18 results on '"Deimel, Caroline"'
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2. Modulation of cell-mediated immunity during pregnancy in wild bonobos
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Behringer, Verena, primary, Deimel, Caroline, additional, Ostner, Julia, additional, Fruth, Barbara, additional, and Sonnweber, Ruth, additional
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- 2024
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3. Great tits differ in glucocorticoid plasticity in response to spring temperature
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Hau, Michaela, primary, Deimel, Caroline, additional, and Moiron, Maria, additional
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- 2022
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4. Links between breast cancer and birth weight: an empirical test of the hypothesized association between size at birth and premenopausal adult progesterone concentrations
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Milich, Krista M., Deimel, Caroline, Schaebs, Franka S., Thornburg, Jonathan, Deschner, Tobias, and Vitzthum, Virginia J.
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- 2015
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5. Supplemental Materials from Great tits differ in glucocorticoid plasticity in response to spring temperature
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Hau, Michaela, Deimel, Caroline, and Moiron, Maria
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Fluctuations in environmental temperature affect energy metabolism and stimulate the expression of reversible phenotypic plasticity in vertebrate behavioural and physiological traits. Changes in circulating concentrations of glucocorticoid hormones often underpin environmentally induced phenotypic plasticity. Ongoing climate change is predicted to increase fluctuations in environmental temperature globally, making it imperative to determine the standing phenotypic variation in glucocorticoid responses of free-living populations to evaluate their potential for coping via plastic or evolutionary changes. Using a reaction norm approach, we repeatedly sampled wild great tit (Parus major) individuals for circulating glucocorticoid concentrations during reproduction across five years to quantify individual variation in glucocorticoid plasticity along an environmental temperature gradient. As expected, baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid concentrations increased with lower environmental temperatures at the population and within-individual level. Moreover, we provide unique evidence that individuals differ significantly in their plastic responses to the temperature gradient for both glucocorticoid traits, with some displaying greater plasticity than others. Average concentrations and degree of plasticity covaried for baseline glucocorticoids, indicating that these two reaction norm components are linked. Hence, individual variation in glucocorticoid plasticity to a key environmental factor exists in a wild vertebrate population, representing a crucial step to assess their potential to endure temperature fluctuations.
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- 2022
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6. Extinctions, genetic erosion and conservation options for the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
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Moodley, Yoshan, Russo, Isa-Rita M., Dalton, Desiré L., Kotzé, Antoinette, Muya, Shadrack, Haubensak, Patricia, Bálint, Boglárka, Munimanda, Gopi K., Deimel, Caroline, Setzer, Andrea, Dicks, Kara, Herzig-Straschil, Barbara, Kalthoff, Daniela C., Siegismund, Hans R., Robovský, Jan, O’Donoghue, Paul, and Bruford, Michael W.
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- 2017
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7. Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: the SPI‐Birds data hub
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Culina, Antica, Adriaensen, Frank, Bailey, Liam, Burgess, Malcolm, Charmantier, Anne, Cole, Ella, Eeva, Tapio, Matthysen, Erik, Nater, Chloé, Sheldon, Ben, Sæther, Bernt‐erik, Vriend, Stefan J.G., Zajkova, Zuzana, Adamík, Peter, Aplin, Lucy, Angulo, Elena, Artemyev, Alexandr, Barba, Emilio, Barišić, Sanja, Belda, Eduardo, Can Bilgin, C., Bleu, Josefa, Both, Christiaan, Bouwhuis, Sandra, Branston, Claire, Broggi, Juli, Burke, Terry, Bushuev, Andrey, Camacho, Carlos, Campobello, Daniela, Canal, David, Cantarero, Alejandro, Caro, Samuel, Cauchoix, Maxime, Chaine, Alexis, Cichoń, Mariusz, Ćiković, Davor, Cusimano, Camillo, Deimel, Caroline, Dhondt, André, Dingemanse, Niels, Doligez, Blandine, Dominoni, Davide, Doutrelant, Claire, Drobniak, Szymon, Dubiec, Anna, Eens, Marcel, Erikstad, Kjell Einar, Espín, Silvia, Farine, Damien, Figuerola, Jordi, Kavak Gülbeyaz, Pinar, Grégoire, Arnaud, Hartley, Ian, Hau, Michaela, Hegyi, Gergely, Hille, Sabine, Hinde, Camilla, Holtmann, Benedikt, Ilyina, Tatyana, Isaksson, Caroline, Iserbyt, Arne, Ivankina, Elena, Kania, Wojciech, Kempenaers, Bart, Kerimov, Anvar, Komdeur, Jan, Korsten, Peter, Král, Miroslav, Krist, Miloš, Lambrechts, Marcel, Lara, Carlos, Leivits, Agu, Liker, András, Lodjak, Jaanis, Mägi, Marko, Mainwaring, Mark, Mänd, Raivo, Massa, Bruno, Massemin, Sylvie, Martínez‐padilla, Jesús, Mazgajski, Tomasz, Mennerat, Adele, Moreno, Juan, Mouchet, Alexia, Nakagawa, Shinichi, Nilsson, Jan‐åke, Nilsson, Johan, Norte, Ana Cláudia, Oers, Kees Van, Orell, Markku, Potti, Jaime, Quinn, John, Réale, Denis, Reiertsen, Tone Kristin, Rosivall, Balázs, Russel, Andrew, Rytkönen, Seppo, Sánchez‐virosta, Pablo, Santos, Eduardo S.A., Schroeder, Julia, Senar, Juan Carlos, Seress, Gábor, Slagsvold, Tore, Szulkin, Marta, Teplitsky, Céline, Tilgar, Vallo, Tolstoguzov, Andrey, Török, János, Valcu, Mihai, Vatka, Emma, Verhulst, Simon, Visser, Marcel, Watson, Hannah, Yuta, Teru, Zamora‐marín, José, Netherlands Institute of Ecology - NIOO-KNAW (NETHERLANDS), University of Antwerp (UA), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Leibniz Association, University of Exeter, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), University of Oxford, University of Turku, Trondheim University, Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale (SETE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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FAIR data ,long-term studies ,MESH: animals ,meta-data standards ,research network ,birds ,MESH: birds ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,MESH: databases, factual ,MESH: metadata ,data standards ,database - Abstract
International audience; The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long-term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in the wild. Furthermore, their number and global distribution provides a unique opportunity to assess the generality of patterns and to address broad-scale global issues (e.g. climate change).To solve data integration issues and enable a new scale of ecological and evolutionary research based on long-term studies of birds, we have created the SPI-Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org)—a large-scale initiative that connects data from, and researchers working on, studies of wild populations of individually recognizable (usually ringed) birds. Within year and a half since the establishment, SPI-Birds has recruited over 120 members, and currently hosts data on almost 1.5 million individual birds collected in 80 populations over 2,000 cumulative years, and counting.SPI-Birds acts as a data hub and a catalogue of studied populations. It prevents data loss, secures easy data finding, use and integration and thus facilitates collaboration and synthesis. We provide community-derived data and meta-data standards and improve data integrity guided by the principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata languages (e.g. ecological meta-data language).The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI-Bird's decentralized approach: research groups retain full control over data use and their way of data management, while SPI-Birds creates tailored pipelines to convert each unique data format into a standard format. We outline the lessons learned, so that other communities (e.g. those working on other taxa) can adapt our successful model. Creating community-specific hubs (such as ours, COMADRE for animal demography, etc.) will aid much-needed large-scale ecological data integration.
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- 2021
8. Early nighttime testosterone peaks are correlated with GnRH-induced testosterone in a diurnal songbird
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Greives, Timothy, primary, Eshleman, Michelle, additional, Galante, Holland, additional, Elderbrock, Emily, additional, Deimel, Caroline, additional, and Hau, Michaela, additional
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- 2021
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9. Cell-Mediated Immune Ontogeny Is Affected by Sex but Not Environmental Context in a Long-Lived Primate Species
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Behringer, Verena, primary, Deimel, Caroline, additional, Stevens, Jeroen M. G., additional, Kreyer, Melodie, additional, Lee, Sean M., additional, Hohmann, Gottfried, additional, Fruth, Barbara, additional, and Heistermann, Michael, additional
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- 2021
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10. Connected data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub
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Adriaensen, Frank, Visser, Marcel, Branston, Claire, Drobniak, Szymon, Sánchez-Virosta, Pablo, Bailey, Liam, Figuerola, Jordi, Aplin, Lucy, Kania, Wojciech, Sæther, Bernt-Erik, Chaine, Alexis, Komdeur, Jan, Cantarero, Alejandro, Burke, Terry, Török, János, Szulkin, Marta, Gülbeyaz, Pınar, Liker, Andras, Zamora-Marín, José, Bouwhuis, Sandra, Tilgar, Vallo, Massemin, Sylvie, Mägi, Marko, Dominoni, Davide, Doligez, Blandine, Rytkönen, Seppo, Dingemanse, Niels, Nilsson, Johan, Eens, Marcel, Krist, Miloš, Norte, Ana, Bushuev, Andrey, Barišić, Sanja, Both, Christiaan, Cole, Ella, Valcu, Mihai, Reiertsen, Tone, Teplitsky, Celine, Senar, Juan, Holtmann, Benedikt, Hille, Sabine, Seress, Gábor, Santos, Eduardo, Hinde, Camilla, REALE, Denis, Hartley, Ian, Ilyina, Tatyana, Orell, Markku, Broggi, Juli, Nater, Chloé, Hau, Michaela, Grégoire, Arnaud, Rosivall, Balázs, Culina, Antica, Leivits, Agu, Lodjak, Jaanis, Erikstad, Kjell, Eeva, Tapio, Lara, Carlos, Bilgin, C., Farine, Damien, Yuta, Teru, Russel, Andrew, Mennerat, Adele, Sheldon, Benjamin, Cichoń, Mariusz, Potti, Jaime, Camacho, Carlos, Hegyi, Gergely, Cusimano, Camillo, Mainwaring, Mark, Dhondt, André, Moreno, Juan, Ćiković, Davor, Korsten, Peter, Slagsvold, Tore, Mazgajski, Tomasz, Kerimov, Anvar, Lambrechts, Marcel, Nilsson, Jan-Åke, Barba, Emilio, Espín, Silvia, Watson, Hannah, Verhulst, Simon, Caro, Samuel, Nakagawa, Shinichi, Canal, David, Belda, Eduardo, Bleu, Josefa, Mouchet, Alexia, Charmantier, Anne, Mänd, Raivo, Vatka, Emma, Doutrelant, Claire, Angulo, Elena, Quinn, John, Burgess, Malcolm, Adamík, Peter, Martínez-Padilla, Jesús, Vriend, Stefan, Iserbyt, Arne, Tolstoguzov, Andrey, Isaksson, Caroline, Král, Miroslav, van Oers, Kees, Deimel, Caroline, Artemyev, Alexandr, Dubiec, Anna, Campobello, Daniela, Kempenaers, Bart, Massa, Bruno, Matthysen, Erik, Ivankina, Elena, Cauchoix, Maxime, and Schroeder, Julia
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bepress|Life Sciences ,bepress|Life Sciences|Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - Abstract
The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long-term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in the wild. Further, their number and global distribution provides a unique opportunity to assess the generality of patterns and to address broad-scale global issues (e.g. climate change). To solve data integration issues and enable a new scale of ecological and evolutionary research based on long-terms studies of birds, we have created the SPI-Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org) – a large-scale initiative that connects data from, and researchers working on, studies of wild populations of individually recognizable (usually ringed) birds. Within a year of the establishment, SPI-Birds counts 120 members working on more than 80 populations, with data concerning breeding attempts of almost a million individual birds over a 1700 cumulative years, and counting. SPI-Birds acts as a data hub and a catalogue of studied populations. It prevents data loss, secures easy data finding, use and integration, and thus facilitates collaboration and synthesis. We provide community-derived data and meta-data standards and improve data integrity guided by of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata languages (e.g. ecological meta-data language). The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI-Bird's decentralized approach: research groups retain full control over data use and their way of data management, while SPI-Birds creates tailored pipelines to convert each unique data format into a standard format. We outline the lessons learned, so that other communities (e.g. those working on other taxa) can adapt our successful model. Creating community-specific hubs (such as ours, COMADRE for animal demography, etc.) will aid much-needed large-scale ecological data integration.
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- 2020
11. Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub
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Culina, Antica, primary, Adriaensen, Frank, additional, Bailey, Liam D., additional, Burgess, Malcolm D., additional, Charmantier, Anne, additional, Cole, Ella F., additional, Eeva, Tapio, additional, Matthysen, Erik, additional, Nater, Chloé R., additional, Sheldon, Ben C., additional, Sæther, Bernt‐Erik, additional, Vriend, Stefan J. G., additional, Zajkova, Zuzana, additional, Adamík, Peter, additional, Aplin, Lucy M., additional, Angulo, Elena, additional, Artemyev, Alexandr, additional, Barba, Emilio, additional, Barišić, Sanja, additional, Belda, Eduardo, additional, Bilgin, Cemal Can, additional, Bleu, Josefa, additional, Both, Christiaan, additional, Bouwhuis, Sandra, additional, Branston, Claire J., additional, Broggi, Juli, additional, Burke, Terry, additional, Bushuev, Andrey, additional, Camacho, Carlos, additional, Campobello, Daniela, additional, Canal, David, additional, Cantarero, Alejandro, additional, Caro, Samuel P., additional, Cauchoix, Maxime, additional, Chaine, Alexis, additional, Cichoń, Mariusz, additional, Ćiković, Davor, additional, Cusimano, Camillo A., additional, Deimel, Caroline, additional, Dhondt, André A., additional, Dingemanse, Niels J., additional, Doligez, Blandine, additional, Dominoni, Davide M., additional, Doutrelant, Claire, additional, Drobniak, Szymon M., additional, Dubiec, Anna, additional, Eens, Marcel, additional, Einar Erikstad, Kjell, additional, Espín, Silvia, additional, Farine, Damien R., additional, Figuerola, Jordi, additional, Kavak Gülbeyaz, Pınar, additional, Grégoire, Arnaud, additional, Hartley, Ian R., additional, Hau, Michaela, additional, Hegyi, Gergely, additional, Hille, Sabine, additional, Hinde, Camilla A., additional, Holtmann, Benedikt, additional, Ilyina, Tatyana, additional, Isaksson, Caroline, additional, Iserbyt, Arne, additional, Ivankina, Elena, additional, Kania, Wojciech, additional, Kempenaers, Bart, additional, Kerimov, Anvar, additional, Komdeur, Jan, additional, Korsten, Peter, additional, Král, Miroslav, additional, Krist, Miloš, additional, Lambrechts, Marcel, additional, Lara, Carlos E., additional, Leivits, Agu, additional, Liker, András, additional, Lodjak, Jaanis, additional, Mägi, Marko, additional, Mainwaring, Mark C., additional, Mänd, Raivo, additional, Massa, Bruno, additional, Massemin, Sylvie, additional, Martínez‐Padilla, Jesús, additional, Mazgajski, Tomasz D., additional, Mennerat, Adèle, additional, Moreno, Juan, additional, Mouchet, Alexia, additional, Nakagawa, Shinichi, additional, Nilsson, Jan‐Åke, additional, Nilsson, Johan F., additional, Cláudia Norte, Ana, additional, van Oers, Kees, additional, Orell, Markku, additional, Potti, Jaime, additional, Quinn, John L., additional, Réale, Denis, additional, Kristin Reiertsen, Tone, additional, Rosivall, Balázs, additional, Russell, Andrew F, additional, Rytkönen, Seppo, additional, Sánchez‐Virosta, Pablo, additional, Santos, Eduardo S. A., additional, Schroeder, Julia, additional, Senar, Juan Carlos, additional, Seress, Gábor, additional, Slagsvold, Tore, additional, Szulkin, Marta, additional, Teplitsky, Céline, additional, Tilgar, Vallo, additional, Tolstoguzov, Andrey, additional, Török, János, additional, Valcu, Mihai, additional, Vatka, Emma, additional, Verhulst, Simon, additional, Watson, Hannah, additional, Yuta, Teru, additional, Zamora‐Marín, José M., additional, and Visser, Marcel E., additional
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- 2020
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12. Is genetic drift to blame for testicular dysgenesis syndrome in Semliki chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)?
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Rich, Alicia M., primary, Wasserman, Michael D., additional, Deimel, Caroline, additional, Breeden, Scott K., additional, Kaestle, Frederika, additional, and Hunt, Kevin D., additional
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- 2018
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13. Evidence for the consumption of arboreal, diurnal primates by bonobos (Pan paniscus)
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Surbeck, Martin, Fowler, Andrew, Deimel, Caroline, and Hohmann, Gottfried
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Pygmy chimpanzee -- Food and nutrition ,Animal feeding behavior -- Research ,Anthropology/archeology/folklore ,Biological sciences ,Health ,Psychology and mental health - Published
- 2009
14. Daily torpor is associated with telomere length change over winter in Djungarian hamsters
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Turbill, Christopher, primary, Smith, Steve, additional, Deimel, Caroline, additional, and Ruf, Thomas, additional
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- 2011
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15. Evidence for the consumption of arboreal, diurnal primates by bonobos (Pan paniscus)
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Surbeck, Martin, primary, Fowler, Andrew, additional, Deimel, Caroline, additional, and Hohmann, Gottfried, additional
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- 2008
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16. Daily torpor is associated with telomere length change over winter in Djungarian hamsters
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Turbill, Christopher, Smith, Steve, Deimel, Caroline, and Ruf, Thomas
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Ageing can progress at different rates according to an individual's physiological state. Natural hypothermia, including torpor and hibernation, is a common adaptation of small mammals to survive intermittent or seasonal declines in environmental conditions. In addition to allowing energy savings, hypothermia and torpor have been associated with retarded ageing and increased longevity. We tested the hypothesis that torpor use slows ageing by measuring changes in the relative telomere length (RTL) of Djungarian hamsters, Phodopus sungorus, a highly seasonal rodent using spontaneous daily torpor, over 180 days of exposure to a short-day photoperiod and warm (approx. 20°C) or cold (approx. 9°C) air temperatures. Multi-model inference showed that change in RTL within individuals was best explained by positive effects of frequency of torpor use, particularly at low body temperatures, as well as the change in body mass and initial RTL. Telomere dynamics have been linked to future survival and proposed as an index of rates of biological ageing. Our results therefore support the hypothesis that daily torpor is associated with physiological changes that increase somatic maintenance and slow the processes of ageing.
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- 2012
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17. Great tits differ in glucocorticoid plasticity in response to spring temperature.
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Hau M, Deimel C, and Moiron M
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- Humans, Animals, Temperature, Seasons, Reproduction, Vertebrates, Glucocorticoids, Passeriformes physiology
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Fluctuations in environmental temperature affect energy metabolism and stimulate the expression of reversible phenotypic plasticity in vertebrate behavioural and physiological traits. Changes in circulating concentrations of glucocorticoid hormones often underpin environmentally induced phenotypic plasticity. Ongoing climate change is predicted to increase fluctuations in environmental temperature globally, making it imperative to determine the standing phenotypic variation in glucocorticoid responses of free-living populations to evaluate their potential for coping via plastic or evolutionary changes. Using a reaction norm approach, we repeatedly sampled wild great tit ( Parus major ) individuals for circulating glucocorticoid concentrations during reproduction across five years to quantify individual variation in glucocorticoid plasticity along an environmental temperature gradient. As expected, baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid concentrations increased with lower environmental temperatures at the population and within-individual level. Moreover, we provide unique evidence that individuals differ significantly in their plastic responses to the temperature gradient for both glucocorticoid traits, with some displaying greater plasticity than others. Average concentrations and degree of plasticity covaried for baseline glucocorticoids, indicating that these two reaction norm components are linked. Hence, individual variation in glucocorticoid plasticity in response to a key environmental factor exists in a wild vertebrate population, representing a crucial step to assess their potential to endure temperature fluctuations.
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- 2022
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18. Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub.
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Culina A, Adriaensen F, Bailey LD, Burgess MD, Charmantier A, Cole EF, Eeva T, Matthysen E, Nater CR, Sheldon BC, Saether BE, Vriend SJG, Zajkova Z, Adamík P, Aplin LM, Angulo E, Artemyev A, Barba E, Barišić S, Belda E, Bilgin CC, Bleu J, Both C, Bouwhuis S, Branston CJ, Broggi J, Burke T, Bushuev A, Camacho C, Campobello D, Canal D, Cantarero A, Caro SP, Cauchoix M, Chaine A, Cichoń M, Ćiković D, Cusimano CA, Deimel C, Dhondt AA, Dingemanse NJ, Doligez B, Dominoni DM, Doutrelant C, Drobniak SM, Dubiec A, Eens M, Einar Erikstad K, Espín S, Farine DR, Figuerola J, Kavak Gülbeyaz P, Grégoire A, Hartley IR, Hau M, Hegyi G, Hille S, Hinde CA, Holtmann B, Ilyina T, Isaksson C, Iserbyt A, Ivankina E, Kania W, Kempenaers B, Kerimov A, Komdeur J, Korsten P, Král M, Krist M, Lambrechts M, Lara CE, Leivits A, Liker A, Lodjak J, Mägi M, Mainwaring MC, Mänd R, Massa B, Massemin S, Martínez-Padilla J, Mazgajski TD, Mennerat A, Moreno J, Mouchet A, Nakagawa S, Nilsson JÅ, Nilsson JF, Cláudia Norte A, van Oers K, Orell M, Potti J, Quinn JL, Réale D, Kristin Reiertsen T, Rosivall B, Russell AF, Rytkönen S, Sánchez-Virosta P, Santos ESA, Schroeder J, Senar JC, Seress G, Slagsvold T, Szulkin M, Teplitsky C, Tilgar V, Tolstoguzov A, Török J, Valcu M, Vatka E, Verhulst S, Watson H, Yuta T, Zamora-Marín JM, and Visser ME
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- Animals, Databases, Factual, Birds, Metadata
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The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long-term studies of individually marked animals are not an exception. These studies are especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary and ecological processes in the wild. Furthermore, their number and global distribution provides a unique opportunity to assess the generality of patterns and to address broad-scale global issues (e.g. climate change). To solve data integration issues and enable a new scale of ecological and evolutionary research based on long-term studies of birds, we have created the SPI-Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org)-a large-scale initiative that connects data from, and researchers working on, studies of wild populations of individually recognizable (usually ringed) birds. Within year and a half since the establishment, SPI-Birds has recruited over 120 members, and currently hosts data on almost 1.5 million individual birds collected in 80 populations over 2,000 cumulative years, and counting. SPI-Birds acts as a data hub and a catalogue of studied populations. It prevents data loss, secures easy data finding, use and integration and thus facilitates collaboration and synthesis. We provide community-derived data and meta-data standards and improve data integrity guided by the principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), and aligned with the existing metadata languages (e.g. ecological meta-data language). The encouraging community involvement stems from SPI-Bird's decentralized approach: research groups retain full control over data use and their way of data management, while SPI-Birds creates tailored pipelines to convert each unique data format into a standard format. We outline the lessons learned, so that other communities (e.g. those working on other taxa) can adapt our successful model. Creating community-specific hubs (such as ours, COMADRE for animal demography, etc.) will aid much-needed large-scale ecological data integration., (© 2020 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.)
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- 2021
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