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Sturnidae

Known as: Starling, Starlings 
The family Sturnidae, in the order PASSERIFORMES. The starling family also includes mynahs and oxpeckers.
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
The Adaptive Value of Stress‐Induced Phenotypes: Effects of Maternally Derived Corticosterone on Sex‐Biased Investment, Cost of Reproduction, and Maternal Fitness
The question of why maternal stress influences offspring phenotype is of significant interest to evolutionary physiologists… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Temporal Environmental Variability Drives the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Review
2005
Review
2005
Resolving the genetic paradox in invasive species
A recent paper in Nature helps to solve a genetic dilemma in invasion biology. That is, how bottlenecked populations that… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Ernest Henry Starling, His Predecessors, and the “Law of the Heart”
The discovery that end-diastolic volume regulates the work of the heart is generally credited to Ernest Henry Starling, who… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The metabolic cost of birdsong production.
The metabolic cost of birdsong production has not been studied in detail but is of importance in our understanding of how… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Resource allocation between reproductive phases: the importance of thermal conditions in determining the cost of incubation
Changes in the resources allocated to particular stages of reproduction are expected to influence allocation to, and performance… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Plumage Reflectance and the Objective Assessment of Avian Sexual Dichromatism
Assessment of color using human vision (or standards based thereon) is central to tests of many evolutionary hypotheses. Yet… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH NON-INDIGENOUS SPECIES IN THE UNITED STATES
Invading non-indigenous species in the United States cause major environmental damages and losses adding up to more than $138… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Most of the species on Earth are parasites.
Review
1981
Review
1981
Capillary fluid filtration. Starling forces and lymph flow.
STARLING (1894, 1896) described the basic forces responsible for producing fluid shifts between the circulating blood and the… 
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