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Barn Swallow
Known as:
Rauchschwalbe
, Barn Swallows
, Hirundo rustica
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Family Hirundinidae
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
EFFECTS OF COCCIDIAL AND MYCOPLASMAL INFECTIONS ON CAROTENOID-BASED PLUMAGE PIGMENTATION IN MALE HOUSE FINCHES
W. Brawner
,
G. Hill
,
C. Sundermann
2000
Corpus ID: 9615258
Abstract Carotenoid pigments produce the ornamental red, orange, and yellow integumentary coloration of many species of animals…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Weather-mediated natural selection on arrival time in cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
C. Brown
,
Mary Bomberger Brown
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
2000
Corpus ID: 13755341
Abstract An unusually long period of cold weather in May 1996 caused extensive mortality among insectivorous cliff swallows…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Sexual selection, feather breakage and parasites: the importance of white spots in the tail of the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
M. Kose
,
A. Møller
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
1999
Corpus ID: 22196756
Abstract The long outermost tail feathers of barn swallows Hirundo rustica have white spots that are larger in males than in…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
INTENSE NATURAL SELECTION ON BODY SIZE AND WING AND TAIL ASYMMETRY IN CLIFF SWALLOWS DURING SEVERE WEATHER
C. Brown
,
M. Brown
Evolution; international journal of organic…
1998
Corpus ID: 12016006
Extreme climatic disturbances provide excellent opportunities to study natural selection in wild populations because they may…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Immunocompetence, ornamentation, and viability of male barn swallows (Hirundo rustica).
N. Saino
,
A. M. Bolzern
,
A. P. Møller
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1997
Corpus ID: 13636974
Immunocompetence (i.e., the ability to produce an immune response to pathogens) can be predicted to influence the chances that…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Fitness loss and germline mutations in barn swallows breeding in Chernobyl
H. Ellegren
,
G. Lindgren
,
C. Primmer
,
A. Møller
Nature
1997
Corpus ID: 2054044
The severe nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986 resulted in the worst reported accidental exposure of radioactive material to…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Resolving genetic relationships with microsatellite markers: a parentage testing system for the swallow Hirundo rustica
C. Primmer
,
A. P. Møller
,
H. Ellegren
Molecular Ecology
1995
Corpus ID: 28574614
Eight polymorphic microsatellite markers from the swallow were isolated and characterized. Extraordinary variability was revealed…
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Oropharyngeal swallowing in normal adults of different ages.
J. Robbins
,
J. W. Hamilton
,
Gregory L. Lof
,
G. Kempster
Gastroenterology
1992
Corpus ID: 5718546
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
EFFECTS OF A HAEMATOPHAGOUS MITE ON THE BARN SWALLOW (HIRUNDO RUSTICA): A TEST OF THE HAMILTON AND ZUK HYPOTHESIS
A. Møller
Evolution; international journal of organic…
1990
Corpus ID: 10085235
I tested three assumptions of the Hamilton and Zuk hypothesis (1982), which suggests that the extravagant male plumage of many…
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Cliff Swallow Colonies as Information Centers
C. Brown
Science
1986
Corpus ID: 39723578
Colonies of cliff swallows (Aves: Hirundo pyrrhonota) appear to be information centers in which colony residents acquire…
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