MHC diversity, migration and pathogens: effects of host-pathogen interactions on fitness traits in greater flamingos across the Mediterranean basin and west Africa.

• Applicant: Privatdozent Mark Gillingham, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
• Term: from 2015 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 270925578

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• (2016). A global analysis of parenchyma tissue fractions in secondary xylem of seed plants. New Phytologist, 209(4), 1553–1565
  Morris, H., Plavcová, L., Cvecko, P., Fichtler, E., Gillingham, M. A. F., Martínez-Cabrera, H. I., … Jansen, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13737)
• (2016). Evidence of gene orthology and trans-species polymorphism, but not of parallel evolution, despite high levels of concerted evolution in the major histocompatibility complex of flamingo species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29(2), 438–454
  Gillingham, M. A. F., Courtiol, A., Teixeira, M., Galan, M., Bechet, A., & Cezilly, F.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12798)
• (2017). A farewell to the sum of Akaike weights: The benefits of alternative metrics for variable importance estimations in model selection. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(12), 1668–1678
  Galipaud, M., Gillingham, M. A. F., & Dechaume-Moncharmont, F.-X.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12835)
• (2017). Assessing environmental pollution in birds: a new methodological approach for interpreting bioaccumulation of trace elements in feather shafts using geochemical sediment data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(1), 96–108
  Borghesi, F., Dinelli, E., Migani, F., Béchet, A., Rendón-Martos, M., Amat, J. A., … Gillingham, M. A. F.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12644)
• (2017). Home-made cost effective preservation buffer is a better alternative to commercial preservation methods for microbiome research. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8
  Menke, S., Gillingham, M. A. F., Wilhelm, K., & Sommer, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00102)
• (2017). Very high MHC Class IIB diversity without spatial differentiation in the Mediterranean population of greater Flamingos. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17, 56
  Gillingham, M. A. F., Béchet, A., Courtiol, A., Rendón-Martos, M., Amat, J. A., Samraoui, B., … Cézilly, F.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-0905-3)
• (2018). Vessel diameter is related to amount and spatial arrangement of axial parenchyma in woody angiosperms. Plant, Cell & Environment, 41(1), 245–260
  Morris, H., Gillingham, M. A. F., Plavcová, L., Gleason, S. M., Olson, M. E., Coomes, D. A., … Jansen, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13091)
• (2019). A novel workflow to improve multi-locus genotyping of wildlife species: an experimental set-up with a known model system
  Gillingham, M. A. F., Montero, B. K., Wilhelm, K., Grudzus, K., Sommer, S., & Santos, P. S. C.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1101/638288)
• (2019). Offspring Microbiomes Differ Across Breeding Sites in a Panmictic Species. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10
  Gillingham, M. A. F., Béchet, A., Cézilly, F., Wilhelm, K., Rendón-Martos, M., Borghesi, F., … Sommer, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00035)