• Moulting season corticosterone correlates with winter season bodyweight in an Arctic migrant bird 

  Doyle, Susan; Cabot, David; Furlong, John; Liu, Yixin; Colhoun, Kendrew; Walsh, Alyn J.; McMahon, Barry J. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020-08-11)

  In vertebrates, the endocrine system translates environmental changes into physiological responses on which natural selection can act to regulate individual fitness and, ultimately, population dynamics. Corticosterone ...
• Ingestion of anthropogenic debris by migratory barnacle geese Branta leucopsis on a remote north-eastern Atlantic island 

  Coughlan, Neil E.; Doyle, Susan; Baker-Arney, Connie; Griffith, Rose M.; Lyne, Linda; Williams, Hannah; Kelly, Thomas C.; McMahon, Barry J.; Dick, Jaimie T. A.; Cunningham, Eoghan M. (Elsevier, 2020-08-24)

  Although seabirds are frequently used as sentinel species for anthropogenic pollution, the extent and impacts of synthetic debris ingestion remains poorly studied for many water bird species. Here, we assess ingestion of ...
• A naïve population of European oyster Ostrea edulis with reduced susceptibility to the pathogen Bonamia ostreae: are S-strategy life traits providing protection? 

  Egerton, Sian; Lynch, Sharon A.; Prado-Alvarez, Maria; Flannery, Grace; Brennan, Elaine; Hugh-Jones, Tristan; Hugh-Jones, David; Culloty, Sarah C. (Oxford University Press, 2020-06-13)

  European populations of the native flat oyster, Ostrea edulis, have been heavily depleted by two protozoan parasites, Marteila refringens and Bonamia ostreae, with mortalities of up to 90% reported in naïve populations. ...
• Impacts, fate and trophic transfer of microplastics in the freshwater environment 

  Mateos-Cárdenas, Alicia (University College Cork, 2020-08-31)

  Microplastics (1–1000 μm) are now ubiquitous in all environments, including freshwater systems. Plastics of different sizes and shapes have been reported to be present in river and lake samples from the water column and ...
• The taphonomy of vertebrate melanosomes 

  Rossi, Valentina (University College Cork, 2020-08-31)

  The field of fossil colour is emerging rapidly as a new focus of palaeobiological research. Evidence of melanosomes, micron-sized organelles containing melanin, found in skin, feathers and hair of exceptionally preserved ...

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