You can't judge a pigment by its color: Carotenoid and melanin content of yellow and brown feathers in swallows, bluebirds, penguins, and domestic chickens

Condor

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 390-395

  McGraw, Kevin J ^a,e   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Nolan, Paul M ^c   Jouventin, Pierre ^d   Dobson, F Stephen ^c   Austic, Richard E ^a   Safran, Rebecca J ^a   Siefferman, Lynn M ^c   Hill, Geoffrey E ^c   Parker, Robert S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptenodytes patagonicus; Carotenoids; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Gallus domesticus; Hirundo rustica; Melanins; Sialia sialis

Indexed keywords

APTENODYTES; APTENODYTES PATAGONICUS; AVES; CHRYSOLOPHUS; EUDYPTES; EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; HIRUNDINIDAE; HIRUNDO; HIRUNDO RUSTICA; HIRUNDO RUSTICA RUSTICA; SIALIA; SIALIA SIALIS; SIALIS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 2342515424     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7384     Document Type: Article

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