• 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. ...
• RNA-Seq analysis of the guppy immune response against Gyrodactylus bullatarudis infection 

  Konczal, Mateusz; Ellison, Amy R.; Phillips, Karl P.; Radwan, Jacek; Mohammed, Ryan S.; Cable, Joanne; Chadzinska, Magdalena (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2020-08-01)

  Gyrodactylids are ubiquitous ectoparasites of teleost fish, but our understanding of the host immune response against them is fragmentary. Here, we used RNA-Seq to investigate genes involved in the primary response to ...
• Wintering grounds, population size and evolutionary history of a cryptic passerine species from isotopic and genetic data 

  de la Hera, Iván; Gómez, Jordi; Dillane, Eileen; Unanue, Azaitz; Pérez‐Rodríguez, Antón; Pérez‐Tris, Javier; Torres‐Sánchez, María (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020-08-01)

  Cryptic species pose a particular challenge to biologists in the context of life history investigations because of the difficulty in their field discrimination. Additionally, there is normally a lag in their widespread ...

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