Context-dependent effects of yolk androgens on nestling growth and immune function in a multibrooded passerine

Are prenatal maternal resources more important in competitive than in benign postnatal environments?

(2015) Miloš Krist et al.   AUK

Nest-dwelling ectoparasites reduce antioxidant defences in females and nestlings of a passerine: a field experiment

(2015) Jimena López-Arrabé et al.   OECOLOGIA

Interpreting immunological indices: The importance of taking parasite community into account. An example in blackbirdsTurdus merula

(2015) Clotilde Biard et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Interactions between prenatal maternal effects and posthatching conditions in a wild bird population

(2014) Marta Giordano et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Natural selection acts in opposite ways on correlated hormonal mediators of prenatal maternal effects in a wild bird population

(2014) Barbara Tschirren et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A vertebrate cytokine primer for eco-immunologists

(2014) Laura M. Zimmerman et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Intra-sexual competition alters the relationship between testosterone and ornament expression in a wild territorial bird

(2014) J. Martínez-Padilla et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The PHA Test as an Indicator of Phagocytic Activity in a Passerine Bird

(2014) Concepción Salaberria et al.   PLoS One

Sexual Differences in Parental Investment in Response to Parent-Absent Calls

(2013) Blanca Jimeno et al.   ETHOLOGY

Differential effects of yolk testosterone and androstenedione in embryo development and nestling growth in the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)

(2013) Jaime Muriel et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Effects of temperature and nest heat exposure on nestling growth, dehydration and survival in a Mediterranean hole-nesting passerine

(2013) Concepción Salaberria et al.   IBIS

The multivariate egg: quantifying within- and among-clutch correlations between maternally derived yolk immunoglobulins and yolk androgens using multivariate mixed models

(2013) Erik Postma et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of Food Availability on Yolk Androgen Deposition in the Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a Seabird with Facultative Brood Reduction

(2013) Z M. Benowitz-Fredericks et al.   PLoS One

Seasonal dynamics of leaf-eating insects biomass and its influence on carotenoid content in feathers of Great Tit nestlings

(2013) T. A. Ilyina et al.   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Parents take both size and conspicuousness into account when feeding nestlings in dark cavity nests

(2012) Karen L. Wiebe et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Seasonal decline of offspring quality in the European starling Sturnus vulgaris: an immune challenge experiment

(2012) Lorenzo Serra et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Genetic Markers of Inflammation and Their Role in Cardiovascular Disease

(2012) Kripa Raman et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Food conditions affect yolk testosterone deposition but not incubation attendance

(2012) Jonas Vergauwen et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

IL-6 Trans-Signaling via the Soluble IL-6 Receptor: Importance for the Pro-Inflammatory Activities of IL-6

(2012) Stefan Rose-John   International Journal of Biological Sciences

Maternal Androgens Increase Sibling Aggression, Dominance, and Competitive Ability in the Siblicidal Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)

(2012) Martina S. Müller et al.   PLoS One

Embryonic exposure to maternal testosterone influences age-specific mortality patterns in a captive passerine bird

(2011) Hubert Schwabl et al.   AGE

Hormonal regulation of offspring begging and mediation of parent–offspring conflict

(2011) Per T. Smiseth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Hormones, life-history, and phenotypic variation: Opportunities in evolutionary avian endocrinology

(2011) Tony D. Williams   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Beyond Maternal Effects in Birds: Responses of the Embryo to the Environment

(2011) W. L. Reed et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Maternal yolk testosterone in canary eggs: toward a better understanding of mechanisms and function

(2010) Wendt Müller et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Yolk androstenedione, but not testosterone, predicts offspring fate and reflects parental quality

(2010) Gergely Hegyi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Seasonal Tradeoffs in Reproductive Investment in a Multi-Brooded Passerine

(2010) Thomas J. Robinson et al.   CONDOR

Heterophils/Lymphocytes-ratio and circulating corticosterone do not indicate the same stress imposed on Eurasian kestrel nestlings

(2010) Claudia Müller et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Do different yolk androgens exert similar effects on the morphology or behaviour of Japanese quail hatchlings Coturnix japonica?

(2010) Gergely Hegyi et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Testing the interactive effects of testosterone and parasites on carotenoid-based ornamentation in a wild bird

(2010) J. MARTÍNEZ-PADILLA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Egg composition in relation to social environment and maternal physiological condition in the collared flycatcher

(2009) Rita Hargitai et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Maternal yolk androgens stimulate territorial behaviour in black-headed gull chicks

(2009) W. Muller et al.   Biology Letters

Yolk androgens do not appear to mediate sexual conflict over parental investment in the collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis

(2009) Suvi Ruuskanen et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Yolk hormones have sex-specific long-term effects on behavior in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

(2009) Suvi Ruuskanen et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

The effects of experimentally manipulated yolk androgens on growth and immune function of male and female nestling collared flycatchers Ficedula albicollis

(2009) Natalia Pitala et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Yolk androgens and the development of avian immunity: an experiment in jackdaws (Corvus monedula)

(2009) M. I. Sandell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Testosterone-mediated trade-offs in the old age: a new approach to the immunocompetence handicap and carotenoid-based sexual signalling

(2009) C. Alonso-Alvarez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Yolk testosterone, postnatal growth and song in male canaries

(2008) Wendt Müller et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Does maternal social hierarchy affect yolk testosterone deposition in domesticated canaries?

(2007) Aurelie Tanvez et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Hormone-mediated maternal effects in birds: mechanisms matter but what do we know of them?

(2007) Ton. G.G Groothuis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early growth conditions, phenotypic development and environmental change

(2007) P. Monaghan   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptive developmental plasticity in growing nestlings: sibling competition induces differential gape growth

(2007) D. Gil et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES