Conferences

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2021

17è CNFRA Scientific Days. Paris, France

• Coping with social stress and adaptive phenotype programming in king penguins (Lemonnier, Schull, Stier, Boonstra, Delahanty, Lefol, Durand, Robin, Criscuolo, Bize & Viblanc)

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2019

10th International Penguin Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand

• Social signaling of individual quality in wild king penguins: an experimental test of auricular feather patches as "badges of status" (Hammer, Viblanc Stier, Michaux, Neighbor, Robin, Bize, Schull)

• A bridge between generations: positive effects of parental telomere length on offspring phenotype and survival in king penguins ( Criscuolo, Schull, Stier, Durand, Lefol, Robin, Zahn, Bize, Viblanc )

• Linking ornamentation to mitochondrial function in breeding king penfuins ( Schull, Stier, Roussel, Romestaing, Robin, Viblanc, Bize)

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15th CNFRA Scientific Days. Strasbourg, France

• Muscle metabolism and growth in king penguin chicks ( Robin, Voisin, Leplat, Verdier, Barbe, Boel, Roussel)

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4th Colloquium on Animal Ecophysiology. Rennes, France

• Genetic and environmental effects of parental telomeres on the establishment of the juvenile phenotype in the king penguin ( Viblanc, Schull, Stier, Lefol, Durand, Lefol, Robin, Zahn, Bize, Criscuolo )

• Naturally equipped to deal with stress? Modulation of mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in king penguins in response to stress ( Stier, Schull, Bize, Lefol, Haussmann, Roussel, Robin, Viblanc)

• Energy challenge of growth, fasting and marine life in king penguin ( Roussel, Robin )

• Muscle metabolism of the pelvic and pectoral girdles in young king penguin chicks (Aptenodytes patagonicus) ( Robin, Voisin, Leplat, Verdier, Barbe, Boël, Roussel )

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2018

14th CNFRA Scientific Days. Paris, France

• The stress response in king penguin: from humoral to mitochondrial levels ( Stier, Schull, Lefol, Cornioley, Ménard, Haussmann, Groscolas, Roussel, Bize, Viblanc, Robin )

• Threatened life: stress responses to real-time predator encounters and risk-assessment in king penguin chicks ( Viblanc, Marty, Périé, Saraux, Robin, Kauffmann, Célérier, Groscolas)

• Measuring mitochondrial function in birds using red blood cells: a case study in the king penguin and perspectives in ecology and evolution ( Stier, Romestaing, Schull, Lefol, Robin, Roussel, Bize )

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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting. San Fransisco, USA

• Measuring mitochondrial function in birds using red blood cells: a case study in the king penguin and perspectives in ecology and evolution ( Stier, Romestaing, Schull, Lefol, Robin, Roussel, Bize )

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2017

13th CNFRA Scientific Days. Paris, France

• Sexual selection, social selection and individual quality in the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) ( Schull, Viblanc, Dobson, Stier, Criscuolo, Robin, Bize)

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11th European Ornithologists' Union Congress. Turku, Finland.

• How to measure mitochondrial function in birds using red blood cells: a case study in the king penguin and perspectives in ecology and evolution. ( Stier, Romestaing, Schull, Lefol, Robin, Roussel, Bize)

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2016

9th International Penguin Conference. Cape Town, South Africa

• Parental ornamental colors predict offspring early life growth and parental care in king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) (Schull, Viblanc, Durand, Lefol, Bize, Robin)

• Mutual mate choice for partners with long telomeres and fitness consequences in king penguins ( Schull, Bize, Dobson, Robin, Zahn, Criscuolo, Viblanc )

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12th CNFRA Scientific Days, Lyon, France

• Telomere length as a proxy of individual quality in the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) ( Schull, Viblanc, Dobson, Zahn, Robin, Bize, Criscuolo)

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Interdisciplinary conference "Les Frontières", Strasbourg, France

• Metabolic, Behavioral and Geographic Boundaries: Relationships with Survival and Reproductive Success ( Robin)

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2015

2nd World Seabird Conference. Cape Town, South Africa

• Quantifying seabird disturbance in the wild: physiological and behavioral measures in breeding king penguins ( invited ) ( Viblanc, Saraux, Smith, Gineste, Robin, Groscolas R )

• Experimental and correlative evidence for condition-dependent sexual signals in breeding king penguin ( Schull, Dobson, Stier, Lefol, Saadaoui, Robin, Bize, Viblanc )

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1st Congress of Physiology and Integrative Biology & 84th Congress of the French Physiological Society. Strasbourg, france

• How do adults and chicks of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) face nutritional constraints while breeding or growing? ( Stier, Viblanc, de Margerie, Zahn, Handrich, de Buffrénil, Erbrech, Guérin, Martrette, Groscolas, Criscuolo, Bize, Robin )

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11th CNFRA Scientific Days, Paris, France

• Sexual selection and individual quality in the king penguin ( Schull, Viblanc, Dobson, Stier, Criscuolo, Lefol, Saadaoui, Bize, Robin )

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2nd Colloquium on Animal Ecophysiology, La Rochelle, France

• Prolonged fasting: how king penguins cope with physiological oxidative stress ( Schull, Stier, Criscuolo, Viblanc, Bize, Robin)

• Influence of the nutritional state at the start of the colony on the efficiency of the food trip at sea after a prolonged fast in king penguins ( Gamble, Lefol, Schull, Stier, Grellet, Handrich, Robin )

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10th Conference of the European Ornithological Union, Badajoz, Spain

• Advertising quality: condition-dependent signals in a monomorphic seabird, the king penguin ( invited ) ( Viblanc, Schull, Dobson, Bize, Robin )

• Sexual selection and individual quality: do parental color ornaments predict chick growth in monogamous king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus? ( Schull, Viblanc, Stier, Durand, Lefol, Bize, Robin )

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9th International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Krakow, Poland

• Thermogenesis, fasting and oxidative stress: new insights from model and non-model animals ( Stier, Schull, Viblanc, Roussel, Robin, Bize, Criscuolo)

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11th Ecology and Behavior Meeting, Toulouse, France

• A flexible sexual ornament in a monomorphic bird, the king penguin: how to choose someone fit? ( Schull, Dobson, Stier, Criscuolo, Lefol, Saadaoui, Viblanc, Robin, Bize)

• Sexual selection and individual quality: condition-dependent signals in a monomorphic seabird, the king penguin ( Schull, Dobson, Stier, Criscuolo, Lefol, Saadaoui, Robin, Bize, Viblanc)

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11th GERLI Lipidomics Meeting, Bischenberg, France

• How refeeding is triggered before lipids are totally depleted in spontaneously fasting animals ( Le Maho, Bertile, Robin )

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2014

10th CNFRA Scientific Days. Rennes, France

• Phenotypic plasticity in the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) chicks and adults: effect of reproductive constraints ( Robin, Viblanc, Stier, Gineste, Reichert, Schull, Kauffmann, Pardonnet, Durand, Lefol, Massemin, Criscuolo, Dobson, Handrich, Bize )

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26th International Ornithological Congress. Tokyo, Japan

• Reproduction in the king penguin: constraints imposed by colonial breeding and a long chick-raising period ( Viblanc, Stier, Reichert, Handrich, Massemin, Criscuolo, Bize, Robin )

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2013

8th International Penguin Conference. Bristol, UK

• Are both sexes sexy? Individual quality in monomorphic king penguins ( Viblanc, Stier, Criscuolo, Bovet, Cattin, Pardonnet, Gineste, Handrich, Kauffmann, Massemin, Raclot, Robin, Dobson, Bize )

• Effects of tick infestation on the physiology, behavior and reproduction of king penguins ( Bize, Viblanc, Stier, Pardonnet, Gineste, Kauffmann, Massemin, Handrich, Raclot, Criscuolo, Robin )

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19th Meeting of PhD students in Evolutionary Biology, European Society of Evolutionary Biology. Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

• Telomere length inheritance in the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) ( Reichert, Rojas, Zahn, Robin, Criscuolo, Massemin )

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2012

37th Annual Meeting of the Quebec Society for the biological study of behavior. Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Heart rate and behavioral response of free-living king penguins to acute stressors ( Smith, Viblanc, Kauffmann, Gineste, Groscolas )

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8th Ecology and Behavior Meeting. Chizé, France

• Testing the "Brood-value Hypothesis" in long-lived seabirds: modulation of the heart rate, hormonal and metabolic response to various stressors ( Viblanc, Smith, Gineste, Kauffmann, Zimmer, Robin, Groscolas )

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2011

7th Ecology and Behavior Meeting. Rennes, France

• Sociality, colony density and stress: effects of social context and breeding status on the behavior and physiology of fasting penguins ( Viblanc, Smith, Valette, Saraux, Malosse, Kauffmann, Gineste, Groscolas )

• Is sex ratio in king penguins biased at hatching or is it a result of postzygotic mechanisms? ( Bordier, Saraux, Le Bohec, Viblanc, Beaugey, Gachot, Le Maho)

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SFECA conference "The animal in all its senses". Tours, France

• Aggressiveness and social stress in a colonial seabird: is there an energy cost to group-living? ( Viblanc, Valette, Saraux, Malosse, Kauffmann, Groscolas )

• Heart rate and behavioral responses to human disturbance in breeding king penguins ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ): does reproductive value or nutritional status matter? ( Smith, Viblanc, Kauffmann, Gineste, Groscolas )

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8th European Ornithologists' Union Conference. Riga, Latvia

• Aggressiveness and social stress in a colonial seabird: is there an energy cost to group-living? ( Viblanc, Valette, Saraux, Malosse, Kauffmann, Groscolas )

• Effect of the winter fast on the muscular development in the king penguin chick, Aptenodytes patagonicus ( Erbrech, Bourgeois, Guérin, Martrette, Groscolas, Robin )

 

2010

1st World Seabird Conference. Victoria, Canada

• Holding the fast: energetic and behavioral adjustments in courting and incubating male king penguins ( Viblanc, Saraux, Malosse, Groscolas)

• Comfort behavior in king penguins: what does energy tell us? ( Viblanc, Mathien, Viera, Groscolas )

• Using penguins as sentinels of climate change: are banding data reliable ( Saraux, Le Bohec, Durant, Viblanc, Gauthier-Clerc, Beaune, Park, Yoccoz, Stenseth, Le Maho)

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7th International Penguin Conference. Boston, USA

• Breeding in a crowded place! Physiological and behavioral adjustments to fasting in male king penguins ( Viblanc, Saraux, Malosse, Groscolas)

• Social stress in a colonial seabird: heart rate responses of breeding penguins to their aggressive conspecifics ( Viblanc, Valette, Malosse, Groscolas )

• Babies come back! Environmental conditions, individual quality and juvenile survival in king penguins ( Saraux, Le Bohec, Viblanc, Hanuise, Le Maho)

• Approaching penguins for identification: is a robot less stressing than humans? ( Le Maho, Brucker, Groscolas )

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25th International Ornithological Congress. Campos do Jordao, Brazil

• Heat stress in the cold? Energetics and thermoregulation in moulting king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) ( Eichhorn, Handrich, Le Glaunec, Pierre, Parisel, Medina, Groscolas)

• Social stress in a colonial seabird: heart rate responses of breeding penguins to their aggressive conspecifics ( Viblanc, Valette, Malosse, Groscolas )

• Babies come back! Environmental conditions, individual quality and juvenile survival in king penguins ( Saraux, Le Bohec, Viblanc, Hanuise, Le Maho)

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2009

7th European Ornithologists' Union Conference. Zurich, Switzerland

• Comfort behavior incurs a substantial energy cost in breeding-fasting king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus ( Viblanc, Mathien, Groscolas )

• Myosin heavy chains expression in the pectoral and pelvic muscles during the early phase of growth in the king penguin chick, Aptenodytes patagonicus ( Erbrech , Martrette , Guérin , Verrier , Trabalon , Groscolas,   Robin )

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2008

20th International Congress of Zoology. Paris, France

• Muscular developmental asynchrony during the early growth phase in the king penguin chick ( Erbrech, Guérin, Verrier, Gaudin, Groscolas, Robin )

• Sex-specific flexibility of parental care for the sexual conflict to be resolved in king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus ( Corbel, Geiger, Groscolas )

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4th European Conference on Behavioral Ecology. Dijon, France

• Ecological correlates of avian corticosterone secretion at fledging ( Corbel, Morlong, Groscolas )

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4th Ecology and Behavior Meeting. Toulouse , france

• State-dependent decision in the fledging process of king penguin chicks ( Corbel, Geiger, Groscolas )

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2007

3rd Ecology and Behavior Meeting. Montpellier, France

• Fledging is preceded by a reduction of the adrenocortical response to stress in a non-precocial bird, the king penguin ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) ( Corbel, Geiger, Groscolas )

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6th International Penguin Conference. Hobart, Australia

• Sex-specific desertion and compensation care in breeding king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus ( Corbel, Gachot-Neveu, Dodelinger, Groscolas )

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2006

24th International Ornithological Congress. Hamburg, Germany

• Skeleton build up in growing King Penguin chicks ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ): how to cope with undernutrition and shifting from terrestrial to marine life? ( Robin, de Margerie, Verrier, Groscolas, Castanet )

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3rd CNFRA Scientific Days. Rennes, France

• The endocrine and energetic correlates of parental care during the late rearing period in king penguins: males vs females. ( Corbel, Dondelinger, Gachot, Groscolas )

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2005

SEB Annual Meeting. Barcelona, ​​Spain

• Histological attributes of rapid bone growth in king penguin chicks ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ). ( Castanet, de Margerie, Robin, Verrier, Cubo, Groscolas )

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2004

7th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology. Bocaraton, Florida, USA

• Early bone growth in king penguin chicks ( Aptenodytes patagonicus ) ( Castanet, de Margerie, Robin, Verrier, Cubo, Groscolas )

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2002

Joint conference of the Ecophysiological Society and the French Society for the study of animal behavior. Strasbourg, france

• Energy reserves and behavior in king penguins in prolonged fasting: mechanism of the re-feeding signal (Bernard, Fayolle, Robin, Mioskowski, Groscolas)

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2000

4th International Penguin Conference. La Serena, Chile

• Triggering of egg abandonment below a body mass threshold in fasting-incubating king penguins ( Groscolas, Thil, Fayolle, Decrock, Côté, Lacroix, Robin )

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The annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Biology. Exeter, UK

• Long term fasting and re-feeding in penguins ( Groscolas, Robin )

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3rd Meeting of the EAZWV. Paris, France

• The use of Zoletil to immobilize king penguins in the field ( Thil, Groscolas )

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1999

3rd International Congress of World Federation of Sleep Research Societies. Dresden, Germany

• Effects of air temperature on behavioral sleep of rearing king penguins ( Dewasmes, Côté, Robin, Groscolas, Vardon, Le Maho, Libert )

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1998

22nd International Ornithological Congress. Durban, South Africa

• Metabolic and hormonal response to stress in king penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus ( Ménard, Fayolle, Mioskowski, Groscolas, Robin )

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1996

5th European Conference on Wildlife Telemetry. Strasbourg, france

• Spontaneous egg desertion at a critical body mass in fasting incubating birds: a biotelemetrical study in blue petrel ( Ancel, Petter, Groscolas )

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Workshops

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2019

Extreme Nutrition workshop conditions. AgroParisTech, France

• Management of energy reserves in wild species under extreme conditions ( Robin )

 

Mix for better innovation: meeting of UMR IPHC and Marbec workshop. Strasbourg, france

• Social density, social aggression and stress: linking the social environment to physiological systems ( Viblanc )

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2018

Extreme Nutrition workshop conditions. AgroParisTech, France

• Management of energy reserves in wild species under extreme conditions ( Robin )

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2016

Ethology and Behavioral Ecology, INRA network workshop. St Pé sur Nivelle, France

•   Energy status and behavior ( Robin )

 

2014

Diversity in Telomere Dynamics workshop. Drymen , Scotland (UK)

• What can telomeres tell us about life-history trade-offs in king penguins? ( Schull, Reichert, Stier, Zahn, Bize, Robin, Massemin, Criscuolo, Viblanc )

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1996

International workshop: Energetics of reproduction in birds, mammals and reptiles: exploring new technologies. Chizé, France

• The safety margin in the body fuel reserves of incubating king penguins: a study of breeding failure based on automatic identification and weighing ( Le Maho, Gauthier-Clerc, Robin, Gendner, Dahier, Handrich )

• Fat metabolism and survival during starvation / parental neglect ( Groscolas )

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Seminars

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2019

Behavior and Ecology of Wild Fauna, INRA UR0035, Auzeville, France

Viblanc VA (2019). Social effects on individual phenotypes: insights from colonial mammals and birds

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2018

Wihelminenberg Seminars, Vetmeduni Vienna, University Wien, Austria

Viblanc VA (2018). Social effects on individual phenotypes: insights from colonial mammals and birds

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2017

Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Physiology Seminars, IPHC UMR 7178, University of Strasbourg, France

Viblanc VA (2017). Social energetics and social stress: on the costs and benefits of group-living

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Evolution and Biological Diversity Laboratory, UMR 5174, Toulouse, France

Viblanc VA (2017). Social energetics and social stress: on the costs and benefits of group-living

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2014

Laboratory of Environmental Stress and Biosurveillance of Aquatic Environments. UMR-I 02, Reims, France

Robin JP (2014). Energy compromises, management of body reserves and physiological regulations: an integrated approach of the animal in its environment.

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2013

University of Toronto Scarborough, Center for the Neurobiology of Stress. Toronto, ON, Canada

Viblanc VA (2013). Freaked out penguins: is there a cost to breeding in a crowd?

 

2012

Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, UMR 5175. Montpellier, France

Viblanc VA (2012). The physiological costs of group living: insights from a colonial breeder

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2009

Phillip Island Nature Parks, Research Department. Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia

Viblanc VA (2009). On the energetics of specific behaviors: insights from heart rate and the example of comfort behavior in breeding king penguins

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Abstracts / Conference papers

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2015

• Stier A, Schull Q, Viblanc VA, De Margerie E, Zahn S, Handrich Y, De Buffrenil V, Erbrech A, Guerin N, Martrette JM, Groscolas R, Criscuolo F, Bize P, Robin JP (2015) How do adults and chicks of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) face nutritional constraints while breeding or growing? Acta physiologica 214: 87.

 

2014

• Viblanc VA, Stier A, Reichert SE, Handrich Y, Massemin S, Criscuolo F, Bize P, Robin JP (2014) Reproduction in the king penguin: constraints imposed by colonial breeding and a long chick-raising period. Ornithological Science 13 (Supplement): 447.

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1998

• Ménard, JJ., Fayolle, C., Mioskowski, E., Groscolas, R. and Robin, J.-P. Metabolic and Hormonal response to stress in king penguin Aptenodytes patagonicus. Ostrich 69 (No.3 & 4): 230-231 (1998)

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1991

• Vivien-Roels B., Miché F., Pevet P., Spehner C., Robin JP and Y. Le Maho (1991). Daily pattern of melatonin secretion in an antarctic bird, the emperor penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri: seasonal variations, effect of constant illumination and of administration of isoproterenol and propanolol. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 82: 227.

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1990

• Le Maho Y. and JP Robin (1990). Avian physiology - How biochemistry influences behavior in emperor penguins. Physiologist. 33: A18.

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1984

• Cherel Y., Robin JP, Groscolas R. and Y. Le Maho (1984). Plasma β-hydroxybutyrate concentration and rate of weight loss during prolonged fasting in Emperor penguins and King penguins. Diabetes Metab. 10: 151. 8

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1983

• Robin JP, Cherel Y., Groscolas R. and Y. Le Maho (1983). Metabolic adaptation to long-term fasting in male emperor penguins and in king penguin chicks. Physiologist 26: A-30.

• Cherel Y., Frain M., Girard H., Lacombe A., Le Maho Y., Nehlig A. and JP Robin (1983). Ambient temperature and plasma β-hydroxybutyrate concentration during long-term fasting in geese and in antarctic penguins. J. Physiol. (London) 345: 137P.