Telomere attrition: metabolic regulation and signalling function?

S Casagrande, M Hau - Biology Letters, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Stress exposure can leave long-term footprints within the organism, like in telomeres (TLs),
protective chromosome caps that shorten during cell replication and following exposure to …

Does variation in glucocorticoid concentrations predict fitness? A phylogenetic meta-analysis

LA Schoenle, C Zimmer, ET Miller… - General and comparative …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Glucocorticoid hormones (GCs) are central mediators of metabolism and the response to
challenges. Because circulating GC levels increase in response to challenges, within …

Macroevolutionary patterning in glucocorticoids suggests different selective pressures shape baseline and stress-induced levels

MN Vitousek, MA Johnson, CJ Downs… - The American …, 2019‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Glucocorticoid (GC) hormones are important phenotypic mediators across vertebrates, but
their circulating concentrations can vary markedly. Here we investigate macroevolutionary …

Quantifying glucocorticoid plasticity using reaction norm approaches: There still is so much to discover!

K Malkoc, L Mentesana… - Integrative and …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Hormones are highly responsive internal signals that help organisms adjust their phenotype
to fluctuations in environmental and internal conditions. Our knowledge of the causes and …

Sex steroids as mediators of phenotypic integration, genetic correlations, and evolutionary transitions

RM Cox - Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In recent decades, endocrinologists have increasingly adopted evolutionary methods and
perspectives to characterize the evolution of the vertebrate endocrine system and leverage it …

Evolution of hormone-phenotype couplings and hormone-genome interactions

RM Cox, MD Hale, TN Wittman, CD Robinson… - Hormones and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
When selection favors a new relationship between a cue and a hormonally mediated
response, adaptation can proceed by altering the hormonal signal that is produced or by …

Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function

S Sur, J Tiwari, S Malik… - Philosophical …, 2025‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Birds have evolved seasonal adaptations in multiple aspects of the innate and adaptive
immune systems. Seasonal immunological adaptations are crucial for survival in harsh …

Enzymatic antioxidants but not baseline glucocorticoids mediate the reproduction–survival trade-off in a wild bird

S Casagrande, M Hau - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The trade-off between reproductive investment and survival is central to life-history theory,
but the relative importance and the complex interactions among the physiological …

Damage-fitness model: the missing piece in integrative stress models

H Wada - Stress, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade, several theoretical models have been put forth to describe how
animals respond to adverse environments and how this response changes under different …

Associations between glucocorticoids and habitat selection reflect daily and seasonal energy requirements

L Newediuk, GF Mastromonaco, E Vander Wal - Movement Ecology, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Glucocorticoids are often associated with stressful environments, but they are
also thought to drive the best strategies to improve fitness in stressful environments …