Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content

Pattern recognition algorithm reveals how birds evolve individual egg pattern signatures

(2014) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   Nature Communications

Host-Parasite Arms Races and Rapid Changes in Bird Egg Appearance

(2012) Claire N. Spottiswoode et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Why are birds' eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments co-vary with life-history and nesting ecology among British breeding non-passerine birds

(2012) PHILLIP CASSEY et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Imperfectly camouflaged avian eggs: artefact or adaptation?

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   Avian Biology Research

Avian vision and egg colouration: concepts and measurements

(2011) Martin Stevens   Avian Biology Research

Evolution of ultraviolet vision in the largest avian radiation - the passerines

(2011) Anders Ödeen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

(2011) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

When Does Coevolution Promote Diversification?

(2010) Jeremy B. Yoder et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Variability in Avian Eggshell Colour: A Comparative Study of Museum Eggshells

(2010) Phillip Cassey et al.   PLoS One

Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs

(2010) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pattern mimicry of host eggs by the common cuckoo, as seen through a bird's eye

(2010) M. C. Stoddard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests?

(2009) N.E. Langmore et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Are bird song complexity and song sharing shaped by habitat structure? An information theory and statistical approach

(2009) Elodie Briefer et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION AND RAPID EVOLUTION OF EGG COLOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH SOLAR RADIATION

(2008) DAVID C. LAHTI   AUK

Cuttlefish camouflage: The effects of substrate contrast and size in evoking uniform, mottle or disruptive body patterns

(2008) Alexandra Barbosa et al.   VISION RESEARCH

A molecular phylogeny of the African widowbirds and bishops, Euplectes spp. (Aves: Passeridae: Ploceinae)

(2007) Maria Prager et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION