Why are birds' eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments co-vary with life-history and nesting ecology among British breeding non-passerine birds

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Alternative codes found
RIV/67985823:_____/12:00377967
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01877.x" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01877.x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01877.x" target="_blank" >10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01877.x</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Why are birds' eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments co-vary with life-history and nesting ecology among British breeding non-passerine birds
Original language description
The colourful appearance of bird eggshells has long fascinated biologists and considerable research effort has focused on the structure and biochemistry of the avian eggshell matrix. The presence of tetrapyrrole pigments was identi?ed nearly a century ago. Surprisingly, how the concentrations of avian eggshell pigments vary among related species, and whether this variability is associated with either eggshell appearance and/or species life-history traits, remains poorly understood. We quanti?ed the concentrations of the two key eggshell pigments, protoporphyrin IX and biliverdin, from a diverse sample of eggshells stored at the Natural History Museum, Tring, UK. We explicitly tested how these two pigments are associated with physical measures of eggshell coloration and whether the pigment concentrations and colour diversity co-vary with phylogenetic affiliations among species. We also tested a series of comparative hypotheses regarding the association between the concentrations of the
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA203%2F08%2F1428" target="_blank" >GA203/08/1428: Capillary electrophoresis with multidimensinal detection and its application to separation and characterization of biopolymers</a><br>
Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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