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Overview

Daniel H. Nussey is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly falls within the fields of Environmental Science and Medicine, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Small Animals, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Physiology, and Aging.

The scientist's main topics of study include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Helminth Infection and Control, Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Nussey has published frequently in several academic venues. The most common publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Scientific Reports, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel Nussey are:

  • Decline in telomere length with increasing age across nonhuman vertebrates: A meta-analysis (2021), Molecular Ecology
  • Ageing red deer alter their spatial behaviour and become less social (2022), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Fitness Costs of Parasites Explain Multiple Life-History Trade-Offs in a Wild Mammal (2020), The American Naturalist
  • Multiple spatial behaviours govern social network positions in a wild ungulate (2021), Ecology Letters
  • Heritable variation in telomere length predicts mortality in Soay sheep (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their work include Josephine M. Pemberton, Jill G. Pilkington, Hannah Froy, Xavier Bal, and Amy R. Sweeny.

Best Publications

  • An ecologist's guide to the animal model

    Alastair J. Wilson;Denis Réale;Michelle N. Clements;Michael M. Morrissey

  • The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations.

    Daniel Nussey;Alastair Wilson;J. E. Brommer

  • Selection on heritable phenotypic plasticity in a wild bird population

    Daniel H. Nussey;Erik Postma;Phillip Gienapp;Marcel E. Visser

  • Senescence in natural populations of animals: Widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology

    Daniel H. Nussey;Hannah Froy;Jean François Lemaitre;Jean Michel Gaillard

  • Measuring senescence in wild animal populations: towards a longitudinal approach

    D. H. Nussey;T. Coulson;M. Festa-Bianchet;J.-M. Gaillard

  • What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective.

    Alastair J. Wilson;Daniel H. Nussey

  • Oxidative damage, ageing, and life-history evolution: where now?

    Colin Selman;Jonathan D. Blount;Daniel H. Nussey;John R. Speakman;John R. Speakman

  • The evolutionary ecology of senescence

    P. Monaghan;A. Charmantier;D. H. Nussey;R. E. Ricklefs

  • Measuring individual differences in reaction norms in field and experimental studies: a power analysis of random regression models

    Julien G. A. Martin;Julien G. A. Martin;Daniel H. Nussey;Alastair J. Wilson;Denis Réale

  • The rate of senescence in maternal performance increases with early‐life fecundity in red deer

    Daniel H. Nussey;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Alison Donald;Martin Fowlie

  • Fitness correlates of heritable variation in antibody responsiveness in a wild mammal.

    Andrea Linn Graham;Adam D. Hayward;Kathryn A. Watt;Jill G. Pilkington

  • The relationship between telomere length and mortality risk in non-model vertebrate systems: a meta-analysis.

    Rachael V. Wilbourn;Joshua P. Moatt;Hannah Froy;Craig A. Walling

  • Environmental conditions in early life influence ageing rates in a wild population of red deer

    Daniel H. Nussey;Daniel H. Nussey;Loeske E.B. Kruuk;Alison Morris;Tim H. Clutton-Brock

  • Life history correlates of oxidative damage in a free‐living mammal population

    Daniel H. Nussey;Josephine M. Pemberton;Jill G. Pilkington;Jonathan D. Blount

  • Inter‐ and Intrasexual Variation in Aging Patterns across Reproductive Traits in a Wild Red Deer Population

    Daniel H. Nussey;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Alison Morris;Michelle N. Clements

  • Measuring telomere length and telomere dynamics in evolutionary biology and ecology

    Daniel H Nussey;Duncan Baird;Emma Barrett;Winnie Boner

  • Contrasting patterns of phenotypic plasticity in reproductive traits in two great tit (Parus major) populations.

    Arild Husby;Arild Husby;Dan H. Nussey;Marcel E. Visser;Alastair J. Wilson

  • Advancing breeding phenology in response to environmental change in a wild red deer population

    Kelly Moyes;Daniel H. Nussey;Michelle N. Clements;Fiona E. Guinness

  • Rapidly declining fine‐scale spatial genetic structure in female red deer

    Daniel Nussey;D W Coltman;T Coulson;Loeske Kruuk

  • Patterns of body mass senescence and selective disappearance differ among three species of free-living ungulates

    Daniel H. Nussey;Tim Coulson;Daniel Delorme;Tim H. Clutton-Brock

  • Supporting Online Material for Fitness Correlates of Heritable Variation in Antibody Responsiveness in a Wild Mammal

    Andrea L. Graham;Adam D. Hayward;Kathryn A. Watt;Jill G. Pilkington

Frequent Co-Authors

Josephine M. Pemberton
Josephine M. Pemberton University of Edinburgh
Jill G. Pilkington
Jill G. Pilkington University of Edinburgh
Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Tim H. Clutton-Brock University of Cambridge
Tom N. McNeilly
Tom N. McNeilly Moredun Research Institute
Loeske E. B. Kruuk
Loeske E. B. Kruuk University of Edinburgh
Georgios Banos
Georgios Banos Scotland's Rural College
Alastair J. Wilson
Alastair J. Wilson University of Exeter
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Mike Coffey
Mike Coffey Scotland's Rural College
Fiona E. Guinness
Fiona E. Guinness University of Cambridge

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