Mary Caswell Stoddard: Publications

• Stoddard, M.C. 2012. Mimicry and masquerade from the avian visual perspective. Current Zoology 58: 630-648.
  
  
• Stoddard M.C., A. Fayet, R.M. Kilner, and C. Hinde. 2012. Egg Speckling Patterns Do Not Advertise Offspring Quality or Influence Male Provisioning in Great Tits. PLoS ONE 7: e40211. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040211.
  
  
• Prum, R.O., A. Fountain, J. Berro, M.C. Stoddard, and H. Frank. 2012. Molecular diversity, metabolic transformation, and evolution of carotenoid feather pigments in cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae). Journal of Comparative Physiology B: DOI: 10.1007/s00360-012-0677-4.
  
  
• Stoddard, M.C., K. Marshall, and R.M. Kilner. 2011. Imperfectly camouflaged avian eggs: artefact or adaptation? Avian Biology Research 4: 196-213.
  
  
• Stoddard, M.C., and R.O. Prum. 2011. How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut. Behavioral Ecology 22: 1042-105.
  Covered by Science in Editor’s Choice (“The Plumage Rainbow,” 1 July 2011).
  
  
• Stoddard, M.C., and M. Stevens. 2011. Avian vision and the evolution of egg color mimicry in the common cuckoo. Evolution 65: 2004-2013.
  Covered by BBC Earth and Science News, BBC Radio 5 Live, CBC Radio (Canada) and NPR (USA).
  
  
• Stoddard, M.C., and M. Stevens. 2010. Pattern mimicry of host eggs by the common cuckoo, as seen through a bird’s eye. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 277: 1387-93.
  Covered by BBC News Big Picture and New York Times.
  
  
• Stevens, M., M.C. Stoddard, and J.P. Higham. 2009. Studying primate color: towards visual system-dependent methods. International Journal of Primatology 30: 893–917.
  
  
• Stoddard, M.C., and R.O. Prum. 2008. Evolution of avian plumage color in a tetrahedral color space: a phylogenetic analysis of New World buntings. American Naturalist 171: 755–776.
  
  
• Ellis, J.C., M.C. Stoddard, and L.W. Clark. 2008. Breeding by a lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) on the Atlantic coast of North America. North American Birds 61: 546-548.