David C. Houston

Carotenoid-dependent signals: indicators of foraging efficiency, immunocompetence or detoxification ability?

Anders Pape Møller, Clotilde Biard, Jonathan D. Blount et al. · Avian and Poultry Biology Reviews · 2000 · 533 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Plant Sciences +12

Experimental demonstration that offspring sex ratio varies with maternal condition

Ruedi G. Nager, Pat Monaghan, Richard Griffiths et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1999 · 381 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +17

Carotenoids and egg quality in the lesser black-backed gull<i>Larus fuscus</i>: a supplemental feeding study of maternal effects

Jonathan D. Blount, Ruedi G. Nager, David C. Houston et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2002 · 311 citations · Full text

Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Nutritional Sciences +17

Why egg yolk is yellow

Jonathan D. Blount, David J. Houston, Anders Pape Møller · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2000 · 290 citations

Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Developmental Biology +10

Obligate vertebrate scavengers must be large soaring fliers

Graeme D. Ruxton, David J. Houston · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2004 · 286 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Zoology +10