Ornamental plumage coloration and condition are dependent on age in eastern bluebirds Sialia sialis

By L. Siefferman, G. E. Hill, F. Stephen Dobson. 2005

84 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. A. Møller
2. N. Saino
3. R. Ayala
4. A. Gunderson
5. Francisco Pulido
6. J. D. Ibáñez-Álamo
7. A. P. Møller
8. Andrew Sih

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. N. Saino
2. R. Ayala
3. A. Møller
4. A. Gunderson
5. Theodore Stankowich
6. Francisco Pulido
7. Daniel T. Blumstein
8. R. Martinelli

Citations in the corpus

• Feather-Degrading Bacteria: A New Frontier in Avian and Host–Parasite Research? (2008, background): “…Bacteria and Feather color exPression Feather color can communicate information about the nutrition (Hill and Montgomerie 1994), immunocompetance (Saino et al. 1999), endoparasite load (Hamilton and Zuk 1982), age (Siefferman et al. 2005), and dominance (McGraw et al. 2003) of the signaler.”
• Mouth coloration of nestlings covaries with offspring quality and influences parental feeding behavior (2007, background): “More recently, structural-based coloration has been shown to be condition dependent in a number of studies (Keyser and Hill 2000; McGraw et al. 2002; Siefferman and Hill 2005a, 2005b, 2005c; Siefferman et al. 2005), thus revealing their potential as honest signals.”