CAROTENOID PIGMENTS IN MALE HOUSE FINCH PLUMAGE IN RELATION TO AGE, SUBSPECIES, AND ORNAMENTAL COLORATION

By C. Inouye, G. E. Hill, R. Stradi, R. Montgomerie. 2001

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Parasitology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f976ba69db5fa7eac4b517aa81d506e258ec1627

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

1. K. McGraw

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. K. McGraw
2. K. Wakamatsu
3. R. Safran
4. Paul M. Nolan
5. O. Crino
6. L. Saks
7. Peeter Hõrak

In Parasitology

1. L. Saks
2. K. McGraw
3. Paul M. Nolan
4. K. Wakamatsu
5. O. Crino

Citations in the corpus

• The physiological costs of being colourful: nutritional control of carotenoid utilization in the American goldfinch, (2005, unknown): “In contrast to the hypervariable red-to-yellow plumage coloration shown by male house finches, which contains a suite of 12 carotenoid pigments (Inouye et al. 2001), male goldfinches display brilliant lemon-yellow breeding plumage that contains two main yellow carotenoids.”
• How feather colour reflects its melanin content (2005, background): “In House Finches, for example, a particular dietary carotenoid precursor and metabolic pathway is thought to be responsible for brilliant red (vs orange and yellow) colour (Inouye et al. 2001), and this knowledge has been important for targeting how the honesty of these signals is reinforced (Hill 2”
• How feather colour reflects its carotenoid content (2003, background): “In the only other study linking carotenoid content to feather colour, Inouye et al. (2001) studied the remarkable variation in plumage coloration of house finches, ranging from red to orange to yellow, and found 13 different pigments in colourful feathers that varied equally as much in colour (from…”
• Carotenoid accumulation strategies for becoming a colourful House Finch: analyses of plasma and liver pigments in wild moulting birds (2006, methodology): “More recent biochemical studies of the carotenoid components in House Finch feathers (Inouye et al. 2001) show that important red carotenoids absent from other tissues and fluids in these birds (McGraw 2004) are what determine red coloration and thus must be manufactured by birds from precursor…”