Publications of Mark Alan Frank Gillingham

Zanchi, C.; Moret, Y.; Gillingham, M. A. F.: Size matters, so does condition: The use of a body condition index reveals the costs and benefits of structural body size in an insect. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

Carranco, A. S.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Wilhelm, K.; Torres, M. d. L.; Sommer, S.; Romo, D.: Transcending sea turtles: First report of hatching failure in eggs of an Amazonian freshwater turtle with symptoms of the fungal emerging disease fusariosis. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 69 (5), pp. e3282 - e3288 (2022)

Carranco, A. S.; Romo, D.; de Lourdes Torres, M.; Wilhelm, K.; Sommer, S.; Gillingham, M. A. F.: Egg microbiota is the starting point of hatchling gut microbiota in the endangered yellow‐spotted Amazon river turtle. Molecular Ecology 31 (14), pp. 3917 - 3933 (2022)

Fackelmann, G.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Schmid, J.; Heni, A. C.; Wilhelm, K.; Schwensow, N.; Sommer, S.: Human encroachment into wildlife gut microbiomes. Communications Biology 4 (1), 800 (2021)

Gillingham, M. A. F.; Borghesi, F.; Montero, B. K.; Migani, F.; Béchet, A.; Rendón-Martos, M.; Amat, J. A.; Dinelli, E.; Sommer, S.: Bioaccumulation of trace elements affects chick body condition and gut microbiome in greater flamingos. Science of the Total Environment 761, 143250 (2021)

Gillingham, M. A. F.; Montero, B. K.; Wihelm, K.; Grudzus, K.; Sommer, S.; Santos, P. S.: A novel workflow to improve genotyping of multigene families in wildlife species: An experimental set‐up with a known model system. Molecular Ecology Resources 21 (3), pp. 982 - 998 (2021)

Montero, B. K.; Schwensow, N.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Ratovonamana, Y. R.; Rakotondranary, S. J.; Corman, V.; Drosten, C.; Ganzhorn, J. U.; Sommer, S.: Evidence of MHC class I and II influencing viral and helminth infection via the microbiome in a non-human primate. PLoS Pathogens 17 (11), e1009675 (2021)

Risely, A.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Béchet, A.; Brändel, S.; Heni, A. C.; Heurich, M.; Menke, S.; Manser, M. B.; Tschapka, M.; Sommer, S.: Phylogeny-and abundance-based metrics allow for the consistent comparison of core gut microbiome diversity indices across host species. Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 659918 (2021)

Boucheker, A.; Nedjah, R.; Prodon, R.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Dechaume-Moncharmont, F.-X.; Béchet, A.; Samraoui, B.: Cohort effect on discriminant rate: The case of greater flamingo (Phœnicopterus roseus) chicks sexed with morphological characters. Web Ecology 20 (2), pp. 153 - 159 (2020)

Gillingham, M. A. F.; Béchet, A.; Cézilly, F.; Wilhelm, K.; Rendón-Martos, M.; Borghesi, F.; Nissardi, S.; Baccetti, N.; Azafzaf, H.; Menke, S.: Offspring microbiomes differ across breeding sites in a panmictic species. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 35 (2019)

Morris, H.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Plavcova, L.; Gleason, S. M.; Olson, M. E.; Coomes, D. A.; Fichtler, E.; Klepsch, M. M.; Martínez‐Cabrera, H. I.; McGlinn, D. J.: Vessel diameter is related to amount and spatial arrangement of axial parenchyma in woody angiosperms. Plant, Cell and Environment 41 (1), pp. 245 - 260 (2018)

Borghesi, F.; Dinelli, E.; Migani, F.; Bechet, A.; Rendón‐Martos, M.; Amat, J. A.; Sommer, S.; Gillingham, M. A. F.: Assessing environmental pollution in birds: A new methodological approach for interpreting bioaccumulation of trace elements in feather shafts using geochemical sediment data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (1), pp. 96 - 108 (2017)

Galipaud, M.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Dechaume‐Moncharmont, F.: A farewell to the sum of Akaike weights: The benefits of alternative metrics for variable importance estimations in model selection. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (12), pp. 1668 - 1678 (2017)

Gillingham, M. A. F.; Béchet, A.; Courtiol, A.; Rendón-Martos, M.; Amat, J. A.; Samraoui, B.; Onmuş, O.; Sommer, S.; Cézilly, F.: Very high MHC Class IIB diversity without spatial differentiation in the mediterranean population of greater Flamingos. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17 (1), 56 (2017)

Menke, S.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Wilhelm, K.; Sommer, S.: Home-made cost effective preservation buffer is a better alternative to commercial preservation methods for microbiome research. Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 102 (2017)

Gillingham, M. A. F.; Courtiol, A.; Teixeira, M.; Galan, M.; Bechet, A.; Cezilly, F.: Evidence of gene orthology and trans‐species polymorphism, but not of parallel evolution, despite high levels of concerted evolution in the major histocompatibility complex of flamingo species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29 (2), pp. 438 - 454 (2016)

Morris, H.; Plavcová, L.; Cvecko, P.; Fichtler, E.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Martínez-Cabrera, H. I.; McGlinn, D. J.; Wheeler, E.; Zheng, J.; Ziemińska, K.: A global analysis of parenchyma tissue fractions in secondary xylem of seed plants. New Phytologist 209 (4), pp. 1553 - 1565 (2016)

David, M.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Salignon, M.; Laskowski, K. L.; Giraldeau, L.-A.: Speed–accuracy trade-off and its consequences in a scramble competition context. Animal Behaviour 90, pp. 255 - 262 (2014)

David, M.; Le Hô, M.; Laskowski, K. L.; Salignon, M.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; Giraldeau, L.-A.: Individual differences in behavioral consistency are related to sequential access to resources and body condition in a producer-scrounger game. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2, 19 (2014)

Galipaud, M.; Gillingham, M. A. F.; David, M.; Dechaume‐Moncharmont, F.: Ecologists overestimate the importance of predictor variables in model averaging: A plea for cautious interpretations. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5 (10), pp. 983 - 991 (2014)