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 …

Best practices for building and curating databases for comparative analyses

LE Schwanz, A Gunderson… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Comparative analyses have a long history of macro-ecological and-evolutionary
approaches to understand structure, function, mechanism and constraint. As the pace of …

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 …

Baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels across birds and reptiles do not reflect urbanization levels

AS Injaian, CD Francis, JQ Ouyang… - Conservation …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Rates of human-induced environmental change continue increasing with human population
size, potentially altering animal physiology and negatively affecting wildlife. Researchers …

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 …

Does cellular metabolism from primary fibroblasts and oxidative stress in blood differ between mammals and birds? The (lack-thereof) scaling of oxidative stress

AG Jimenez, ES O'Connor, KJ Tobin… - Integrative and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
As part of mitonuclear communication, retrograde and anterograde signaling helps maintain
homeostasis under basal conditions. Basal conditions, however, vary across phylogeny. At …

Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates

JF Husak, MJ Fuxjager, MA Johnson, MN Vitousek… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Endocrine systems act as key intermediaries between organisms and their environments.
This interaction leads to high variability in hormone levels, but we know little about the …

Biophysical models unravel associations between glucocorticoids and thermoregulatory costs across avian species

JG Rubalcaba, B Jimeno - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are metabolic hormones that regulate physiological and behavioural
responses to environmental change and mediate homeostasis maintenance in vertebrates …

Metabolic scaling of stress hormones in vertebrates

CD Francis, JW Donald, MJ Fuxjager… - Integrative and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are stress hormones that can strongly influence physiology, behavior,
and an organism's ability to cope with environmental change. Despite their importance, and …

The fitness consequences of wildlife conservation translocations: a meta‐analysis

IP Gross, AE Wilson, ME Wolak - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation translocation is a common strategy to offset mounting rates of population
declines through the transfer of captive‐or wild‐origin organisms into areas where …