Past and future: Urbanization and the avian endocrine system

P Deviche, K Sweazea, F Angelier - General and Comparative …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban environments are evolutionarily novel and differ from natural environments in many
respects including food and/or water availability, predation, noise, light, air quality …

Integrating spatial analyses of genomic and physiological data to understand avian responses to environmental change

PM Benham, EJ Beckman - Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Projected rates of climate change over the next century are expected to force species to shift
ranges, adapt or acclimate to evade extinction. Predicting which of these scenarios may be …

Deep ecomorphological and genetic divergence in Steller's Jays (Cyanocitta stelleri, Aves: Corvidae)

C Cicero, NA Mason, Z Oong, PO Title… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between ecology and morphology is a cornerstone of evolutionary biology,
and quantifying variation across environments can shed light on processes that give rise to …

Eating Animal Products, a Common Cause of Human Diseases

MH Saier Jr, SM Baird, BL Reddy… - Microbial Physiology, 2022 - karger.com
The human population is plagued by hundreds of infectious agents that cause diseases, and
many of these agents can infect a range of wild and domesticated animals as well. In fact, a …

Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species

ES Diamant, PJ Yeh - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Urbanization presents a natural evolutionary experiment because selection pressures in
cities can be strongly mismatched with those found in species' historic habitats. However …

Rapid diversification of grey mangroves (Avicennia marina) driven by geographic isolation and extreme environmental conditions in the Arabian Peninsula

G Friis, EG Smith, CE Lovelock, A Ortega… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biological systems occurring in ecologically heterogeneous and spatially discontinuous
habitats provide an ideal opportunity to investigate the relative roles of neutral and selective …

Landscape anthropization explains the genetic structure of an endemic Mexican bird (Thryophilus sinaloa: Troglodytidae) across the tropical dry forest biodiversity …

A Malpica, C González - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Context Tropical dry forests (TDFs) are one of the richest and also one of the most
threatened ecosystems in the world due to anthropization. In Mexico, only a minimal …

Patterns of a sexually selected trait are not predictable across urban and non-urban populations of a songbird, the dark-eyed junco

ES Diamant, M Kang, PJ Yeh - Urban Ecosystems, 2025 - Springer
Urbanization can result in novel selective pressures that can cause phenotypic differences
amongst urban-tolerant species across urban and non-urban habitats. Here, we compared …