Publications of the research group "Evolutionary Physiology"
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2025
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Linking warmer nest temperatures to reduced body size in seabird nestlings: Possible mitochondrial bioenergetic and proteomic mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (6), jeb249880 (2025)
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Daily activity is repeatable but varies across the breeding season in female great tits. Behavioral Ecology 36 (1), arae106 (2025)
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Do egg hormones have fitness consequences in wild birds? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ecology Letters 28 (3), e70100 (2025)
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Variation in seed abundance predicts yolk fatty acid composition in a wild population of birds. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)
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Sex and morph variation in activity from early ontogeny to maturity in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). Ethology 131 (3), e13543 (2025)
2024
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A supergene affects androgen concentrations during early development in a bird with alternative reproductive morphs. Hormones and Behavior 166, 105645 (2024)
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Commentary on Thoral et al. (2024) "The relationship between mitochondrial respiration, resting metabolic rate and blood cell count in great tits". Biology Open 13 (11), bio061770 (2024)
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Baseline glucocorticoids alone do not predict reproductive success across years, but in interaction with enzymatic antioxidants. Ecology and Evolution 14 (4), e11193 (2024)
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Mitochondrial function is enhanced by thyroid hormones during zebra finch development. Royal Society Open Science 11 (7), 240417 (2024)
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Endocrine flexibility can facilitate or constrain the ability to cope with global change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 379 (1898), 20220502 (2024)
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A prenatal acoustic signal of heat reduces a biomarker of chronic stress at adulthood across seasons. Frontiers in Physiology 15, 1348993 (2024)
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Prenatal acoustic signals influence nestling heat shock protein response to heat and heterophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in a desert bird. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25 (22), 12194 (2024)
2023
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Mitochondrial metabolism in blood more reliably predicts whole-animal energy needs compared to other tissues. iScience 26 (12), 108321 (2023)
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Dietary nucleotides can prevent glucocorticoid-induced telomere attrition in a fast-growing wild vertebrate. Molecular Ecology 32 (19), pp. 5429 - 5447 (2023)
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Neopterin levels in bonobos vary seasonally and reflect symptomatic respiratory infections. EcoHealth 20, pp. 93 - 104 (2023)
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Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future. Ornithological Applications 125 (1), duac046 (2023)
2022
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Asymmetric architecture is non-random and repeatable in a bird’s nests. Current Biology 32 (9), pp. R412 - R413 (2022)
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Great tits differ in glucocorticoid plasticity in response to spring temperature. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289 (1986), 20221235 (2022)
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Quantifying glucocorticoid plasticity using reaction norm approaches: There still is so much to discover! Integrative and Comparative Biology 62 (1), pp. 58 - 70 (2022)
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Glucocorticoids in a warming world: Do they help birds to cope with high environmental temperatures? Hormones and Behavior 142, 105178 (2022)
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Austral birds offer insightful complementary models in ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37 (9), pp. 759 - 767 (2022)
2021
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Cell-mediated immune ontogeny is affected by sex but not environmental context in a long-lived primate species. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 629094 (2021)
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Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub. Journal of Animal Ecology 90 (9), pp. 2147 - 2160 (2021)
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Sex steroids modulate circadian behavioral rhythms in captive animals, but does this matter in the wild? Hormones and Behavior 128, 104900 (2021)
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Early nighttime testosterone peaks are correlated with GnRH-induced testosterone in a diurnal songbird. General and Comparative Endocrinology 312, 113861 (2021)
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Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 75 (5), pp. 1003 - 1010 (2021)
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Integrating mitochondrial aerobic metabolism into ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36 (4), pp. 321 - 332 (2021)
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Individuelle Anpassungen an wechselnde Umweltbedingungen bei Kohlmeisen: Wie stark reagieren Schilddrüsenhormone auf Temperaturveränderungen und Arbeitsleistung? Vogelwarte - Zeitschrift für Vogelkunde 59 (1), pp. 53 - 54 (2021)
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Inferring whole-organism metabolic rate from red blood cells in birds. Frontiers in Physiology 12, 691633 (2021)
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Acute aggressive behavior perturbates the oxidative status of a wild bird independently of testosterone and progesterone. Hormones and Behavior 128, 104913 (2021)
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Natural variation in yolk fatty acids, but not androgens, predicts offspring fitness in a wild bird. Frontiers in Zoology 18, 38 (2021)
2020
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Dietary antioxidants attenuate the endocrine stress response during long-duration flight of a migratory bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 (1929), 20200744 (2020)
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Increased glucocorticoid concentrations in early life cause mitochondrial inefficiency and short telomeres. Journal of Experimental Biology 223 (15), jeb222513 (2020)
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Baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels across birds and reptiles do not reflect urbanization levels. Conservation Physiology 8 (1), coz110 (2020)
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Defending as a unit: Sex- and context-specific territorial defence in a duetting bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74 (9), 111 (2020)
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Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick‐borne bacterial pathogen. Molecular Ecology 29 (3), pp. 485 - 501 (2020)
2019
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Coupling lifespan and aging? The age at onset of body mass decline associates positively with sex-specific lifespan but negatively with environment-specific lifespan. Experimental Gerontology 119, pp. 111 - 119 (2019)
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Telomere attrition: Metabolic regulation and signalling function? Biology Letters 15 (3), 20180885 (2019)
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Developmental conditions modulate DNA methylation at the glucocorticoid receptor gene with cascading effects on expression and corticosterone levels in zebra finches. Scientific Reports 9, 15869 (2019)
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Female variation in allocation of steroid hormones, antioxidants and fatty acids: A multilevel analysis in a wild passerine bird. Journal of Avian Biology 50 (1), e01859 (2019)
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Macroevolutionary patterning in glucocorticoids suggests different selective pressures shape baseline and stress-induced levels. American Naturalist 193 (6), pp. 866 - 880 (2019)
2018
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Not one hormone or another: Aggression differentially affects progesterone and testosterone in a South American ovenbird. Hormones and Behavior 105, pp. 104 - 109 (2018)
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Light at night disrupts nocturnal rest and elevates glucocorticoids at cool color temperatures. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology 329 (8-9), pp. 465 - 472 (2018)
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Do seasonal glucocorticoid changes depend on reproductive investment? A comparative approach in birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58 (4), pp. 739 - 750 (2018)
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Enzymatic antioxidants but not baseline glucocorticoids mediate the reproduction-survival trade-off in a wild bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1892), 2018.2141 (2018)
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Metabolic scaling of stress hormones in vertebrates. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58 (4), pp. 729 - 738 (2018)
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Species-specific means and within-species variance in glucocorticoid hormones and speciation rates in birds. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58 (4), pp. 763 - 776 (2018)
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Male but not female zebra finches with high plasma corticosterone have lower survival. Functional Ecology 32 (3), pp. 713 - 721 (2018)
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Corticosterone levels reflect variation in metabolic rate, independent of "stress". Scientific Reports 8, 13020 (2018)
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Glucocorticoid-temperature association is shaped by foraging costs in individual zebra finches. Journal of Experimental Biology 221 (23), jeb187880 (2018)