A Red Bird in a Brown Bag

By Geoffrey E. Hill. 2002

244 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. K. McGraw
2. S. Doucet
3. Paul M. Nolan
4. O. Crino
5. P. Boag
6. D. Mennill
7. L. Ratcliffe
8. A. Møller

In Global and Planetary Change

1. E. Adkins-Regan
2. R. Montgomerie
3. G. E. Hill
4. J. Senar
5. J. Quesada
6. A. Møller
7. K. McGraw
8. A. Badyaev

Citations in the corpus

• Carotenoid accumulation strategies for becoming a colourful House Finch: analyses of plasma and liver pigments in wild moulting birds (2006, background): “Hill (2000, 2002) speculated that it was the ability of birds to accumulate the precursors of red pigments in feathers – candidate molecules such as β-cryptoxanthin (based on purported chemical transformations) – that controls, at the pigment level, whether birds could acquire red plumage or not…”
• Mouth coloration of nestlings covaries with offspring quality and influences parental feeding behavior (2007, background): “…use in other physiological processes like immunity and antioxidant activity support their function as Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article-abstract/18/3/526/221699 by guest on 28 July 2018 honest signals of individual quality (Olson and Owens 1998; Møller et al. 2000; Hill 2002).”
• Mutual ornamentation, age and reproductive performance in the European starling (2005, background): “The costs of developing and maintaining carotenoid-based coloration are well researched (e.g., Hill, 2002; Olson and Owens, 1998), but structural colors have received little attention.”
• Paternal care as a conditional strategy: Distinct reproductive tactics associated with elaboration of plumage ornamentation in the house finch (2002, background): “We studied a large population of house finches in northwestern Montana to investigate whether males with different elaboration of a condition-dependent sexual trait used different reproductive tactics.”
• The effect of coccidial infection on iridescent plumage coloration in wild turkeys (2005, background): “Extensive work on carotenoid-based colour displays in birds has shown that this type of ornamental coloration is condition dependent (Hill 2002).”
• CAROTENOID PIGMENTS IN MALE HOUSE FINCH PLUMAGE IN RELATION TO AGE, SUBSPECIES, AND ORNAMENTAL COLORATION (2001, background): “It has been proposed that male plumage brightness is an honest signal of male condition, because carotenoids may be scarce resources in the environment and carotenoid-based color displays may be costly to produce (Hill 1994b, 1996a, 2002).”
• Diet quality affects an attractive white plumage pattern in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis) (2007, background): “…of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Ornamental plumage in birds, one of the best-studied classes of sexually selected traits, often shows conditiondependent variation that may be caused by differences in acquisition or allocation of a scarce dietary resource (Hill 2002; Ligon 1999).”
• The physiological costs of being colourful: nutritional control of carotenoid utilization in the American goldfinch, (2005, unknown): “There are several existing lines of correlational and experimental evidence demonstrating that carotenoid-based colour ornaments in birds are costly to produce (reviewed in Hill 2002).”
• Parasites, testosterone and honest carotenoid-based signalling of health (2007, background): “Journal compilation © 2007 British Ecological Society, Functional Ecology, 21, 886–898 up to deposition in ornaments can involve several metabolic transformations, and is most likely to be energetically costly (Hill 2002).”
• Achromatic plumage reflectance predicts reproductive success in male black-capped chickadees (2005, background): “…finding that plumage color correlated with various aspects of male quality, including parasite load (e.g., Doucet and Montgomerie, 2003b), viability (e.g., Sheldon et al., 1999), territory quality (e.g., Keyser and Hill, 2000), and parental effort (e.g., Siefferman and Hill, 2003; Hill, 2002).”
• Comparing plumage colour measurements obtained directly from live birds and from collected feathers: the case of the great tit Parus major (2006, background): “E-mail: jquesada@oikos.unam.mx Many species of birds frequently display a colourful plumage that conveys valuable information about the qualities of the bearer (Espmark et al. 2000, Hill 2002).”
• Testosterone upregulates lipoprotein status to control sexual attractiveness in a colorful songbird (2006, background): “Despite several investigations into the dietary restrictions and physiological underpinnings of carotenoid coloration in birds (reviewed in Hill 2002), we still do not know how T may modulate carotenoid accumulation and integumentary coloration in any species.”
• Sociable schedules: interplay between avian seasonal and social behaviour (2006, background): “Proximately, bright nuptial plumages may depend on a bird’s state and could therefore contribute to honest signalling (e.g. Peters et al. 2000; Piersma et al. 2001; Wingfield & Silverin 2002; Hill 2002).”