List of works by Simon Verhulst

A curvilinear effect of height on reproductive success in human males.

scientific article

A short leucocyte telomere length is associated with development of insulin resistance.

scientific article

A silver spoon for a golden future: long-term effects of natal origin on fitness prospects of oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus).

scientific article published on March 2006

A simple technique to manipulate foraging costs in seed-eating birds.

scientific article published in April 2011

Absolute standards as a useful addition to the avian quantitative PCR telomere assay

scientific article published on 30 October 2012

Addendum to: ‘Reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence in wild birds: an experimental study’

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

An appraisal of how the vitamin A-redox hypothesis can maintain honesty of carotenoid-dependent signals

scientific article

Antioxidant supplementation slows telomere shortening in free-living white stork chicks

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Are high-quality mates always attractive?: State-dependent mate preferences in birds and humans

scientific article

Are human mating preferences with respect to height reflected in actual pairings?

scientific article

Association of Leukocyte Telomere Length With Mortality Among Adult Participants in 3 Longitudinal Studies

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Basal metabolic rate and the rate of senescence in the great tit

scientific article published in 2011

Baseline glucose level is an individual trait that is negatively associated with lifespan and increases due to adverse environmental conditions during development and adulthood

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Bill redness is positively associated with reproduction and survival in male and female zebra finches

scientific article

Biometric sex discrimination is unreliable when sexual dimorphism varies within and between years: an example in Eurasian OystercatchersHaematopus ostralegus

scientific article published in 2009

Birds sacrifice oxidative protection for reproduction.

scientific article

Brood size and immunity costs in zebra finchesTaeniopygia guttata

scientific article published in January 2005

Canalisation in the wild: effects of developmental conditions on physiological traits are inversely linked to their association with fitness

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Canalization of development reduces the utility of traits as fitness biomarkers: feather fault bars in nestling birds

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Carotenoid-dependent signals and the evolution of plasma carotenoid levels in birds.

scientific article

Commentary: The reliability of telomere length measurements

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Context-dependent effects of carotenoid supplementation on reproduction in zebra finches

scientific article published in 2014

Corticosterone levels reflect variation in metabolic rate, independent of 'stress'

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Costs of long-term carrying of extra mass in a songbird

scientific article published in 2016

Coupling lifespan and aging? The age at onset of body mass decline associates positively with sex-specific lifespan but negatively with environment-specific lifespan

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Deterrence of birds with an artificial predator, the RobotFalcon

scientific article published in 2022

Developmental conditions modulate DNA methylation at the glucocorticoid receptor gene with cascading effects on expression and corticosterone levels in zebra finches

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Dietary restriction of rodents decreases aging rate without affecting initial mortality rate -- a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Do leukocyte telomere length dynamics depend on baseline telomere length? An analysis that corrects for 'regression to the mean'.

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

Does high antioxidant capacity indicate low oxidative stress?

scientific article published in 2009

Does oxidative stress shorten telomeres?

scientific article

Early-life telomere length predicts lifespan and lifetime reproductive success in a wild bird

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology.

scientific article

Effects of developmental conditions on glucocorticoid concentrations in adulthood depend on sex and foraging conditions

scientific article

Effects of early developmental conditions on innate immunity are only evident under favourable adult conditions in zebra finches

scientific article published on 12 November 2011

Effects of intake rate on energy expenditure, somatic repair and reproduction of zebra finches

scientific article published in November 2005

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

scientific article published in 2022

Embryonic growth rate affects telomere attrition: an experiment in a wild bird

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Changes of Free-Flying Migrating Northern Bald Ibis

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length in wild birds

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length in wild birds

scientific article published on 18 March 2018

Experimental evidence for a causal effect of pair-bond duration on reproductive performance in oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus)

scientific article published on 22 August 2006

Experimental evidence for interference competition in oystercatchers, Haematopus ostralegus. I. Captive birds

scientific article published in 2010

Experimental evidence for interference competition in oystercatchers, Haematopus ostralegus. II. Free-living birds

scientific article published in 2010

Experimentally increased brood size accelerates actuarial senescence and increases subsequent reproductive effort in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 09 February 2020

Food availability affects adult survival trajectories depending on early developmental conditions.

scientific article

GAPDH as a Control Gene to Estimate Genome Copy Number in Great Tits, with Cross-Amplification in Blue Tits

scientific article published in May 2013

Genetics and Geography of Leukocyte Telomere Length in Sub-Saharan Africans

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Glucocorticoid-temperature association is shaped by foraging costs in individual zebra finches

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Glucose regulation is a repeatable trait affected by successive handling in zebra finches

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Great tits growing old: selective disappearance and the partitioning of senescence to stages within the breeding cycle

scientific article published on 29 April 2009

Heritability of telomere length in the Zebra Finch

High and mighty: height increases authority in professional refereeing

scientific article

Hot and dry conditions predict shorter nestling telomeres in an endangered songbird: Implications for population persistence

scientific article published in 2022

Human height is positively related to interpersonal dominance in dyadic interactions

scientific article

Immune activation suppresses plasma testosterone level: a meta-analysis.

scientific article published in December 2008

Improving comparability between qPCR-based telomere studies

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Increased aggression during human group contests when competitive ability is more similar.

scientific article

Increasing the accuracy and precision of relative telomere length estimates by RT qPCR.

scientific article

Individual variation in metabolic reaction norms over ambient temperature causes low correlation between basal and standard metabolic rate

scientific article

Individual variation in rates of senescence: natal origin effects and disposable soma in a wild bird population.

scientific article published in November 2010

Intralocus sexual conflict over human height

scientific article

Large diurnal temperature range increases bird sensitivity to climate change

scientific article

Leukocyte telomere length dynamics in women and men: menopause vs age effects.

scientific article

Long-term effects of manipulated natal brood size on metabolic rate in zebra finches

scientific article

Male but not female zebra finches with high plasma corticosterone have lower survival

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Maternal effects reduce oxidative stress in female nestlings under high parasite load

article published in 2012

Maternal energy allocation to offspring increases with environmental quality in house mice.

scientific article published in June 2009

Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology

scientific article

Metabolic adjustments to increasing foraging costs of starlings in a closed economy

scientific article published in November 2005

Metabolic ageing in individual zebra finches

scientific article published on February 2009

Method comparison studies of telomere length measurement using qPCR approaches: a critical appraisal of the literature

scientific article published on 4 September 2020

Morph- and sex-specific effects of challenging conditions on maintenance parameters in the Gouldian finch

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Mosaic metabolic ageing: Basal and standard metabolic rate age in opposite directions and independent of environmental quality, sex or lifespan in a passerine

scientific article published on 17 November 2019

Nestling telomere shortening, but not telomere length, reflects developmental stress and predicts survival in wild birds.

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

No sexual differences in embryonic period in jackdawsCorvus monedulaand black-headed gullsLarus ridibundus

scientific article published in January 2006

Non-Dynamic Association of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders With Leukocyte Telomere Length?

scientific article

Optimal foraging on perilous prey: risk of bill damage reduces optimal prey size in oystercatchers

scientific article published on 4 January 2006

Parental height differences predict the need for an emergency caesarean section

scientific article

Personality and basal metabolic rate in a wild bird population

scientific article published in 2013

Phenotypic plasticity of avian social-learning strategies

scientific article published in December 2012

Plasma reactive oxygen metabolites and non-enzymatic antioxidant capacity are not affected by an acute increase of metabolic rate in zebra finches.

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Post-natal exposure to corticosterone affects standard metabolic rate in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).

scientific article

Predicting demographically sustainable rates of adaptation: can great tit breeding time keep pace with climate change?

scientific article

Rearing conditions determine offspring survival independent of egg quality: a cross-foster experiment with Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus

scientific article published on 22 February 2006

Reduced telomere length in offspring of old fathers in a long-lived seabird

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Regression to the mean, apparent data errors, and biologically extraordinary results: Letter regarding 'Changes in telomere length 3-5 years after gastric bypass surgery'.

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence in wild birds: an experimental study

scientific article published in May 2014

Response by Benetos et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Short Leukocyte Telomere Length Precedes Clinical Expression of Atherosclerosis: The Blood-and-Muscle Model".

scientific article published in April 2018

Response to: Reliability and validity of telomere length measurements.

scientific article published on August 2016

Sex difference in leukocyte telomere length is ablated in opposite-sex co-twins.

scientific article

Sex-specific telomere length and dynamics in relation to age and reproductive success in Cory's shearwaters

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Short Leukocyte Telomere Length Precedes Clinical Expression of Atherosclerosis: Blood-and-Muscle Model

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Similar patterns of age-specific reproduction in an island and mainland population of great tits Parus major

Social life histories: jackdaw dominance increases with age, terminally declines and shortens lifespan

scientific article

Stabilizing survival selection on presenescent expression of a sexual ornament followed by a terminal decline.

scientific article published on 08 April 2016

Stochastic modeling of length-dependent telomere shortening in Corvus monedula

scientific article published on 11 May 2011

Strong association between corticosterone levels and temperature-dependent metabolic rate in individual zebra finches

scientific article

Strong but variable associations between social dominance and clutch sex ratio in a colonial corvid

scientific article published on 18 December 2007

Tall claims? Sense and nonsense about the importance of height of US presidents

scientific article published in February 2013

Telomere attrition and growth: a life-history framework and case study in common terns.

scientific article

Telomere length behaves as biomarker of somatic redundancy rather than biological age.

scientific article published on 22 February 2013

Telomere length dynamics in early life: the blood-and-muscle model

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Telomere length is highly heritable and independent of growth rate manipulated by temperature in field crickets

scientific article published on 31 May 2020

Telomere length is repeatable, shortens with age and reproductive success, and predicts remaining lifespan in a long-lived seabird

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Telomere length reflects phenotypic quality and costs of reproduction in a long-lived seabird.

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Telomere length reflects reproductive effort indicated by corticosterone levels in a long-lived seabird

scientific article published in October 2016

Telomere length tracking in children and their parents: implications for adult onset diseases

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Telomere measurement tools: Telometric produces biased estimates of telomere length

scientific article published on 23 March 2011

Telomere shortening and survival in free-living corvids.

scientific article published on 11 June 2009

Telomeres and the natural lifespan limit in humans

scientific article

The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) shows signs of NREM sleep homeostasis but has very little REM sleep and no REM sleep homeostasis

scientific article published on 21 December 2019

The effect of female height on reproductive success is negative in Western populations, but more variable in non-western populations.

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

The forms and fitness cost of senescence: age-specific recapture, survival, reproduction, and reproductive value in a wild bird population.

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

The height of choosiness: mutual mate choice for stature results in suboptimal pair formation for both sexes

scientific article published in July 2013

The heuristic value of redundancy models of aging

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

The influence of the starvation-predation trade-off on the relationship between ambient temperature and body size among endotherms

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

The rate of telomere loss is related to maximum lifespan in birds.

scientific article published in March 2018

The timing of birds' breeding seasons: a review of experiments that manipulated timing of breeding

scientific article published on January 2008

Trade‐off between growth and immune function: a meta‐analysis of selection experiments

article by Peter J. van der Most et al published 15 November 2010 in Functional Ecology

Trans-generational effects on ageing in a wild bird population

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

Ultralong telomeres shorten with age in nestling great tits but are static in adults and mask attrition of short telomeres

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Urban blackbirds have shorter telomeres

scientific article published in March 2018

Western scrub-jays conceal auditory information when competitors can hear but cannot see

scientific article

What can long-lived mutants tell us about mechanisms causing aging and lifespan variation in natural environments?

scientific article published on 08 September 2015

What does carotenoid-dependent coloration tell? Plasma carotenoid level signals immunocompetence and oxidative stress state in birds-A meta-analysis.

scientific article

Why fight? Socially dominant jackdaws, Corvus monedula, have low fitness

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Within the genome, long telomeres are more informative than short telomeres with respect to fitness components in a long-lived seabird.

scientific article

Zebra finch females prefer males with redder bills independent of song rate—a meta-analysis

article by Mirre J. P. Simons & Simon Verhulst published 2011 in Behavioral Ecology

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