Individual signatures

We have recently become interested in how animals signal their individuality, whether conspecifics know that, and how this is signalled and expressed. We study this with several methods in two systems – in manx shearwaters, and in house sparrows.

Sun Y, Dunning J, Zollinger SA, Schroeder J. Manx Shearwater calling into a burrow. 2022. British Birds. 115. https://britishbirds.co.uk/node/22774

Chan AHH, Liu JQ, Burke T, Pearse W, Schroeder J. Machine learning pipeline extracts biologically significant data automatically from avian monitoring videos. EcoEvoRxiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/zdeqm

Valdebenito J O, Marínez-de la Puentee J, Castro M, Pérez-Hurtado A, Tejera G, Székely T, Halimubieke N, Schroeder J, Figuerola J. (2020) Association of insularity with cloacal bacteria prevalence in a small shorebird. PLOS One. 15(8) 30237369. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237369

Vargas-Pellicer P, Watrobska C, Knowles S, Schroeder J, Banks-Leite C (2019) Towards cost-effective storage methods for avian faecal microbiota. Journal for Microbiological Methods, 105689 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105689

Matsushima W, Brink K, Schroeder J, Miska E, Gapp K (2019) Mature sperm small RNA profile in the sparrow: implications for transgenerational effects of age on fitness. Environmental Epigenetics, 5, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/eep/dvz007

Sun, Y, Dunning J, Zollinger SA, Schroeder J. Calls of Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus contain individual signatures.