Mechanics of Carotenoid-Based Coloration

By K. McGraw. Bird Coloration, Volume 1, 2006

384 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sensory Systems, Social Psychology

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In Sensory Systems

1. S. Andersson
2. Priit Kilgas
3. C. Isaksson
4. L. Tummeleht

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2. Priit Kilgas
3. C. Isaksson
4. L. Tummeleht

Citations in the corpus

• Physiological condition and immune function in great tits (Parus major L.): sources of variation and trade-offs in relation to growth (2006, background): “In adult birds, immunostimulatory properties of carotenoids have been repeatedly demonstrated (reviewed in McGraw 2006) while much less is known about the importance of carotenoids as antioxidants.”
• Carotenoid diet and nestling provisioning in urban and rural great tits Parus major (2007, background): “Apart from these and a few other studies (see McGraw 2006), the dietary sources of avian carotenoid physiology and pigmentation have not been described, let alone quantified and related to habitat variation.”
• Blood parameters as indicators of physiological condition and skeletal development in great tits (Parus major): natural variation and application in the reproductive ecology of birds (2007, methodology): “Since carotenoids cannot be synthesized in the body and must be obtained with food (McGraw 2006), this result compares favorably with previous findings that lepidopteran larvae serve as a main source of dietary carotenoids for breeding great tits (Partali et al.”