Nature’s Palette: Characterization of Shared Pigments in Colorful Avian and Mollusk Shells

Eggshell pigmentation has no evident effects on offspring viability in common kestrels

(2014) Juan A. Fargallo et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

A nanostructural basis for gloss of avian eggshells

(2014) B. Igic et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Eggshell conspicuousness in ground nesting birds: do conspicuous eggshells signal nest location to conspecifics?

(2013) Daniel Hanley et al.   Avian Biology Research

Endogenous Retrovirus EAV-HP Linked to Blue Egg Phenotype in Mapuche Fowl

(2013) David Wragg et al.   PLoS One

The location of protoporphyrin in the eggshell of brown-shelled eggs

(2013) S. Samiullah et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Parents, predators, parasites, and the evolution of eggshell colour in open nesting birds

(2012) Daniel Hanley et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Evolution of patterns on Conus shells

(2012) Z. Gong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Sources of variation in reflectance spectrophotometric data: a quantitative analysis using avian eggshell colours

(2011) Phillip Cassey et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Avian eggshell coloration: new perspectives on adaptive explanations

(2010) MICHAEL I. CHERRY et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Clutch predation in great tinamous Tinamus major and implications for the evolution of egg color

(2010) Patricia L. R. Brennan   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Comparison of micrometer- and scanning electron microscope-based measurements of avian eggshell thickness

(2010) Branislav Igic et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Convergence in pigmentation at multiple levels: mutations, genes and function

(2010) M. Manceau et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2010) Phillip Cassey et al.   PLoS One

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

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

(2009) A. Gorchein et al.   BIOMEDICAL CHROMATOGRAPHY

Neogastropod phylogenetic relationships based on entire mitochondrial genomes

(2009) Regina L Cunha et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Detecting pigments from colourful eggshells of extinct birds

(2009) Branislav Igic et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

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

The neural origins of shell structure and pattern in aquatic mollusks

(2009) A. Boettiger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ARE OSTRICH STRUTHIO CAMELUS EGGS THE WRONG COLOUR?

(2008) Brian C. R. Bertram et al.   IBIS

Mechanisms and behavioural functions of structural coloration in cephalopods

(2008) L. M Mathger et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds

(2008) J. Harshman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA