Temperature as a modulator of sexual selection

R García‐Roa, F Garcia‐Gonzalez… - Biological …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A central question in ecology and evolution is to understand why sexual
selection varies so much in strength across taxa; it has long been known that ecological …

Antineoplastic agents: Environmental prevalence and adverse outcomes in aquatic organisms

AM Wormington, M De María, HG Kurita… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with 9.6 million cancer‐related
deaths in 2018. Cancer incidence has increased over time, and so has the prescription rate …

Distinct immune and transcriptomic profiles in dominant versus subordinate males in mouse social hierarchies

W Lee, TM Milewski, MF Dwortz, RL Young… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Social status is a critical factor determining health outcomes in human and nonhuman social
species. In social hierarchies with reproductive skew, individuals compete to monopolize …

Social status predicts wound healing in wild baboons

EA Archie, J Altmann, SC Alberts - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012‏ - pnas.org
Social status can have striking effects on health in humans and other animals, but the
causes often are unknown. In male vertebrates, status-related differences in health may be …

Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents

MA Previtali, RS Ostfeld, F Keesing, AE Jolles… - Oikos, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Life histories of animals tend to vary along a slow to fast continuum. Those with fast life
histories have shorter life spans, faster development, and higher reproductive rates relative …

Meta-analysis suggests choosy females get sexy sons more than “good genes”

ZM Prokop, Ł Michalczyk, SM Drobniak, M Herdegen… - …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Female preferences for specific male phenotypes have been documented across a wide
range of animal taxa, including numerous species where males contribute only gametes to …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat and Body Condition of Small Mammals in a Country at Mid-Latitude

L Balčiauskas, L Balčiauskienė - Land, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
The relationship between the body condition of different small mammal species and the
habitat they occupy is poorly analyzed. We analyzed the body condition index, BCI, of 18 …

Social status, immune response and parasitism in males: a meta-analysis

B Habig, EA Archie - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2015‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In male vertebrates, two conflicting paradigms—the energetic costs of high dominance rank
and the chronic stress of low rank—have been proposed to explain patterns of immune …

Temporal dynamics of the tick Ixodes ricinus in northern Europe: epidemiological implications

C Cayol, E Koskela, T Mappes, A Siukkola, ER Kallio - Parasites & vectors, 2017‏ - Springer
Background Tick-borne pathogens pose an increasing threat to human and veterinary
health across the northern hemisphere. While the seasonal activity of ticks is largely …

Hormonally mediated maternal effects, individual strategy and global change

S Meylan, DB Miles, J Clobert - … Transactions of the …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A challenge to ecologists and evolutionary biologists is predicting organismal responses to
the anticipated changes to global ecosystems through climate change. Most evidence …