Publications of the research group "Evolutionary Physiology"
Journal Article (108)
2024
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Mitochondrial bioenergetics and proteomic insights in seabird nestling growth: Linking warmer nest temperatures to reduced body size. SSRN (2024)
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166, 105645 (2024)
A supergene affects androgen concentrations during early development in a bird with alternative reproductive morphs. Hormones and Behavior
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13 (11), bio061770 (2024)
Commentary on Thoral et al. (2024) "The relationship between mitochondrial respiration, resting metabolic rate and blood cell count in great tits". Biology Open
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14 (4), e11193 (2024)
Baseline glucocorticoids alone do not predict reproductive success across years, but in interaction with enzymatic antioxidants. Ecology and Evolution
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11 (7), 240417 (2024)
Mitochondrial function is enhanced by thyroid hormones during zebra finch development. Royal Society Open Science
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Sex and morph variation in activity from early ontogeny to maturity in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2024)
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379 (1898), 20220502 (2024)
Endocrine flexibility can facilitate or constrain the ability to cope with global change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences
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15, 1348993 (2024)
A prenatal acoustic signal of heat reduces a biomarker of chronic stress at adulthood across seasons. Frontiers in Physiology
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25 (22), 12194 (2024)
Prenatal acoustic signals influence nestling heat shock protein response to heat and heterophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in a desert bird. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2023
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26 (12), 108321 (2023)
Mitochondrial metabolism in blood more reliably predicts whole-animal energy needs compared to other tissues. iScience
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32 (19), pp. 5429 - 5447 (2023)
Dietary nucleotides can prevent glucocorticoid-induced telomere attrition in a fast-growing wild vertebrate. Molecular Ecology
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20, pp. 93 - 104 (2023)
Neopterin levels in bonobos vary seasonally and reflect symptomatic respiratory infections. EcoHealth
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125 (1), duac046 (2023)
Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future. Ornithological Applications 2022
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32 (9), pp. R412 - R413 (2022)
Asymmetric architecture is non-random and repeatable in a bird’s nests. Current Biology
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289 (1986), 20221235 (2022)
Great tits differ in glucocorticoid plasticity in response to spring temperature. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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62 (1), pp. 58 - 70 (2022)
Quantifying glucocorticoid plasticity using reaction norm approaches: There still is so much to discover! Integrative and Comparative Biology
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142, 105178 (2022)
Glucocorticoids in a warming world: Do they help birds to cope with high environmental temperatures? Hormones and Behavior
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37 (9), pp. 759 - 767 (2022)
Austral birds offer insightful complementary models in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2021
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9, 629094 (2021)
Cell-mediated immune ontogeny is affected by sex but not environmental context in a long-lived primate species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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90 (9), pp. 2147 - 2160 (2021)
Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub. Journal of Animal Ecology
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128, 104900 (2021)
Sex steroids modulate circadian behavioral rhythms in captive animals, but does this matter in the wild? Hormones and Behavior
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312, 113861 (2021)
Early nighttime testosterone peaks are correlated with GnRH-induced testosterone in a diurnal songbird. General and Comparative Endocrinology
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75 (5), pp. 1003 - 1010 (2021)
Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution
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36 (4), pp. 321 - 332 (2021)
Integrating mitochondrial aerobic metabolism into ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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59 (1), pp. 53 - 54 (2021)
Individuelle Anpassungen an wechselnde Umweltbedingungen bei Kohlmeisen: Wie stark reagieren Schilddrüsenhormone auf Temperaturveränderungen und Arbeitsleistung? Vogelwarte - Zeitschrift für Vogelkunde
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12, 691633 (2021)
Inferring whole-organism metabolic rate from red blood cells in birds. Frontiers in Physiology
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128, 104913 (2021)
Acute aggressive behavior perturbates the oxidative status of a wild bird independently of testosterone and progesterone. Hormones and Behavior
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18, 38 (2021)
Natural variation in yolk fatty acids, but not androgens, predicts offspring fitness in a wild bird. Frontiers in Zoology 2020
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287 (1929), 20200744 (2020)
Dietary antioxidants attenuate the endocrine stress response during long-duration flight of a migratory bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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223 (15), jeb222513 (2020)
Increased glucocorticoid concentrations in early life cause mitochondrial inefficiency and short telomeres. The Journal of Experimental Biology
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8 (1), coz110 (2020)
Baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels across birds and reptiles do not reflect urbanization levels. Conservation Physiology
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74 (9), 111 (2020)
Defending as a unit: Sex- and context-specific territorial defence in a duetting bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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29 (3), pp. 485 - 501 (2020)
Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen. Molecular Ecology 2019
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119, pp. 111 - 119 (2019)
Coupling lifespan and aging? The age at onset of body mass decline associates positively with sex-specific lifespan but negatively with environment-specific lifespan. Experimental Gerontology
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15 (3), 20180885 (2019)
Telomere attrition: Metabolic regulation and signalling function? Biology Letters
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9, 15869 (2019)
Developmental conditions modulate DNA methylation at the glucocorticoid receptor gene with cascading effects on expression and corticosterone levels in zebra finches. Scientific Reports
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50 (1), e01859 (2019)
Female variation in allocation of steroid hormones, antioxidants and fatty acids: A multilevel analysis in a wild passerine bird. Journal of Avian Biology
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193 (6), pp. 866 - 880 (2019)
Macroevolutionary patterning in glucocorticoids suggests different selective pressures shape baseline and stress-induced levels. American Naturalist 2018
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105, pp. 104 - 109 (2018)
Not one hormone or another: Aggression differentially affects progesterone and testosterone in a South American ovenbird. Hormones and Behavior
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329 (8-9), pp. 465 - 472 (2018)
Light at night disrupts nocturnal rest and elevates glucocorticoids at cool color temperatures. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology
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58 (4), pp. 739 - 750 (2018)
Do seasonal glucocorticoid changes depend on reproductive investment? A comparative approach in birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology
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285 (1892), 2018.2141 (2018)
Enzymatic antioxidants but not baseline glucocorticoids mediate the reproduction-survival trade-off in a wild bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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58 (4), pp. 729 - 738 (2018)
Metabolic scaling of stress hormones in vertebrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology
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58 (4), pp. 763 - 776 (2018)
Species-specific means and within-species variance in glucocorticoid hormones and speciation rates in birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology
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32 (3), pp. 713 - 721 (2018)
Male but not female zebra finches with high plasma corticosterone have lower survival. Functional Ecology
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8, 13020 (2018)
Corticosterone levels reflect variation in metabolic rate, independent of "stress". Scientific Reports
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221 (23), jeb187880 (2018)
Glucocorticoid–temperature association is shaped by foraging costs in individual zebra finches. The Journal of Experimental Biology
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58 (4), pp. 800 - 813 (2018)
IUCN conservation status does not predict glucocorticoid concentrations in reptiles and birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology
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188 (3), pp. 517 - 526 (2018)
Baseline glucose level is an individual trait that is negatively associated with lifespan and increases due to adverse environmental conditions during development and adulthood. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology
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32 (2), pp. 389 - 401 (2018)
Simulated moult reduces flight performance but overlap with breeding does not affect breeding success in a long-distance migrant. Functional Ecology