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List of works by Irene Tieleman

Are antimicrobial defences in bird eggs related to climatic conditions associated with risk of trans-shell microbial infection?

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Capture stress and the bactericidal competence of blood and plasma in five species of tropical birds

scientific article published on 4 April 2006

Causes and Consequences of Partial Migration in a Passerine Bird.

scientific article

Cloacal microbiota are biogeographically structured in larks from desert, tropical and temperate areas

scientific article published in 2023

Constitutive immune function responds more slowly to handling stress than corticosterone in a shorebird

scientific article published in September 2008

Constitutive innate immunity is a component of the pace-of-life syndrome in tropical birds

scientific article published in August 2005

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

Cutaneous and respiratory water loss in larks from arid and mesic environments

scientific article published on November 2002

Differences in the physiological responses to temperature among stonechats from three populations reared in a common environment

scientific article published on 13 October 2006

Does growth rate determine the rate of metabolism in shorebird chicks living in the Arctic?

scientific article published on 13 July 2007

Dynamics of bacterial and fungal communities associated with eggshells during incubation

scientific article published on 08 March 2014

Ecological and evolutionary physiology of desert birds: a progress report

scientific article published on February 1, 2002

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

Genetic modulation of energy metabolism in birds through mitochondrial function

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

Geographical and temporal variation in environmental conditions affects nestling growth but not immune function in a year-round breeding equatorial lark.

scientific article

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

High and low, fast or slow: the complementary contributions of altitude and latitude to understand life-history variation

scientific article published in March 2009

How do migratory species stay healthy over the annual cycle? A conceptual model for immune function and for resistance to disease

scientific article published on 21 May 2010

Immune function differs among tropical environments but is not downregulated during reproduction in three year-round breeding equatorial lark populations

scientific article published in November 2021

Immune function in a free-living bird varies over the annual cycle, but seasonal patterns differ between years

scientific article

Immune indexes of larks from desert and temperate regions show weak associations with life history but stronger links to environmental variation in microbial abundance

scientific article published on 31 July 2012

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

Intense flight and endotoxin injection elicit similar effects on leukocyte distributions but dissimilar effects on plasma-based immunological indices in pigeons

scientific article published on 18 July 2012

Island life shapes the physiology and life history of eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis).

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

Limited access to food and physiological trade-offs in a long-distance migrant shorebird. II. Constitutive immune function and the acute-phase response.

scientific article published in September 2009

Lipid composition of the stratum corneum and cutaneous water loss in birds along an aridity gradient.

scientific article

Lipids of the stratum corneum vary with cutaneous water loss among larks along a temperature-moisture gradient

scientific article published on November 2003

Lizard Burrows Provide Thermal Refugia for Larks in the Arabian Desert

scholarly article published in The Condor in August 1999

Multi-level comparisons of cloacal, skin, feather and nest-associated microbiota suggest considerable influence of horizontal acquisition on the microbiota assembly of sympatric woodlarks and skylarks.

scientific article

NEST SITE SELECTION IN A HOT DESERT: TRADE-OFF BETWEEN MICROCLIMATE AND PREDATION RISK?

scholarly article published in The Condor in February 2008

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

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

No evidence for melatonin-linked immunoenhancement over the annual cycle of an avian species

scientific article published on 21 February 2009

Offspring pay sooner, parents pay later: experimental manipulation of body mass reveals trade-offs between immune function, reproduction and survival.

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

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

Pathogen pressure puts immune defense into perspective

scientific article published on 20 June 2011

Phenotypic flexibility in cutaneous water loss and lipids of the stratum corneum

scientific article published on October 2003

Physiological adjustments to arid and mesic environments in larks (Alaudidae).

scientific article published on May 2002

Physiological responses of Houbara bustards to high ambient temperatures

scientific article published on February 2002

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 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

Seasonal redistribution of immune function in a migrant shorebird: annual-cycle effects override adjustments to thermal regime

scientific article published on December 2008

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

scientific article

Sources of variation in innate immunity in great tit nestlings living along a metal pollution gradient: an individual-based approach

scientific article published on 6 December 2014

Understanding immune function as a pace of life trait requires environmental context.

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

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