Search Results - "Visser, M E"
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The costs of egg production and incubation in great tits (Parus major)
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-06-2001)“…) in obtaining a larger brood. We used female fitness (half the recruits produced plus female survival) as a fitness measure because it is the female which…”
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Disrupted seasonal biology impacts health, food security and ecosystems
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-10-2015)“…The rhythm of life on earth is shaped by seasonal changes in the environment. Plants and animals show profound annual cycles in physiology, health, morphology,…”
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Hepatic steatosis does not cause insulin resistance in people with familial hypobetalipoproteinaemia
Published in Diabetologia (01-08-2011)“…Aims/hypothesis Hepatic steatosis is strongly associated with hepatic and whole-body insulin resistance. It has proved difficult to determine whether hepatic…”
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Characterisation of non-obese diabetic patients with marked insulin resistance identifies a novel familial partial lipodystrophy-associated PPARγ mutation (Y151C)
Published in Diabetologia (01-07-2011)“…Aims/hypothesis Familial partial lipodystrophy (FPLD) is a rare metabolic disorder with clinical features that may not be readily recognised. As FPLD patients…”
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Warmer springs disrupt the synchrony of oak and winter moth phenology
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-02-2001)“…Operophtera brumata…”
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Large–scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-08-2004)“…flycatchers across Europe. Trends in spring temperature varied markedly between study sites, and across populations the advancement of laying date was stronger…”
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Executive functioning in individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorders
Published in Journal of intellectual disability research (01-02-2015)“…Background Executive functioning (EF) is important for adequate behavioural functioning and crucial for explaining symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD)…”
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Warmer springs lead to mistimed reproduction in great tits (Parus major)
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (07-10-1998)“…In seasonal environments, the main selection pressure on the timing of reproduction (the ultimate factor) is synchrony between offspring requirements and food…”
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The Importance of Being Large: The Relationship between Size and Fitness in Females of the Parasitoid Aphaereta minuta (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-10-1994)“…1. The relationship between the size of a female parasitoid and its fitness is a major element of models of optimal clutch size, of host species selection, of…”
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Heritability of gonad size varies across season in a wild songbird
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-12-2013)“…Many organisms advance their seasonal reproduction in response to global warming. In birds, which regress their gonads to a nonfunctional state each winter,…”
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Shifting impairment and aggression in intellectual disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Published in Research in developmental disabilities (01-09-2014)“…•Aggressive behaviour is a major problem in individuals with ID and ASD.•Aggressive individuals show more shifting deficits than non-aggressive…”
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Genetic background, and not ontogenetic effects, affects avian seasonal timing of reproduction
Published in Journal of evolutionary biology (01-10-2013)“…Avian seasonal timing is a life‐history trait with important fitness consequences and which is currently under directional selection due to climate change. To…”
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Structural and resting state functional connectivity of the subthalamic nucleus: identification of motor STN parts and the hyperdirect pathway
Published in PloS one (29-06-2012)“…Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease often alleviates the motor symptoms, but causes cognitive and emotional side effects in a substantial…”
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Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History
Published in The American naturalist (01-04-2023)“…AbstractA method for analyzing long-term demographic data on density-dependent stage-structured populations in a stochastic environment is derived to…”
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APOE1 mutation in a patient with type III hyperlipoproteinaemia: detailed genetic analysis required
Published in Netherlands journal of medicine (01-08-2012)“…We present the case of a patient with clinical features of familial dysbetalipoproteinaemia (FD) including high levels of total cholesterol,…”
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Possible Fitness Consequences of Experimentally Advanced Laying Dates in Great Tits: Differences between Populations in Different Habitats
Published in Functional ecology (01-02-2006)“…1. In birds, early breeding individuals generally reproduce more successfully than late breeding individuals. The lack of response to this selection could be…”
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Plasma vitamin A and zinc levels in HIV-infected adults in Cape Town, South Africa
Published in British journal of nutrition (01-04-2003)“…A cross-sectional study of 132 adults attending an HIV clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, was conducted to determine predictors of low plasma vitamin A and Zn…”
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Mutations in LPL, APOC2, APOA5, GPIHBP1 and LMF1 in patients with severe hypertriglyceridaemia
Published in Journal of internal medicine (01-08-2012)“… Surendran RP, Visser ME, Heemelaar S, Wang J, Peter J, Defesche JC, Kuivenhoven JA, Hosseini M, Péterfy M, Kastelein JJP, Johansen CT, Hegele RA, Stroes…”
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A high‐density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour
Published in Molecular ecology resources (01-07-2018)“…High‐density SNP microarrays (“SNP chips”) are a rapid, accurate and efficient method for genotyping several hundred thousand polymorphisms in large numbers of…”
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Synchronisation of egg hatching of brown hairstreak (Thecla betulae) and budburst of blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) in a warmer future
Published in Journal of insect conservation (01-04-2011)“…Synchronisation of the phenology of insect herbivores and their larval food plant is essential for the herbivores’ fitness. The monophagous brown hairstreak (…”
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