• Additive Traits Lead to Feeding Advantage and Reproductive Isolation, Promoting Homoploid Hybrid Speciation 

      Masello, Juan F; Quillfeldt, Petra; Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson; Alderman, Rachael; Calderón, Luciano; Cherel, Yves; Cole, Theresa L; Cuthbert, Richard J; Marin, Manuel; Massaro, Melanie; Navarro, Joan; Phillips, Richard A; Ryan, Peter G; Shepherd, Lara D; Suazo, Cristián G; Weimerskirch, Henri; Moodley, Yoshan (2019-04-26)
      Speciation through homoploid hybridization (HHS) is considered extremely rare in animals. This is mainly because the establishment of reproductive isolation as a product of hybridization is uncommon. Additionally, many ...
    • Can the intake of antiparasitic secondary metabolites explain the low prevalence of hemoparasites among wild Psittaciformes? 

      Masello, Juan F.; Martinez, Juan; Calderón, Luciano; Wink, Michael; Quillfeldt, Petra; Sanz, Virginia; Theuerkauf, Jörn; Ortiz-Catedral, Luis; Berkunsky, Igor; Brunton, Dianne; Díaz-Luque, José A.; Hauber, Mark E.; Ojeda, Valeria; Barnaud, Antoine; Casalins, Laura; Jackson, Bethany; Mijares, Alfredo; Rosales, Romel; Seixas, Gláucia; Serafini, Patricia; Silva-Iturriza, Adriana; Sipinski, Elenise; Vásquez, Rodrigo A.; Widmann, Peter; Widmann, Indira; Merino, Santiago (2018)
      BACKGROUND: Parasites can exert selection pressure on their hosts through effects on survival, on reproductive success, on sexually selected ornament, with important ecological and evolutionary consequences, such as changes ...
    • Does genetic structure reflect differences in non-breeding movements? A case study in small, highly mobile seabirds 

      Quillfeldt, Petra; Moodley, Yoshan; Weimerskirch, Henri; Cherel, Yves; Delord, Karine; Phillips, Richard A.; Navarro, Joan; Calderón, Luciano; Masello, Juan F. (2017)
      Background: In seabirds, the extent of population genetic and phylogeographic structure varies extensively among species. Genetic structure is lacking in some species, but present in others despite the absence of obvious ...
    • Genomic evidence of demographic fluctuations and lack of genetic structure across flyways in a long distance migrant, the European turtle dove 

      Calderón, Luciano; Campagna, Leonardo; Wilke, Thomas; Lormee, Hervé; Eraud, Cyril; Dunn, Jenny C.; Rocha, Gregorio; Zehtindjiev, Pavel; Bakaloudis, Dimitrios E.; Metzger, Benjamin; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Marx, Melanie; Quillfeldt, Petra (2016)
      Background: Understanding how past climatic oscillations have affected organismic evolution will help predict the impact that current climate change has on living organisms. The European turtle dove, Streptopelia turtur, ...
    • High prevalence of Trichomonas gallinae in wild columbids across western and southern Europe 

      Marx, Melanie; Reiner, Gerald; Willems, Hermann; Rocha, Gregorio; Hillerich, Klaus; Masello, Juan F.; Mayr, Sylvia L.; Moussa, Sarah; Dunn, Jenny C.; Thomas, Rebecca C.; Goodman, Simon J.; Hamer, Keith C.; Metzger, Benjamin; Cecere, Jacopo G.; Spina, Fernando; Koschkar, Steffen; Calderón, Luciano; Romeike, Tanja; Quillfeldt, Petra (2017)
      Background: Avian trichomonosis is known as a widespread disease in columbids and passerines, and recent findings have highlighted the pathogenic character of some lineages found in wild birds. Trichomonosis can affect ...
    • Independent evolution of intermediate bill widths in a seabird clade 

      Masello, Juan F.; Ryan, Peter G.; Shepherd, Lara D.; Quillfeldt, Petra; Cherel, Yves; Tennyson, Alan J. D.; Alderman, Rachael; Calderón, Luciano; Cole, Theresa L.; Cuthbert, Richard J.; Dilley, Ben J.; Massaro, Melanie; Miskelly, Colin M.; Navarro, Joan; Phillips, Richard A.; Weimerskirch, Henri; Moodley, Yoshan (2022)