Suvi Ruuskanen

This study examines the physiological effects of consuming chemically defended prey on great tits, finding no significant impact on stress or oxidative stress markers but increased mitochondrial usage with higher toxin doses.

This study examines how subtle temperature changes during early life affect gut microbiome diversity and composition in wild birds, finding that rearing environment has a greater influence than genetics.

This study tests if parental provisioning influences prey preferences in great tits, finding that innate biases against warning colors persist despite social learning.

This study examines how early-life adversity affects growth and mitochondrial metabolism in king penguin chicks, finding higher mitochondrial metabolism in late-born chicks but no clear link to growth patterns.

Both experimental nestbox heating (+2.83°C) and cooling (-1.72°C) during early postnatal development significantly shorten day-13 relative telomere length in wild pied flycatcher nestlings without altering body mass.

The paper examines how increased yolk testosterone affects DNA methylation and phenotypes in wild great tit nestlings, finding sex-specific methylation changes at 763 CpG sites linked to growth, oxidative stress, and reproduction.

This study links gut microbiome diversity to reproductive success in male collared flycatchers but not females, using long-term monitoring data from wild birds.

This study examines seasonal and environmental factors influencing gut microbiome variation in wild great tits across their range, finding higher diversity in winter and some habitat-related differences.

The paper shows that early-stage altricial bird embryos express genes involved in thyroid hormone pathways, suggesting they can respond to maternal thyroid hormone signals.

The paper examines how lead pollution affects DNA methylation in wild great tits, finding changes in methylation of development-related genes but inconsistent statistical results.

The paper introduces a bioinformatics method to classify organisms based on their EPSPS enzyme type to assess glyphosate sensitivity, finding 54% of core human gut microbiome species are sensitive.

This study shows that maternal thyroid hormone transfer increases nestling growth without increasing oxidative stress in a wild passerine bird.