A5011527835- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Reproductive System and Pregnancy
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Sperm and Testicular Function
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Cancer Risks and Factors
- Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
University of Vienna
2024
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
2020-2023
Indiana University Bloomington
2014-2018
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
2011-2017
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2008-2009
Max Planck Society
2009
The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas science is drastically slowed hindered by a lack standards networking programmes. Long-term studies individually marked animals are not an exception. These especially important as instrumental for understanding evolutionary ecological processes wild. Furthermore, their number global distribution provides unique opportunity to assess generality patterns address broad-scale issues (e.g. climate change). To solve enable new scale...
Ageing can progress at different rates according to an individual's physiological state. Natural hypothermia, including torpor and hibernation, is a common adaptation of small mammals survive intermittent or seasonal declines in environmental conditions. In addition allowing energy savings, hypothermia have been associated with retarded ageing increased longevity. We tested the hypothesis that use slows by measuring changes relative telomere length (RTL) Djungarian hamsters, Phodopus...
The black rhinoceros is again on the verge of extinction due to unsustainable poaching in its native range. Despite a wide historic distribution, was traditionally thought as depauperate genetic variation, and with very little known about evolutionary history. This knowledge gap has hampered conservation efforts because hunting dramatically reduced species' once continuous leaving five surviving gene pools unknown affinity. Here we examined range-wide structure modern populations using...
Abstract We present evidence for the consumption of a diurnal, arboreal, group living primate by bonobos. The digit an immature black mangabey ( Lophocebus aterrimus ) was found in fresh feces bonobo Pan paniscus at Lui Kotale study site, Democratic Republic Congo. In close proximity to fecal sample containing remains digit, we also large part pelt mangabey. Evidence suggests that bonobos consume more meat than other populations and have greater variation mammalian species exploited...
Fluctuations in environmental temperature affect energy metabolism and stimulate the expression of reversible phenotypic plasticity vertebrate behavioural physiological traits. Changes circulating concentrations glucocorticoid hormones often underpin environmentally induced plasticity. Ongoing climate change is predicted to increase fluctuations globally, making it imperative determine standing variation responses free-living populations evaluate their potential for coping via plastic or...
During pregnancy, the mammalian immune system must simultaneously protect against pathogens while being accommodating to foreign fetal tissues. Our current understanding of this modulation derives predominantly from industrialized human populations and laboratory animals. However, their environments differ considerably pathogen-rich, resource-scarce in which pregnancy co-evolved. For a better during challenging environments, we measured urinary neopterin, biomarker cell-mediated responses,...
Abstract Fluctuations in environmental temperature affect energy metabolism, stimulating the expression of phenotypic plasticity behavioral and physiological traits. Vertebrate hormonal signals like glucocorticoids underpin environmentally-induced plasticity, with changes circulating concentrations orchestrating plastic diverse Climate change is predicted to alter variation globally, making it imperative evaluate whether free-living animal populations can cope adaptively. To their potential...
Ecoimmunology conceptualizes the role of immunity in shaping life history a natural context. Within ecoimmunology, macroimmunology is framework that explains effects habitat and spatial differences on variation immune phenotypes across populations. these frameworks, ontogeny—the development system an individual span—has received little attention. Here, we investigated how ontogeny from birth until adulthood affected by age, sex, developmental environment long-lived primate species, bonobo....
We present 3 likely cases of testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) within a community chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). tested whether genetic drift may be the culprit, as cause has been suspected to account for TDS among other wildlife.
As environmental changes exacerbate the threat coming from infectious diseases in wild mammal species, monitoring their health and gaining a better understanding of immune functioning at species level have become critically important. Neopterin is biomarker cell-mediated responses to intracellular infections. We investigated variation urinary neopterin (uNeo) levels wild, habituated bonobos (Pan paniscus) relation individual factors. used 309 urine samples collected between 2010 2018...