ArticleThe Journal of experimental biology2018
The role of parasitism in the energy management of a free-ranging bird.
Article in The Journal of experimental biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Double burden: microfilariae infection amplifies metabolic costs of moult in breeding male village weavers (Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2026Article
- Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Crossed effects of helminth infection and lead exposure on fitness: An experimental study in feral pigeons (Columba livia).The Journal of animal ecology · 2024Article
- Survival costs of reproduction are independent of energy costs in a seabird, the pelagic cormorant.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Chigger mite (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Fish vulnerability to capture by trapping is modulated by individual parasite density.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Resting costs too: the relative importance of active and resting energy expenditure in a sub-arctic seabird.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Early life neonicotinoid exposure results in proximal benefits and ultimate carryover effects.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Sublethal effects of natural parasitism act through maternal, but not paternal, reproductive success in a wild population.Ecology · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Parasites often prompt sub-lethal costs to their hosts by eliciting immune responses. These costs can be hard to quantify but are crucial to our understanding of the host's ecology. Energy is a fundamental currency to quantify these costs, as energetic trade-offs often exist between key fitness-related processes. Daily energy expenditure (DEE) comprises of resting metabolic rate (RMR) and energy available for activity, which are linked via the energy management strategy of an organism. Parasitism may play a role in the balance between self-maintenance and activity, as immune costs can be expressed in elevated RMR. Therefore, understanding energy use in the presence of parasitism enables mechanistic elucidation of potential parasite costs. Using a gradient of natural parasite load and proxies for RMR and DEE in a wild population of breeding European shags (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.