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Barn Swallow

Known as: Rauchschwalbe, Barn Swallows, Hirundo rustica 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Abstract Carotenoid pigments produce the ornamental red, orange, and yellow integumentary coloration of many species of animals… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Abstract An unusually long period of cold weather in May 1996 caused extensive mortality among insectivorous cliff swallows… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Abstract The long outermost tail feathers of barn swallows Hirundo rustica have white spots that are larger in males than in… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
  • C. BrownM. Brown
  • 1998
  • Corpus ID: 12016006
Extreme climatic disturbances provide excellent opportunities to study natural selection in wild populations because they may… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Immunocompetence (i.e., the ability to produce an immune response to pathogens) can be predicted to influence the chances that… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
The severe nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986 resulted in the worst reported accidental exposure of radioactive material to… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Eight polymorphic microsatellite markers from the swallow were isolated and characterized. Extraordinary variability was revealed… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
  • A. Møller
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 10085235
I tested three assumptions of the Hamilton and Zuk hypothesis (1982), which suggests that the extravagant male plumage of many… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Colonies of cliff swallows (Aves: Hirundo pyrrhonota) appear to be information centers in which colony residents acquire…