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  1. When does early‐life telomere length predict survival? A case study and meta‐analysis

    Article • Molecular Ecology, March 2023, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  2. DNA methylation markers of age(ing) and other things in non-model organisms

    Article • February 2023, Authorea, Inc.

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  3. Integrating telomere biology into the ecology and evolution of natural populations: Progress and prospects

    Article • Molecular Ecology, November 2022, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  4. Effects of manipulated food availability and seasonality on innate immune function in a passerine

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, October 2022, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  5. Egg size effects on nestling mass in JackdawsCorvus monedula: a cross-foster experiment

    Article • October 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  6. Decoupling blood telomere length from age in recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant in the BMT-CTN 1202

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, October 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  7. Deterrence of birds with an artificial predator, the RobotFalcon

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  8. Higher mercury contamination is associated with shorter telomeres in a long-lived seabird – A direct effect or a consequence of among-individual variation in phenotypic quality?

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  9. Hot and dry conditions predict shorter nestling telomeres in an endangered songbird: Implications for population persistence

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Justin Eastwood, Professor Simon Verhulst

  10. Glucose tolerance predicts survival in old zebra finches

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2022, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  11. Experimentally manipulated food availability affects offspring quality but not quantity in zebra finch meso-populations

    Article • Oecologia, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  12. Telomere length declines with age, but relates to immune function independent of age in a wild passerine

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, April 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  13. Telomere-length dependent T-cell clonal expansion: A model linking ageing to COVID-19 T-cell lymphopenia and mortality

    Article • EBioMedicine, April 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  14. Telomere length is highly repeatable and shorter in individuals with more elaborate sexual ornamentation in a short‐lived passerine

    Article • Molecular Ecology, February 2022, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  15. No Evidence for Constitutive Innate Immune Senescence in a Longitudinal Study of a Wild Bird

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, January 2022, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  16. Androgen Elevation Accelerates Reproductive Senescence in Three-Spined Stickleback

    Article • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, December 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  17. Telomere dynamics in the first year of life, but not later in life, predict lifespan in a wild bird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  18. A comparison of continuous and intermittent EEG recordings in geese: How much data are needed to reliably estimate sleep–wake patterns?

    Article • Journal of Sleep Research, November 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  19. High heritability of telomere length and low heritability of telomere shortening in wild birds

    Article • Molecular Ecology, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  20. Telomere dynamics in relation to experimentally increased locomotion costs and fitness in great tits

    Article • Molecular Ecology, September 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  21. Conceptualizing and quantifying body condition using structural equation modelling: A user guide

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, September 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  22. Exposure to food insecurity increases energy storage and reduces somatic maintenance in European starlings ( Sturnus vulgaris )

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, September 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  23. Effects of early-life conditions on innate immune function in adult zebra finches

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2021, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  24. Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets

    Article • Molecular Ecology, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  25. Mosaic metabolic ageing: Basal and standard metabolic rates age in opposite directions and independent of environmental quality, sex and life span in a passerine

    Article • Functional Ecology, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  26. Telomeres and replicative cellular aging of the human placenta and chorioamniotic membranes

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  27. Telomere length is heritable and genetically correlated with lifespan in a wild bird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, February 2021, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  28. The Nexus Between Telomere Length and Lymphocyte Count in Seniors Hospitalized With COVID-19

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series A, February 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  29. Method comparison studies of telomere length measurement using qPCR approaches: A critical appraisal of the literature

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2021, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  30. High heritability of telomere length, but low evolvability, and no significant heritability of telomere shortening in wild jackdaws

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  31. Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, December 2020, Wiley

    Jaime Potti, Professor János Török, Alexandr Artemyev, Professor Simon Verhulst

  32. Genetics and geography of leukocyte telomere length in sub-Saharan Africans

    Article • Human Molecular Genetics, August 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  33. Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  34. Glucose regulation is a repeatable trait affected by successive handling in zebra finches

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  35. Sleep Time in the European Starling Is Strongly Affected by Night Length and Moon Phase

    Article • Current Biology, May 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  36. Sex‐specific telomere length and dynamics in relation to age and reproductive success in Cory’s shearwaters

    Article • Molecular Ecology, March 2020, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  37. Experimentally increased brood size accelerates actuarial senescence and increases subsequent reproductive effort in a wild bird population

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, March 2020, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  38. Association of Leukocyte Telomere Length With Mortality Among Adult Participants in 3 Longitudinal Studies

    Article • JAMA Network Open, February 2020, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  39. Antioxidant supplementation slows telomere shortening in free-living white stork chicks

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  40. Telomere length is repeatable, shortens with age and reproductive success, and predicts remaining lifespan in a long‐lived seabird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, January 2020, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  41. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) shows signs of NREM sleep homeostasis but has very little REM sleep and no REM sleep homeostasis

    Article • SLEEP, December 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  42. Improving comparability between qPCR‐based telomere studies

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, November 2019, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  43. Developmental conditions modulate DNA methylation at the glucocorticoid receptor gene with cascading effects on expression and corticosterone levels in zebra finches

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  44. Telomere length tracking in children and their parents: implications for adult onset diseases

    Article • The FASEB Journal, October 2019, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  45. Coupling lifespan and aging? The age at onset of body mass decline associates positively with sex-specific lifespan but negatively with environment-specific lifespan

    Article • Experimental Gerontology, May 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  46. Ultralong telomeres shorten with age in nestling great tits but are static in adults and mask attrition of short telomeres

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, April 2019, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  47. Early‐life telomere length predicts lifespan and lifetime reproductive success in a wild bird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  48. Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length in wild birds

    Article • PLoS Genetics, February 2019, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  49. Morph- and sex-specific effects of challenging conditions on maintenance parameters in the Gouldian finch

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2019, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  50. Corticosterone levels reflect variation in metabolic rate, independent of ‘stress’

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  51. Reduced telomere length in offspring of old fathers in a long-lived seabird

    Article • Biology Letters, June 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  52. Response by Benetos et al to Letter Regarding Article, “Short Leukocyte Telomere Length Precedes Clinical Expression of Atherosclerosis: The Blood-and-Muscle Model”

    Article • Circulation Research, April 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  53. Canalisation in the wild: effects of developmental conditions on physiological traits are inversely linked to their association with fitness

    Article • Ecology Letters, March 2018, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  54. Urban blackbirds have shorter telomeres

    Article • Biology Letters, March 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  55. Short Leukocyte Telomere Length Precedes Clinical Expression of Atherosclerosis

    Article • Circulation Research, February 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  56. The rate of telomere loss is related to maximum lifespan in birds

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  57. Baseline glucose level is an individual trait that is negatively associated with lifespan and increases due to adverse environmental conditions during development and adulthood

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  58. Embryonic growth rate affects telomere attrition: an experiment in a wild bird

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2018, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  59. Glucocorticoid-temperature association is shaped by foraging costs in individual zebra finches

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2018, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  60. Regression to the mean, apparent data errors and biologically extraordinary results: letter regarding ‘changes in telomere length 3–5 years after gastric bypass surgery’

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  61. Male but not female zebra finches with high plasma corticosterone have lower survival

    Article • Functional Ecology, December 2017, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  62. Increasing the accuracy and precision of relative telomere length estimates by RT qPCR

    Article • Molecular Ecology Resources, September 2017, Wiley

    Justin Eastwood, Professor Simon Verhulst

  63. Telomere length dynamics in early life: the blood-and-muscle model

    Article • The FASEB Journal, August 2017, Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  64. Effects of developmental conditions on glucocorticoid concentrations in adulthood depend on sex and foraging conditions

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, July 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  65. Telomere attrition and growth: a life‐history framework and case study in common terns

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  66. Does oxidative stress shorten telomeres?

    Article • Biology Letters, May 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  67. Telomeres and the natural lifespan limit in humans

    Article • Aging, April 2017, Impact Journals, LLC

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  68. Food availability affects adult survival trajectories depending on early developmental conditions

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  69. Individual variation in metabolic reaction norms over ambient temperature causes low correlation between basal and standard metabolic rate

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  70. Strong association between corticosterone and temperature dependent metabolic rate in individual zebra finches

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  71. Non-Dynamic Association of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders With Leukocyte Telomere Length?

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, November 2016, American Psychiatric Association

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  72. Telomere length reflects reproductive effort indicated by corticosterone levels in a long‐lived seabird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, October 2016, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  73. Canalization of development reduces the utility of traits as fitness biomarkers: feather fault bars in nestling birds

    Article • Functional Ecology, October 2016, Wiley

    Dr Jelle J Boonekamp, Professor Simon Verhulst

  74. Response to: Reliability and validity of telomere length measurements

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, August 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  75. Stabilizing survival selection on presenescent expression of a sexual ornament followed by a terminal decline

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, April 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  76. A short leucocyte telomere length is associated with development of insulin resistance

    Article • Diabetologia, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  77. Costs of long-term carrying of extra mass in a songbird

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  78. The influence of the starvation-predation trade-off on the relationship between ambient temperature and body size among endotherms

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor John Michael McNamara, Professor Simon Verhulst

  79. Large diurnal temperature range increases bird sensitivity to climate change

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  80. The heuristic value of redundancy models of aging

    Article • Experimental Gerontology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  81. What can long-lived mutants tell us about mechanisms causing aging and lifespan variation in natural environments?

    Article • Experimental Gerontology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  82. Commentary: The reliability of telomere length measurements

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  83. Leukocyte telomere length dynamics in women and men: menopause vs age effects

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  84. Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Changes of Free-Flying Migrating Northern Bald Ibis

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2015, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  85. Heritability of telomere length in the Zebra Finch

    Article • Journal of Ornithology, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  86. Human Height Is Positively Related to Interpersonal Dominance in Dyadic Interactions

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2015, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  87. Addendum to: ‘Reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence in wild birds: an experimental study’

    Article • Ecology Letters, January 2015, Wiley

    Dr Jelle J Boonekamp, Professor Simon Verhulst

  88. An appraisal of how the vitamin A-redox hypothesis can maintain honesty of carotenoid-dependent signals

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  89. Carotenoid-Dependent Signals and the Evolution of Plasma Carotenoid Levels in Birds

    Article • The American Naturalist, December 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  90. Social life histories: jackdaw dominance increases with age, terminally declines and shortens lifespan

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  91. Sex difference in leukocyte telomere length is ablated in opposite-sex co-twins

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  92. Nestling telomere shortening, but not telomere length, reflects developmental stress and predicts survival in wild birds

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jelle J Boonekamp, Professor Simon Verhulst

  93. Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Neil J Gemmell, Professor Simon Verhulst

  94. Reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence in wild birds: an experimental study

    Article • Ecology Letters, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst, Dr Jelle J Boonekamp

  95. Context-dependent effects of carotenoid supplementation on reproduction in zebra finches

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  96. Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long‐lived seabird

    Article • Molecular Ecology, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  97. Do leukocyte telomere length dynamics depend on baseline telomere length? An analysis that corrects for ‘regression to the mean’

    Article • European Journal of Epidemiology, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  98. The height of choosiness: mutual mate choice for stature results in suboptimal pair formation for both sexes

    Article • Animal Behaviour, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  99. Personality and basal metabolic rate in a wild bird population

    Article • Oikos, June 2013, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  100. GAPDH as a Control Gene to Estimate Genome Copy Number in Great Tits, with Cross-Amplification in Blue Tits

    Article • Ardea, May 2013, Netherlands Ornithologists' Union

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  101. Dietary restriction of rodents decreases aging rate without affecting initial mortality rate – a meta‐analysis

    Article • Aging Cell, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  102. Telomere length behaves as biomarker of somatic redundancy rather than biological age

    Article • Aging Cell, February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst, Dr Jelle J Boonekamp

  103. Tall claims? Sense and nonsense about the importance of height of US presidents

    Article • The Leadership Quarterly, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  104. Plasma reactive oxygen metabolites and non-enzymatic antioxidant capacity are not affected by an acute increase of metabolic rate in zebra finches

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  105. Are Human Mating Preferences with Respect to Height Reflected in Actual Pairings?

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2013, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  106. Telomere length reflects phenotypic quality and costs of reproduction in a long-lived seabird

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  107. Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation: can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change?

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John Michael McNamara, Professor Simon Verhulst

  108. Phenotypic plasticity of avian social-learning strategies

    Article • Animal Behaviour, December 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  109. Absolute standards as a useful addition to the avian quantitative PCR telomere assay

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  110. Increased aggression during human group contests when competitive ability is more similar

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  111. What Does Carotenoid-Dependent Coloration Tell? Plasma Carotenoid Level Signals Immunocompetence and Oxidative Stress State in Birds–A Meta-Analysis

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2012, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  112. Intralocus sexual conflict over human height

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Bram Kuijper, Professor Simon Verhulst

  113. Bill Redness Is Positively Associated with Reproduction and Survival in Male and Female Zebra Finches

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2012, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  114. High and Mighty: Height Increases Authority in Professional Refereeing

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, July 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  115. The effect of female height on reproductive success is negative in western populations, but more variable in non‐western populations

    Article • American Journal of Human Biology, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  116. Maternal effects reduce oxidative stress in female nestlings under high parasite load

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  117. The Forms and Fitness Cost of Senescence: Age-Specific Recapture, Survival, Reproduction, and Reproductive Value in a Wild Bird Population

    Article • The American Naturalist, January 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  118. A curvilinear effect of height on reproductive success in human males

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  119. Effects of early developmental conditions on innate immunity are only evident under favourable adult conditions in zebra finches

    Article • The Science of Nature, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  120. Stochastic modeling of length-dependent telomere shortening in Corvus monedula

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  121. Parental Height Differences Predict the Need for an Emergency Caesarean Section

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2011, PLOS

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  122. A simple technique to manipulate foraging costs in seed-eating birds

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, April 2011, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  123. Basal metabolic rate and the rate of senescence in the great tit

    Article • Functional Ecology, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  124. Telomere measurement tools: Telometric produces biased estimates of telomere length

    Article • Heredity, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  125. Zebra finch females prefer males with redder bills independent of song rate—a meta-analysis

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  126. Trade‐off between growth and immune function: a meta‐analysis of selection experiments

    Article • Functional Ecology, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  127. Similar patterns of age‐specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  128. Individual variation in rates of senescence: natal origin effects and disposable soma in a wild bird population

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 2010, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  129. Are high-quality mates always attractive? State-dependent mate preferences in birds and humans

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Tim Fawcett, Professor Simon Verhulst

  130. Trans-generational effects on ageing in a wild bird population

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, March 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  131. Experimental evidence for interference competition in oystercatchers, Haematopus ostralegus. I. Captive birds

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  132. Experimental evidence for interference competition in oystercatchers, Haematopus ostralegus. II. Free-living birds

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  133. Western scrub-jays conceal auditory information when competitors can hear but cannot see

    Article • Biology Letters, July 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  134. Telomere shortening and survival in free-living corvids

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  135. Maternal Energy Allocation to Offspring Increases with Environmental Quality in House Mice

    Article • The American Naturalist, June 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  136. Does high antioxidant capacity indicate low oxidative stress?

    Article • Functional Ecology, May 2009, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  137. Great tits growing old: selective disappearance and the partitioning of senescence to stages within the breeding cycle

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  138. Immune activation suppresses plasma testosterone level: a meta-analysis

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jelle J Boonekamp, Professor Simon Verhulst

  139. Biometric sex discrimination is unreliable when sexual dimorphism varies within and between years: an example in Eurasian OystercatchersHaematopus ostralegus

    Article • Ibis, December 2008, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  140. Post-natal exposure to corticosterone affects standard metabolic rate in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

    Article • General and Comparative Endocrinology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  141. Metabolic ageing in individual zebra finches

    Article • Biology Letters, October 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  142. Strong but variable associations between social dominance and clutch sex ratio in a colonial corvid

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, December 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  143. The timing of birds' breeding seasons: a review of experiments that manipulated timing of breeding

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  144. Delayed behavioral effects of postnatal exposure to corticosterone in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, February 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  145. Experimental evidence for a causal effect of pair-bond duration on reproductive performance in oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus)

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, August 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Bram Kuijper, Professor Simon Verhulst

  146. Long-term effects of manipulated natal brood size on metabolic rate in zebra finches

    Article • Biology Letters, June 2006, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  147. Age‐Dependent Traits: A New Statistical Model to Separate Within‐ and Between‐Individual Effects

    Article • The American Naturalist, May 2006, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  148. A silver spoon for a golden future: long‐term effects of natal origin on fitness prospects of oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus)

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, March 2006, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  149. Rearing conditions determine offspring survival independent of egg quality: a cross‐foster experiment with Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus

    Article • Ibis, February 2006, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  150. Optimal foraging on perilous prey: risk of bill damage reduces optimal prey size in oystercatchers

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, January 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  151. No sexual differences in embryonic period in jackdawsCorvus monedulaand black‐headed gullsLarus ridibundus

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  152. Effects of intake rate on energy expenditure, somatic repair and reproduction of zebra finches

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2005, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  153. Metabolic adjustments to increasing foraging costs of starlings in a closed economy

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2005, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  154. Brood size and immunity costs in zebra finchesTaeniopygia guttata

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, December 2004, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  155. Comparison of the cost of short flights in a nectarivorous and a non-nectarivorous bird

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, October 2004, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  156. Why fight? Socially dominant jackdaws, Corvus monedula, have low fitness

    Article • Animal Behaviour, October 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  157. Birds sacrifice oxidative protection for reproduction

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2004, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  158. Song as a signal to negotiate a sexual conflict?

    Article • Animal Biology, January 2003, Brill

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  159. Variation in Food Supply, Time of Breeding, and Energy Expenditure in Birds

    Article • Science, October 2001, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  160. Experimental evidence for effects of human disturbance on foraging and parental care in oystercatchers

    Article • Biological Conservation, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  161. A fixed energetic ceiling to parental effort in the great tit?

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, March 2000, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  162. Latitudinal variation in parental energy expenditure during brood rearing in the great tit

    Article • Oecologia, February 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  163. A tradeoff between immunocompetence and sexual ornamentation in domestic fowl

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 1999, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  164. Estimating Organ Size in Small Migrating Shorebirds with Ultrasonography: An Intercalibration Exercise

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, January 1999, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  165. Scotopic vision in colour-blinds

    Article • Vision Research, November 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  166. Reply from B.C. Sheldon and S. Verhulst

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, February 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  167. Gene flow and immigration rate in an island population of great tits

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, November 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  168. Social Dominance and Energy Reserves in Flocks of Willow Tits

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, September 1996, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  169. Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, August 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  170. Seasonal Variation in the Incidence of Double Broods: The Date Hypothesis Fits Better than the Quality Hypothesis

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, May 1996, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  171. Post-fledging care, multiple breeding and the costs of reproduction in the great tit

    Article • Animal Behaviour, May 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  172. Seasonal Decline in Reproductive Success of the Great Tit: Variation in Time or Quality?

    Article • Ecology, December 1995, Wiley

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  173. Timing of Reproduction and Fledging Success in the Coot Fulica atra: Evidence for a Causal Relationship

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, July 1993, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  174. Experimental Evidence for a Causal Relationship between Timing and Success of Reproduction in the Great Tit Parus m. major

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, February 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  175. Warning against an unseen predator: a functional aspect of synchronous feeding in the common vole, Microtus arvalis

    Article • Animal Behaviour, December 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Verhulst

  176. Intraspecific Allometry of Basal Metabolic Rate: Relations with Body Size, Temperature, Composition, and Circadian Phase in the Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus

    Article • Journal of Biological Rhythms, June 1989, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Verhulst