Structurally based plumage coloration is an honest signal of quality in male blue grosbeaks

By A. Keyser, G. E. Hill. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. S. Doucet
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7. J. Uy
8. Adam C. Stein

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• Achromatic color variation in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapilla: black and white signals of sex and rank (2003, background): “While sex, status, and quality signals have received considerable attention with respect to bright pigmentbased colors (Andersson 1994) and, to a lesser extent, structural blue/UV colors (e.g., Hunt et al. 1998; Keyser and Hill 2000; Doucet and Montgomerie 2003), very little is known about the signa”
• Structural and melanin coloration indicate parental effort and reproductive success in male eastern bluebirds (2003, background): “Keyser and Hill (2000) found positive associations between the intensity of structural coloration of male blue grosbeaks and both territory quality and chick provisioning rates, but Smiseth et al. (2001) found no relationship between any reflectance measure of the blue-UV plumage coloration of male…”
• Multiple sexual ornaments in satin bowerbirds: ultraviolet plumage and bowers signal different aspects of male quality (2003, methodology): “Recent studies of other bird species have shown that structural plumage coloration can honestly signal condition (Doucet, 2002; Keyser and Hill, 1999), male quality (Keyser and Hill, 2000), and viability (Sheldon et al., 1999).”
• Ultraviolet reflection and female mate choice in the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca (2002, background): “In blue grosbeaks, Guiraca caerulea, males with the bluest plumage (a condition-dependent ornament, Keyser & Hill 1999) maintain the largest territories and feed nestlings at the highest rates (Keyser & Hill 2000).”
• 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).”
• Plumage brightness predicts male mating success in the lekking golden-collared manakin, Manacus vitellinus (2006, background): “…quantification of variation among males in the specific spectral properties of their plumage and relating this variation to individual reproductive or mating success (e.g., Andersson et al., 1998; Doucet et al., 2004; Keyser and Hill, 2000; Safran and McGraw, 2004; Siefferman and Hill, 2003).”
• UV-blue structural coloration and competition for nestboxes in male eastern bluebirds (2005, unknown): “In the wild, brighter males defend larger territories of higher quality than do duller males (Keyser & Hill 2000).”
• Multimodal signalling: structural ultraviolet reflectance predicts male mating success better than pheromones in the butterfly Colias eurytheme L. (Pieridae) (2007, background): “In grosbeaks, structural coloration may act as a reliable signal of male mate quality (Keyser & Hill 2000) because structural UV reflectance is costly to make and therefore honestly indicates phenotypic condition (Keyser & Hill 1999).”
• Social environment during molt and the expression of melanin-based plumage pigmentation in male house sparrows (Passer domesticus) (2002, background): “…state at the time of molt indicate that both carotenoid-(Hill and Montgomerie 1994; Hill 2000; <CitationRef and Hill 2000a) and structurally based (Keyser and Hill 1999, 2000; McGraw et al. 2002) ornamental colors are energetically and nutritionally demanding to produce in a number of avian…”
• Mutual ornamentation, age and reproductive performance in the European starling (2005, background): “There is some evidence for individual quality-related differences in producing noniridescent structural colors ( Keyser and Hill, 1999, 2000 ), but no comparable research on iridescent plumage has been carried out.”
• Diet quality affects an attractive white plumage pattern in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis) (2007, background): “There is also growing evidence that nutrition may be related to melanin-based ornaments (Jawor and Breitwisch 2003; Veiga and Puerta 1996) as well as to structural coloration, which is produced by specialized nanostructure in feather keratin (Doucet 2002; Keyser and Hill 1999, 2000; McGraw et al. ”
• Iridescent structurally based coloration of eyespots correlates with mating success in the peacock (2007, background): “Studies in other bird species revealed a relationship between male quality and the expression of structural colors, especially plumage brightness ( Keyser and Hill 2000; Doucet 2002; Doucet and Montgomerie 2003; Siefferman and Hill 2003).”