Dietary carotenoid pigments and immune function in a songbird with extensive carotenoid-based plumage coloration

By K. Navara, G. E. Hill. 2003

110 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Parasitology

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In Ecology

1. C. Isaksson
2. Paul M. Nolan
3. O. Crino
4. A. Monti
5. L. Serra
6. Davide Licheri
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. C. Isaksson
2. Paul M. Nolan
3. O. Crino
4. A. Monti
5. L. Serra
6. Davide Licheri
7. A. Pilastro
8. M. Griggio

In Parasitology

1. C. Isaksson
2. Dennis Hasselquist
3. K. McGraw
4. Paul M. Nolan
5. O. Crino

Citations in the corpus

• The physiological costs of being colourful: nutritional control of carotenoid utilization in the American goldfinch, (2005, unknown): “…(Fernandes et al. 1995; Nir et al. 1996; Frame et al. 1998), and (4) the lone test of the immunoenhancing properties of carotenoids in goldfinches found no differences in several immune parameters between carotenoid-supplemented and -un- supplemented captive, moulting males (Navara & Hill 2003).”
• Carotenoid accumulation strategies for becoming a colourful House Finch: analyses of plasma and liver pigments in wild moulting birds (2006, background): “Blount et al. 2003; McGraw & Ardia 2003; Saino et al. 2003; but see Navara & Hill 2003 ), whereas the cryptoxanthins and carotenes, but not xanthophylls, have pro-vitamin-A activity (Bauernfeind 1981).”
• Dietary amino acids influence plumage traits and immune responses of male house sparrows, Passer domesticus, but not as expected (2005, background): “Navara & Hill 2003; Ohlsson et al. 2003).”
• Plasma Glutathione and Carotenoid Coloration as Potential Biomarkers of Environmental Stress in Great Tits (2005, background): “For example, it is debated whether the high circulating levels of carotenoids in many birds, in particular those with carotenoid-pigmented plumage, really can be a limiting factor for the relatively modest requirement by immunological and antioxidative functions (Hill, 1999; Navara and Hill, 2003).”
• Armaments and ornaments in the rock sparrow: a possible dual utility of a carotenoid-based feather signal (2006, background): “Feather carotenoid ornaments, in contrast, are often formed several months before the breeding season and will therefore reflect a male’s condition at the time of molt (Navara and Hill 2003).”