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List of works by Maaike A. Versteegh

Annual cycles of metabolic rate are genetically determined but can be shifted by phenotypic flexibility

scientific article published on July 5, 2012

Baseline haptoglobin concentrations are repeatable and predictive of certain aspects of a subsequent experimentally-induced inflammatory response

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Constitutive innate immunity of tropical House Wrens varies with season and reproductive activity

scholarly article

Costs of reproduction and migration are paid in later return to the colony, not in physical condition, in a long-lived seabird

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Do immunological, endocrine and metabolic traits fall on a single Pace‐of‐Life axis? Covariation and constraints among physiological systems

scientific article published on July 23, 2012

Effects of immune supplementation and immune challenge on bacterial assemblages in the avian cloaca

Effects of immune supplementation and immune challenge on oxidative status and physiology in a model bird: implications for ecologists

scientific article published in October 2010

Effects of manipulated food availability and seasonality on innate immune function in a passerine

scientific article published in 2022

Fewer invited talks by women in evolutionary biology symposia.

scientific article

Genetic modulation of energy metabolism in birds through mitochondrial function

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Gut microbiota of homing pigeons shows summer-winter variation under constant diet indicating a substantial effect of temperature

Immune response to an endotoxin challenge involves multiple immune parameters and is consistent among the annual-cycle stages of a free-living temperate zone bird.

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Immunological changes in nestlings growing under predation risk

scientific article published in 2020

Nest predation risk modifies nestlings' immune function depending on the level of threat

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

No evidence for parasitism-linked changes in immune function or oxidative physiology over the annual cycle of an avian species.

scientific article published on 15 August 2014

One Problem, Many Solutions: Simple Statistical Approaches Help Unravel the Complexity of the Immune System in an Ecological Context

scientific article published on April 19, 2011

Parental Care System and Brood Size Drive Sex Difference in Reproductive Allocation: An Experimental Study on Burying Beetles

scientific article published in 2021

Repeatability and individual correlates of basal metabolic rate and total evaporative water loss in birds: a case study in European stonechats

scientific article published on 17 May 2008

Repeatability and individual correlates of microbicidal capacity of bird blood

scientific article published in May 2010

Seasonal Patterns and Relationships among Coccidian Infestations, Measures of Oxidative Physiology, and Immune Function in Free-Living House Sparrows over an Annual Cycle.

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Seasonal differences in baseline innate immune function are better explained by environment than annual cycle stage in a year-round breeding tropical songbird

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Shifts in bacterial communities of eggshells and antimicrobial activities in eggs during incubation in a ground-nesting passerine

scientific article

Wild skylarks seasonally modulate energy budgets but maintain energetically costly inflammatory immune responses throughout the annual cycle

scientific article

Year-round breeding equatorial Larks from three climatically-distinct populations do not use rainfall, temperature or invertebrate biomass to time reproduction

scientific article