Cristina Ruiz-Castellano
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Martinez-Renau E, Martin-Platero A, Baron M, Garcia-Nunez A, Martinez-Bueno M, Ruiz-Castellano C, et al.
Proc Biol Sci
. 2024 Nov;
291(2035):20241857.
PMID: 39561795
The use of cosmetic substances in communication is widespread in animals. Birds, for instance, use their uropygial secretion as a cosmetic in scenarios of sexual selection and parent-offspring communication. This...
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Martinez-Renau E, Mazorra-Alonso M, Ruiz-Castellano C, Martin-Vivaldi M, Martin-Platero A, Baron M, et al.
Front Microbiol
. 2022 Dec;
13:1010961.
PMID: 36478864
Symbiotic bacteria on animal hosts can prevent pathogenic bacterial infections by several mechanisms. Among them, symbiotic bacteria can indirectly enhance host's immune responses or, directly, produce antimicrobial substances against pathogens....
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Soler J, Martinez-Renau E, Azcarate-Garcia M, Ruiz-Castellano C, Martin J, Martin-Vivaldi M
Behav Ecol
. 2022 May;
33(3):494-503.
PMID: 35592878
Animal coloration results from pigments, nanostructures, or the cosmetic use of natural products, and plays a central role in social communication. The role of cosmetic coloration has traditionally been focused...
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Soler J, Martin-Vivaldi M, Nuhlickova S, Ruiz-Castellano C, Mazorra-Alonso M, Martinez-Renau E, et al.
Zool Res
. 2022 Mar;
43(2):265-274.
PMID: 35238184
Sibling cannibalism is relatively common in nature, but its evolution in birds and certain other vertebrates with extended parental care had been discarded. Here, however, we demonstrate its regular occurrence...
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Ruiz-Castellano C, Ruiz-Rodriguez M, Tomas G, Soler J
FEMS Microbiol Ecol
. 2019 Apr;
95(5).
PMID: 30985888
The use of feathers as nest material has been proposed as a kind of self-medication strategy because antimicrobial-producing microorganisms living on feathers may defend offspring against pathogenic infections. In this...
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Ruiz-Castellano C, Tomas G, Ruiz-Rodriguez M, Martin-Galvez D, Soler J
PLoS One
. 2016 Feb;
11(2):e0148894.
PMID: 26871451
Selective pressures imposed by pathogenic microorganisms to embryos have selected in hosts for a battery of antimicrobial lines of defenses that includes physical and chemical barriers. Due to the antimicrobial...
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Soler J, Ruiz-Rodriguez M, Martin-Vivaldi M, Peralta-Sanchez J, Ruiz-Castellano C, Tomas G
Oecologia
. 2015 Apr;
179(1):63-74.
PMID: 25912895
Exploring factors guiding interactions of bacterial communities with animals has become of primary importance for ecologists and evolutionary biologists during the last years because of their likely central role in...
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Soler M, Ruiz-Castellano C, Carra L, Ontanilla J, Martin-Galvez D
Proc Biol Sci
. 2012 Dec;
280(1752):20122518.
PMID: 23235707
The egg-recognition processes underlying egg rejection are assumed to be based on an imprinting-like process (a female learning the aspect of her own eggs during her first breeding attempt). The...