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Molecular diversity, metabolic transformation, and evolution of carotenoid feather pigments in cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae)Richard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
J Comp Physiol B 182:1095-116. 2012..The color space analyses document that the evolutionarily derived metabolic modifications of dietary xanthophylls have resulted in the creation of distinctive orange-red and purple visual colors...- The Hairy-Downy game: a model of interspecific social dominance mimicryRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Theor Biol 313:42-60. 2012.... 
Aesthetic evolution by mate choice: Darwin's really dangerous ideaRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:2253-65. 2012....
Anatomically diverse butterfly scales all produce structural colours by coherent scatteringRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, PO Box 208105, New Haven, Connecticut 06250, USA
J Exp Biol 209:748-65. 2006..Recognition of this commonality provides a new perspective on how the nanostructure and optical properties of structurally coloured butterfly scales evolved and diversified among and within lepidopteran clades...- Evolution of the morphological innovations of feathersRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 304:570-9. 2005..Gene co-option also reveals a role for contingency in the evolution of hierarchical morphological innovations... - Blue integumentary structural colours in dragonflies (Odonata) are not produced by incoherent Tyndall scatteringRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, PO Box 208105, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Exp Biol 207:3999-4009. 2004..Structural colouration from arrays in living cells has also fostered the convergent evolution of temperature-dependent colour change in numerous odonate lineages... - Structural colouration of mammalian skin: convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arraysRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, PO Box 208105, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Exp Biol 207:2157-72. 2004..These collagen arrays constitute quasi-ordered 2-D photonic crystals... - Moulting tail feathers in a juvenile oviraptorisaurRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Natural History Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8150, USA
Nature 468:E1; discussion E2. 2010..I propose that the feathers of the tail of the juvenile specimen are not a specialized feather generation, but fossilized 'pin feathers' or developing feather germs... - Development of colour-producing beta-keratin nanostructures in avian feather barbsRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
J R Soc Interface 6:S253-65. 2009..We discuss the possible role of capillary flow through drying of medullary cells in the development of the hollow morphology of typical and spongy feather medullary cells... - Double scattering of light from Biophotonic Nanostructures with short-range orderHeeso Noh
Department of Applied Physics, Center for Research on Interface Structure and Phenomena, Yale University, New Haven 06511, USA
Opt Express 18:11942-8. 2010..Without an analog in periodic or random structures, such a phenomenon is unique for short-range ordered structures, and has been widely used by nature for non-iridescent structural coloration... - Structure and optical function of amorphous photonic nanostructures from avian feather barbs: a comparative small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) analysis of 230 bird speciesVinodkumar Saranathan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J R Soc Interface 9:2563-80. 2012..Such avian amorphous photonic nanostructures with isotropic optical properties may provide biomimetic inspiration for photonic technology... - How noniridescent colors are generated by quasi-ordered structures of bird feathersHeeso Noh
Department of Applied Physics, Center for Research on Interface Structure and Phenomena, Yale University, CT 06511, USA
Adv Mater 22:2871-80. 2010..Under omni-directional lighting, colors from the quasi-ordered structures are invariant with the viewing angle. The non-iridescent coloration results from the isotropic nature of structures instead of strong backscattering... - Contribution of double scattering to structural coloration in quasiordered nanostructures of bird feathersHeeso Noh
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 81:051923. 2010..The good agreement between the simulation results and the experimental data confirms that double scattering of light makes a significant contribution to the structural color... - Structural colouration of avian skin: convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arraysRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Natural History Museum, Dyche Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 7561, USA
J Exp Biol 206:2409-29. 2003..Based on the phylogenetic distribution of structurally coloured skin in Aves, this mechanism of colour production has evolved convergently more than 50 independent times within extant birds... - Structural coloration in a fossil featherJakob Vinther
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Biol Lett 6:128-31. 2010..This is, to our knowledge, the first evidence of preservation of a colour-producing nanostructure in a fossil feather and confirms the potential for determining colour differences in ancient birds and other dinosaurs... - Courting bird sings with stridulating wing feathersKimberly S Bostwick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Science 309:736. 2005..Intersexual selection for production of a nonvocal courtship song has led to major morphological, functional, and likely physiological modifications in the wing of this flying bird... - The colour of fossil feathersJakob Vinther
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Biol Lett 4:522-5. 2008..The discovery of preserved melanosomes opens up the possibility of interpreting the colour of extinct birds and other dinosaurs... - Structure, function, and self-assembly of single network gyroid (I4132) photonic crystals in butterfly wing scalesVinodkumar Saranathan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:11676-81. 2010..The biologically derived photonic nanostructures characterized here may offer a convenient template for producing optical devices based on biomimicry or direct dielectric infiltration... - Aeroelastic flutter produces hummingbird feather songsChristopher J Clark
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Post Office Box 208105, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Science 333:1430-3. 2011..Aeroelastic flutter is intrinsic to stiff airfoils such as feathers and thus explains tonal sounds that are common in bird flight... - Evolution of avian plumage color in a tetrahedral color space: a phylogenetic analysis of new world buntingsMary Caswell Stoddard
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Am Nat 171:755-76. 2008..Evolution of avian ultraviolet/violet opsin sensitivity in relation to chromatic experience is discussed... - The evolutionary origin and diversification of feathersRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
Q Rev Biol 77:261-95. 2002..The evolution of feather keratin and the molecular basis of feather development are also discussed... - High-speed video analysis of wing-snapping in two manakin clades (Pipridae: Aves)Kimberly S Bostwick
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
J Exp Biol 206:3693-706. 2003.... - Short-range order and near-field effects on optical scattering and structural colorationS F Liew
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
Opt Express 19:8208-17. 2011..Our analysis explains why single scattering of light is dominant over multiple scattering in similar biological structures and is responsible for color generation... - Explosive eversion and functional morphology of the duck penis supports sexual conflict in waterfowl genitaliaPatricia L R Brennan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Proc Biol Sci 277:1309-14. 2010..Our results support the hypothesis that duck vaginal complexity functions to exclude the penis during forced copulations, and coevolved with the waterfowl penis via antagonistic sexual conflict... - A hierarchical model of plumage: morphology, development, and evolutionRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 2454, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 298:73-90. 2003..Plumage metamodules are created by covariation or interaction among modules at different levels of the hierarchy... - The Lande-Kirkpatrick mechanism is the null model of evolution by intersexual selection: implications for meaning, honesty, and design in intersexual signalsRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Natural History Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8150, USA
Evolution 64:3085-100. 2010..Incorporation of the LK null into intersexual selection will contribute to serious examination of the extent to which natural selection on preferences shapes signals... - Reaction-diffusion models of within-feather pigmentation patterningRichard O Prum
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 2454, USA
Proc Biol Sci 269:781-92. 2002..The models support the hypothesis that within-feather pigmentation patterning is determined by antagonistic interactions among molecular expression gradients within the tubular follicle and feather germ... - Genetic evidence supports song learning in the three-wattled bellbird Procnias tricarunculata (Cotingidae)Vinodkumar Saranathan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, PO Box 208105, New Haven, CT 06250, USA
Mol Ecol 16:3689-702. 2007..These data support a fourth, phylogenetically independent origin of avian vocal learning in Procnias. Geographical variations in P. tricarunculata vocal behaviour are likely culturally evolved dialects... 
Coevolution of male and female genital morphology in waterfowlPatricia L R Brennan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Peabody Natural History Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e418. 2007..Our results suggest that females have evolved a cryptic anatomical mechanism of choice in response to forced extra-pair copulations...- Palaeontology: Dinosaurs take to the airRichard O Prum
Nature 421:323-4. 2003 - Shh-Bmp2 signaling module and the evolutionary origin and diversification of feathersMatthew P Harris
Department of Anatomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
J Exp Zool 294:160-76. 2002..Feather animation Quicktime movies can be viewed at http://fallon.anatomy.wisc.edu/feather.html... - Higher-level phylogeny and morphological evolution of tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins, and their allies (Aves: Tyrannida)Per G P Ericson
Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Mol Phylogenet Evol 40:471-83. 2006..Accordingly, we propose the recognition the family Tityridae within the Tyrannida to include the genera Schiffornis, Laniisoma, Laniocera, Iodopleura, Xenopsaris, Pachyramphus, Tityra, and Oxyruncus... - A molecular phylogeny of the cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae)Jan I Ohlson
Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Molecular Systematics Laboratory, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P O Box 50007, SE 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Mol Phylogenet Evol 42:25-37. 2007..Condor 91, 444-461.] was strongly supported, as were the close relationships between Gymnoderus and Conioptilon, and between Tijuca and Lipaugus. However, basal relationships among 'core cotinga' clades were not resolved... - Molecular evidence for an activator-inhibitor mechanism in development of embryonic feather branchingMatthew P Harris
Department of Anatomy, 1300 Bardeen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:11734-9. 2005..The model is congruent with paleontological evidence that plumulaceous feathers are primitive to pennaceous feathers...