Melanin-based colour polymorphism responding to climate change

Brownish, small and lousy barn swallows have greater natal dispersal propensity

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Rates of projected climate change dramatically exceed past rates of climatic niche evolution among vertebrate species

(2013) Ignacio Quintero et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Morph-dependent resource acquisition and fitness in a polymorphic bird

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Seasonality influences cuticle melanization and immune defense in a cricket: support for a temperature-dependent immune investment hypothesis in insects

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Melanism, body condition and elevational distribution in the asp viper

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Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system: expression levels of this system are associated with melanogenesis and pigmentation in the tawny owl (Strix aluco)

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Fluctuating selection and immigration as determinants of the phenotypic composition of a population

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Adaptation of Pelage Color and Pigment Variations in Israeli Subterranean Blind Mole Rats, Spalax Ehrenbergi

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Evolution of a genetic polymorphism with climate change in a Mediterranean landscape

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Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: From Evidence to a Predictive Framework

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Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

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Melanin-based coloration predicts natal dispersal in the barn owl, Tyto alba

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Genetics of Climate Change Adaptation

(2012) Steven J. Franks et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Thermal environment shapes cuticle melanism and melanin-based immunity in the ground cricket Allonemobius socius

(2012) Kenneth M. Fedorka et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Forecasting extinction risk of ectotherms under climate warming: an evolutionary perspective

(2012) Richard J. Walters et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Accelerated speciation in colour-polymorphic birds

(2012) Andrew F. Hugall et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary and Ecological Responses to Anthropogenic Climate Change: Update on Anthropogenic Climate Change

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Climate-induced range contraction drives genetic erosion in an alpine mammal

(2012) Emily M. Rubidge et al.   Nature Climate Change

Owl melanin-based plumage redness is more frequent near than away from the equator: implications on the effect of climate change on biodiversity

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

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

Matching habitat choice by experimentally mismatched phenotypes

(2011) Einat Karpestam et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Global climate change and its dermatological diseases

(2011) Louise K. Andersen   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY

Interspecific variation in primate coat colour supports Gloger’s rule

(2011) Jason M. Kamilar et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Some like it hot: the effects of climate change on reproduction, immune function and disease resistance in the cricket Gryllus texensis

(2011) S. A. Adamo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes

(2011) Seung-Ki Min et al.   NATURE

Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011

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A test of the relationship between cuticular melanism and immune function in wild-caught Mormon crickets

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Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland

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Climate change drives microevolution in a wild bird

(2011) Patrik Karell et al.   Nature Communications

Sex-specific aggression and sex ratio in wintering finch flocks: serins and siskins differ

(2010) J. C. Senar et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

Immune defence under extreme ambient temperature

(2010) O. Seppala et al.   Biology Letters

Within-taxon niche structure: niche conservatism, divergence and predicted effects of climate change

(2010) Peter B. Pearman et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Temperature extremes and butterfly fitness: conflicting evidence from life history and immune function

(2010) ISABELL KARL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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Colour polymorphism and correlated characters: genetic mechanisms and evolution

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

Global changes and animal phenotypic responses: melanin-based plumage redness of scops owls increased with temperature and rainfall during the last century

(2009) P. Galeotti et al.   Biology Letters

Climate change and wildlife diseases: When does the host matter the most?

(2009) Drew Harvell et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate warming and the evolution of morphotypes in a reptile

(2009) VIRGINIE LEPETZ et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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The potential for behavioral thermoregulation to buffer "cold-blooded" animals against climate warming

(2009) M. Kearney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Testosterone and melanin-based black plumage coloration: a comparative study

(2008) Veronika Bókony et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Testing the thermal melanism hypothesis: a macrophysiological approach

(2008) S. Clusella-Trullas et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Climate warming, dispersal inhibition and extinction risk

(2008) MANUEL MASSOT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

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Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses

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