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Social groups with diverse personalities mitigate physiological stress in a songbird


Vágási CI, Fülöp A, Osváth G, Pap PL, Pénzes J*, Benkő Z, Lendvai ÁZ and Barta Z 2021. Social groups with diverse personalities mitigate physiological stress in a songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20203092. link Media coverage: media #1 EN | media #2 … Continue reading →

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The Relationship between Hormones, Glucose, and Oxidative Damage Is Condition and Stress Dependent in a Free-Living Passerine Bird


Vágási CI, Tóth Z, Pénzes J*, Pap PL, Ouyang JQ and Lendvai ÁZ 2020. The Relationship between Hormones, Glucose and Oxidative Damage is Condition- and Stress-dependent in a Free-living Passerine Bird. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 93: 466–476. link Abstract Physiological state is an emergent … Continue reading →

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Down feather morphology reflects adaptation to habitat and thermal conditions across the avian phylogeny


Pap PL, Vincze O, Daubner T*, Nord A and Vincze O 2020. Down feather morphology reflects adaptation to habitat and thermal conditions: a comparative study. Evolution 74: 2365–2376. link Abstract Down feathers are the first feather types that appear in both the phylogenetic and the ontogenetic … Continue reading →

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Morphological characterization of flight feather shafts in four bird species with different flight styles


Osváth G, Vincze O, David DC, Nagy LJ, Lendvai ZÁ, Nudds RL and Pap PL 2020. Morphological characterization of flight feather shafts in four bird species with different flight styles. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 131: 192–202. link Abstract Variation in rachis (central shaft) morphology … Continue reading →

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Selection on multiple sexual signals in two Central and Eastern European populations of the barn swallow


Pap PL, Fülöp A, Adamkova M, Cepak J, Michalkova R, Saffran RJ, Stermin AN, Tomasek O, Vágási CI, Vincze O, Wilins MR and Albtrecht T 2019. Selection on multiple sexual signals in two Central- and Eastern-European populations of the barn swallow. Ecology and … Continue reading →

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Wing morphology, flight type and migration distance predict accumulated fuel load in birds


Authors marked in boldface are EvolEcol members. Vincze O, Vágási CI, Pap PL, Palmer C, Møller AP 2018. Wing morphology, flight type and migration distance predict accumulated fuel load in birds. Journal of Experimental Biology (in press). Abstract Birds often accumulate … Continue reading →

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Vane macrostructure of primary feathers and its adaptations to flight in birds


Authors marked in boldface are EvolEcol members. Authors with asterisk are undergrad students. Pap PL, Vincze O, Vágási CI, Salamon Z*, Pándi A*, Bálint B*, Nord A, Nudds RL, Osváth G 2018. Vane macrostructure of primary feathers and its adaptations … Continue reading →

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Longevity and life history coevolve with oxidative stress in birds


Authors marked in boldface are EvolEcol members. Authors with asterisk are undergrad students. Vágási CI, Vincze O, Pătraș L, Osváth G, Pénzes J*, Haussmann MF, Barta Z, Pap PL 2018. Longevity and life history coevolve with oxidative stress in birds. … Continue reading →

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Autumn passage of soaring birds over Dobrogea (Romania): a migration corridor in Southeast Europe


Authors marked in boldface are EvolEcol members. Fülöp A, Daróczi SJ, Dehelean AS, Dehelean LA, Domahidi Z, Dósa A, Gyékény G, Hegyeli Z, Kis RB, Komáromi IS, Kovács I, Miholcsa T, Nagy AA, Nagy A, Ölvedi SZ, Papp T, Pârâu … Continue reading →

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Demographic causes of adult sex ratio variation and their consequences for parental cooperation


Author marked in boldface is EvolEcol member. L.J. Eberhart-Phillips, C. Küpper, M.C. Carmona-Isunza, O. Vincze, S. Zefania, M. Cruz-López, A. Kosztolányi, T.E.X. Miller, Z. Barta, I.C. Cuthill, T. Burke, T. Székely, J.I. Hoffman, O. Krüger (2018). Demographic causes of adult … Continue reading →

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