Colourful parrot feathers resist bacterial degradation

Dark Color of the Coastal Plain Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana nigrescens) May Be an Evolutionary Response to Occurrence and Abundance of Salt-tolerant Feather-degrading Bacilli in Its Plumage

(2009) Ashley M. Peele et al.   AUK

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

Variation in Plumage Microbiota Depends on Season and Migration

(2009) Isabelle-A. Bisson et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Is the structural and psittacofulvin-based coloration of wild burrowing parrotsCyanoliseus patagonuscondition dependent?

(2008) Juan F. Masello et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

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

Ecology and Evolution of the Enigmatic Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus Roratus)

(2008) Robert Heinsohn   JOURNAL OF AVIAN MEDICINE AND SURGERY