Parental morph combination does not influence innate immune function in nestlings of a colour-polymorphic African raptor

Fledging mass is color morph specific and affects local recruitment in a wild bird

(2020) Chiara Morosinotto et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Contrasting parental color morphs increase regularity of prey deliveries in an African raptor

(2020) Carina Nebel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Live long and prosper: durable benefits of early-life care in banded mongooses

(2019) Emma I. K. Vitikainen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early Life Conditions and Immune Defense in Nestling Swainson's Hawks

(2019) Chris Vennum et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

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

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

Sex-specific patterns of reproductive senescence in a long-lived reintroduced raptor

(2018) Megan Murgatroyd et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Silver spoon effects of hatching order in an asynchronous hatching bird

(2018) Zitan Song et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Actuarial senescence in a dimorphic bird: different rates of ageing in morphs with discrete reproductive strategies

(2018) Melissa L. Grunst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Indices of immune function used by ecologists are mostly unaffected by repeated freeze-thaw cycles and methodological deviations

(2017) Arne Hegemann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Food availability affects adult survival trajectories depending on early developmental conditions

(2017) Michael Briga et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Baseline innate immunity does not affect the response to an immune challenge in female great tits (Parus major)

(2016) Anke Vermeulen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

(2016) Cas Eikenaar et al.   Biology Letters

Stability in prey abundance may buffer Black SparrowhawksAccipiter melanoleucusfrom health impacts of urbanization

(2016) Jessleena Suri et al.   IBIS

A review of survival estimates for raptors and owls

(2016) Ian Newton et al.   IBIS

Family morph matters: factors determining survival and recruitment in a long-lived polymorphic raptor

(2016) Petra Sumasgutner et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Pair complementarity influences reproductive output in the polymorphic black sparrowhawkAccipiter melanoleucus

(2016) Gareth Tate et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Body Mass of Female Cooper's Hawks is Unrelated to Longevity and Breeding Dispersal: Implications for the Study of Breeding Dispersal

(2016) Robert N. Rosenfield et al.   JOURNAL OF RAPTOR RESEARCH

Vitally important - does early innate immunity predict recruitment and adult innate immunity?

(2016) Anke Vermeulen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Causes and Consequences of Partial Migration in a Passerine Bird

(2015) Arne Hegemann et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Foster, but not genetic, father plumage coloration has a temperature-dependent effect on offspring quality

(2014) P. E. Järvistö et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Neonatal body condition, immune responsiveness, and hematocrit predict longevity in a wild bird population

(2014) E. Keith Bowers et al.   ECOLOGY

Environmental proxies of antigen exposure explain variation in immune investment better than indices of pace of life

(2014) Nicholas P. C. Horrocks et al.   OECOLOGIA

Mechanisms and reproductive consequences of breeding dispersal in a specialist predator under temporally varying food conditions

(2014) Julien Terraube et al.   OIKOS

Phenological shifts assist colonisation of a novel environment in a range-expanding raptor

(2014) Rowan O. Martin et al.   OIKOS

Differential Haemoparasite Intensity between Black Sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) Morphs Suggests an Adaptive Function for Polymorphism

(2014) Bonnie Lei et al.   PLoS One

Effects of resource variation during early life and adult social environment on contest outcomes in burying beetles: a context-dependent silver spoon strategy?

(2014) P. E. Hopwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Melanin-Specific Life-History Strategies

(2013) Guillaume Emaresi et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Offspring pay sooner, parents pay later: experimental manipulation of body mass reveals trade-offs between immune function, reproduction and survival

(2013) Arne Hegemann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Nestling erythrocyte resistance to oxidative stress predicts fledging success but not local recruitment in a wild bird

(2012) S. Losdat et al.   Biology Letters

Opposite differential allocation by males and females of the same species

(2012) T. Limbourg et al.   Biology Letters

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

Plumage polymorphism in a newly colonized black sparrowhawk population: classification, temporal stability and inheritance patterns

(2012) A. Amar et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Immune function in a free-living bird varies over the annual cycle, but seasonal patterns differ between years

(2012) Arne Hegemann et al.   OECOLOGIA

Immune Indexes of Larks from Desert and Temperate Regions Show Weak Associations with Life History but Stronger Links to Environmental Variation in Microbial Abundance

(2012) Nicholas P. C. Horrocks et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Improved ex vivo method for microbiocidal activity across vertebrate species

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

Protective Roles of Natural IgM Antibodies

(2012) Caroline Grönwall et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

How Fledglings Explore Surroundings from Fledging to Dispersal. A Case Study with Eagle OwlsBubo bubo

(2011) María del Mar Delgado et al.   ARDEA

Early development, recruitment and life history trajectory in long-lived birds

(2011) Emmanuelle Cam et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

The influence of sex and body size on nestling survival and recruitment in the house sparrow

(2010) IAN R. CLEASBY et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Selection on innate immunity and body condition in Florida scrub-jays throughout an epidemic

(2010) T. E. Wilcoxen et al.   Biology Letters

Trade-off between growth and immune function: a meta-analysis of selection experiments

(2010) Peter J. van der Most et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Immediate and delayed life history effects caused by food deprivation early in life in a short-lived lizard

(2010) M. MUGABO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY 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

Socially Mediated Trade‐Offs between Aggression and Parental Effort in Competing Color Morphs

(2009) Sarah R. Pryke et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Differential allocation and compensation: who deserves the silver spoon?

(2009) Irja Ida Ratikainen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Does immune response cause oxidative stress in birds? A meta-analysis

(2009) David Costantini et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

U-CARE: Utilities for performing goodness of fit tests and manipulating CApture–REcapture data

(2009) Rémi Choquet et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Long-term consequences of early ontogeny in free-living Great Tits Parus major

(2009) Vallo Tilgar et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Family legacies: short- and long-term fitness consequences of early-life conditions in female European rabbits

(2009) Heiko G. Rödel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Fitness in common buzzards at the cross-point of opposite melanin-parasite interactions

(2008) N. Chakarov et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Cohort effects in red squirrels: the influence of density, food abundance and temperature on future survival and reproductive success

(2008) Sébastien Descamps et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

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

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