Western Sandpipers
Original artwork by
Carlos Batista, age 15,
Chitre, Panama
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Western sandpipers refueling at the
Fraser River Estuary, Vancouver, BC. [photo R.Butler]Dr. Christopher Guglielmo
Animal ecological and evolutionary physiology
Publications Last Six Years
*Klaiman, J.M., E.R. Price and C.G. Guglielmo. Fatty acid composition of pectoralis muscle membrane, intramuscular fat stores and adipose tissue of migrant and wintering white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis). Journal of Experimental Biology (accepted, Aug 27, 2009).
Thomas, R.H., M.A. Bernards, E.E. Drake and C.G. Guglielmo. Changes in the antioxidant activities of seven herbs and spice-based marinating sauces after cooking. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis (accepted, Aug 18, 2009).
Rae, L.F., G.W. Mitchell, R.A. Mauck, C.G. Guglielmo and D.R. Norris. Effects of radio transmitters on the body condition of Savannah Sparrows during the fall pre-migratory period. Journal of Field Ornithology (accepted, Aug 11, 2009).
Price, E.R., J.T. McFarlan and C.G. Guglielmo. Preparing for migration? The effects of photoperiod and exercise on muscle oxidative enzymes, lipid transporters, and phospholipids in white-crowned sparrows. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (accepted, Jun 14, 2009).
McGuire, L.P. and C.G. Guglielmo. What can birds tell us about the migration physiology of bats? Journal of Mammalogy (in press).
McGuire, L.P., M.B. Fenton, P.A. Faure and C.G. Guglielmo. Determining feeding state and rate of mass change in insectivorous bats using plasma metabolite analysis. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (in press).
Price, E.R. and C.G. Guglielmo. 2009. The effect of muscle phospholipid fatty acid composition on exercise performance: a direct test in the migratory white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis). American Journal of Physiology 297:R775-R782.
McGuire, L.P., M.B. Fenton, and C.G. Guglielmo. 2009. Effect of age on energy storage during pre-hibernation swarming in the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 87:515-519.
McFarlan, J.T., A. Bonen, and C.G. Guglielmo. 2009. Seasonal up-regulation of protein mediated fatty acid transport in flight muscles of migratory white-throated sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis). Journal of Experimental Biology 212:2934-2940.
*MacMillan, H.A., C.G. Guglielmo and B.J. Sinclair. 2009. Membrane remodeling and glucose in Drosophila melanogaster: a test of rapid cold hardening and chilling tolerance hypotheses. Journal of Insect Physiology 55:243-249.
Lyons , J.E., J.A. Collazo and C.G. Guglielmo. 2008. Plasma metabolites and migration physiology of semipalmated sandpipers: refueling performance at five latitudes. Oecologia 155:417-427 .
Price, E.R., A. Krokfors* and C.G. Guglielmo. 2008. Selective mobilization of fatty acids from adipose tissue in migratory birds. Journal of Experimental Biology 211:29-34.
Smith, S.B., S.R. McWilliams and C.G. Guglielmo. 2007. Effect of diet composition on plasma metabolite profiles in a migratory songbird. Condor 109:48-58.
Morbey, Y.E. and C.G. Guglielmo. 2006. Evidence of a novel, conditional reproductive strategy in female kokanee Oncorhynchus nerka. Journal of Fish Biology 69:1731-1743.
Cerasale, D.J. and C.G. Guglielmo. 2006. Plasma phospholipid concentration and triglyceride:phospholipid as indicators of fat deposition rate and diet lipid quality in avian migrants. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79:754-762.
Cerasale, D.J. and C.G. Guglielmo. 2006. The effects of diet type and lipid content on the prediction of body mass changes in wild birds from plasma metabolites. Auk 123:836-846.
*Zajac, R.M., D.J. Cerasale and C.G. Guglielmo. 2006. The rapid response of plasma metabolites to changes in feeding rate in a small passerine Wilsonia pusilla. Journal of Avian Biology 37:405-408.
Tsahar, E., Z. Arad, I. Izhaki and C.G. Guglielmo. 2006. Evaluating the function of uric acid as an antioxidant by its oxidative product, allantoin, in exercising white-crowned sparrows. Journal of Comparative Physiology 176:653-661.
Acevedo-Seaman, D.A., C.G. Guglielmo, T.D. Williams and R.W. Elner. 2006. Landscape scale physiology: site differences in refueling rate as indicated by plasma metabolite analysis in free living migratory sandpipers. Auk 123:563-574.
*Darnell, A.E., K.E. Hodges and C.G. Guglielmo. 2005. Urine urea-creatinine ratio to assess nutritional status of mammalian carnivores: a good index for the wrong reason? Wildlife Society Bulletin 33:1392-1397.
Guglielmo, C.G. , D.J. Cerasale and C. Eldermire. 2005. A field validation of plasma metabolite profiling to measure refueling performance of migratory birds. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78:116-125.
Stein, R.W., A.R. Place, T. Lacourse, C.G. Guglielmo and T.D. Williams. 2005. Digestive organ sizes and enzyme activities of refueling western sandpipers (Calidris mauri): contrasting effects of age and season. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78:434-446.
Landys, M.M., T. Piersma, C.G. Guglielmo, J. Jukema, M. Ramenofsky and J.C. Wingfield. 2005. Metabolic profile of long-distance migratory flight and stopover in a shorebird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 272:295-302.
Pierce, B.J., S.R. McWilliams, T. O’Connor, A.R. Place and C.G. Guglielmo. 2005. Effect of dietary fatty acid composition on depot fat and exercise performance in a migrating songbird, the red-eyed vireo. Journal of Experimental Biology 208:1277-1285.
Vaillancourt, E., S. Prud’Homme, F. Haman, C.G. Guglielmo and J-M Weber. 2005. Energetics of a long-distance migrant shorebird (Philomachus pugnax) during cold exposure and running. Journal of Experimental Biology 208:317-325.
Seaman, D.A., C.G. Guglielmo and T.D. Williams. 2005. Effects of physiological state, mass change, and diet on plasma metabolite profiles in the western sandpiper ( Calidris mauri ). Journal of Experimental Biology 208:761-769.
McWilliams, S.R., C. Guglielmo, B. Pierce and M. Klaassen. 2004. Flying, fasting, and feeding in birds during migration: a nutritional and physiological ecology perspective. Journal of Avian Biology 35:377-393.
Landys-Cianelli, M.M., M.Ramenofsky, C.G. Guglielmo and J.C. Wingfield. 2004. The low-affinity glucocorticoid receptor regulates feeding and lipid breakdown in the migratory Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii. Journal of Experimental Biology 207: 143-154.
