin-based coloration is related to parasite intensity and cellular immune response in an urban free living bird: the feral pigeon Columba livia

(2011) Lisa Jacquin et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Informative content of melanin-based plumage colour in adult Eurasian kestrels

(2011) Deseada Parejo et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Blood parasites mediate morph-specific maintenance costs in a colour polymorphic wild bird

(2011) P. KARELL et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Eumelanin- and pheomelanin-based colour advertise resistance to oxidative stress in opposite ways

(2011) A. ROULIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

MC1R-dependent, melanin-based colour polymorphism is associated with cell-mediated response in the Eleonora’s falcon

(2011) L. GANGOSO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Contrasted effects of an oxidative challenge and α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on cellular immune responsiveness: an experiment with red-legged partridges Alectoris rufa

(2011) Francois Mougeot et al.   OECOLOGIA

Do maternally derived antibodies and early immune experience shape the adult immune response?

(2010) BriAnne Addison et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Colour polymorphism and correlated characters: genetic mechanisms and evolution

(2010) JEFFREY S. MCKINNON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Identification of the amino acid residues involved in human IgG transport into egg yolks of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

(2010) Hae-duck Bae et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Pheomelanin‐Based Coloration and the Ability to Cope with Variation in Food Supply and Parasitism

(2009) Romain Piault et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Female ornamentation and directional male mate preference in the rock sparrow

(2009) Matteo Griggio et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

Cross-fostering experiments to compare carotenoid- and melanin-based plumage traits and long-term parental effects in post-moulted great tits

(2009) Quesada et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Inter-annual variation and information content of melanin-based coloration in female Eurasian kestrels

(2009) PABLO VERGARA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Melanin-based skin spots reflect stress responsiveness in salmonid fish

(2009) S. Kittilsen et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Strength and cost of an induced immune response are associated with a heritable melanin-based colour trait in female tawny owls

(2009) Julien Gasparini et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

New perspectives for estimating body condition from mass/length data: the scaled mass index as an alternative method

(2009) Jordi Peig et al.   OIKOS

The evolution of eu- and pheomelanic traits may respond to an economy of pigments related to environmental oxidative stress

(2009) Ismael Galván et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Pigments, Patterns, and Fish Behavior

(2009) Anna C. Price et al.   Zebrafish

Dual Utility of a Melanin-Based Ornament in Bearded Tits

(2008) Herbert Hoi et al.   ETHOLOGY

Maternal transfer of antibodies in vertebrates: trans-generational effects on offspring immunity

(2008) D. Hasselquist et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

An Intracellular Antioxidant Determines the Expression of a Melanin-Based Signal in a Bird

(2008) Ismael Galván et al.   PLoS One

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

(2008) A DUCREST et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Maternal transfer of antibodies: raising immuno-ecology issues

(2008) Thierry Boulinier et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits

(2008) Dustin R. Rubenstein et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Chlamydial infections in feral pigeons in Europe: Review of data and focus on public health implications

(2008) S. Magnino et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY