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Leonardo da Vinci and the science of bird flight

Title	Leonardo da Vinci and the science of bird flight
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2016

Mimicry Cycles, Traps, and Chains: The Coevolution of Toucan and Kiskadee Mimicry

2015

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

2014

Mechanisms and Evidence of Genital Coevolution: the Roles of Natural Selection, Mate Choice, and Sexual Conflict.

Interspecific social dominance mimicry in birds

A Comprehensive Multilocus Phylogeny of the Neotropical Cotingas (Cotingidae, Aves) with a Comparative Evolutionary Analysis of Breeding System and Plumage Dimorphism and a Revised Phylogenetic Classification.

Mechanism of carotenoid coloration in the brightly colored plumages of broadbills (Eurylaimidae).

Theoretical morphology and development of flight feather vane asymmetry with experimental tests in parrots.

2013

Fourier Blues: Structural coloration of biological tissues.

Exceptional three-dimensional preservation and coloration of an originally iridescent fossil feather from the Middle Eocene Messel Oil Shale.

How colorful are fruits? Limited color diversity in fleshy fruits on a regional and global scale

Coevolutionary aesthetics in human and biotic artworlds

Nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of carotenoids from the burgundy plumage of the Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea).

Carotenoids from the crimson and maroon plumages of Old World orioles (Oriolidae).

Vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of the retro-carotenoid rhodoxanthin in avian plumage, solid-state films, and solution.

Structural resonance and mode of flutter of hummingbird tail feathers.

Hummingbird feather sounds are produced by aeroelastic flutter, not vortex-induced vibration.

2012

Aesthetic evolution by mate choice: Darwin's <i>really </i>dangerous idea

Molecular factors controlling the coloration of canthaxanthin in bird feathers

Imaging Spectroscopy for Measuring 3D Hyperspectral Patterns on Solid Objects

Structure and Optical Function of Amorphous Photonic Nanostructures from Avian Feather Barbs: A Comparative Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) Analysis of 229 Bird Species

The limits of sexual conflict in the narrow sense: new insights from waterfowl biology

Evolution of Interspecific Social Dominance Mimicry Modeled by the "Hairy-Downy" Game

The Hairy-Downy game: a model of the evolution of interspecific social dominance mimicry

Molecular diversity, metabolic transformation, and evolution of carotenoid feather pigments in cotingas (Aves:Cotingidae)

2011

Aeroelastic flutter produces hummingbird feather songs

The erection mechanism of the ratie penis

How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut

Short-range order and near-field effects on optical scattering and structural coloration

Colour-producing β-keratin nanofibres in blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) feathers

2010

Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural coloration

The Lande-Kirkpatrick mechanism is the null model of evolution by intersexual selection: implications for meaning, honesty, and design in intersexual signals

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

The evolution of black plumage from blue in Australian fair-wrens (Maluridae): genetic and structural evidence

Explosive eversion and functional morphology of the duck penis supports sexual conflict in waterfowl genitalia

Structural coloration in a fossil feather

Novel methoxy-carotenoids from the burgundy-colored plumage of the Pompadour Cotinga <i>Xipholena punicea</i>

Structure, function, and self-assembly of single network gyroid (I4132) photonic crystals in butterfly wing scales

Moulting tail feathers in a juvenile oviraptorisaur

How Noniridescent Colors Are Generated by Quasi-ordered Structures of Bird Feathers

Contribution of double scattering to structural coloration in quasiordered nanostructures of bird feathers

Double scattering of light from Biophotonic Nanostructures with short-range order

2009

Electron tomography, three-dimensional Fourier analysis and colour prediction of a three-dimensional amorphous biophotontic nanostructure

Development of the color producing beta-keratin nanostructures in avian feather barbs

Self-assembly of amorphous biophotonic nanostructures by phase separation

2008

Leonardo da Vinci and the science of bird flight

The colour of fossil feathers

Evolution of Avian Plumage Color in a Tetrahedral Color Space: A Phylogenetic Analysis of New Word Buntings

Whose your daddy?

Independent evolutionary reductions of the phallus in basal birds

Manakin display and visiting behavior: a comparative test of sensory drive

2007

Genetic evidence support song learning in the three-wattled bellbird <i>Procnias tricarunculata </i>(Cotingidae)

A molecular phylogeny of the cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae)

Coevolution of male and female genital morphology in waterfowl

2006

Anatomy, physics, and evolution of avian structural colors

Phylogeny and evolutionary history of the Old World suboscine birds (Aves: Eurylaimides)

Higher-level phylogeny and morphological evolution of tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins, and their allies (Aves: Tyrannida)

Anatomically diverse butterfly scales all produce structural colours by coherent scattering

2005

Courting bird sings with stridulating wing feathers

Molecular evidence for activator-inhibitor mechanism in development of embryonic feather branching

Evolution of the morphological innovations of feathers

2004

Structural colouration of mammalian skin: convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arrays

Blue integumentary structural colours of dragonflies (Odonata) are not produced by incoherent Tyndall scattering

2003

Dinosaurs take to the air

Which came first, the feather or the bird?

Are current critiques of the theropod origin of birds science? Rebuttal to Feduccia (2002)

New records of birds from the summit of Cerro Guaiquinima, Estado Bolivar, Venezuela.

A hierarchical model of plumage: morphology, development, and evolution

High-speed video analysis of wing-snapping in two manakin clades (Pipridae: Aves)

The Origin and Evolution of Feathers

Coherent scattering of ultraviolet light by avian feather barbs

A Fourier tool for the analysis of coherent light scattering by bio-optical nanostructures

Structural colouration of avian skin: convergent evolution of coherently scattering dermal collagen arrays

2002

The evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers

Why ornithologists should care about the theropod origin of birds

Shh-Bmp2 signaling module and the evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers

Reaction-diffusion models of within feather pigmentation patterning

2001

<i>Longisquama </i>fossil and feather morphology

A new genus for the Andean green pihas (Cotingidae)

Branched integumental structures in <i>Sinornithosaurus</i> and the origin of feathers

A theory of the growth and evolution of feather shape.

2000

Phylogeny, Sexual Selection and Behavioral Evolution of the Manakins (Pipridae) and Cotingas (Cotingidae)

A preliminary phylogenetic hypothesis for the cotingas (Cotingidae) based on mitochondrial DNA.

1999

The anatomy and physics of avian structural coloration

Development and evolutionary origin of feathers

Phylogenetic analysis of nest architecture of the Neotropical ovenbirds (Furnariidae).

Two-dimensional Fourier analysis of the spongy medullary keratin of structurally coloured feather barbs

Coherent light scattering by nanostructured collagen arrays in the caruncles of the Malagasy asities (Eurylaimidae: Aves).

1998

Coherent light scattering by blue feather barbs

Sexual selection and the evolution of mechanical sound production in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)

1997

Phylogenetic tests of alternative intersexual selection mechanisms: macroevolution of male traits in a polygynous clade (Aves: Pipridae).

Lek behavior and natural history of the Velvet Asity <i>Philepitta castanea</i> (Eurylaimidae).

1996

Display behavior and natural history of the Yellow-crowned Manakin (<i>Heterocercus flavivertex</i>: Pipridae)

1995

Phylogenetic relationships of the Cinnamon Tyrant, <i>Neopipo cinnamomea</i>, to the tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae).

1994

Structural color production by constructive reflection from ordered collagen arrays in a bird (<i>Philepitta castanea</i>: Eurylaimidae).

Species status fo the White-fronted Manakin, <i>Lepidothrix serena</i> (Pipridae), with comments on conservation biology.

Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of alternative social behavior in the manakins (Aves: Pipridae)

1993

Phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of the broadbills (Eurylaimidae) and asities (Philepittidae) based on morphology.

Colecciónes anatómicas y la reconstrucción de la filogenia de aves

1992

Syringeal morphology, phylogeny, and evolution of the neotropical manakins (Aves: Pipridae)

1990

A test of the monophyly of the manakins (Pipridae) and of the cotingas (Cotingidae) based on morphology

Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of display behavior in the neotropical manakins (Aves: Pipridae)

1989

Monophyly and phylogeny of the <i>Schiffornis</i> group (Tyrannoidea)

1988

Phylogenetic interrelationships of the barbets (Capitonidae) and toucans (Ramphastidae) based on morphology with comparisons to DNA-DNA hybridization

Historical relationships among avian forest areas of endemism in the Neotropics

Patterns and Processes of diversification: Speciation and historical congruence in some Neotropical birds

1987

Display behavior, foraging ecology, and systematics of the Golden-winged Manakin (<i>Masius chrysopterus</i>)

1986

The displays of the White-throated Manakin Corapipo gutturalis in Suriname

1985

Observations of the White-fronted Manakin (<i>Pipra serena</i>) in Suriname

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