ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2024
Avian migration clocks in a changing world.
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- Artificial Light at Night Consistently Impacts Avian Physiology and Behaviour: A Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2026Pooled it
- Genetics, Not Weather, Informs Migration Behaviors in a Long-Distance Migrant Songbird.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism.Science advances · 2026Article
- Differential responses to photoperiod in juveniles of two migratory songbird species.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Migratory geese adjust wintering movements to both short-term weather and long-term climatic change.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Effects of daylength manipulation on migratory activity and fuelling in a long-distance nocturnal songbird migrant.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- Splicing of a core clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The fish pituitary directly responds to daylength and drives seasonality.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The structure of the annual migratory flight activity in a songbird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Nocturnal but not diurnal threats shape stopover strategy in a migrating songbird.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Evidence of quantum-entangled higher states of consciousness.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) only use magnetic cues for migratory directionality with orientation re-calibrated by coldness.PloS one · 2025Article
- Avian circadian clock genes: ontogeny and role for adaptive programming in avian embryos.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Review
- A clock for all seasons.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Article
- Arrhythmia in the earth's pulse: Bird migration timing does not track advancing spring phenology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
Avian long-distance migration requires refined programming to orchestrate the birds' movements on annual temporal and continental spatial scales. Programming is particularly important as long-distance movements typically anticipate future environmental conditions. Hence, migration has long been of particular interest in chronobiology. Captivity studies using a proxy, the shift to nocturnality during migration seasons (i.e., migratory restlessness), have revealed circannual and circadian regulation, as well as an innate sense of direction. Thanks to rapid development of tracking technology, detailed information from free-flying birds, including annual-cycle data and actograms, now allows relating this mechanistic background to behaviour in the wild. Likewise, genomic approaches begin to unravel the many physiological pathways that contribute to migration. Despite these advances, it is still unclear how migration programmes are integrated with specific environmental conditions experienced during the journey. Such knowledge is imminently important as temporal environments undergo rapid anthropogenic modification. Migratory birds as a group are not dealing well with the changes, yet some species show remarkable adjustments at behavioural and genetic levels. Integrated research programmes and interdisciplinary collaborations are needed to understand the range of responses of migratory birds to environmental change, and more broadly, the functioning of timing programmes under natural conditions.
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