Carotenoid staining has been repeatedly shown to serve as a sexually selected individual quality signal. In different species, individuals that show brighter carotenoid-based signals have been found to have superior feeding abilities, recover faster from disease, and generally enjoy better body condition. In the common crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), the colour has also been related to the different populations, with northern and central European populations being described as redder than those in the Mediterranean region. A study in the Pyrenees showed that long-winged individuals had lower apparent survival, and the proportion of red individuals was higher in long-winged birds, concluding that they could be nomadic birds (that travel long ...
[Background] The animal signaling theory posits that conspicuous colorations exhibited by many anima...
Sexual traits can serve as honest indicators of phenotypic quality when they are costly. Brightly co...
Sexual selection has resulted in a wide array of ornaments used in mate choice, and such indicator t...
Carotenoid staining has been repeatedly shown to serve as a sexually selected individual quality sig...
Carotenoid-based ornaments are often considered reliable (honest) individual condition signals becau...
Many animals use coloration to communicate with other individuals. While the signalling role of avia...
Research into the evolutionary function of elaborated colouration in birds is continually ongoing....
Avian plumage ornaments are some of the best-studied sexually selected traits in animals. From the e...
Although melanin is the most common pigment in animal integuments, the adaptive function of variatio...
Carotenoid pigments cannot be synthesized by vertebrates but must be ingested through the diet. As t...
Sexual selection promotes the evolution of conspicuous animal ornaments. To evolve as signals, these...
Carotenoid-based ornaments act as signals of quality in many animal species. In contrast to feathers...
Traits used in communication, such as colour signals, are expected to have positive consequences for...
Aim: Birds are often coloured yellow, olive, orange or red by carotenoids, which are plant pigments ...
Sexual traits can serve as honest indicators of phenotypic quality when they are costly. Brightly co...
[Background] The animal signaling theory posits that conspicuous colorations exhibited by many anima...
Sexual traits can serve as honest indicators of phenotypic quality when they are costly. Brightly co...
Sexual selection has resulted in a wide array of ornaments used in mate choice, and such indicator t...
Carotenoid staining has been repeatedly shown to serve as a sexually selected individual quality sig...
Carotenoid-based ornaments are often considered reliable (honest) individual condition signals becau...
Many animals use coloration to communicate with other individuals. While the signalling role of avia...
Research into the evolutionary function of elaborated colouration in birds is continually ongoing....
Avian plumage ornaments are some of the best-studied sexually selected traits in animals. From the e...
Although melanin is the most common pigment in animal integuments, the adaptive function of variatio...
Carotenoid pigments cannot be synthesized by vertebrates but must be ingested through the diet. As t...
Sexual selection promotes the evolution of conspicuous animal ornaments. To evolve as signals, these...
Carotenoid-based ornaments act as signals of quality in many animal species. In contrast to feathers...
Traits used in communication, such as colour signals, are expected to have positive consequences for...
Aim: Birds are often coloured yellow, olive, orange or red by carotenoids, which are plant pigments ...
Sexual traits can serve as honest indicators of phenotypic quality when they are costly. Brightly co...
[Background] The animal signaling theory posits that conspicuous colorations exhibited by many anima...
Sexual traits can serve as honest indicators of phenotypic quality when they are costly. Brightly co...
Sexual selection has resulted in a wide array of ornaments used in mate choice, and such indicator t...