Passer domesticus
Chronic stress alters concentrations of corticosterone receptors in a tissue specific manner in wild house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
... The physiological stress response results in release of glucocorticoid hormones such as corticosterone (CORT). Whereas short-term activation of this response helps animals cope with environmental stressors, chronic ...
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Developmental adjustments of house sparrow (Passer domesticus) nestlings to diet composition
... Our understanding of the digestive plasticity of nestling birds is more limited. A few studies have tested for nestlings’ abilities to adjust to higher rates of food intake, which could be important in adjusting growth ...
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House sparrows’ (Passer domesticus) behaviour in a novel environment is modulated by social context and familiarity in a sex-specific manner
... To address these questions we decided to use the house sparrow ( Passer domesticus ), as it is an opportun- istic human commensal, and thus a species that often depends on clumped, novel and ephemeral food ...
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Growth and development of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) in response to chronic food restriction throughout the nestling period
... (Passer domesticus) nestlings were raised in the laboratory on age-specific meal sizes (controls) or meal sizes 25% less than age-specific amounts (food- restricted) and analyzed at 6, 9 and 12 days ...
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Personality traits and behavioral syndromes in differently urbanized populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
... Several studies up to now have found behavioral differences between differently urbanized populations, for example, in responses to novelty and problem solving [26–28]; risk taking [29–32] and activity [12]. However, ...
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Corticosterone rapidly suppresses innate immune activity in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
... Stress-induced effects on innate immune activity in wild birds have been difficult to predict. These difficulties may arise from the frequent assumptions that (1) the stress response influences different components of ...
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Experimental infection of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) with West Nile virus isolates of Euro-Mediterranean and North American origins
... West Nile virus (WNV) is a zoonotic arboviral pathogen transmitted by mosquitoes in a cycle involving wild birds as reservoir hosts. The virus has recently emerged in North America and re-emerged in Europe. North ...
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Cutaneous water loss and sphingolipids in the stratum corneum of house sparrows, Passer domesticus L , from desert and mesic environments as determined by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography coupled with atmospheric pressure photospray ionization mass spectrometry
... Cutaneous water loss and sphingolipids in the stratum corneum of house sparrows, Passer domesticus L., from desert and mesic environments as determined by reversed phase high-performance[r] ...
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Acute cold and exercise training up regulate similar aspects of fatty acid transport and catabolism in house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
... maximum exercise metabolic rate (MMR) both increase in response to acute cold or exercise training in birds. Because lipids are the main fuel supporting both thermogenesis and exercise in birds, adjustments to lipid ...
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Vocally correlated seasonal auditory variation in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
... The house sparrow (Passer domesticus L.) is a non-migratory, sexually dimorphic, monogamous songbird species introduced to North America in the mid 19th century (Lowther and Cink, 2006). Individuals are ...
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Salwiczek, Lucie (2004): Immanuel Kant's Sparrow: An Integrative Approach to Canary-like Singing House Sparrows (Passer domesticus). Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... All house sparrows, Passer domesticus domesticus, were bred in our institute. Sparrow clutches contained 5, seldom 4 eggs. Wild house sparrow hatchlings weigh 2.0 – 3.1g (Novotny 1970; Schifferli ...
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Cutaneous water loss and covalently bound lipids of the stratum corneum in nestling house sparrows (Passer domesticus L ) from desert and mesic habitats
... Lipids of the stratum corneum (SC), the outer layer of the epidermis of birds and mammals, provide a barrier to water vapor diffusion through the skin. The SC of birds consists of flat dead cells, called corneocytes, and ...
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Population size of House Sparrow, Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) and stress factors affecting its number in selected habitats in Thanesar in district Kurukshetra, Haryana
... Kerala (20%), Gujarat (20%), Rajasthan (20%), while the decline in coastal areas has been as sharp as 70 to 80% (Times of India, 2008). As far as India is concerned, the survey reports on the occurrences of house sparrow ...
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Cross training in birds: cold and exercise training produce similar changes in maximal metabolic output, muscle masses and myostatin expression in house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
... (Passer domesticus Linnaeus 1758) by mist net from wild populations near Vermillion, Clay County, South Dakota ( ∼ 42°47 ′ N, 97°W) during September 2012 (cold-training experiments, N=18) and March 2013 ...
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Captivity induces hyper inflammation in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
... Some species thrive in captivity but others exhibit extensive psychological and physiological deficits, which can be a challenge to animal husbandry and conservation as well as wild immunology. Here, we investigated ...
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Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus).
... Here, we investigated both the short-term and long-term effects of providing house sparrow chicks with food supplements during a key period of growth and development and assessed whether[r] ...
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Cutaneous water loss and sphingolipids covalently bound to corneocytes in the stratum corneum of house sparrows Passer domesticus
... In electron micrographs of SC from which all intercellular lipids have been extracted, one can observe on the exterior surface of corneocytes a translucent layer of lipids, which were sh[r] ...
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How the house sparrow Passer domesticus absorbs glucose
... Accepted 18 June 2004 Summary According to the hypothesis that most glucose glucose transporters were relatively unsaturated absorption occurs passively across intestinal tight 200·mmol·[r] ...
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Food supplements increase adult tarsus length, but not growth rate, in an island population of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
... Here, we investigated both the short-term and long-term effects of providing house sparrow chicks with food supplements during a key period of growth and development and assessed whether[r] ...
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Inaccuracies in the history of a well-known introduction: a case study of the Australian House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
... Therefore, unfortunately, whilst the primary sources provide important insight into the multiple source populations from which the House Sparrow arrived in Australia, it is difficult [r] ...
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