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Zárybnická M, Riegert J, Brejšková L, Šindelář J, Kouba M, Hanel J, Popelková A, Menclová P, Tomášek V, Šťastný K. Factors Affecting Growth of Tengmalm's Owl (Aegolius funereus) Nestlings: Prey Abundance, Sex and Hatching Order. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0138177. [PMID: 26444564 PMCID: PMC4596578 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In altricial birds, energy supply during growth is a major predictor of the physical condition and survival prospects of fledglings. A number of experimental studies have shown that nestling body mass and wing length can vary with particular extrinsic factors, but between-year observational data on this topic are scarce. Based on a seven-year observational study in a central European Tengmalm's owl population we examine the effect of year, brood size, hatching order, and sex on nestling body mass and wing length, as well as the effect of prey abundance on parameters of growth curve. We found that nestling body mass varied among years, and parameters of growth curve, i.e. growth rate and inflection point in particular, increased with increasing abundance of the owl's main prey (Apodemus mice, Microtus voles), and pooled prey abundance (Apodemus mice, Microtus voles, and Sorex shrews). Furthermore, nestling body mass varied with hatching order and between sexes being larger for females and for the first-hatched brood mates. Brood size had no effect on nestling body mass. Simultaneously, we found no effect of year, brood size, hatching order, or sex on the wing length of nestlings. Our findings suggest that in this temperate owl population, nestling body mass is more sensitive to prey abundance than is wing length. The latter is probably more limited by the physiology of the species.
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Affiliation(s)
- Markéta Zárybnická
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Hanel J, Doležalová J, Stehlíková Š, Modrý D, Chudoba J, Synek P, Votýpka J. Blood parasites in northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) with an emphasis to Leucocytozoon toddi. Parasitol Res 2015; 115:263-70. [PMID: 26365666 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-015-4743-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2015] [Accepted: 09/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Haemosporidians and trypanosomes of the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) population in the Czech Republic were studied by morphological and molecular methods. Despite the wide distribution of these medium-large birds of prey, virtually nothing is known about their blood parasites. During a 5-year period, altogether 88 nestlings and 15 adults were screened for haemosporidians and trypanosomes by microscopic examination of blood smears and by nested PCR. Both methods revealed consistently higher prevalence of blood protists in adults, Leucocytozoon (80.0 % in adults vs. 13.6 % in nestlings), Haemoproteus (60.0 vs. 2.3 %), Plasmodium (6.7 vs. 0 %), and Trypanosoma (60.0 vs. 2.3 %). Altogether, five haemosporidian lineages were detected by cytochrome b sequencing. Two broadly distributed and host nonspecific lineages, Plasmodium (TURDUS1) and Leucocytozoon (BT2), were detected only sporadically, while three newly described northern goshawk host-specific Leucocytozoon lineages (ACGE01-03) represent the absolute majority of the haemosporidians identified by molecular methods. Our findings support evidences that in falconiform birds the Leucocytozoon toddi group is formed by several host-specific clusters, with Leucocytozoon buteonis in buzzards and Leucocytozoon mathisi in hawks. Between-year comparisons revealed that the infection status of adults remained predominantly unchanged and individuals stayed uninfected or possessed the same parasite lineages; however, two gains and one loss of blood parasite taxa were also recorded.
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- Jan Hanel
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physiology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physiology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Central European Institute of Technology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of New Technologies and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Mechatronics and Interdisciplinary Engineering Studies, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, Prague, CZ 128 44, Czech Republic.
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Sokolova T, Hanel J, Onyenwoke RU, Reysenbach AL, Banta A, Geyer R, González JM, Whitman WB, Wiegel J. Novel chemolithotrophic, thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria Thermolithobacter ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thermolithobacter carboxydivorans sp. nov. Extremophiles 2006; 11:145-57. [PMID: 17021657 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-006-0022-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2006] [Accepted: 07/17/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Three thermophilic strains of chemolithoautotrophic Fe(III)-reducers were isolated from mixed sediment and water samples (JW/KA-1 and JW/KA-2(T): Calcite Spring, Yellowstone N.P., WY, USA; JW/JH-Fiji-2: Savusavu, Vanu Levu, Fiji). All were Gram stain positive rods (approximately 0.5 x 1.8 microm). Cells occurred singly or in V-shaped pairs, and they formed long chains in complex media. All utilized H(2) to reduce amorphous iron (III) oxide/hydroxide to magnetite at temperatures from 50 to 75 degrees C (opt. approximately 73 degrees C). Growth occurred within the pH(60C) range of 6.5-8.5 (opt. pH(60C) 7.1-7.3). Magnetite production by resting cells occurred at pH(60C) 5.5-10.3 (opt. 7.3). The iron (III) reduction rate was 1.3 mumol Fe(II) produced x h(-1) x ml(-1) in a culture with 3 x 10(7) cells, one of the highest rates reported. In the presence or absence of H(2), JW/KA-2(T) did not utilize CO. The G + C content of the genomic DNA of the type strain is 52.7 +/- 0.3 mol%. Strains JW/KA-1 and JW/KA-2(T) each contain two different 16S rRNA gene sequences. The 16S rRNA gene sequences from JW/KA-1, JW/KA-2(T), or JW/JH-Fiji-2 possessed >99% similarity to each other but also 99% similarity to the 16S rRNA gene sequence from the anaerobic, thermophilic, hydrogenogenic CO-oxidizing bacterium 'Carboxydothermus restrictus' R1. DNA-DNA hybridization between strain JW/KA-2(T) and strain R1(T) yielded 35% similarity. Physiological characteristics and the 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that the strains represent two novel species and are placed into the novel genus Thermolithobacter within the phylum 'Firmicutes'. In addition, the levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between the lineage containing the Thermolithobacter and well-established members of the three existing classes of the 'Firmicutes' is less than 85%. Therefore, Thermolithobacter is proposed to constitute the first genus within a novel class of the 'Firmicutes', Thermolithobacteria. The Fe(III)-reducing Thermolithobacter ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov. is designated as the type species with strain JW/KA-2(T) (ATCC 700985(T), DSM 13639(T)) as its type strain. Strain R1(T) is the type strain for the hydrogenogenic, CO-oxidizing Thermolithobacter carboxydivorans sp. nov. (DSM 7242(T), VKM 2359(T)).
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MESH Headings
- Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology
- Bacteria, Anaerobic/classification
- Bacteria, Anaerobic/drug effects
- Bacteria, Anaerobic/genetics
- Bacteria, Anaerobic/growth & development
- Bacteria, Anaerobic/isolation & purification
- Bacteria, Anaerobic/metabolism
- Base Composition
- Carbon Monoxide/metabolism
- Chemoautotrophic Growth
- DNA, Bacterial/analysis
- Drug Resistance
- Ferric Compounds/metabolism
- Ferrosoferric Oxide/metabolism
- Geologic Sediments/microbiology
- Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods/classification
- Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods/drug effects
- Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods/genetics
- Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods/growth & development
- Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods/isolation & purification
- Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods/metabolism
- Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
- Lipids/analysis
- Oxidation-Reduction
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Temperature
- Water Microbiology
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Affiliation(s)
- T Sokolova
- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7/2, 117312, Moscow, Russia
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Hanel J. Einfluss filmischer Gewalt auf das kindliche Verhalten. Gesundheitswesen 2004. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-825177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hanel J. [School children and loud music. On the significance of technically enhanced music on the life style of students]. Schriftenr Ver Wasser Boden Lufthyg 1997; 99:1-149. [PMID: 9312827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- J Hanel
- Schriftenreihe des Vereins für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene
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Ising H, Babisch W, Hanel J, Kruppa B, Pilgramm M. [Empirical studies of music listening habits of adolescents. Optimizing sound threshold limits for cassette players and discoteques]. HNO 1995; 43:244-9. [PMID: 7790236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The music habits of 569 pre-teens and teenagers, between 10 and 17 years of age, were examined and exposure to music from portable music players was compared to that in discotheques. Using a questionnaire we determined the length of time spent listening to portable music players and the frequency of disco visits. The individual level of the music heard through portable music players was measured as a free-field corrected short term mean level. The total music exposure (related to 40 hours per week) was calculated from the data and different assumed disco sound levels. We estimated the risk of ear damage according to ISO 1999 standards on the basis of the total music exposure, whereby the mean disco level was varied as a parameter in the range of 95 to 110 dB(A). Taking only the portable music players into account, one can expect that even after 5 years of music, approximately 5% of the total group would have a hearing loss of 20 dB. This percentage clearly rises when additional exposure is given in discotheques having music levels above 100 dB(A). We suggest therefore that for safety reasons the following sound levels should be observed: 90 dB(A) for portable music players and 95 dB(A) for discos. Through adherence to these levels we would expect that 1% of the young people in our study would have a hearing loss > 10 dB, whereas momentary exposure would result in a hearing loss > 10 dB of 10-20%. Therefore we believe that sound level limitations should be enacted immediately for portable music players and in discotheques.
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- H Ising
- Umweltbundesamt, Institut für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene, Berlin
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Ising H, Hanel J, Pilgramm M, Babisch W, Lindthammer A. [Risk of hearing loss caused by listening to music with head phones]. HNO 1994; 42:764-8. [PMID: 7844012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Sound levels of music played from mini-cassette players via headphones were measured in a nonrepresentative group of 681 pupils whose ages were between 10 to 19 years. Each pupil completed a questionnaire giving the total time spent listening to music each day. The pupils set the music levels (free field corrected short time Leq) between 60 dB(A) and 110 dB(A). In the age group from 12-16 years, 10% chose 110 dB(A). Nearly 50% of the total group usually listened to music less than one hour per day, and just less than 10% listened for four or more hours. The energy equivalent of continuous sound pressure level for an exposure time of 8 h per day was for 55% Leq 8 h < 66 dB(A) and for 7% Leq 8 h > 95 dB(A) while 4% had an Leq 8 h > 105 dB(A). Estimation of the expected hearing losses (HL) were based on ISO 1999: about 10% of the total group were predicted to have a HL > 10 dB at 4 kHz after 5 years. After listening to sound in this manner 0.3% were expected to develop hearing losses at age 25 years that would be severe enough to substantially impair speech intelligibility.
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- H Ising
- Umweltbundesamt, Institut für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene, Berlin
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