ArticleOecologia2014
Oxidative stress in relation to reproduction, contaminants, gender and age in a long-lived seabird.
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- Stress, Well-Being, and Reproduction in Wildlife.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
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- Species-specific physiological status in seabirds: insights from integrating oxidative stress measurements and biologging.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
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- The influence of tourist visitation on the heterophyl to lymphocyte ratios and trophic values of Magellanic penguins (Conservation physiology · 2023Article
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- Differences in Trophic Level, Contaminant Load, and DNA Damage in an Urban and a Remote Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) Breeding Colony in Coastal Norway.Environmental toxicology and chemistry · 2022Article
- Dietary vitamin E reaches the mitochondria in the flight muscle of zebra finches but only if they exercise.PloS one · 2021Article
- Influence of sex on biomarkers of oxidative stress in the kidney, lungs, and liver of rabbits after exposure to diazinon.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
- Meta-analysis reveals that reproductive strategies are associated with sexual differences in oxidative balance across vertebrates.Current zoology · 2018Article
- Effects of the Dietary Detoxification Program on SerumJournal of lifestyle medicine · 2016Article
- Demographic Responses to Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in the Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans).PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Reproduction is a demanding activity for animals, since they must produce, and in some cases protect and provision, their young. It is often overlooked that demands of reproduction may also be exacerbated by exposure to contaminants. In this study, we make use of an exceptional long-term dataset to perform a cross-sectional study on the long-lived wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) in order to test the effects of reproduction, persistent organic pollutants [POPs: pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)], mercury, individual age (3-47 years), and sex on the levels of plasma oxidative damage and inflammation. The results of our study support the hypothesis that oxidative damage may be a physiological cost of reproduction and that individuals carrying higher levels of organic or non-organic contaminants have higher oxidative damage. Levels of the inflammatory protein haptoglobin were similar between breeding and non-breeding birds, with the exception of breeding males which had the lowest levels of haptoglobin. Our data also show an effect of age and of organic contaminants on the plasma oxidative damage level, but not on plasma haptoglobin. In addition, plasma oxidative damage level increased with red blood cell mercury concentration in females but not in males. Hence, our study highlights that the harmful effects of contaminants may come through interaction with factors like life stage or gender, suggesting potential for high variation in susceptibility to contamination among individuals.
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