Publications of the Department Ornithology

Journal Article (28)

2011
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Bell, A. M.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Hankison, S. J.; Langenhof, M. B. W.; Rollins, K.: 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 24 (5), pp. 943 - 953 (2011)
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Bolund, E.; Schielzeth, H.; Forstmeier, W.: Correlates of male fitness in captive zebra finches - a comparison of methods to disentangle genetic and environmental effects. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, 327 (2011)
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DuVal, E. H.; Goymann, W.: Hormonal correlates of social status and courtship display in the cooperatively lekking lance-tailed manakin. Hormones and Behavior 59 (1), pp. 44 - 50 (2011)
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Forstmeier, W.: 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 294 (11), pp. 1856 - 1863 (2011)
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Forstmeier, W.: Evolutionäre Erklärungen sexueller Untreue. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2011)
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Forstmeier, W.; Martin, K.; Bolund, E.; Schielzeth, H.; Kempenaers, B.: Female extrapair mating behavior can evolve via indirect selection on males. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (26), pp. 10608 - 10613 (2011)
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Forstmeier, W.; Schielzeth, H.: Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: Overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 (1), pp. 47 - 55 (2011)
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Haubenberger, D.; Reinthaler, E.; Mueller, J. C.; Pirker, W.; Katzenschlager, R.; Froehlich, R.; Bruecke, T.; Daniel, G.; Auff, E.; Zimprich, A.: Association of transcription factor polymorphisms PITX3 and EN1 with Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging 32 (2), pp. 302 - 307 (2011)
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Kerth, G.; Perony, N.; Schweitzer, F.: 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 278 (1719), pp. 2761 - 2767 (2011)
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Koch, W.; Schatke, A.; Wolferstetter, H.; Mueller, J. C.; Schoemig, A.; Kastrati, A.: Extended evidence for association between the melanoma inhibitory activity 3 gene and myocardial infarction. Thrombosis and Haemostasis 105 (4), pp. 670 - 675 (2011)
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Laucht, S.; Dale, J.; Mutzel, A.; Kempenaers, B.: 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 170 (3), pp. 501 - 508 (2011)
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Mathot, K. J.; van den Hout, P. J.; Piersma, T.; Kempenaers, B.; Réale, D.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Disentangling the roles of frequency-vs. state-dependence in generating individual differences in behavioural plasticity. Ecology Letters 14 (12), pp. 1254 - 1262 (2011)
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Michler, S. P. M.; Nicolaus, M.; Ubels, R.; van der Velde, M.; Both, C.; Tinbergen, J. M.; Komdeur, J.: Do sex-specific densities affect local survival of free-ranging great tits? Behavioral Ecology 22 (4), pp. 869 - 879 (2011)
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Michler, S. P. M.; Nicolaus, M.; Ubels, R.; van der Velde, M.; Komdeur, J.; Both, C.; Tinbergen, J. M.: Sex-specific effects of the local social environment on juvenile post-fledging dispersal in great tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 (10), pp. 1975 - 1986 (2011)
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Mueller, J. C.; Hermisson, J.; Olano-Marin, J.; Hansson, B.; Kempenaers, B.: Linking genetic mechanisms of heterozygosity-fitness correlations to footprints of selection at single loci. Evolutionary Ecology 25 (1), pp. 1 - 11 (2011)
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Mueller, J. C.; Pulido, F.; Kempenaers, B.: Identification of a gene associated with avian migratory behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1719), pp. 2848 - 2856 (2011)
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Mutzel, A.; Kempenaers, B.; Laucht, S.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Dale, J.: Circulating testosterone levels do not affect exploration in house sparrows: Observational and experimental tests. Animal Behaviour 81 (4), pp. 731 - 739 (2011)
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Olano-Marin, J.; Mueller, J. C.; Kempenaers, B.: 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 65 (11), pp. 3175 - 3194 (2011)
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Olano-Marin, J.; Mueller, J. C.; Kempenaers, B.: Heterozygosity and survival in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): Contrasting effects of presumably functional and neutral loci. Molecular Ecology 20 (19), pp. 4028 - 4041 (2011)
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Reers, H.; Jacot, A.: The effect of hunger on the acoustic individuality in begging calls of a colonially breeding weaver bird. BMC Ecology 11, 3 (2011)
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Reers, H.; Jacot, A.; Forstmeier, W.: Do zebra finch parents fail to recognise their own offspring? PLoS One 6 (4), e18466 (2011)
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Ritschard, M.; Laucht, S.; Dale, J.; Brumm, H.: Enhanced testosterone levels affect singing motivation but not song structure and amplitude in Bengalese finches. Physiology & Behavior 102 (1), pp. 30 - 35 (2011)
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Schielzeth, H.; Bolund, E.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Quantitative genetics and fitness consequences of neophilia in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology 22 (1), pp. 126 - 134 (2011)
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Szoellosi, E.; Cichon, M.; Eens, M.; Hasselquist, D.; Kempenaers, B.; Merino, S.; Nilsson, J.-A.; Rosivall, B.; Rytkönen, S.; Török, J. et al.; Wood, M. J.; Garamszegi, L. Z.: Determinants of distribution and prevalence of avian malaria in blue tit populations across Europe: Separating host and parasite effects. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24 (9), pp. 2014 - 2024 (2011)
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Teschke, I.; Cartmill, E. A.; Stankewitz, S.; Tebbich, S.: Sometimes tool use is not the key: No evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches. Animal Behaviour 82 (5), pp. 945 - 956 (2011)
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Teschke, I.; Tebbich, S.: Physical cognition and tool-use: Performance of Darwin's finches in the two-trap tube task. Animal Cognition 14 (4), pp. 555 - 563 (2011)
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Valcu, M.; Valcu, C.-M.: Data transformation practices in biomedical sciences. Nature methods 8 (2), pp. 104 - 105 (2011)
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van Schaik, J.; Bruyndonckx, N.; Kerth, G.; Christe, P.: Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci for two species of spinturnicid bat wing mites (spinturnix myoti and spinturnix bechsteini). Acarologia 51 (1), pp. 127 - 131 (2011)

Book Chapter (1)

2011
Book Chapter
Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B.: 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)
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