ArticleEcology and evolution2018
A hidden cost of migration? Innate immune function versus antioxidant defense.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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- Controlled expression of avian pre-migratory fattening influences indices of innate immunity.Biology open · 2024Article
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- Interactive effects of rising temperatures and urbanisation on birds across different climate zones: A mechanistic perspective.Global change biology · 2023Review
- Recovery of constitutive immune function after migratory endurance flight in free-living birds.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Innate immune function and antioxidant capacity of nestlings of an African raptor covary with the level of urbanisation around breeding territories.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023Article
- Flight and Dietary Antioxidants Influence Antioxidant Expression and Activity in a Migratory Bird.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
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- Carry-Over Effects of Desiccation Stress on the Oxidative Status of Fasting Anuran Juveniles.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- The immune response of bats differs between pre-migration and migration seasons.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Are movements of daytime and nighttime passerine migrants as different as day and night?Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Migrant blackbirds,Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- A quasi-experimental approach using telemetry to assess migration-strategy-specific differences in the decision-making processes at stopover.BMC ecology · 2020Article
- The Effect of Shelter on Oxidative Stress and Aggressive Behavior in Crested Newt Larvae (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- The effects of dietary linoleic acid and hydrophilic antioxidants on basal, peak, and sustained metabolism in flight-trained European starlings.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Anti-parasite treatment results in decreased estimated survival with increasing lead (Pb) levels in the common eider Somateria mollissima.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
Migration is energetically demanding and physiologically challenging. Migrating birds, for example, need to boost their antioxidant defenses to defeat the pro-oxidants produced during high energetic activity. The enhanced antioxidant defense possibly withdraws limited resources (e.g., energy or micronutrients) from other physiological functions, such as immune defense. Such a trade-off might not occur outside the migration seasons or in resident individuals. Here, we investigate whether there is a negative relationship between innate immune function and antioxidant defense by sampling both migrating and resident blackbirds (
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