Born without a Silver Spoon: A Review of the Causes and Consequences of Adversity during Early Life

Raising offspring increases ageing: Differences in senescence among three populations of a long‐lived seabird, the Atlantic puffin

(2023) Terje L. Landsem et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Rhesus macaques compensate for reproductive delay following ecological adversity early in life

(2022) Logan Luevano et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Familiarity, dominance, sex and season shape common waxbill social networks

(2022) Ana Cristina R Gomes et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Should I stay or should I go: the effect of avian brood parasitism on host fledging dynamics

(2022) H. M. Scharf et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Circulating Hormones and Dominance Status Predict Female Behavior during Courtship in a Lekking Species

(2022) Alexis D Earl et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Competitive events during nest‐building influence offspring growth and behaviour, but not testosterone deposition in the egg yolk in Western Bluebirds ( Sialia mexicana )

(2022) América Hernández et al.   IBIS

“Born with a silver spoon in the mouth has bad sides too”: Experimentally increasing growth rate enhances individual quality but accelerates reproductive senescence in females of the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor

(2022) Agathe Crosland et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Ontogenetic effects of brood parasitism by the Brown‐headed Cowbird on host offspring

(2022) Todd M. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Rank-dependent social inheritance determines social network structure in spotted hyenas

(2021) Amiyaal Ilany et al.   SCIENCE

Dominant females have brighter ornamentation in a sexually dimorphic lekking species

(2021) Alexis D. Earl et al.   ETHOLOGY

Growing Up in a Changing Climate: How Temperature Affects the Development of Morphological, Behavioral and Physiological Traits of a Marsupial Mammal

(2020) Clare Stawski et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Silver‐spoon upbringing improves early‐life fitness but promotes reproductive ageing in a wild bird

(2020) Foteini Spagopoulou et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High temperatures are associated with substantial reductions in breeding success and offspring quality in an arid-zone bird

(2020) T. M. F. N. van de Ven et al.   OECOLOGIA

Mate fidelity improves survival and breeding propensity of a long‐lived bird

(2020) Alan G. Leach et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Age‐dependent phenological plasticity in a wild bird

(2020) Suzanne Bonamour et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Do the ages of parents or helpers affect offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird?

(2020) Eve B. Cooper et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Rainy springs linked to poor nestling growth in a declining avian aerial insectivore ( Tachycineta bicolor )

(2019) Amelia R. Cox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Helpers improve fledgling body condition in bigger broods of cooperatively breeding African pygmy falcon

(2019) Diana Bolopo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Chemical profiles reflect heterozygosity and seasonality in a tropical lekking passerine bird

(2019) Danielle J. Whittaker et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Why do earlier‐arriving migratory birds have better breeding success?

(2019) Catriona A. Morrison et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Parental genetic similarity and offspring performance in blue tits in relation to brood size manipulation

(2019) Aneta Arct et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Shy is sometimes better: personality and juvenile body mass affect adult reproductive success in wild boars, Sus scrofa

(2016) Sebastian G. Vetter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Long-term consequences of high incubation temperature in a wild bird population

(2016) Andreas Nord et al.   Biology Letters

Divergence and Functional Degradation of a Sex Chromosome-like Supergene

(2016) Elaina M. Tuttle et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Relative contributions of offspring quality and environmental quality to adult field performance

(2015) Rolanda Lange et al.   OIKOS

Trading up: the fitness consequences of divorce in monogamous birds

(2014) Antica Culina et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Quality of breeding territory mediates the influence of paternal quality on sex ratio bias in a free-living bird population

(2013) S. C. Bell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Hatching asynchrony and offspring sex influence the subsequent exploratory behaviour of zebra finches

(2012) Mark C. Mainwaring et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Hatching asynchrony can have long-term consequences for offspring fitness in zebra finches under captive conditions

(2012) MARK C. MAINWARING et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Compensatory growth affects exploratory behaviour in zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata

(2011) E. Tobias Krause et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Parentally biased favouritism in relation to offspring sex in zebra finches

(2011) Mark C. Mainwaring et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Predation risk affects offspring growth via maternal effects

(2011) Michael Coslovsky et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Hatching order explains an extrapair chick advantage in western bluebirds

(2010) Elise D. Ferree et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Hatching asynchrony and growth trade-offs within domesticated and wild zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata, broods

(2010) MARK C. MAINWARING et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Egg size and offspring quality: a meta-analysis in birds

(2010) Miloš Krist   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Social rank governs the effective environment of siblings

(2010) S. Forbes   Biology Letters

Sexual dimorphism and growth trade-offs in Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus nestlings

(2010) MARK C. MAINWARING et al.   IBIS

Fear for the family has negative consequences: indirect effects of nest predators on chick growth in a farmland bird

(2010) Jenny C. Dunn et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Environmental and not maternal effects determine variation in offspring phenotypes in a passerine bird

(2010) M. C. MAINWARING et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Effects of basking opportunity on birthing asynchrony in a viviparous lizard

(2009) Geoffrey M. While et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Aggressive Ural owl mothers recruit more offspring

(2009) Pekka Kontiainen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Hatching Asynchrony and Growth Trade-Offs Within Barn Swallow Broods

(2009) Mark C. Mainwaring et al.   CONDOR

Maternal Effects Contribute to the Superior Performance of Extra-Pair Offspring

(2009) Michael J.L. Magrath et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Vallo Tilgar et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Habitat quality, nestling diet, and provisioning behaviour in great tits Parus major

(2009) Teddy A. Wilkin et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Growth of nestling sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus)

(2009) Dorian Moss   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Asynchronous hatching in burying beetles: a test of the peak load reduction hypothesis

(2008) Per T. Smiseth et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Early Developmental Conditions and Male Attractiveness in Zebra Finches

(2008) Marc Naguib et al.   ETHOLOGY

Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus prediction and feeding site selection by its

(2008) S. A. Hinsley et al.   IBIS

Growth rates of nestling Corn Buntings Miliaria calandra in relation to their sex

(2008) IAN R. HARTLEY et al.   IBIS

Biparental care and offspring begging strategies: hungry nestling blue tits move towards the father

(2007) M. Dickens et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function

(2003) Simon C. Griffith et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY