Publications of the Department Ornithology
Journal Article (28)
2011
Journal Article
24 (5), pp. 943 - 953 (2011)
Early exposure to nonlethal predation risk by size-selective predators increases somatic growth and decreases size at adulthood in threespined sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Journal Article
11, 327 (2011)
Correlates of male fitness in captive zebra finches - a comparison of methods to disentangle genetic and environmental effects. BMC Evolutionary Biology
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59 (1), pp. 44 - 50 (2011)
Hormonal correlates of social status and courtship display in the cooperatively lekking lance-tailed manakin. Hormones and Behavior
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294 (11), pp. 1856 - 1863 (2011)
Women have relatively larger brains than men: A comment on the misuse of general linear models in the study of sexual dimorphism. Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology
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Evolutionäre Erklärungen sexueller Untreue. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2011)
Journal Article
108 (26), pp. 10608 - 10613 (2011)
Female extrapair mating behavior can evolve via indirect selection on males. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Journal Article
65 (1), pp. 47 - 55 (2011)
Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: Overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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32 (2), pp. 302 - 307 (2011)
Association of transcription factor polymorphisms PITX3 and EN1 with Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging
Journal Article
278 (1719), pp. 2761 - 2767 (2011)
Bats are able to maintain long-term social relationships despite the high fission-fusion dynamics of their groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Journal Article
105 (4), pp. 670 - 675 (2011)
Extended evidence for association between the melanoma inhibitory activity 3 gene and myocardial infarction. Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Journal Article
170 (3), pp. 501 - 508 (2011)
Individual variation in plasma testosterone levels and its relation to badge size in House Sparrows Passer domesticus: It's a night-and-day difference. General and Comparative Endocrinology
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14 (12), pp. 1254 - 1262 (2011)
Disentangling the roles of frequency-vs. state-dependence in generating individual differences in behavioural plasticity. Ecology Letters
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22 (4), pp. 869 - 879 (2011)
Do sex-specific densities affect local survival of free-ranging great tits? Behavioral Ecology
Journal Article
65 (10), pp. 1975 - 1986 (2011)
Sex-specific effects of the local social environment on juvenile post-fledging dispersal in great tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
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25 (1), pp. 1 - 11 (2011)
Linking genetic mechanisms of heterozygosity-fitness correlations to footprints of selection at single loci. Evolutionary Ecology
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278 (1719), pp. 2848 - 2856 (2011)
Identification of a gene associated with avian migratory behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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81 (4), pp. 731 - 739 (2011)
Circulating testosterone levels do not affect exploration in house sparrows: Observational and experimental tests. Animal Behaviour
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65 (11), pp. 3175 - 3194 (2011)
Correlations betweeen heterozygosity and reproductive success in the blue tit (cyanistes caeruleus): An analysis of inbreeding and single locus effects. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution
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20 (19), pp. 4028 - 4041 (2011)
Heterozygosity and survival in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): Contrasting effects of presumably functional and neutral loci. Molecular Ecology
Journal Article
11, 3 (2011)
The effect of hunger on the acoustic individuality in begging calls of a colonially breeding weaver bird. BMC Ecology
Journal Article
6 (4), e18466 (2011)
Do zebra finch parents fail to recognise their own offspring? PLoS One
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102 (1), pp. 30 - 35 (2011)
Enhanced testosterone levels affect singing motivation but not song structure and amplitude in Bengalese finches. Physiology & Behavior
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22 (1), pp. 126 - 134 (2011)
Quantitative genetics and fitness consequences of neophilia in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology
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24 (9), pp. 2014 - 2024 (2011)
Determinants of distribution and prevalence of avian malaria in blue tit populations across Europe: Separating host and parasite effects. Journal of Evolutionary Biology
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82 (5), pp. 945 - 956 (2011)
Sometimes tool use is not the key: No evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches. Animal Behaviour
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14 (4), pp. 555 - 563 (2011)
Physical cognition and tool-use: Performance of Darwin's finches in the two-trap tube task. Animal Cognition
Journal Article
8 (2), pp. 104 - 105 (2011)
Data transformation practices in biomedical sciences. Nature methods
Journal Article
51 (1), pp. 127 - 131 (2011)
Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci for two species of spinturnicid bat wing mites (spinturnix myoti and spinturnix bechsteini). Acarologia Book Chapter (1)
2011
Book Chapter
Extra-pair paternity and sexual selection. In: From genes to animal behavior: Social structures, personalities, comminication by color, pp. 35 - 65 (Eds. Inoue-Murayama, M.; Kawamura, S.; Weiss, A.). Springer, Tokyo, Heidelberg (2011)