C. Downs

Metabolic responses to cold: thermal physiology of native common waxbills (Estrilda astrild)

This study examines the metabolic responses of common waxbills to cold temperatures in their native range, identifying a metabolic inflection point at 16°C that may indicate an adaptive energy-saving strategy.

Bacterial sepsis triggers stronger transcriptomic immune responses in larger primates

This study finds that larger primates exhibit stronger transcriptomic immune responses to bacterial sepsis, supporting the Safety Factor hypothesis over the Metabolic Theory of Ecology.

Expanded diversity of novel hemoplasmas in rare and undersampled Neotropical bats

The paper identifies novel hemoplasmas in Neotropical bats by analyzing 80 samples, finding new genotypes and host shifts, including a hemoplasma closely related to a human pathogen.