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Successful city dwellers: a comparative study of the ecological characteristics of urban birds in the Western PalearcticAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Oecologia 159:849-58. 2009..This suggests that a suite of ecological features providing them with general ecological success characterises species of birds that have successfully invaded urban environments...
Rapidly advancing laying date in a seabird and the changing advantage of early reproductionA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
J Anim Ecol 75:657-65. 2006..7. Analyses of bird ringing information for millions of offspring of hundreds of bird species deposited in national ringing schemes may provide unlimited access to long-term time series of reproductive variables...- Biological consequences of Chernobyl: 20 years onAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Trends Ecol Evol 21:200-7. 2006.... - An analysis of continent-wide patterns of sexual selection in a passerine birdA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Evolution 60:856-68. 2006..In addition, geographical patterns of phenotypic selection predict current patterns of phenotypic variation among populations, suggesting that consistent patterns of selection have been present for considerable amounts of time... - Chernobyl as a population sink for barn swallows: tracking dispersal using stable-isotope profilesA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Ecol Appl 16:1696-705. 2006..These findings suggest that stable-isotope measurements can provide information about population processes following environmental perturbations... - Senescence in relation to latitude and migration in birdsA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex, France
J Evol Biol 20:750-7. 2007..These findings were robust to control for potentially confounding effects of body mass, age of first reproduction and phenotypic similarity among species because of common descent... 
Birds prefer to breed in sites with low radioactivity in ChernobylA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Proc Biol Sci 274:1443-8. 2007..We suggest that individual body condition rather than secondary effects of radiation on resource abundance account for the effects on nest box use and hatching success...- Agriculture, fertilizers and life history of a coastal seabirdA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
J Anim Ecol 76:515-25. 2007..7. These findings provide evidence of fertilizer use in agriculture having significant indirect effects on timing of reproduction, clutch size, recruitment and longevity of a seabird... 
Elevated frequency of abnormalities in barn swallows from ChernobylA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai Street Bernard, Case 237, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Biol Lett 3:414-7. 2007..The most parsimonious hypothesis for abnormalities in animal and human populations alike is that the effects are caused by the same underlying cause, viz. radiation derived from the Chernobyl accident...- Malaria and risk of predation: a comparative study of birdsAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris 05, France
Ecology 88:871-81. 2007..Furthermore, this study demonstrates that protozoan infections are a common cause of death for hosts mediated by increased risk of predation... - Genetic similarity, breeding distribution range and sexual selectionA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex, France
J Evol Biol 21:213-25. 2008..These results suggest that breeding distribution range, population size and intensity of sexual selection are important predictors of levels of genetic variability in extant populations... - Impaired swimming behaviour and morphology of sperm from barn swallows Hirundo rustica in ChernobylA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, Paris Cedex 05, France
Mutat Res 650:210-6. 2008..These results are consistent with the hypothesis that sperm behaviour and morphology have been affected by radiation due to the Chernobyl accident... - Climate change and micro-geographic variation in laying dateAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Oecologia 155:845-57. 2008.... - Antioxidants in eggs of great tits Parus major from Chernobyl and hatching successAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, Case 237, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
J Comp Physiol B 178:735-43. 2008..These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that radioactive contamination reduced levels of dietary antioxidants in yolks, with negative consequences for hatching success and reproductive success... - Interactions between interactions: predator-prey, parasite-host, and mutualistic interactionsAnders Pape Møller
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unite Mixte de Recherche 7103, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1133:180-6. 2008..These phenomena will have implications not only for how ecologists and evolutionary biologists empirically study interactions but also on how such interactions are modeled... - Relative longevity and field metabolic rate in birdsA P Møller
CNRS, UMR 7103, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
J Evol Biol 21:1379-86. 2008..Therefore, species of birds with high metabolic rates senesce more slowly than species with low metabolic rates... - Populations of migratory bird species that did not show a phenological response to climate change are decliningAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:16195-200. 2008..Our findings imply that ecological factors affecting population trends can change over time and suggest that ongoing climatic changes will increasingly threaten vulnerable migratory bird species, augmenting their extinction risk... - Senescent sperm performance in old male birdsA P Møller
CNRS, UMR 7103, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex, France
J Evol Biol 22:334-44. 2009..These results provide evidence of declining sperm performance for important reproductive variables not only with age, but also with the sperm of old males performing differentially better in female medium than young males... - Sociality, age at first reproduction and senescence: comparative analyses of birdsA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Cedex, France
J Evol Biol 19:682-9. 2006..These findings suggest that the evolution of senescence is related to timing of first reproduction, but that the evolution of breeding sociality has played a negligible role in the evolution of senescence... - A review of developmental instability, parasitism and disease. Infection, genetics and evolutionAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Infect Genet Evol 6:133-40. 2006..These findings may have important implications for the study of susceptibility of hosts to infectious disease... - Rapid evolutionary change in a secondary sexual character linked to climatic changeA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex, France
J Evol Biol 18:481-95. 2005..These findings provide evidence of rapid micro-evolutionary change in a secondary sexual character during a very short time period, which is associated with a rapid change in environmental conditions... - Mutation and sexual selection: a test using barn swallows from ChernobylA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Evolution 57:2139-46. 2003..These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that traits most important for sexual selection are particularly susceptible to the effects of deleterious mutations... - Why men have shorter lives than women: effects of resource availability, infectious disease, and senescenceA P Møller
CNRS, UMR 7103, Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex 05, France
Am J Hum Biol 21:357-64. 2009..In contrast, there was only a marginal effect of average household income. Thus, there was evidence of increased competition for resources contributing to increased sex differences in longevity within a single nation... - Sexual selection, germline mutation rate and sperm competitionA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat, A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St, Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
BMC Evol Biol 3:6. 2003..M Petrie has independently developed the idea that mutator alleles may account for the maintenance of genetic variation in viability despite strong directional selection... - Seasonal changes in immune response and parasite impact on hostsAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Batiment A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris, France
Am Nat 161:657-71. 2003.... - Growth and developmental instabilityAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 05, Paris Cedex, France
Vet J 166:19-27. 2003.... - Climate, body condition and spleen size in birdsAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7 quai St Bernard, 75252 Paris Cedex 5, France
Oecologia 137:621-6. 2003.... - Genetic variation in infestation with a directly transmitted ectoparasiteA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
J Evol Biol 17:41-7. 2004..This provides evidence for the abundance of directly transmitted parasites having an additive genetic component. We found no evidence of common environment effects as parents did not resemble each other with respect to lice abundance... - Parasitism, host immune defence and dispersalA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex, France
J Evol Biol 17:603-12. 2004..This relationship held even when controlling for similarity among species because of common ancestry. Therefore, T-cell-mediated immunity is an important predictor of evolutionary changes in dispersal ability among common European birds... - Heterogeneity in stable isotope profiles predicts coexistence of populations of barn swallows Hirundo rustica differing in morphology and reproductive performanceAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Batiment A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Proc Biol Sci 271:1355-62. 2004..Polymorphism can be maintained only if fitness is similar for birds from categories of isotope profiles. We suggest that fluctuating selection or migration-selection balance may maintain the observed polymorphism... - Covariation between brain size and immunity in birds: implications for brain size evolutionA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex 05, France
J Evol Biol 18:223-37. 2005..In contrast, liver and heart size or sexual size dimorphism in size did not covary with immune defence. Thus, species in which males have relatively large brains also have relatively large immune defence organs... - Coevolutionary arms races: increased host immune defense promotes specialization by avian fleasA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex 05, France
J Evol Biol 18:46-59. 2005..Therefore, parasite specialization may have evolved in response to strong host defenses... - Parasite biodiversity and host defenses: chewing lice and immune response of their avian hostsAnders Pape Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Oecologia 142:169-76. 2005.... - Antioxidants, radiation and mutation as revealed by sperm abnormality in barn swallows from ChernobylA P Møller
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Batiment A, 7eme etage, 7 quai Saint Bernard, Case 237, F 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Proc Biol Sci 272:247-53. 2005.... - Effects of food abundance, density and climate change on reproduction in the sparrowhawk Accipiter nisusJan Tøttrup Nielsen
Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Evoltuive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 qai St Bernard, Case 237, 75252 Paris Cedex, France
Oecologia 149:505-18. 2006..These findings imply that sparrowhawks did not respond to change in climate, although climate changed the timing of reproduction by the main prey species... - An analysis of pre- and post-hatching maternal effects mediated by carotenoids in the blue titC Biard
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
J Evol Biol 20:326-39. 2007.... - Coevolving avian eye size and brain size in relation to prey capture and nocturnalityLászló Zsolt Garamszegi
Laboratoire d Ecologie Evolutive Parasitaire, CNRS UMR 7103, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, Case 237, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, F 75252 Paris Cedex 5, France
Proc Biol Sci 269:961-7. 2002..Our findings suggest that relative eye size and brain size have coevolved in birds in response to nocturnal activity and, at least partly, to capture of mobile prey... - Host ecology and life-history traits associated with blood parasite species richness in birdsE Arriero
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS, UMR 7103, Paris, France
J Evol Biol 21:1504-13. 2008..These results suggest that the impact on host fitness caused by avian haematozoa may be underestimated in natural populations if the exacerbated virulence associated with exposure to multiple parasites is not taken into account... - The evolution of song repertoires and immune defence in birdsA P Møller
Laboratoire d Ecologie, CNRS UMR 7625, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Proc Biol Sci 267:165-9. 2000..This finding suggests that host-parasite interactions have played an important role in the evolution of song repertoires in birds... - Heritability of arrival date in a migratory birdA P Møller
Laboratoire d Ecologie, CNRS UMR 7625, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Proc Biol Sci 268:203-6. 2001..Given the high level of heritability, arrival date could readily respond to selection caused by environmental change... - How important are direct fitness benefits of sexual selection?A P Møller
Laboratoire d Ecologie Evolutive Parasitaire, CNRS FRE 2365, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Bat A, 7eme etage, 7 quai St Bernard, Case 237, 75252 Paris, France
Naturwissenschaften 88:401-15. 2001..Our analysis also shows that male sexual advertisements do not always reliably signal direct fitness benefits... - Albinism and phenotype of barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) from ChernobylA P Møller
Laboratoire d Ecologie Evolutive Parasitaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Formation en Recherche de la Evolution 2365, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Case, Paris, France
Evolution 55:2097-104. 2001..Because partial albinism is disfavored by natural selection, the effects of mutations are deleterious, giving rise to a balance between mutation and selection... - Parasitism, host immune function, and sexual selectionA P Møller
Laboratoire d Ecologie, CNRS URA 258, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Q Rev Biol 74:3-20. 1999.... - Condition-dependent genetic benefits of extrapair fertilization in female blue tits Cyanistes caeruleusA N Dreiss
Laboratoire Fonctionnement et Evolution des Systemes Ecologiques, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Paris, France
J Evol Biol 21:1814-22. 2008..Lean females obtained extrapair fertilizations when their social mate was genetically similar, thereby producing more heterozygous extrapair chicks. Our results suggest that mating patterns may be condition-dependent...