Is sexual selection blurring the functional significance of eggshell coloration hypotheses

By S. James Reynolds, G. Martin, P. Cassey. 2009

108 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. P. Cassey
2. A. Gosler
3. S. Portugal
4. M. Cherry
5. Jonathan M. Jeschke
6. David L. Strayer

Citations in the corpus

• Review: an embryo's eye view of avian eggshell pigmentation (2011, background): “…is essential to explain shell appearance, where one-dimensional explanations struggle, for example in clarifying the adaptive function of blue shell pigmentation (Lack 1958, Reynolds et al. 2009) or the secondary evolution of white eggs in cavity nesters (Underwood and Sealy 2002, Kilner 2006).”
• Avian eggshell coloration: new perspectives on adaptive explanations (2010, background): “We agree with Reynolds et al. (2009) that plumage traits are likely to be a more reliable indicator of the quality of female birds than are egg coloration traits because they are both more conspicuous and visible for much longer periods.”