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Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress in Animals

Edited by Kevin McGraw, Peeter Hõrak, David Costantini & Alan Cohen
SEPTEMBER 2010

This virtual issue of Functional Ecology highlights a selection of articles that have appeared in the journal and that have contributed to the rapid expansion of knowledge about how natural variation in antioxidant supplies and oxidative-stress demands interact to shape the life-history adaptations of many organisms. Read the full introduction. Read the full introduction.

Increased susceptibility to oxidative damage as a cost of accelerated somatic growth in zebra finches
C. Alonso-Alvarez, S. Bertrand, B. Faivre and G. Sorci

Immune activation increases susceptibility to oxidative tissue damage in zebra finches
S. Bertrand, F. Criscuolo, B. Faivre and G. Sorci

No simple measures for antioxidant status in birds: Complexity in inter- and intraspecific correlations among circulating antioxidant types
A. A. Cohen and K. J. McGraw

Carotenoids are minor antioxidants for birds
D. Costantini and A. P. Møller

Does high antioxidant capacity indicate low oxidative stress?
David Costantini and Simon Verhulst

Does oxidative stress mediate the trade-off between growth and self-maintenance in structured families?
M. E. Hall, J. D. Blount, S. Forbes and N. J. Royle

Carotenoid pigmentation does not reflect total non-enzymatic antioxidant activity in plasma of adult and nestling great tits, Parus major
C. Isaksson, P. McLaughlin, P. Monaghan and S. Andersson

Life history correlates of oxidative damage in a free-living mammal population
D.l H. Nussey, J. M. Pemberton, J. G. Pilkington and D. Jonathan

Blount Birds use fruit colour as honest signal of dietary antioxidant rewards
H.M. Schaefer, K. McGraw and C. Catoni

Predation risk induces stress proteins and reduces antioxidant defense
S. Slos and R. Stoks

Light stress and antioxidative protection in two desert plants
P. Streb, E. Tel-Or and J. Feierabend

Yolk antioxidants and mate attractiveness in the zebra finch
K. A. Williamson, P.F. Surai and J.A. Graves