ArticleRoyal Society open science2019
Unscrambling variation in avian eggshell colour and patterning in a continent-wide study.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Can explainable AI classify shrike (Laniidae) eggs by uncovering species-wide pigmentation patterns?PloS one · 2025Article
- Egg recognition: The importance of quantifying multiple repeatable features as visual identity signals.PloS one · 2021Article
- The global distribution of avian eggshell colours suggest a thermoregulatory benefit of darker pigmentation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Unscrambling variation in avian eggshell colour and patterning in a continent-wide study.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
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Abstract
The evolutionary drivers underlying marked variation in the pigmentation of eggs within many avian species remains unclear. The leading hypotheses proposed to explain such variation advocate the roles of genetic differences, signalling and/or structural integrity. One means of testing among these hypotheses is to capitalize on museum collections of eggs obtained throughout a broad geographical range of a species to ensure sufficient variation in predictors pertaining to each hypothesis. Here, we measured coloration and patterning in eggs from 272 clutches of Australian magpies (
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