Reduced immune responsiveness contributes to winter energy conservation in an Arctic bird

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Defence versus defence: Are crucian carp trading off immune function against predator‐induced morphology?

(2019) Jerker Vinterstare et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Ambient temperature effects on stress-induced hyperthermia in Svalbard ptarmigan

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Arctic Geese Tune Migration to a Warming Climate but Still Suffer from a Phenological Mismatch

(2018) Thomas K. Lameris et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A hidden cost of migration? Innate immune function versus antioxidant defense

(2018) Cas Eikenaar et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Immune function and blood parasite infections impact stopover ecology in passerine birds

(2018) Arne Hegemann et al.   OECOLOGIA

Physiological and Immune Responses of Free-Living Temperate Birds Provided a Gradient of Food Supplementation

(2018) Emily Cornelius Ruhs et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Effect of temperature and food restriction on immune function in striped hamsters (Cricetulus barabensis)

(2017) De-Li Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Migratory common blackbirds have lower innate immune function during autumn migration than resident conspecifics

(2016) Cas Eikenaar et al.   Biology Letters

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(2016) Arnoldus Schytte Blix   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Photoperiod but not food restriction modulates innate immunity in an opportunistic breeder,Loxia curvirostra

(2016) Elizabeth M. Schultz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Corticosterone rapidly suppresses innate immune activity in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

(2016) Sisi Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Host-Parasite Interactions and Population Dynamics of Rock Ptarmigan

(2016) Ute Stenkewitz et al.   PLoS One

Body temperature changes during simulated bacterial infection in a songbird: fever at night and hypothermia during the day

(2015) S. Skold-Chiriac et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Body mass affects seasonal variation in sickness intensity in a seasonally breeding rodent

(2015) E. D. Carlton et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Common measures of immune function vary with time of day and sampling protocol in five passerine species

(2015) M. Zylberberg   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

A tradeoff between perceived predation risk and energy conservation revealed by an immune challenge experiment

(2014) Andreas Nord et al.   OIKOS

Physiological and Behavioral Responses to an Acute-Phase Response in Zebra Finches: Immediate and Short-Term Effects

(2014) Sandra Sköld-Chiriac et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Activation of the immune system incurs energetic costs but has no effect on the thermogenic performance of house sparrows during acute cold challenge

(2013) M. O. King et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Immune response to an endotoxin challenge involves multiple immune parameters and is consistent among the annual-cycle stages of a free-living temperate zone bird

(2013) A. Hegemann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Selection for increased mass-independent maximal metabolic rate suppresses innate but not adaptive immune function

(2013) C. J. Downs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: From Evidence to a Predictive Framework

(2013) S. Altizer et al.   SCIENCE

Naturally occurring hypothermia is more advantageous than fever in severe forms of lipopolysaccharide- and Escherichia coli-induced systemic inflammation

(2012) Elaine Liu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Physiological mechanisms mediating costs of immune responses: what can we learn from studies of birds?

(2012) Dennis Hasselquist et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Baseline haptoglobin concentrations are repeatable and predictive of certain aspects of a subsequent experimentally-induced inflammatory response

(2012) Kevin D. Matson et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Additive metabolic costs of thermoregulation and pathogen infection

(2012) Dana M. Hawley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Endotoxin injection attenuates rest-phase hypothermia in wintering great tits through the onset of fever

(2012) Andreas Nord et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Wild Skylarks Seasonally Modulate Energy Budgets but Maintain Energetically Costly Inflammatory Immune Responses throughout the Annual Cycle

(2012) Arne Hegemann et al.   PLoS One

Improved ex vivo method for microbiocidal activity across vertebrate species

(2012) S. S. French et al.   Biology Open

Hypometabolism and basking: the strategies of Alpine ibex to endure harsh over-wintering conditions

(2011) Claudio Signer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The development of endotoxin tolerance, and the role of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal function and glucocorticoids in Pekin ducks

(2011) M. Marais et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Is there an energetic-based trade-off between thermoregulation and the acute phase response in zebra finches?

(2010) G. Burness et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Effects of immune supplementation and immune challenge on oxidative status and physiology in a model bird: implications for ecologists

(2010) J. van de Crommenacker et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The metabolic cost of fever in Pekin ducks

(2010) Manette Marais et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Limited Access to Food and Physiological Trade‐Offs in a Long‐Distance Migrant Shorebird. II. Constitutive Immune Function and the Acute‐Phase Response

(2009) Deborah M. Buehler et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

The Arctic as a model for anticipating, preventing, and mitigating climate change impacts on host–parasite interactions

(2009) Susan J. Kutz et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Oxidative stress as a mediator of life history trade-offs: mechanisms, measurements and interpretation

(2008) Pat Monaghan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Constitutive Immune Function Responds More Slowly to Handling Stress than Corticosterone in a Shorebird

(2008) Deborah M. Buehler et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Haptoglobin, inflammation and disease

(2008) Isaac K. Quaye   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Seasonal changes in vertebrate immune activity: mediation by physiological trade-offs

(2007) L. B Martin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES