What do we really know about the signalling role of plumage colour in blue tits? A case study of impediments to progress in evolutionary biology

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

No Band Color Effects on Male Courtship Rate or Body Mass in the Zebra Finch: Four Experiments and a Meta-Analysis

(2012) Aurelie Seguin et al.   PLoS One

Zebra finch females prefer males with redder bills independent of song rate—a meta-analysis

(2011) Mirre J.P. Simons et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Ultraviolet-blue plumage colouration can be perceived as an indicator of fluctuating asymmetry by Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)

(2011) Ismael Galván   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Fecundity selection on ornamental plumage colour differs between ages and sexes and varies over small spatial scales

(2011) T. H. PARKER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

No evidence for general condition-dependence of structural plumage colour in blue tits: an experiment

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

A multi-gene approach reveals a complex evolutionary history in the Cyanistes species group

(2011) JUAN CARLOS ILLERA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Negative results are published

(2011) Bob O'Hara   NATURE

Unpublished results hide the decline effect

(2011) Jonathan Schooler   NATURE

Strategic female reproductive investment in response to male attractiveness in birds

(2011) T. Horvathova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Data Archiving

(2010) Michael C. Whitlock et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Mediating male–male interactions: the role of the UV blue crest coloration in blue tits

(2010) Alice Rémy et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse

(2010) Wolfgang Forstmeier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Age, sex and beauty: methodological dependence of age- and sex-dichromatism in the great tit Parus major

(2010) SIMON R. EVANS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

THE LANDE-KIRKPATRICK MECHANISM IS THE NULL MODEL OF EVOLUTION BY INTERSEXUAL SELECTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEANING, HONESTY, AND DESIGN IN INTERSEXUAL SIGNALS

(2010) Richard O. Prum   EVOLUTION

No consistent female preference for higher crown UV reflectance in Blue TitsCyanistes caeruleus: a mate choice experiment

(2010) RALF H. J. M. KURVERS et al.   IBIS

The need for archiving data in evolutionary biology

(2010) ALLEN J. MOORE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

General quantitative genetic methods for comparative biology: phylogenies, taxonomies and multi-trait models for continuous and categorical characters

(2010) J. D. HADFIELD et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Getting started with meta-analysis

(2010) Freya Harrison   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Of Beauty, Sex and Power

(2009) Andrew Gelman et al.   AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Meta-analysis in applied ecology

(2009) G. Stewart   Biology Letters

It’s about time: the temporal dynamics of phenotypic selection in the wild

(2009) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ultraviolet crown colouration affects contest outcomes among male blue tits, but only in the absence of prior encounters

(2009) Oscar Vedder et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Moult speed affects structural feather ornaments in the blue tit

(2009) M. GRIGGIO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Carotenoid-based plumage colouration is associated with blood parasite richness and stress protein levels in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)

(2009) Sara del Cerro et al.   OECOLOGIA

Towards an evolutionary ecology of sexual traits

(2009) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Stepwise Model Fitting and Statistical Inference: Turning Noise into Signal Pollution

(2008) Roger Mundry et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ultraviolet plumage does not signal social status in free-living blue tits; an experimental test

(2008) Oscar Vedder et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Manipulation of male attractiveness induces rapid changes in avian maternal yolk androgen deposition

(2008) Sjouke A. Kingma et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Condition-dependent genetic benefits of extrapair fertilization in female blue titsCyanistes caeruleus

(2008) A. N. DREISS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adaptive Plasticity in Female Mate Choice Dampens Sexual Selection on Male Ornaments in the Lark Bunting

(2008) A. S. Chaine et al.   SCIENCE

Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science

(2008) Neal S Young et al.   PLOS MEDICINE