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

Parallel and Convergent Evolution of the Dim-Light Vision Gene RH1 in Bats (Order: Chiroptera)

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Is sexual selection blurring the functional significance of eggshell coloration hypotheses?

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Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests?

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

Extraction and analysis of colourful eggshell pigments using HPLC and HPLC/electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

(2009) A. Gorchein et al.   BIOMEDICAL CHROMATOGRAPHY

Photodynamic antimicrobial activity of avian eggshell pigments

(2009) Shin-ichi Ishikawa et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Are avian eggshell colours effective intraspecific communication signals in the Muscicapoidea? A perceptual modelling approach

(2009) PHILLIP CASSEY et al.   IBIS

Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals

(2009) D. M. Hunt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparison of the total amount of eggshell pigments in Dongxiang brown-shelled eggs and Dongxiang blue-shelled eggs

(2009) X. T. Wang et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

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

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

(2008) DAVID C. LAHTI   AUK

Antimicrobial activity of the Anseriform outer eggshell and cuticle

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The white colour of the Ostrich (Struthio camelus) egg is a trade-off between predation and overheating

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A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

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