Age-dependent relationships between multiple sexual pigments and condition in males and females

Age-dependent relationships between coloration and reproduction in a species exhibiting delayed plumage maturation in females

(2013) Alexandra B. Bentz et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

(2013) Nicola Saino et al.   PLoS One

Correlations of Condition, Testosterone, and Age with Multiple Ornaments in Male House Sparrows: Patterns and Implications

(2012) Silke Laucht et al.   CONDOR

Pigments versus structure: examining the mechanism of age-dependent change in a carotenoid-based colour

(2012) Simon R. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Female ornaments revisited - are they correlated with offspring quality?

(2012) Jarle T. Nordeide et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

The evolution of female ornaments and weaponry: social selection, sexual selection and ecological competition

(2012) J. A. Tobias et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The influence of male age and simulated pathogenic infection on producing a dishonest sexual signal

(2012) E. K. Copeland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Age before beauty? Relationships between fertilization success and age-dependent ornaments in barn swallows

(2011) Jan T. Lifjeld et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Delayed plumage maturation and delayed reproductive investment in birds

(2011) Gerard L. Hawkins et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

DIVERGENT PATTERNS OF AGE-DEPENDENCE IN ORNAMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS IN THE COLLARED FLYCATCHER

(2011) Simon R. Evans et al.   EVOLUTION

Terminal investment in multiple sexual signals: immune-challenged males produce more attractive pheromones

(2011) Mattias Lange Nielsen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Changes in carotenoid-based plumage colour in relation to age in European SerinsSerinus serinus

(2011) EMILIO PAGANI-NÚÑEZ et al.   IBIS

Informative content of melanin-based plumage colour in adult Eurasian kestrels

(2011) Deseada Parejo et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Age, sex and beauty: methodological dependence of age- and sex-dichromatism in the great tit Parus major

(2010) SIMON R. EVANS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Repeatable Length and Mass but Not Growth Rate of Individual Feathers between Moults in a Passerine Bird

(2009) Iván De La Hera et al.   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Optimization of Resource Allocation Can Explain the Temporal Dynamics and Honesty of Sexual Signals

(2009) Jan Lindström et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Singing in the face of death: male banded wrens Thryophilus pleurostictus sing more to playback in their last breeding season

(2009) Michelle L Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Age-dependent allocation of carotenoids to coloration versus antioxidant defences

(2009) J. Cote et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Serum antioxidant levels in wild birds vary in relation to diet, season, life history strategy, and species

(2009) Alan A. Cohen et al.   OECOLOGIA

The evolution of eu- and pheomelanic traits may respond to an economy of pigments related to environmental oxidative stress

(2009) Ismael Galván et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Male barn swallows use different resource allocation rules to produce ornamental tail feathers

(2008) Alberto Muñoz et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The effects of delayed plumage maturation on aggression and survival in male red-backed fairy-wrens

(2008) Jordan Karubian et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Multiple ways to become red: Pigment identification in red feathers using spectrometry

(2008) G.M. Toral et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Carotenoid-Based Plumage Coloration Predicts Leukocyte Parameters during the Breeding Season in Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis)

(2008) Donna L. Maney et al.   ETHOLOGY

An update on the honesty of melanin-based color signals in birds

(2008) Kevin J. McGraw   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system, coloration and behavioural syndromes

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