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Patrick S. Fitze is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on ecology, evolution, and behavior.

They have contributed to multiple topics, including:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Retinal Development and Disorders

Patrick S. Fitze's work appears extensively in scientific venues such as:

  • Functional Ecology
  • Annals of Botany
  • Autophagy
  • International Journal for Parasitology
  • Ecology and Evolution

Their frequent coauthors include Martí March-Salas, Rodrigo Megía-Palma, Ignacio Ramírez-Pardo, Beatriz Villarejo-Zori, and Juan Ignacio Jiménez-Loygorri.

Selected recent publications by Patrick S. Fitze include:

  • Effects of intrinsic environmental predictability on intra-individual and intra-population variability of plant reproductive traits and eco-evolutionary consequences (2020), Annals of Botany
  • Ambra1 haploinsufficiency in CD1 mice results in metabolic alterations and exacerbates age-associated retinal degeneration (2022), Autophagy
  • Maternal effects and urbanization: Variation of yolk androgens and immunoglobulin in city and forest blackbirds (2020), Ecology and Evolution
  • Genetic diversity, phylogenetic position, and co-phylogenetic relationships of Karyolysus, a common blood parasite of lizards in the western Mediterranean (2023), International Journal for Parasitology
  • Effects of intrinsic precipitation-predictability on root traits, allocation strategies and the selective regimes acting on them (2021), Oikos

Best Publications

  • Sex ratio bias, male aggression, and population collapse in lizards

    Jean François Le Galliard;Patrick S. Fitze;Patrick S. Fitze;Régis Ferrière;Jean Clobert

  • Autophagy promotes survival of retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve axotomy in mice

    N. Rodríguez-Muela;Francisco Germain;G. Mariño;Patrick S. Fitze;Patrick S. Fitze

  • Sexual dimorphism in susceptibility to parasites and cell-mediated immunity in great tit nestlings

    Barbara Tschirren;Patrick S. Fitze;Patrick S. Fitze;Heinz Richner

  • Life history and fitness consequences of ectoparasites

    Patrick S. Fitze;Patrick S. Fitze;Barbara Tschirren;Heinz Richner

  • Differential effects of a parasite on ornamental structures based on melanins and carotenoids

    Patrick S. Fitze;Heinz Richner

  • The quantitative genetic basis of offspring solicitation and parental response in a passerine bird with biparental care.

    Mathias Kölliker;Martin W. G. Brinkhof;Philipp Heeb;Patrick S. Fitze

  • Experimental enhancement of corticosterone levels positively affects subsequent male survival

    J. Cote;J. Clobert;S. Meylan;P.S. Fitze;P.S. Fitze

  • Proximate mechanisms of variation in the carotenoid-based plumage coloration of nestling great tits (Parus major L.).

    B. Tschirren;P. S. Fitze;P. S. Fitze;H. Richner

  • Divergence with gene flow and fine-scale phylogeographical structure in the wedge-billed woodcreeper, Glyphorynchus spirurus, a Neotropical rainforest bird.

    B. Milá;R. K. Wayne;P. Fitze;T. B. Smith

  • Maternal modulation of natal dispersal in a passerine bird: an adaptive strategy to cope with parasitism?

    Barbara Tschirren;Patrick S. Fitze;Heinz Richner

  • Parasite-induced maternal response in a natural bird population

    K. Buechler;P.S. Fitze;B. Gottstein;A. Jacot

  • CONFLICT OVER MULTIPLE-PARTNER MATING BETWEEN MALES AND FEMALES OF THE POLYGYNANDROUS COMMON LIZARDS

    Patrick S Fitze;Patrick S Fitze;Jean-François Le Galliard;Jean-François Le Galliard;Pierre Federici;Murielle Richard

  • Maternal yolk testosterone does not modulate parasite susceptibility or immune function in great tit nestlings

    Barbara Tschirren;Verena Saladin;Patrick S. Fitze;Hubert Schwabl

  • Carotenoid‐Based Plumage Colors and Immune Function: Is There a Trade‐Off for Rare Carotenoids?

    Patrick S. Fitze;Barbara Tschirren;Julien Gasparini;Heinz Richner

  • Operational sex ratio, sexual conflict and the intensity of sexual selection

    Patrick S. Fitze;Jean-François Le Galliard

  • Carotenoid-Based Colours Reflect the Stress Response in the Common Lizard

    Patrick S. Fitze;Julien Cote;Julien Cote;Luis Martin San-Jose;Sandrine Meylan

  • Mother–offspring competition promotes colonization success

    J. Cote;J. Clobert;P. S. Fitze

  • LONG-TERM LIFE-HISTORY CONSEQUENCES OF ECTOPARASITE-MODULATED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

    Patrick S. Fitze;Patrick S. Fitze;Jean Clobert;Heinz Richner

  • Carotenoid-based colour expression is determined early in nestling life.

    Patrick S. Fitze;Patrick S. Fitze;Barbara Tschirren;Heinz Richner

  • Length of activity season drives geographic variation in body size of a widely distributed lizard

    Terézia Horváthová;Terézia Horváthová;Christopher R. Cooney;Patrick S. Fitze;Tuula A. Oksanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinz Richner
Heinz Richner University of Bern
Jean Clobert
Jean Clobert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Julien Cote
Julien Cote Paul Sabatier University
Jean-François Le Galliard
Jean-François Le Galliard École Normale Supérieure
Sandrine Meylan
Sandrine Meylan Sorbonne University
Borja Milá
Borja Milá Spanish National Research Council
Alberto Jiménez-Valverde
Alberto Jiménez-Valverde University of Alcalá
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Barry Sinervo
Barry Sinervo University of California, Santa Cruz
Manuel Massot
Manuel Massot Sorbonne University

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