Effect of replacing surface with underground rubbish containers on urban House Sparrows Passer domesticus
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DOI: 10.1007/s11252-021-01138-y
Abstract: Urbanisation processes are increasing worldwide at surprising rates affecting wildlife in many ways: changing habitat structure, reducing resources, and modifying the distribution, composition and abundance of local biota. In different countries, urban waste collection techniques… read more here.
Keywords: surface underground; house sparrows; rubbish containers; underground rubbish ... See more keywords
No evidence of metabolic costs following adaptive immune activation or reactivation in house sparrows
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DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2022.0036
Abstract: The energy cost of adaptive immune activation in endotherms is typically quantified from changes in resting metabolic rate following exposure to a novel antigen. An implicit assumption of this technique is that all variation in… read more here.
Keywords: metabolic costs; costs following; adaptive immune; house sparrows ... See more keywords
House sparrows do not exhibit a preference for the scent of potential partners with different MHC-I diversity and genetic distances
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278892
Abstract: MHC genes play a fundamental role in immune recognition of pathogens and parasites. Therefore, females may increase offspring heterozygosity and genetic diversity by selecting males with genetically compatible or heterozygous MHC. In birds, several studies… read more here.
Keywords: mhc; mhc diversity; diversity; potential partners ... See more keywords