Metabolic, Physiological and Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Bird Migration
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Birds".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 364
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Every year the majority of birds living in seasonal environments migrate, amounting to billions of individuals. Bird migrations have attracted researchers’ attention for decades, especially long-distance movements, with a variety of migration strategies taken to travel thousands of kilometers between breeding grounds and wintering grounds and crossing large geographical/ecological barriers. These long-distance, nonstop migratory flights entail intense metabolic demands when traveling at high altitudes in low ambient temperatures and with low oxygen partial pressures. Moreover, at stopover sites en route, birds undergo rapid physiological adjustments enabling the fast accumulation of fuel stores. Thanks to the enormous advances in methods used to study bird migration, our knowledge of the phenomenon is growing rapidly. It is generally accepted that current migration patterns reflect a postglacial colonization of the continents but are also adaptations to existing environmental conditions as bird migration is highly adaptable. These adaptations may be accomplished by different mechanisms and at different levels.
Recently, metabolic, physiological and genetic aspects of bird migration have received more attention, as novel methods, technologies, and combining laboratory- and field-based studies provide new insights in the understanding of a role of all these processes. However, we are still far from understanding all processes in the body of migratory birds, and our knowledge of genetics underlying behavior and the physiology of migration is still quite limited.
Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to publish research papers and reviews on metabolic and physiological adjustments in migratory birds and genetic mechanisms underlying migratory behavior. It is a great pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on the metabolic, physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying bird migration.
Prof. Dr. Wlodzimierz Meissner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Physiology of flight
- Endogenous control
- Hormonal regulation
- Stopover refuelling
- Fat catabolism
- Circadian rhythm
- Metabolic rate
- Metabolic constraints.
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