Publications of the MPI for Ornithology

Bauchinger, U.; Goymann, W.: Two workshops in ornithology: A general introduction: Dedication to Eberhard Gwinner. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1046, pp. IX - X (2005)

Denk, A.; Holzmann, A.; Peters, A.; Vermeirssen, E. L. M.; Kempenaers, B.: Paternity in mallards: Effects of sperm quality and female sperm selection for inbreeding avoidance. Behavioral Ecology 16 (5), pp. 825 - 833 (2005)

Foerster, K.; Kempenaers, B.: Effects of testosterone on male-male competition and male-female interactions in blue tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57 (3), pp. 215 - 223 (2005)

Forstmeier, W.: Quantitative genetics and behavioural correlates of digit ratio in the zebra finch. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1581), pp. 2641 - 2649 (2005)

Garamszegi, L. Z.; Balsby, T. J. S.; Bell, D. B.; Borowiec, M.; Byers, B. E.; Draganoiu, T.; Eens, M.; Forstmeier, W.; Galeotti, P.; Gil, D. et al.; Gorissen, L.; Hansen, P.; Lampe, H. M.; Leitner, S.; Lontkowski, J.; Nagle, L.; Nemeth, E.; Pinxten, R.; Rossi, J.-M.; Saino, N.; Tanvez, A.; Titus, R.; Török, J.; van Duyse, E.; Møller, A.P.: Estimating the complexity of bird song by using capture-recapture approaches from community ecology. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57 (4), pp. 305 - 317 (2005)

Goymann, W.: Noninvasive monitoring of hormones in bird Droppings: Physiological validation, sampling, extraction, sex differences, and the influence of diet on hormone metabolite levels. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1046, pp. 35 - 53 (2005)

Goymann, W.; Jenni-Eiermann, S.: Introduction to the European Science Foundation technical meeting: Analysis of hormones in droppings and egg yolk of birds. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1046, pp. 1 - 4 (2005)

Goymann, W.; Kempenaers, B.; Wingfield, J. C.: Breeding biology, sexually dimorphic development and nestling testosterone concentrations of the classically polyandrous African black coucal, Centropus grillii. Journal of Ornithology 146 (4), pp. 314 - 324 (2005)

Iribarne, O.; Bruschetti, M.; Escapa, M.; Bava, J.; Botto, F.; Gutierrez, J.; Palomo, G.; Delhey, K.; Petracci, P.; Gagliardini, A.: Small- and large-scale effect of the SW Atlantic burrowing crab Chasmagnathus granulatus on habitat use by migratory shorebirds. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 315 (1), pp. 87 - 101 (2005)

Jansen, R. F.; Metzdorf, R.; van der Roest, M.; Fusani, L.; Ter Maat, A.; Gahr, M.: Melatonin affects the temporal organization of the song of the zebra finch. The FASEB Journal 19, pp. 848 - 850 (2005)

Johnsen, A.; Delhey, K.; Schlicht, E.; Peters, A.; Kempenaers, B.: Male sexual attractiveness and parental effort in blue tits: A test of the differential allocation hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 70 (4), pp. 877 - 888 (2005)

Leitner, S.; Voigt, C.; Metzdorf, R.; Catchpole, C. K.: Immediate early gene (ZENK, Arc) expression in the auditory forebrain of female canaries varies in response to male song quality. Journal of Neurobiology 64 (3), pp. 275 - 284 (2005)

van Oers, K.; de Jong, G.; van Noordwijk, A. J.; Kempenaers, B.; Drent, P. J.: Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: A review of case studies. Behaviour 142 (9-10), pp. 1185 - 1206 (2005)

van Oers, K.; Klunder, M.; Drent, P. J.: Context dependence of personalities: Risk-taking behavior in a social and a nonsocial situation. Behavioral Ecology 16 (4), pp. 716 - 723 (2005)

Wikelski, M.; Steiger, S. S.; Gall, B.; Nelson, K. N.: Sex, drugs and mating role: Testosterone-induced phenotype-switching in Galapagos marine iguanas. Behavioral Ecology 16 (1), pp. 260 - 268 (2005)

Wingfield, J. C.; Moore, I. T.; Goymann, W.; Wacker, D.; Sperry, T.: Contexts and ethology of vertebrate aggression: Implications for the evolution of hormone-behavior interactions. In: Biology of aggression, pp. 179 - 210 (Ed. Nelson, R.). Oxford University Press, New York (2005)