Search Results - "Michelle Hall"
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New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles
Published in Biology letters (2005) (01-04-2019)“…Historically, bird song has been regarded as a sex-specific signalling trait; males sing to attract females and females drive the evolution of signal…”
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Female song is widespread and ancestral in songbirds
Published in Nature communications (04-03-2014)“…Bird song has historically been considered an almost exclusively male trait, an observation fundamental to the formulation of Darwin’s theory of sexual…”
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Relative Efficacy of Different Exercises for Pain, Function, Performance and Quality of Life in Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis
Published in Sports medicine (Auckland) (01-05-2019)“…Background Guidelines recommend exercise as a core treatment for osteoarthritis (OA). However, it is unclear which type of exercise is most effective, leading…”
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Male songbird indicates body size with low-pitched advertising songs
Published in PloS one (20-02-2013)“…Body size is a key sexually selected trait in many animal species. If size imposes a physical limit on the production of loud low-frequency sounds, then…”
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Early‐life telomere length predicts lifespan and lifetime reproductive success in a wild bird
Published in Molecular ecology (01-03-2019)“…Poor conditions during early development can initiate trade‐offs that favour current survival at the expense of somatic maintenance and subsequently, future…”
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Efficacy and potential determinants of exercise therapy in knee and hip osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in Annals of physical and rehabilitation medicine (01-09-2019)“…Exercise is an effective treatment for osteoarthritis. However, the effect may vary from one patient (or study) to another. To evaluate the efficacy of…”
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Challenges in maintaining treatment services for people who use drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published in Harm reduction journal (06-05-2020)“…The impact of COVID-19 across health services, including treatment services for people who use drugs, is emerging but likely to have a high impact. Treatment…”
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Acceptability of a nurse-led non-pharmacological complex intervention for knee pain: Nurse and patient views and experiences
Published in PloS one (13-01-2022)“…The overall purpose of this research programme is to develop and test the feasibility of a complex intervention for knee pain delivered by a nurse, and…”
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Migration and the evolution of duetting in songbirds
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-05-2014)“…Many groups of animals defend shared resources with coordinated signals. The best-studied of these signals are the vocal duets produced by mated pairs of…”
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Rapid plastic breeding response to rain matches peak prey abundance in a tropical savanna bird
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-11-2019)“…Changes in climate are shifting the timing of life cycle events in the natural world. Compared to northern temperate areas, these effects are relatively poorly…”
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Urban noise restricts, fragments, and lightens sleep in Australian magpies
Published in Environmental pollution (1987) (01-12-2020)“…Urban areas are inherently noisy, and this noise can disrupt biological processes as diverse as communication, migration, and reproduction. We investigated how…”
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White and Amber Light at Night Disrupt Sleep Physiology in Birds
Published in Current biology (21-09-2020)“…Artificial light at night can disrupt sleep in humans [1–4] and other animals [5–10]. A key mechanism for light to affect sleep is via non-visual…”
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The effect of natural and artificial light at night on nocturnal song in the diurnal willie wagtail
Published in The Science of the total environment (20-02-2022)“…Artificial light at night (ALAN) has rapidly and drastically changed the global nocturnal environment. Evidence for the effect of ALAN on animal behaviour is…”
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Hot and dry conditions predict shorter nestling telomeres in an endangered songbird: Implications for population persistence
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-06-2022)“…Climate warming is increasingly exposing wildlife to sublethal high temperatures, which may lead to chronic impacts and reduced fitness. Telomere length (TL)…”
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Variability, heritability and condition-dependence of the multidimensional male colour phenotype in a passerine bird
Published in Heredity (01-09-2021)“…Elaborate ornamental traits are commonly assumed to be honest signals of individual quality, owing to the presumed costs involved in their production and/or…”
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Telomere dynamics in the first year of life, but not later in life, predict lifespan in a wild bird
Published in Molecular ecology (01-12-2022)“…Telomeres are protective, nucleoprotein structures at the end of chromosomes that have been associated with lifespan across taxa. However, the extent to which…”
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review of hypotheses for the functions of avian duetting
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-03-2004)“…Avian duets are striking for the remarkable precision with which duetting partners sometimes coordinate their songs. Duetting species are taxonomically…”
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Tibiofemoral contact force differences between flat flexible and stable supportive walking shoes in people with varus-malaligned medial knee osteoarthritis: A randomized cross-over study
Published in PloS one (02-06-2022)“…To compare the effect of stable supportive to flat flexible walking shoes on medial tibiofemoral contact force (MTCF) in people with medial knee osteoarthritis…”
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Female and male plumage color is linked to parental quality, pairing, and extrapair mating in a tropical passerine
Published in Behavioral ecology (04-06-2021)“…Abstract Sexual selection has been proposed to drive the evolution of elaborate phenotypic traits in males, which often confer success in competition or…”
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Training attenuates the influence of sensory uncertainty on confidence estimation
Published in Attention, perception & psychophysics (01-07-2020)“…Confidence is typically correlated with perceptual sensitivity, but these measures are dissociable. For example, confidence judgements are disproportionately…”
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