Impacts of rising temperatures and water acidification on the oxidative status and immune system of aquatic ectothermic vertebrates: A meta-analysis

S Messina, D Costantini, M Eens - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Species persistence in the Anthropocene is dramatically threatened by global climate
change. Large emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from human activities are driving …

A meta-analysis of impacts of immune response and infection on oxidative status in vertebrates

D Costantini - Conservation Physiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Inferring from patterns observed in biomedical research, ecoimmunological theory predicts
that oxidative stress is a ubiquitous physiological cost that contributes to generating variation …

A hidden cost of migration? Innate immune function versus antioxidant defense

C Eikenaar, C Isaksson, A Hegemann - Ecology and evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Migration is energetically demanding and physiologically challenging. Migrating birds, for
example, need to boost their antioxidant defenses to defeat the pro‐oxidants produced …

A Simulated Heat Wave Has Diverse Effects on Immune Function and Oxidative Physiology in the Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus)

ZR Stahlschmidt, SS French, A Ahn… - Physiological and …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Animals will continue to encounter increasingly warm environments, including more frequent
and intense heat waves. Yet the physiological consequences of heat waves remain …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of bis-chelated copper in growth performance and gut health in broiler chickens subject to coccidiosis vaccination or coccidia challenge

J Chen, F Yan, VA Kuttappan, K Wedekind… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Copper (Cu) is widely used at high levels as growth promoter in poultry, the alternative
source of Cu to replace the high level of inorganic Cu at poultry farm remains to be …

Innate immune function and antioxidant capacity of nestlings of an African raptor covary with the level of urbanisation around breeding territories

CJ Nwaogu, A Amar, C Nebel… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Urban areas provide breeding habitats for many species. However, animals raised in urban
environments face challenges such as altered food availability and quality, pollution and …

The oxidative costs of reproduction are group-size dependent in a wild cooperative breeder

DL Cram, JD Blount, AJ Young - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Life-history theory assumes that reproduction entails a cost, and research on cooperatively
breeding societies suggests that the cooperative sharing of workloads can reduce this cost …

The Effect of Seasons on Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC), Total Oxidant Capacity (TOC) and OSI (Oxidative Stress Index) Levels in Free-Living Blackbirds (Turdus …

E Sonmez, A Gursoy-Ergen, AC Ozsemir, S Cenesiz… - Biology Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
The oxidative stress level of organisms is one of the best indicators of whether they are
healthy or not. The increase in oxidative stress level in the cell can affect the longevity of the …

Effects of lead exposure on birds breeding in the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District

R Brasso, D Cleveland, DE Mosby… - … Report 2023–5032 …, 2023 - research.fs.usda.gov
Lead mining in the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District began in the 1700s and
continued for nearly 300 years; the waste piles associated with smelting, mining, and milling …

Oxidative stress and cognition in ecology

DL Cram - Journal of Zoology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidative stress occurs when the body's antioxidant system is unable to prevent reactive
oxygen species from causing cellular damage, and over the last two decades, oxidative …