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Does a negative feedback mechanism occur in an interaction between animal personality and its parasite load?

2016/21/N/NZ8/01059

Keywords:

animal personality exploration aggressiveness parasites feedback loop

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_2: Ecology
  • NZ8_12: Zoology
  • NZ8_3: Animal behaviour

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Biologii

woj. wielkopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Milena Zduniak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 11 - announced on 2016-03-15

Amount awarded: 125 751 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-10-02

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-10-01

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Lornetka Delta Chase 8x40 (1 189 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  1. From trees to fleas: masting indirectly affects flea abundance on arodent host
    Authors:
    Ivan BALÁŽ, Michał BOGDZIEWICZ, Sylwia DZIEMIAN-ZWOLAK, Carlotta LO PRESTI, Aleksandra WRÓBEL, Milena ZDUNIAK and Rafał ZWOLAK
    Academic press:
    Integrative Zoology (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: International Society of Zoological Sciences, Institute of Zoology/Chinese Academy of Sciences and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/1749-4877.12671 - link to the publication
  2. Parasitized but undeterred: how mice disperse seeds while coping with ectoparasites
    Authors:
    Aleksandra Wróbel, Milena Zduniak, Paulina Celebias, Rafał Zwolak
    Academic press:
    Animal Behaviour , Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Submitted
  3. Host body mass, not sex, affects ectoparasite loads in yellow-necked mouse Apodemus flavicollis
    Authors:
    Milena Zduniak, Sarah Serafini, Aleksandra Wróbel & Rafał Zwolak
    Academic press:
    Parasitology Research (rok: 2023, tom: 122, strony: 2599–2607), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s00436-023-07958-5 - link to the publication
  4. Behavior, body mass, and sex: how intraspecific variation influences seed dispersal by a scatterhoarding rodent
    Authors:
    Paulina Celebias, Aleksandra Wróbel, Milena Zduniak, Michael Steele, Michał Bogdziewicz, Rafał Zwolak
    Academic press:
    Functional Ecology , Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Submitted