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Let's stick together: Infection enhances preferences for social grouping in a songbird species
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Acute infections can alter foraging and movement behaviors relevant to sociality and pathogen spread. However, few studies have directly examined how acute infections caused by directly transmitted pathogens influence host social preferences.
Marissa M. Langager +2 more
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De novo Development and Characterization of Tetranucleotide Microsatellite Loci Markers from a Southeastern Population of the House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) [PDF]
, 2019 Microsatellites are short tandem repeats (e.g. TAGATAGA) of base pairs in a species’ genome. High mutation rates in these regions produce variation in the number of repeats across individuals that can be utilized to study patterns of population- and ...
Barron, Douglas G +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Since the introduction of West Nile virus (WNV) into North America in 1999 a number of passerine bird species have been found to play a role in the amplification of the virus.
Erik K Hofmeister +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Climate change is increasing aridity in grassland and desert habitats across the southwestern United States, reducing available resources and drastically changing the breeding habitat of many bird species.
Meelyn M. Pandit +2 more
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Highly Conserved Microchromosomal Organization in Passeriformes Birds Revealed via BAC-FISH Analysis
Birds, 2023 Passeriformes birds are widely recognized for their remarkable diversity, with over 5700 species described so far. Like most bird species, they possess a karyotype characteristic of modern birds, which includes a bimodal karyotype consisting of a few ...
Marcelo Santos de Souza +7 more
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Melatonin receptor expression in the zebra finch brain and peripheral tissues [PDF]
, 2012 The circadian endocrine hormone melatonin plays a significant role in many physiological processes such as modulating sleep/wake cycle and oxidative stress.
Brandstaetter, Roland +2 more
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Cells, 2021 Comparative chromosome maps investigating sex chromosomal linkage groups in amniotes and microsatellite repeat motifs of a male house gecko lizard (Hemidactylus frenatus, HFR) and a flat-tailed house gecko lizard (H.
Worapong Singchat +7 more
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Change management and relocation: a moving experience [PDF]
, 2011 Organisational change brings with it a need for facilities changes. Merging, splitting, downsizing, upsizing, adaptations, are all physical manifestations of the need for change. Along with these changes are innumerable human and organizational changes
Finch, E
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EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF HOUSE FINCHES WITH MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM [PDF]
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2004 Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) has caused an endemic upper respiratory and ocular infection in the eastern house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) after the epidemic first described in 1994. The disease has been studied by a number of investigators at a population level and reports describe experimental infection in group-housed MG-free house finches ...
George V, Kollias +6 more
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BMC Genomics, 2007 Background Passerines (perching birds) are widely studied across many biological disciplines including ecology, population biology, neurobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.
Birkhead Timothy R +2 more
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