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Avian diet selection is hypothesized to be sensitive to seasonal changes in breeding status, but few tests exist for frugivorous tropical birds.

This project facilitates a regional approach to conservation planning in Pennsylvania based on avian breeding habitat selection.

Colourful feathers are relevant to numerous aspects of avian biology, including sexual selection, camouflage and communication.

Previous studies of eggshell colour have not considered simultaneously differential selection across (avian) visible wavelengths.

We propose that the observed variation in warning signal pattern of P. plantaginis larvae [24] could be partly explained with contrasting selection by avian predators and bacterial pathogens from different trophic levels.

Evidence of oseltamivir persistence in treated waste-water and the prophylactic use of antiviral agents in poultry production also raises the potential for resistance selection in avian populations, prior to introduction to human hosts [34].

Current debate has emphasized predation as the primary agent of selection driving avian life history diversification.

This most plausibly would occur within the avian fecal flora under selection pressure from on-farm use of antimicrobial drugs.

For most avian species, stronger sexual selection is expected to increase the variance in male reproductive success relative to females.

Nutrition and predation have been considered two primary agents of selection on avian life-history traits, including the rate of development [ 5, 14].

The continued curation of this putative set of novel GF genes is essential for downstream comparative analysis, expression profiling, functional studies and trait selection across avian species.