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Volume 363(1490);  January 27, 2008
Introduction. Adaptation to the annual cycle
Introduction. Adaptation to the annual cycle
John M McNamara and Alasdair I Houston
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 209–210. Published online 2007 August 6. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2192.
PMCID: PMC2042533
Research Articles
Optimal moult strategies in migratory birds
Zoltán Barta, John M McNamara, Alasdair I Houston, Thomas P Weber, Anders Hedenström, and Orsolya Feró
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 211–229. Published online 2007 August 6. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2136.
PMCID: PMC2606747
Sex differences in the response to environmental cues regulating seasonal reproduction in birds
Gregory F Ball and Ellen D Ketterson
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 231–246. Published online 2007 July 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2137.
PMCID: PMC2606748
Travelling on a budget: predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants
Deborah M Buehler and Theunis Piersma
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 247–266. Published online 2007 July 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2138.
PMCID: PMC2606749
Adaptive specialization, conditional plasticity and phylogenetic history in the reproductive cue response systems of birds
Thomas P Hahn and Scott A MacDougall-Shackleton
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 267–286. Published online 2007 August 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2139.
PMCID: PMC2606750
Adaptations to migration in birds: behavioural strategies, morphology and scaling effects
Anders Hedenström
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 287–299. Published online 2007 July 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2140.
PMCID: PMC2606751
Optimal annual routines: behaviour in the context of physiology and ecology
John M McNamara and Alasdair I Houston
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 301–319. Published online 2007 August 2. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2141.
PMCID: PMC2606752
Seasonal changes in vertebrate immune activity: mediation by physiological trade-offs
Lynn B Martin, Zachary M Weil, and Randy J Nelson
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 321–339. Published online 2007 July 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2142.
PMCID: PMC2606753
Tracking the seasons: the internal calendars of vertebrates
Matthew J Paul, Irving Zucker, and William J Schwartz
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 341–361. Published online 2007 August 7. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2143.
PMCID: PMC2606754
Adapting to the unpredictable: reproductive biology of vertebrates in the Australian wet–dry tropics
Richard Shine and Gregory P Brown
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 363–373. Published online 2007 July 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2144.
PMCID: PMC2606755
The physiological costs of reproduction in small mammals
John R Speakman
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 375–398. Published online 2007 August 8. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2145.
PMCID: PMC2606756
The timing of birds' breeding seasons: a review of experiments that manipulated timing of breeding
Simon Verhulst and Jan-Åke Nilsson
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 399–410. Published online 2007 July 31. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2146.
PMCID: PMC2606757
Avian circannual clocks: adaptive significance and possible involvement of energy turnover in their proximate control
Martin Wikelski, Lynn B Martin, Alex Scheuerlein, Maisha T Robinson, Nuriya D Robinson, Barbara Helm, Michaela Hau, and Eberhard Gwinner
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 411–423. Published online 2007 July 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2147.
PMCID: PMC2606758
Organization of vertebrate annual cycles: implications for control mechanisms
John C Wingfield
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008 January 27; 363(1490): 425–441. Published online 2007 July 18. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2149.
PMCID: PMC2606759
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