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ArticleScience advances2025

Hidden white and black feather layers enhance plumage coloration in tanagers and other songbirds.

Rosalyn M Price-Waldman, Jarome R Ali, Allison J Shultz, Benedict G Hogan, Mary Caswell Stoddard

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Article in Science advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rosalyn M Price-WaldmanDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6096-7040
Jarome R AliDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3537-7217
Allison J ShultzOrnithology Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2089-4086
Benedict G HoganDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6762-7738
Mary Caswell StoddardDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8264-3170

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Birds are renowned for their diverse and colorful plumage. Here, we demonstrate that vibrant plumage in the tanager genus

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FeathersPigmentationSongbirdsAnimalsCarotenoidsColorFemaleMaleCarotenoids

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PMID40700498
PMCPMC12285719

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