The effect of coccidial infection on iridescent plumage coloration in wild turkeys

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Dietary mineral content influences the expression of melanin-based ornamental coloration (2007, unknown): “The honesty-reinforcing mechanisms of ornamental structural colors have historically received comparatively less attention, but at present, the evidence suggests that they also are consistently sensitive to nutrition and health factors (e.g., Keyser and Hill 1999; Doucet 2002; McGraw et al. 2002; Do”
Quantifying iridescent coloration in animals: a method for improving repeatability (2011, background): “This is not an expectation for all species or color patches per se (see Wolfenbarger 1999; Hill et al. 2005; Safran and McGraw 2004), but for many color ornaments, intrapatch color variation is not obvious to the human eye or has not been rigorously tested.”
Iridescent structurally based coloration of eyespots correlates with mating success in the peacock (2007, background): “Hill et al. (2005) provided the first experimental evidence of the suppression of the expression of iridescence by inoculation of male wild turkeys Meleagris gallopavo with parasites.”