Category: New papers

In the summer of 2019, the Dantzer Lab has many notable items to celebrate. First, we said goodbye to two valuable members of the Dantzer Lab. Zoë Goodrow finished up and defended her MSc. thesis in Conservation Ecology and Sarah Guindre-Parker (NSERC PDF) accepted a faculty position at Kennesaw State University (congrats Sarah!). Second, we…

I am happy to report the publication of two new pieces of original research from the Dantzer Lab. The first manuscript (here) that just came out in Ecology & Evolution was the result of a fun collaboration with Michael Sheriff (Penn State), John Orrock (Univ Wisconsin, Madison), and Oliver Love (Univ Windsor). The aim of this manuscript…

When a species is introduced to a new area, it often can have detrimental effects on the native ecosystem. The causes of those negative impacts are often unknown. The grey squirrel from North America was introduced to Europe in ~1948 and has had devastating impacts on the native Eurasian red squirrel (pictured above). With our…

The Dantzer Lab believes in openly and quickly sharing results, data, and methods from our research. As a step in this direction, we are now posting all submitted manuscripts to bioArxiv using the CC-BY license. We’ve just started this process with two preprints that are currently available at bioArxiv. The first preprint was authored by former Dantzer…

We just published a new manuscript in Proceedings of the Royal Society B about how elevated stress can suppress the cooperative behavior of wild meerkats. We also show that dominant female meerkats do not elevate the cooperative behavior of the subordinates in their group by beating them up. This work was done in collaboration with Tim…

Ben co-authored a new paper published today in PNAS about the relationship between brain size and problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores. We show that mammalian carnivores with larger brains relative to their body size are better able to solve a novel problem (opening a puzzle box). This was work done in collaboration with Sarah Benson-Amram, Kay…

Happy to be a part of this review paper about oxidative stress and life histories just published in Ecology & Evolution. A really great symposium about this subject produced this review paper.  See the cool graphical abstract below. Link to open access paper here.  

Excited to have been a part of this special issue in Experimental Gerontology about Aging in the Wild: Insights from Free-living and Non-model Organisms. In our contribution, we show that bird species with longer lifespans and a slower “pace-of-life” have telomeres that shorten more slowly as they get older. Read about it here.