Ouédraogo, Dakis-Yaoba Villemey, Anne Vanpeene, Sylvie Coulon, Aurélie Azambourg, Vital Hulard, Marine Guinard, Eric Bertheau, Yves Flamerie De Lachapelle, Frédérique Rauel, Vanessa
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Environmental Evidence
BackgroundLinear transportation infrastructures (roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines, powerlines and waterways) generate well documented fragmenting effects on species habitats. However, the potential of verges of linear transportation infrastructures (road and railway embankments, strips of grass under power lines or above buried pipelines, or ...
Ma, Shengchao Liu, Hehe Sun, Wenqiang Mustafa, Ahsan Xi, Yang Pu, Fajun Li, Yanying Han, Chunchun Bai, Lili Hua, He
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BackgroundATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are involved in the active transportation of various endogenous or exogenous substances. Two ABCG2 gene subfamily members have been identified in birds. A detailed comparative study of the ABCG2 and ABCG2-like genes aid our understanding of their evolutionary history at the molecular level and provi...
Adams, Nicole Tell, Lisa A. Bandivadekar, Ruta R. Bay, Rachael
Recent research suggests that bird populations are declining at alarming rates across the United States. Over the last century, local, national, and international efforts to limit declines in bird populations have resulted in state and federal laws that now protect most of California’s 650 bird species. To comply with these protections, transportat...
Jagiello, Zuzanna López-García, Alejandro Aguirre, José I Dylewski, Łukasz
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Environmental science and pollution research international
Human's activities dominates many aspects of the Earth's environment; thus animals are forced to adapt and respond to the resulting changes in habitat structure and functioning due to anthropogenic pressure. Along with the growing human population and the associated amount of waste produced, the amount of different type of physical contamination co...
Ibáñez-Álamo, Juan Diego Jimeno, Blanca Gil, Diego Thomson, Robert L. Aguirre, José I. Díez-Fernández, Alazne Faivre, Bruno Tieleman, B. Irene Figuerola, Jordi
Urbanization changes the landscape structure and ecological processes of natural habitats. While urban areas expose animal communities to novel challenges, they may also provide more stable environments in which environmental fluctuations are buffered. Species´ ecology and physiology may determine their capacity to cope with the city life. However,...
Simkins, J W Joseph, A E Bonier, F Benowitz-Fredericks, Z M
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General and comparative endocrinology
In birds, exposure to exogenous testosterone during embryonic development can suppress measures of immune function; however, it is unclear whether these effects are due to direct or indirect action via aromatization. Estradiol (E2) is synthesized from testosterone by the enzyme aromatase, and this conversion is a necessary step in many signaling pa...
Hindell, Mark A Reisinger, Ryan R Ropert-Coudert, Yan Hückstädt, Luis A Trathan, Philip N Bornemann, Horst Charrassin, Jean-Benoît Chown, Steven L Costa, Daniel P Danis, Bruno
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Southern Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from resource exploitation and climate change1,2. Mitigation requires the identification and protection of Areas of Ecological Significance (AESs), which have so far not been determined at the ocean-basin scale. Here, using assemblage-level tracking of marine predators, we identify AESs for this globally...
Saulnier, Agnès Bleu, Josefa Boos, Anne El Masoudi, Islah Ronot, Pascale Zahn, Sandrine Del Nero, Mirella Massemin, Sylvie
Trace metal elements are significant stressors in urban areas. Their harmful effects on physiological parameters are demonstrated, but current laboratory studies are not representative of wild chronic exposure to a trace metal cocktail. Calcium can reduce the accumulation and toxicity of several metals, but soil acidification in cities leads to a d...
Field, Daniel Jared Benito, Juan Chen, Albert Jagt, John WM Ksepka, Daniel T
Terray, Léa Plateau, Olivia Abourachid, Anick Böhmer, Christine Delapre, Arnaud De La Bernardie, Xavier Cornette, Raphael
The neck connects the head and the trunk and is the key structure allowing all movements of the head. The neck morphologyof birds is the most variable among living tetrapods, including significant differences in the number and shape of the cervicalvertebrae. Despite these differences, according to the literature, three morphofunctional regions (i.e...
