Terry Burke

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University of Sheffield

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Professor Terry Burke is a faculty member at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. His research interests encompass evolutionary biology and ecology, particularly focusing on the effects of early-life environments, genetic variation in wild populations, and animal behavior. Recent works include studies on fitness effects in bird populations, the role of environmental DNA in biodiversity, and the spatial variation of gut microbiome communities.

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Transgenerational effects of parental age on fitness.

Open Date: 2013-01-01

Close Date: 2016-06-29

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Transgenerational effects of parental age on fitness.

Open Date: 2013-01-01

Close Date: 2016-06-29

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The danger within: assessing the threats to an endangered finch from genetic incompatibility, limited dispersal and effective population size

Open Date: 2013-01-01

Close Date: 2015-01-01

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Finding genes that determine variation in sperm morphology and motility

Open Date: 2012-01-09

Close Date: 2015-01-08

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Integrating genetics into conservation

Open Date: 2010-04-30

Close Date: 2013-10-31

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Franz J. Weissing

Professor of Theoretical Biology

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Lewis G. Spurgin

UNITED KINGDOM

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Lucy Winder

University of Exeter

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Helen Hipperson

University of Sheffield

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Kate Durrant

Associate Professor

University of Nottingham

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Kathryn Arnold

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David Macdonald

Professor of Wildlife Conservation

University of Oxford

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Amanda Bretman

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University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences

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David F. Westneat

UNITED STATES

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Chuen Zhang Lee

University of East Anglia

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David S. Richardson

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Hannah L. Dugdale

University of Groningen

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No evidence for a trade-off between reproduction and survival in a meta-analysis across birds

No evidence for a trade-off between reproduction and survival in a meta-analysis across birds

Long-term fitness effects of the early-life environment in a wild bird population

Measuring selection on reaction norms: Lack’s principle and plasticity in clutch size

A path analysis disentangling determinants of natal dispersal in a cooperatively breeding bird

Heritability and age-dependent changes in genetic variation of telomere length in a wild house sparrow population

YOLO‐Behaviour: A simple, flexible framework to automatically quantify animal behaviours from videos

Environmental DNA is more effective than hand sorting in evaluating earthworm biodiversity recovery under regenerative agriculture

Gut microbiome communities demonstrate fine-scale spatial variation in a closed, island bird population

Longitudinal gut microbiome dynamics in relation to age and senescence in a wild animal population

The impact of helping experience on helper life-history and fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird

Adult telomere length is positively correlated with survival and lifetime reproductive success in a wild passerine

Revealing the Demographic History of the European Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)

Testing the environmental buffering hypothesis of cooperative breeding in the Seychelles warbler

Early‐life seasonal, weather and social effects on telomere length in a wild mammal

Sex-dependent effects of parental age on offspring fitness in a cooperatively breeding bird

Causes and consequences of telomere lengthening in a wild vertebrate population

Telomere heritability and parental age at conception effects in a wild avian population

Effects of long-term ethanol storage of blood samples on the estimation of telomere length

Early‐life conditions impact juvenile telomere length, but do not predict later life‐history strategies or fitness in a wild vertebrate

Evaluation of variant calling algorithms for wastewater-based epidemiology using mixed populations of SARS-CoV-2 variants in synthetic and wastewater samples

Evidence of Paternal Effects on Telomere Length Increases in Early Life

The contribution of extra‐pair paternity to the variation in lifetime and age‐specific male reproductive success in a socially monogamous species

Collaborators (12)

Franz J. Weissing

Lewis G. Spurgin

Lucy Winder

Helen Hipperson

Kate Durrant

Kathryn Arnold

David Macdonald

Amanda Bretman

David F. Westneat

Chuen Zhang Lee

David S. Richardson

Hannah L. Dugdale

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