Great Tit
Altitudinal variation in haemosporidian parasite distribution in great tit populations
... Using microscopy to detect infected red blood cells from bird blood smears, Van Riper et al. [9] investi- gated elevation as a determinant of avian haemosporidian prevalence and reported the highest Plasmodium parasite ...
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Temperature effect on luteinizing hormone secretion of Eurasian Skylark (Alauda arvensis) and Great Tit (Parus major) in China
... All birds used in the experiment were adults captured in February 2012. The body mass of two species are 34.13 ± 0.1 g (Eurasian Skylark) and 15 ± 0.16 g (Great Tit) respectively. Individuals of each ...
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Is oxidative status influenced by dietary carotenoid and physical activity after moult in the great tit (Parus major)?
... the great tit (Hõrak et ...blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus nestlings were heavier at fledging than control-fed nestlings, and in great tits the influence of carotenoid supplementation on fledging ...
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Evidence for strong fixation bias at 4-fold degenerate sites across genes in the great tit genome
... the great tit genome by applying our new pipeline to data at 4-fold degenerate sites from three bird species—great tit, zebra finch and chicken—three species that are among the best annotated ...
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Replicated analysis of the genetic architecture of quantitative traits in two wild great tit populations
... the great tit, including a single nucleotide polymor- phism (SNP) array with 9193 SNPs (van Bers et ...the great tit genome offers the opportunity to determine whether traits are polygenic or ...
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More ornamented females produce higher-quality offspring in a socially monogamous bird: an experimental study in the great tit (Parus major)
... We quantified reflectance spectra of yellow feathers sampled from the breast using standard procedures [74]. We used 10–15 feathers from each bird, which is enough to obtain reliable values from our study species [75]. ...
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Abbey-Lee, Robin Nanette (2016): Effects of perceived predation risk on individual great tit life history and behavior. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... come from species found commonly in the study area that sing normally in the months of treatment and do not compete with our focal species for nesting or roosting space. In predator plots, speakers were programmed with ...
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Replicated high-density genetic maps of two great tit populations reveal fine-scale genomic departures from sex-equal recombination rates
... The great tit, a passerine of the family Paridae, is a model organism for evolutionary and ecological research in wild popula- tions, with a wide body of work, addressing topics such as life history ...
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Spring phenology does not affect timing of reproduction in the great tit (Parus major)
... Spring phenology could influence the onset of laying in several ways. Firstly, if the onset of reproduction is energy limited, the increase in prey abundance and diversity might provide energy and nutrient resources to ...
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Carotenoid availability in diet and phenotype of blue and great tit nestlings
... After capture and measurements, nestlings were injected subcutaneously with 0.2·mg phytohemagglutinin (PHA; Sigma L-8754, Saint-Quentin Fallavier, France) in 0.04·ml sterile PBS within the patagium first plucked of ...
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The impact of natural selection on short insertion and deletion variation in the great tit genome.
... Insertions and deletions (INDELs) remain understudied, despite being the most common form of genetic variation after single nucleotide polymorphisms. This stems partly from the challenge of correctly identifying the ...
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Parental food provisioning is related to nestling stress response in wild great tit nestlings: implications for the development of personality
... nestling great tits on day 14, which is a predictor for exploratory beha- viour in great ...of great tits originating from lines bi-directionally selected for exploratory ...
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Evolution of beak morphology in the Ground Tit revealed by comparative transcriptomics
... Ground Tit has a comparatively longer and more decurved upper beaks than other ...Ground Tit likely had a short straight upper beak similar to most current recognized parid species using an ancestral state ...
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Family Conflicts over Parental Care in the Blue Tit, Cyanistes caerleus
... the great tit (K olliker et ...support, great tits appear to spend m ore time assessing nestling begging behaviour before allocating food (an average o f ...blue tit parental feeding locations ...
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Function of note strings in Japanese Tit alarm calls to the Common Cuckoo: a playback experiment
... Previous studies have suggested that only common hosts, and not rare hosts or non-hosts, have evolved anti- parasite strategies under pressure from brood parasitism (e.g., Rothstein and Robinson 1998; Davies and Welber- ...
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Exploring the unmapped DNA and RNA reads in a songbird genome.
... the ability to reconstruct genes from these regions may be affected. Bisulfite sequenced genome reads usually show a lower mapping success in comparison to stand- ard sequenced genomes, since software cannot fully ...
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The Great Depression and the Great Recession: A Comparative Analysis of their Analogies
... Abstract: The decades preceding the Great Depression and the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis have close similarities. Both decades were characterized by rapid growth without major contractions, by an increase in ...
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Humanoid Robots That Behave, Speak, and Think Like Humans:A Reduction to Practice RRC Humanoid Robot
... For example, the application of the auditory search engine access rule when the trainer-supervisor requests the Robot to “identify this visual image”, leads to an identification of two TSMs and a compound TSM. The two ...
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Research on the Reform of the Review Method of College Professional Titles Based on Point System
... It is hoped that through the reform of the review method, the openness and fairness of professional title review process will be further improved, and the incentive effect of college tit[r] ...
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Effects of Solvent on the Structure and Properties of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles and Their Antibacterial Activity
... Titanium dioxide nanoparticles were prepared from trisodium citrate dihydrate and titanium dioxide using different solvents. Each solvent has unique properties and polarities. Therefore different solvents have a ...
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