Immune and Stress Responses Covary with Melanin-Based Coloration in the Barn Swallow

Sexual Dimorphism in Melanin Pigmentation, Feather Coloration and Its Heritability in the Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)

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Longevity and lifetime reproductive success of barn swallow offspring are predicted by their hatching date and phenotypic quality

(2012) Nicola Saino et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Coloration signals the ability to cope with elevated stress hormones: effects of corticosterone on growth of barn owls are associated with melanism

(2012) B. ALMASI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Exploratory behaviour and stressor hyper-responsiveness facilitate range expansion of an introduced songbird

(2012) A. L. Liebl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

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

Eumelanin-based coloration and fitness parameters in birds: a meta-analysis

(2010) Joël Meunier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Temporal variation in glucocorticoid levels during the resting phase is associated in opposite way with maternal and paternal melanic coloration

(2010) A. ROULIN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Regulation of stress response is heritable and functionally linked to melanin-based coloration

(2010) B. ALMASI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Neuropeptide Alpha-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Is Critically Involved in the Development of Cytotoxic CD8+ T Cells in Mice and Humans

(2010) Karin Loser et al.   PLoS One

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

(2009) Romain Piault et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Different roles of natural and sexual selection on senescence of plumage colour in the barn swallow

(2009) Ismael Galván et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Development of the adrenal stress response in the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

(2009) Michelle A. Rensel et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Synergistic and antagonistic interaction between different branches of the immune system is related to melanin-based coloration in nestling tawny owls

(2009) J. GASPARINI et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Covariation between eumelanic pigmentation and body mass only under specific conditions

(2009) Alexandre Roulin   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Current challenges in understanding melanogenesis: bridging chemistry, biological control, morphology, and function

(2009) John D Simon et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Do baseline glucocorticoids predict fitness?

(2009) Frances Bonier et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evolution of Avian Plumage Color in a Tetrahedral Color Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of New World Buntings

(2008) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Parental investment and its sensitivity to corticosterone is linked to melanin-based coloration in barn owls

(2008) Bettina Almasi et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Male colour variation in Spanish Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

(2008) JAIME POTTI et al.   IBIS

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

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

Corticosterone mediates the condition-dependent component of melanin-based coloration

(2007) Alexandre Roulin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR