Reproductive investment is connected to innate immunity in a long-lived animal

Differential contributions of endogenous and exogenous nutrients to egg components in wild Baltic Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima): A test of alternative stable isotope approaches

(2015) Keith A. Hobson et al.   AUK

Investment in Constitutive Immune Function by North American Elk Experimentally Maintained at Two Different Population Densities

(2015) Cynthia J. Downs et al.   PLoS One

Bacteria-killing ability is negatively linked to epaulet size, but positively linked to baseline corticosterone, in male Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

(2014) Loren Merrill et al.   AUK

Effects of reproduction on immuno-suppression and oxidative damage, and hence support or otherwise for their roles as mechanisms underpinning life history trade-offs, are tissue and assay dependent

(2013) D.-B. Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Flight performance of western sandpipers, Calidris mauri, remains uncompromised when mounting an acute phase immune response

(2013) S. Nebel et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Into the wild: digging at immunology's evolutionary roots

(2013) Rick M Maizels et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Associations of Forest Type, Parasitism and Body Condition of Two European Passerines, Fringilla coelebs and Sylvia atricapilla

(2013) Bruntje Lüdtke et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Dennis Hasselquist et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Changes in immunocompetence and other physiological measures during molt in Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater)

(2012) Vincenzo A. Ellis et al.   AUK

Philopatric predisposition to predation-induced ecological traps: habitat-dependent mortality of breeding eiders

(2012) Johan Ekroos et al.   OECOLOGIA

The Forms and Fitness Cost of Senescence: Age-Specific Recapture, Survival, Reproduction, and Reproductive Value in a Wild Bird Population

(2011) Sandra Bouwhuis et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Experience attracts: the role of age in the formation of cooperative brood-rearing coalitions in eiders

(2011) Kim Jaatinen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Guidelines for estimating repeatability

(2011) Matthew E. Wolak et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Age-specific reproductive investment in female burying beetles: independent effects of state and risk of death

(2010) Sheena C. Cotter et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Individual variation in rates of senescence: natal origin effects and disposable soma in a wild bird population

(2010) Sandra Bouwhuis et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Complement: a key system for immune surveillance and homeostasis

(2010) Daniel Ricklin et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Causes and consequences of fine-scale breeding dispersal in a female-philopatric species

(2010) Markus Öst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Simple quantification of blood and plasma antimicrobial capacity using spectrophotometry

(2009) Andrea L. Liebl et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Age-specific nest-site preference and success in eiders

(2009) Markus Öst et al.   OECOLOGIA

What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Sex‐Specific Variability in the Immune System across Life‐History Stages

(2008) Oliver P. Love et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The use of leukocyte profiles to measure stress in vertebrates: a review for ecologists

(2008) A. K. Davis et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Elevated reproductive effort increases blood parasitaemia and decreases immune function in birds: a meta-regression approach

(2008) Sarah C. L. Knowles et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Proximate and ultimate mechanisms underlying immunosuppression during the incubation fast in female eiders: Roles of triiodothyronine and corticosterone

(2008) Sophie Bourgeon et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

The population dynamics of the Eider Duck Somateria mollissima and evidence of extensive non-breeding by adult ducks

(2008) J. C. COULSON   IBIS

Re-examination of the capital and income dichotomy in breeding birds

(2008) THEO MEIJER et al.   IBIS

Social and maternal factors affecting duckling survival in eiders Somateria mollissima

(2008) Markus Öst et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Individual variation in reproductive costs of reproduction: high-quality females always do better

(2008) Sandra Hamel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Habitat-specific clutch size and cost of incubation in eiders reconsidered

(2008) Markus Öst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Heterogeneity in individual quality overrides costs of reproduction in female reindeer

(2008) Robert B. Weladji et al.   OECOLOGIA

Immune function varies with reproductive stage and context in female and male tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus

(2007) Susannah S. French et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY