New publications

In Decembers issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, CAnMove researchers

(Muhammad Asghar, Staffan Bensch, Maja Tarka, Bengt Hansson, Dennis Hasselquist) published new, interesting data on great reed warbler telomere length. Their study showed a significant heritability of telomere length on the maternal but not on the paternal side, and that the mother's age was positively correlated with their offspring's telomere length. Find the paper here: "Maternal and genetic factors determine early life telomere length"

 

Another fresh paper "Testing avian compass calibration: comparative experiments with diurnal and nocturnal passerine migrants in South Sweden" can be found in Biology open. This time it is Susanne Åkesson, Mihaela Ilieva and their european collaborators who has compared compass calibration in

dunnocks, sedge warblers and European robins.