Blood-feeding ectoparasites as developmental stressors: Does corticosterone mediate effects of mite infestation on nestling growth, immunity and energy availability?

Short- and long-term effects of developmental corticosterone exposure on avian physiology, behavioral phenotype, cognition, and fitness: A review

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Landscape patterns of variation in blood glucose concentration of nestling blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)

(2014) Adam Kaliński et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Concepción Salaberria et al.   PLoS One

Effects of ectoparasites on seasonal variation in quality of nestling Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)

(2013) V.B. Harriman et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Neonatal handling alters the development of the adrenocortical response to stress in a wild songbird (eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis)

(2013) Sharon E. Lynn et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Antiparasite treatments reduce humoral immunity and impact oxidative status in raptor nestlings

(2013) Sveinn Are Hanssen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Developmental stress has sex-specific effects on nestling growth and adult metabolic rates but no effect on adult body size or body composition in song sparrows

(2012) K. L. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Injecting the mite into ecological immunology: measuring the antibody response of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) challenged with hematophagous mites

(2011) Marisa O. King et al.   AUK

Body Size and Immune Defense of Nestling Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in Response to Manipulation of Ectoparasites and Food Supply

(2011) Jon E. Brommer et al.   AUK

Sources of variation in blood glucose concentrations of free-living birds

(2011) Alan Lill   Avian Biology Research

Innate Immune Response Development in Nestling Tree Swallows

(2011) Tammy Stambaugh et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Variation in innate immunity in relation to ectoparasite load, age and season: a field experiment in great tits (Parus major)

(2010) G. De Coster et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Costs and Benefits of Experimentally Induced Changes in the Allocation of Growth versus Immune Function under Differential Exposure to Ectoparasites

(2010) Natalia Pitala et al.   PLoS One

Ecological immunology of bird-ectoparasite systems

(2010) Jeb P. Owen et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Effects of Brood Size Manipulation on Physiological Condition of Nestling Blue TitsCyanistes caeruleus

(2009) Jerzy Bańbura et al.   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Post-natal exposure to corticosterone affects standard metabolic rate in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

(2008) K.A. Spencer et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Immune-challenged house wren broods differ in the relative strengths of their responses among different axes of the immune system

(2008) A. M. FORSMAN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Corticosterone metabolites in blue tit and pied flycatcher droppings: Effects of brood size, ectoparasites and temperature

(2007) Elisa Lobato et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Early growth conditions, phenotypic development and environmental change

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