Publications - 2005 - 2009

1980s | 1990s | 2000-2004 | 2005-2009 | 2010-Present

Bostwick, K. S. and Prum, R. O. 2005. Courting bird sings with stridulating wing feathers. Science 309: 736.

Harris, M. H., Williamson, S., Fallon, J. F., Meinhardt, H. and Prum, R. O. 2005. Molecular evidence for activator-inhibitor mechanism in development of embryonic feather branching. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 11734-11739.

Prum, R. O. 2005. Evolution of the morphological Innovations of feathers. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution). 304B: 570-579.

Prum, R. O., Quinn, T., and Torres, R. H. 2006. Anatomically diverse butterfly scales all produce structural colours by coherent scattering. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 748-765.

Ericson, P. G. P., Zuccon, D., Ohlson, J. I., Alvarenga, H., and Prum, R. O. 2006. Higher-level phylogeny and morphological evolution of tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins, and their allies (Aves:Tyrannida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 471-483.

Moyle, R. G., Chesser, T., Prum, R. O., Schikler, P., and Cracraft, J. 2006. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of Old World suboscine birds (Aves: Eurylaimides). American Museum Novitates 3544: 1-22.

Ohlson, J. I., Ericson, P. G. P., and Prum, R. O. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of the cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 25-37.

Brennan, P. L. R., Prum, R. O., McCracken, K. G., Sorenson, M. D., Wilson, R. E., and Birkhead, T. R. 2007. Coevolution of male and female genital morphology in waterfowl. PLoS One 2(5): e418 (6 pp).

Saranathan, V., Hamilton, D., Powell, G., Kroodsma, D., and Prum, R. O. 2007. Genetic evidence supports song learning in the Three-wattled Bellbird Procnias tricarunculata (Cotingidae). Molecular Ecology 16: 3689-3702.

Anciães, M. and Prum, R. O. 2008. Manakin display and visiting behavior: a comparative test of sensory drive. Animal Behaviour 75: 783-790.

Stoddard, M. C. and Prum, R. O. 2008. Evolution of avian plumage color in a tetrahedral color space: a phylogenetic analysis of New Word buntings. American Naturalist 171: 755-76.

Vinther, J., Briggs, D. E. G., Prum, R. O, Saranathan, V. 2008. The colour of fossil feathers. Biology Letters 4: 522-525. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2008.0302.

Brennan P.L.R., Birkhead T., Zyskowski K., Van deer Waag J. & Prum R.O. 2008. Independent evolutionary reductions of the phallus in basal birds. Journal of Avian Biology 39:487-492.

Prum, R. O. 2008. Leonardo da Vinci and the science of bird flight. Pp.111-117, In Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin. Ed. Jeannine A. O'Grody. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.

Prum, R. O. 2008. Who's your daddy? Science 322:1799-1800.

Shawkey, M. D, , Saranathan, V., Pálsdóttir, H., Crum, J., Ellisman, M., Auer, M., Prum, R. O. 2009. Electron tomography, three-dimensional Fourier analysis and colour prediction of a three-dimensional amorphous biophotontic nanostructure. Journal of the Royal Society Interface doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0374.focus

Prum, R. O., Dufresne, E. R., Quinn, T., and Waters, K. 2009. Development of colour producing ?-keratin nanostructures in avian feather barbs. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6:S253-S265. doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0466.focus

Dufresne, E. R., Noh, H., Saranathan, V., Mochrie, S., Cao, H., and Prum. R.O. 2009. Self-assembly of biophotonic nanostructures by phase separation. Soft Matter 5:1792-1795. doi:10.1039/b902775k.

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