Items where NERC Author is "Dawson, Alistair"

Publication - Article

Dawson, Alistair. 2018 Both low temperature and shorter duration of food availability delay testicular regression and affect the daily cycle in body temperature in a songbird. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 91 (4). 917-924. https://doi.org/10.1086/698109

Dawson, Alistair. 2017 Daily cycles in body temperature in a songbird change with photoperiod and are weakly circadian. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 32 (2). 177-183. https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730417691206

Stevenson, T.J.; Visser, M.E.; Arnold, W.; Barrett, P.; Biello, S.; Dawson, A.; Denlinger, D.L.; Dominoni, D.; Ebling, F.J.; Elton, S.; Evans, N.; Ferguson, H.M.; Foster, R.G.; Hau, M.; Haydon, D.T.; Hazlerigg, D.G.; Heideman, P.; Hopcraft, J.G.C.; Jonsson, N.N.; Kronfeld-Schor, N.; Kumar, V.; Lincoln, G.A.; MacLeod, R.; Martin, S.A.M.; Martinez-Bakker, M.; Nelson, R.J.; Reed, T.; Robinson, J.E.; Rock, D.; Schwartz, W.J.; Steffan-Dewenter, I.; Tauber, E.; Thackeray, S.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3274-2706; Umstatter, C.; Yoshimura, T.; Helm, B.. 2015 Disrupted seasonal biology impacts health, food security and ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 282 (1817), 20151453. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1453

Dawson, Alistair. 2015 Annual gonadal cycles in birds: modeling the effects of photoperiod on seasonal changes in GnRH-1 secretion. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 37. 52-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfrne.2014.08.004

Ryan, Calen P.; Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter J.; Williams, Tony D.. 2015 Uncoupling clutch size, prolactin, and luteinizing hormone using experimental egg removal. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 213. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2015.02.005

Nelson, Bethany F.; Daunt, Francis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-3388; Monaghan, Pat; Wanless, Sarah; Butler, Adam; Heidinger, Britt J.; Newell, Mark; Dawson, Alistair. 2015 Protracted treatment with corticosterone reduces breeding success in a long-lived bird. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 210. 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.10.003

Ryan, Calen P.; Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter J.; Meddle, Simone L.; Williams, Tony D.. 2014 Circulating breeding and pre-breeding prolactin and LH are not associated with clutch size in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 202. 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.04.006

Reynolds, S. James; Martin, Graham R.; Dawson, Alistair; Wearn, Colin P.; Hughes, B. John. 2014 The sub-annual breeding cycle of a tropical seabird. PLoS ONE, 9 (4), e93582. 8, pp. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093582

Schaper, S.V.; Gienapp, P.; Dawson, A.; Visser, M.E.. 2013 Heritability of gonad size varies across season in a wild songbird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26 (12). 2739-2745. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12249

Caro, Samuel P.; Schaper, Sonja V.; Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter J.; Gienapp, Phillip; Visser, Marcel E.. 2013 Is microevolution the only emergency exit in a warming world?: temperature influences egg laying but not its underlying mechanisms in great tits. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 190. 164-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.02.025

Salvante, Katrina G; Dawson, Alistair; Aldredge, Robert A.; Sharp, Peter J.; Sockman, Keith W.. 2013 Prior experience with photostimulation enhances photo-induced reproductive response in female house finches. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 28 (1). 38-50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730412468087

Dawson, Alistair. 2013 The effect of latitude on photoperiodic control of gonadal maturation, regression and molt in birds. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 190. 129-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2013.05.017

Crossin, Glenn; Trathan, Phil N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-9930; Phillips, Richard A.; Gorman, Kristen B.; Dawson, Alistair; Sakamoto, Kentaro Q.; Williams, Tony D.. 2012 Corticosterone predicts foraging behavior and parental care in Macaroni Penguins. American Naturalist, 180 (1). E31-E44. https://doi.org/10.1086/666001

Ryan, C.P.; Dawson, A.; Sharp, P.J.; Williams, T.D. 2012 Experimental evidence for a role of prolactin in modulating avian clutch-size. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 52, supplement 1. E150-E150. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/ics078

Schaper, Sonja V.; Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter J.; Gienapp, Phillip; Caro, Samuel P.; Visser, Marcel E.. 2012 Increasing temperature, not mean temperature, is a cue for avian timing of reproduction. American Naturalist, 179 (2). E55-E69. https://doi.org/10.1086/663675

Schaper, Sonja V.; Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter J.; Caro, Samuel P.; Visser, Marcel E.. 2012 Individual variation in avian reproductive physiology does not reliably predict variation in laying date. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 179 (1). 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.07.021

Crossin, Glenn; Phillips, Richard A.; Trathan, Phil N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-9930; Fox, Derren S.; Dawson, Alistair; Wynne-Edwards, Katherine E.; Williams, Tony D.. 2012 Migratory carryover effects and endocrinological correlates of reproductive decisions and reproductive success in female albatrosses. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 176 (2). 151-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.01.006

Deviche, Pierre; Gao, Sisi; Davies, Scott; Sharp, Peter J.; Dawson, Alistair. 2012 Rapid stress-induced inhibition of plasma testosterone in free-ranging male rufous-winged sparrows, Peucaea carpalis: characterization, time course, and recovery. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 177 (1). 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.02.022

Crossin, Glenn; Dawson, Alistair; Phillips, Richard; Trathan, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-9930; Gorman, Kristen B.; Adlard, Stacey; Williams, Tony D.. 2012 Seasonal patterns of prolactin and corticosterone secretion in an Antarctic seabird that moults during reproduction. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 175 (1). 74-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.10.003

Deviche, Pierre; Sharp, Peter J.; Dawson, Alistair; Sabo, John; Fokidis, Bobby; Davies, Scott; Hurley, Lori. 2012 Up to the challenge?: hormonal and behavioral responses of free-ranging male Cassin's sparrows, Peucaea cassinii, to conspecific song playback. Hormones and Behavior, 61 (5). 741-749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.03.012

Visser, Marcel E.; Schaper, Sonja V.; Holleman, Leonard J.M.; Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter; Gienapp, Phillip; Caro, Samuel P.. 2011 Genetic variation in cue sensitivity involved in avian timing of reproduction. Functional Ecology, 25 (4). 868-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01844.x

Ouyang, Jenny Q.; Sharp, Peter J.; Dawson, Alistair; Quetting, Michael; Hau, Michaela. 2011 Hormone levels predict individual differences in reproductive success in a passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 278 (1717). 2537-2545. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2490

Ouyang, Jenny Q.; Sharp, Peter; Dawson, Alistair; Hau, Michaela. 2011 Hormone levels predict individual differences in reproductive success in a passerine bird. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 51 (Supplement 1). E103-E103. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icr008

Markman, Shai; Muller, Carsten T.; Pascoe, David; Dawson, Alistair; Buchanan, Katherine L.. 2011 Pollutants affect development in nestling starlings Sturnus vulgaris. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48 (2). 391-397. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01931.x

Newton, Ian; Dawson, Alistair. 2011 Seasonal changes in moult, body mass and reproductive condition in siskins Carduelis spinus exposed to daylength regimes simulating different latitudes. Journal of Avian Biology, 42 (1). 22-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.05249.x

Schaper, Sonja V.; Rueda, Carolina; Sharp, Peter J.; Dawson, Alistair; Visser, Marcel E.. 2011 Spring phenology does not affect timing of reproduction in the great tit (Parus major). Journal of Experimental Biology, 214. 3664-3671. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.059543

Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter J.. 2010 Seasonal changes in concentrations of plasma LH and prolactin associated with the advance in the development of photorefractoriness and molt by high temperature in the starling. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 167 (1). 122-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.02.004

Kumar, Vinod; Wingfield, John C.; Dawson, Alistair; Ramenofsky, Marilyn; Ranee, Sangeeta; Bartell, Paul. 2010 Biological clocks and regulation of seasonal reproduction and migration in birds. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 83. 827-835. https://doi.org/10.1086/652243

Thackeray, Stephen J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3274-2706; Sparks, Timothy H.; Fredreiksen, Morten; Burthe, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8871-3432; Bacon, Philip J.; Bell, James R.; Botham, Marc S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-1405; Brereton, Tom M.; Bright, Paul W.; Carvalho, Laurence; Clutton-Brock, Tim; Dawson, Alistair; Edwards, Martin; Elliott, J. Malcolm; Harrington, Richard; Johns, David; Jones, Ian D.; Jones, James T.; Leech, David I.; Roy, David B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331; Scott, W. Andy; Smith, Matt; Smithers, Richard J.; Winfield, Ian J.; Wanless, Sarah. 2010 Trophic level asynchrony in rates of phenological change for marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments. Global Change Biology, 16. 3304-3313. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02165.x

Crossin, Glenn T.; Trathan, Phil N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-9930; Phillips, Richard A.; Dawson, Alistair; Le Bouard, Fabrice; Williams, Tony D.. 2010 A carryover effect of migration underlies individual variation in reproductive readiness and extreme egg size dimorphism in Macaroni Penguins. American Naturalist, 176 (3). 357-366. https://doi.org/10.1086/655223

Dawson, A.; Perrins, C. M.; Sharp, P. J.; Wheeler, D.; Groves, S.. 2009 The involvement of prolactin in avian molt: the effects of gender and breeding success on the timing of molt in Mute swans (Cygnus olor). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 161 (2). 267-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2009.01.016

Young, George R.; Dawson, Alistair; Newton, Ian; Walker, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1471-7075. 2009 The timing of gonadal development and moult in three raptors with different breeding seasons: effects of gender, age and body condition. Ibis, 151. 654-666. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.2009.00957.x

Dawson, Alistair. 2008 Control of the annual cycle in birds: endocrine constraints and plasticity in response to ecological variability. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (B), 363 (1497). 1621-1633. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2007.0004

Dawson, Alistair. 2008 The BOU – 150 years promoting ornithology. Ibis, 150 (1). 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00788.x

Watanabe, Tsuyoshi; Yamamura, Takashi; Watanabe, Miwa; Yasuo, Shinobu; Nakao, Nobuhiro; Dawson, Alistair; Ebihara, Shizufumi; Yoshimura, Takashi. 2007 Hypothalamic expression of thyroid-activating and -inactivating enzyme genes in relation to photorefractoriness in birds and mammals. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 292. R568-R572. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00521.2006

Dawson, Alistair; Sharp, Peter, J.. 2007 Photorefractoriness in birds—photoperiodic and non-photoperiodic control. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 153. 378-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.01.043

Dawson, Alistair. 2007 Seasonality in a temperate zone bird can be entrained by near equatorial photoperiods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274 (1610). 721-725. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0067

Dawson, Alistair. 2006 Control of molt in birds: association with prolactin and gonadal regression in starlings. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 147. 314-322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2006.02.001

Buckley, Alan; Dawson, Alistair; Gould, Ernest A.. 2006 Detection of seroconversion to West Nile virus, Usutu virus and Sindbis virus in UK sentinel chickens. Virology Journal, 3. 71. https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-3-71

Long, Sara M.; Dawson, Alistair; Shore, Richard F.. 2006 A comparison of the effects of single and repeated exposure to an organophosphate insecticide on acetylcholinesterase activity in mammals. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 25 (7). 1857-1863. https://doi.org/10.1897/05-533R.1

Dawson, A.. 2006 The role of prolactin in the regulation of moult. Journal of Ornithology, 147 Suppl 1. 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-006-0093-1

Publication - Book Section

Dawson, Alistair. 2014 Avian molting. In: Scanes, Colin G., (ed.) Sturkie's avian physiology. 6th ed. Amsterdam, Academic Press, 907-917.

Dawson, Alistair; Visser, Marcel E.. 2010 The effects of temperature on photoperiodic responses: implications for climate change. In: Proceedings of the BOU's 2010 Annual Conference Climate Change and Birds. British Ornithological Union, 3pp.

Dawson, A.. 2009 Photoperiodic Control of the Annual Cycle of Birds at Different Latitudes. In: Morris, S.; Vosloo, A., (eds.) Molecules to migration: The pressures of life. Bologna, Italy, Medimond, 477-486.

Publication - Conference Item

Long, S.; Dawson, A.; Shore, R.. 2006 A comparison of the effects of single and repeated exposure to an organophosphate insecticide on acetylcholinesterase activity in mammals. [Other] In: SETAC 2006, Controversies and Solutions in Environmental Sciences. SETAC Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The Hague, Netherlands, 7-11 May 2006. 54. (Unpublished)