Author Archives: Avian immunoxidative ecology

Paper on diversity of parental care rhythms in shorebirds published in Nature


Bulla M, M Valcu, AM Dokter, AG Dondua, A Kosztolányi, A Rutten, B Helm, BK Sandercock, B Casler, BJ Ens, CS Spiegel, CJ Hassell, C Küpper, C Minton, D Burgas, DB Lank, DC Payer, EY Loktionov, E Nol, E Kwon, … Continue reading →

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Environmental selection is a main driver of divergence in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) in Romania and Bulgaria


This paper is now online and can be accessed here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.2509/full

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Paper on landscape genetics of house sparrows accepted in Ecology and Evolution


Geue JC, Vágási CI, Schweizer M, Pap PL and Thomassen HA 2016. Environmental selection is a main driver of divergence in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) in Romania and Bulgaria. Ecology and Evolution (in press). Abstract: Both neutral and adaptive evolutionary … Continue reading →

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Paper on sexual selection and phenotypic differentiation in barn swallows accepted in Journal of Evolutionary Biology


Wilkins MR, Karaardıç H, Vortman Y, Parchman TL, Albrecht T, Petrželková A, Özkan L, Pap PL, Hubbard JK, Hund AK and Safran RJ 2016. Phenotypic differentiation is associated with divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations. Journal of … Continue reading →

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Genome-wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation


This paper is now online and can be accessed here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.13740/abstract

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Paper on brain size evolution and migration accepted in Evolution


Orsolya Vincze, a former EvolEcol group member, now PhD candidate at the University of Debrecen, published a great paper in Evolution on the evolution of brain size in birds according to their migratory behaviour. Her results come from a phylogenetic … Continue reading →

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Large-brained birds suffer less oxidative damage


Our paper is now online and can be accessed here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeb.12920/abstract

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Paper on genom-wide differentiation by adaptation and isolation in barn swallows accepted in Molecular Ecology


Genome-wide differentiation in closely related populations: the roles of selection and geographic isolation Author marked in bold is EvolEcol member. Safran RJ, Scordato ESC, Wilkins MR, Hubbard JK, Jenkins BR, Albrecht T, Flaxman SM, Karaardıç H, Vortman Y, Lotem A, Nosil … Continue reading →

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Paper about brain size and oxidative balance in birds accepted in Journal of Evolutionary Biology


Authors marked in bold are EvolEcol members. Authors with asterisk were undergrad students during the time of the study and/or manuscript writing. Vágási CI, Vincze O*, Pătraș L*, Osváth G, Marton A*, Bărbos L*, Sol D and Pap PL 2016. Large-brained … Continue reading →

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Paper about feather-damaging bacteria accepted in Ibis


Authors marked in bold are EvolEcol members. Fülöp A, Czirják GÁ, Pap PL and Vágási CI 2016. Feather-degrading bacteria, uropygial gland and feather quality in House Sparrows Passer domesticus. Ibis (in press). Abstract: Feathers are dead integumentary structures that are prone … Continue reading →

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