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Climate change and micro-geographic variation in laying date.

Impaired swimming behaviour and morphology of sperm from barn swallows Hirundo rustica in Chernobyl.

Is Chernobyl radiation really causing negative individual and population-level effects on barn swallows?

Glucocorticoid response to food availability in breeding barn swallows (Hirundo rustica).

Effects of mercury exposure on the reproductive success of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor).

Barn swallow chicks beg more loudly when broodmates are unrelated.

Induction of multiple criteria optimal classification rules for biological and medical data.

Microsatellite evolution: Mutations, sequence variation, and homoplasy in the hypervariable avian microsatellite locus HrU10.

Laterality and flight: concurrent tests of side-bias and optimality in flying tree swallows.

The incidence of American swallow bugs (Oeciacus vicarius) in barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) colonies in northeast Texas.

Water level management and contaminant exposure to tree swallows nesting on the Upper Mississippi River.

Age-related change in breeding performance in early life is associated with an increase in competence in the migratory barn swallow Hirundo rustica.

Elevated frequency of abnormalities in barn swallows from Chernobyl.

Increased thyroid hormone levels in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) on reclaimed wetlands of the athabasca oil sands.

Effects of exposure to naphthenic acids in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) on the Athabasca oil sands, Alberta, Canada.

Uninformative exaggeration of male sexual ornaments in barn swallows.

Adult tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) survival on the polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated Housatonic River, Massachusetts, USA.

Energy expenditure and wing beat frequency in relation to body mass in free flying Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica).

Immunosenescence in some but not all immune components in a free-living vertebrate, the tree swallow.

Tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) nesting on wetlands impacted by oil sands mining are highly parasitized by the bird blow fly Protocalliphora spp.