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Parker, A. V.; Stemmer, M.; Grätsch, S.; Dorigo, A.; Rodriguez Ramirez, O.; Adel, A.; Jordan, L. A.; Baier, H.: Intrinsic timing of brood care in shell-dwelling cichlids. Current Biology 35 (3), pp. 672 - 680.e4 (2025)

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Pradervand, J.-N.; Wildi, J.; Guisan, A.; Korner, P.; Evens, R.; Jacot, A.: Complementary fine-scale habitat selection of the European nightjars (Caprimulgus europaeus) in nesting and foraging sites. Bird Conservation International 35, e5 (2025)

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Rohr‑Bender, V. A.; Kupan, K.; Lopez-Nava, G.; Forstmeier, W.; Hertel, A.; Razumov, V.; Martin, K.; Kempenaers, B.; Küpper, C.: Sex and morph variation in activity from early ontogeny to maturity in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). Ethology 131 (3), e13543 (2025)

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Saghab Torbati, M.; Zandbagleh, A.; Daliri, M. R.; Ahmadi, A.; Rostami, R.; Kazem, R.: Explainable AI for bipolar disorder diagnosis using Hjorth parameters. Diagnostics 15 (3), 316 (2025)

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Samara, E.; Schilling, T.; Ribeiro, I. M. A.; Haag, J.; Leonte, M.-B.; Borst, A.: Columnar cholinergic neurotransmission onto T5 cells of Drosophila. Current Biology 35 (6), pp. 1269 - 1284.e6 (2025)

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Santema, P.; Eberhart-Hertel, L. J.; Aulsebrook, A. E.; Kwon, E.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Factors associated with breeding site fidelity in a nomadic shorebird with extremely low local return rates. Animal Behaviour 223, 123151 (2025)

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Schönhofer, B.; Gahr, M.: Bedeutung und Mechanismen des Vogelgesangs: Inspiration für die Pneumologie. Pneumologie (2025)

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Shainer, I.; Kappel, J. M.; Laurell, E.; Donovan, J.; Schneider, M.; Kuehn, E.; Arnold-Ammer, I.; Stemmer, M.; Larsch, J.; Baier, H.: Transcriptomic neuron types vary topographically in function and morphology. Nature 638 (8052), pp. 1023 - 1033 (2025)

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Siegenthaler, D.; Denny, H.; Carrasco, S. S.; Mayer, J. L.; Peyrache, A.; Trenholm, S.; Macé, E.: Visual objects refine head direction coding. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

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Sitron, C. S.; Trinkaus, V. A.; Galesic, A.; Garhammer, M.; Checa, P. Y.; Dransfeld, U.; Feigenbutz, D.; Zhang, J.; Dudanova, I.; Harper, J. W. et al.; Hartl, F. U.: α-Synuclein aggregates inhibit ESCRT-III through sequestration and collateral degradation. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

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Soma, M.; Nakatani, M.; Ota, N.: Choice of props for courtship dancing in estrildid finches. Scientific Reports 15, 219 (2025)

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Torres Ortiz, S.; Smeele, S. Q.; Osvath, M.; Guerrero, A. M.; Hernandez Sanchez, A.; Ramirez, C. U.; Almunia, J.; von Bayern, A. M. P.: Awareness of the future: Dolphins know when they need to remember for the future. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

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Totiger, S.; Alcami, P.: Canaries differentially modulate solo and overlapping singing during the transition to the breeding season. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

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Trigo, F. F.; Alcami, P.; Curti, S.: Functional interaction of electrical coupling and H-current and its putative impact on inhibitory transmission. Neuroscience 574, pp. 13 - 20 (2025)

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Trost, L.; Gahr, M.; Ter Maat, A.: Neural activity during call production in the female zebra finch homolog of the male forebrain song system. European Journal of Neuroscience 61 (9), e70123 (2025)

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van der Wal, J. E. M.; Dauda, C.; Lloyd-Jones, D. J.; Murico, H.; Begg, C. M.; Begg, K. S.; Jorge, A. A.; Spottiswoode, C. N.: The economic value of human-honeyguide mutualism in Reserva Especial do Niassa, Moçambique. Ecosystem Services 72, 101696 (2025)

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van Hasselt, S. J.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Mekenkamp, G.-J.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Verhulst, S.; Beckers, G. l. J.L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Meerlo, P.: Sleep pressure causes birds to trade asymmetric sleep for symmetric sleep. Current Biology 35 (8), pp. 1918 - 1926.e3 (2025)

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van Staden, C.; Finger-Baier, K.; Weinshenker, D.; Botha, T. L.; Brand, L.; Wolmarans, D. W.: The number of conspecific alarm substance donors notably influences the behavioural responses of zebrafish subjected to a traumatic stress procedure. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 51 (2), 55 (2025)

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van Staden, C.; Weinshenker, D.; Finger-Baier, K.; Botha, T. L.; Brand, L.; de Wolmarans, W.: Posttraumatic anxiety-like behaviour in zebrafish is dose-dependently attenuated by the alpha-2A receptor agonist, guanfacine. Behavioural Pharmacology 36 (1), pp. 47 - 59 (2025)

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Wang, Q.; Baier, H.: Eat, flee, freeze: Division of labor in the larval zebrafish visuomotor system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (19), e2506018122 (2025)

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Wekerle, H.; Kawakami, N.: Brain myelin trains T cells to stop autoimmunity. Nature 637 (8044), pp. 41 - 42 (2025)

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Yoon, H.; Gerdes, L. A.; Beigel, F.; Sun, Y.; Kövilein, J.; Wang, J.; Kuhlmann, T.; Flierl-Hecht, A.; Haller, D.; Hohlfeld, R. et al.; Baranzini, S. E.; Wekerle, H.; Peters, A.: Multiple sclerosis and gut microbiota: Lachnospiraceae from the ileum of MS twins trigger MS-like disease in germfree transgenic mice - An unbiased functional study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (18), e2419689122 (2025)

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Zhang, H.; Luo, L.; Liang, Q.; Tian, L.; Shao, Y.; Zhang, X.; Cao, K.; Luo, A.; Wang, C.; Muiruri Kamau, P. et al.; Wu, D.-D.; Baldwin, M. W.; Lai, R.: Molecular evolution of sour tolerance in birds. Science 388 (6753), pp. 1330 - 1336 (2025)

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Zhou, J.; Vitali, I.; Roig-Puiggros, S.; Javed, A.; Jabaudon, D.; Mayer, C.; Bocchi, R.: Dual lineage origins of neocortical astrocytes. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)

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Ahn, M.; Edelman, B. J.; He, B.; Müller-Putz, G. R.; Röhrbein, F.: Advances in hybrid and application-driven BCI systems. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 18, 1498196 (2024)

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Allard, C. A. H.; Herbert, A. L.; Krueger, S. P.; Liang, Q.; Walsh, B. L.; Rhyne, A. L.; Gourlay, A. N.; Seminara, A.; Baldwin, M. W.; Kingsley, D. M. et al.; Bellono, N. W.: Evolution of novel sensory organs in fish with legs. Current Biology 34 (19), pp. 4349 - 4356.e7 (2024)

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Atluri, N.; Dulko, E.; Jedrusiak, M.; Klos, J.; Osuru, H. P.; Davis, E.; Beenhakker, M.; Kapur, J.; Zuo, Z.; Lunardi, N.: Anatomical substrates of Rapid Eye Movement sleep rebound in a rodent model of post-sevoflurane sleep disruption. Anesthesiology 140 (4), pp. 729 - 741 (2024)

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Aulsebrook, A. E.; Jacques-Hamilton, R.; Kempenaers, B.: Quantifying mating behaviour using accelerometry and machine learning: Challenges and opportunities. Animal Behaviour 207, pp. 55 - 76 (2024)

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Bauer, J.; Lewin, U.; Herbert, E.; Gjorgjieva, J.; Schoonover, C.; Fink, A.; Rose, T.; Bonhoeffer, T.; Hübener, M.: Sensory experience steers representational drift in mouse visual cortex. Nature Communications 15, 9153 (2024)

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Belojevic, J.; Mortier, M. S.; Oberweiser, M. M.; Braig, F.; Haug, J. T.; Haug, C.: The history of short-tailed whip scorpions: Changes in body size and flagellum shape in Schizomida. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143 (1), 24 (2024)

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Bistere, L.; Gomez-Guzman, C. M.; Xiong, Y.; Vallentin, D.: Female calls promote song learning in male juvenile zebra finches. Nature Communications 15, 8938 (2024)

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Bistere, L.; Wilczek, S.; Vallentin, D.: Variable and slow-paced neural dynamics in HVC underlie plastic song production in juvenile zebra finches. BMC Neuroscience 25, 76 (2024)

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Borst, A.: Connectivity matrix seriation via relaxation. PLoS Computational Biology 20 (2), e1011904 (2024)

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Botero‐Delgadillo, E.; Meza-Angulo, E.; Bayly, N. J.: Abundance models of endemic birds of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, northern South America, suggest small population sizes and dependence on montane elevations. Ornithological Applications 126 (2), duae002 (2024)

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Bulla, M.; Küpper, C.; Lank, D. B.; Albrechtová, J.; Loveland, J. L.; Martin, K.; Teltscher, K. L.; Cragnolini, M.; Lierz, M.; Albrecht, T. et al.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Sperm swimming speed and morphology differ slightly among the three genetic morphs of ruff sandpiper (Calidris pugnax), but show no clear polymorphism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12, 1476254 (2024)

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Chan, R. W.; Hamilton-Fletcher, G.; Edelman, B. J.; Faiq, M. A.; Sajitha, T. A.; Moeller, S.; Chan, K. C.: NOise Reduction with DIstribution Corrected (NORDIC) principal component analysis improves brain activity detection across rodent and human functional MRI contexts. Imaging Neuroscience 2, pp. 1 - 18 (2024)

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Cimiotti, D. V.; Eberhart-Hertel, L. J.; Audevard, A.; Garcias Salas, P. J.; Gelinaud, G.; Günther, K.; Rocha, A.; Schulz, R.; van der Winden, J.; Schmaljohann, H. et al.; Küpper, C.: Dispersal in Kentish plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus): Adult females perform furthest movements. Journal of Ornithology 165 (2), pp. 301 - 314 (2024)

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de Framond, L.; Müller, R.; Feuerriegel, L.; Brumm, H.: Do the rain calls of Chaffinches indicate rain? Journal of Ornithology 165 (3), pp. 615 - 625 (2024)

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Del-Valle-Anton, L.; Amin, S.; Cimino, D.; Neuhaus, F.; Dvoretskova, E.; Fernández, V.; Babal, Y. K.; Garcia-Frigola, C.; Prieto-Colomina, A.; Murcia-Ramón, R. et al.; Nomura, Y.; Cárdenas, A.; Feng, C.; Moreno-Bravo, J. A.; Götz, M.; Mayer, C.; Borrell, V.: Multiple parallel cell lineages in the developing mammalian cerebral cortex. Science Advances 10 (13), eadn9998 (2024)

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Delhey, K.; Krietsch, J.; Parisi, A.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope). Ornithology 141 (3), ukae016 (2024)

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Ding, W.; Weltzien, H.; Peters, C.; Klein, R.: Nausea-induced suppression of feeding is mediated by central amygdala Dlk1-expressing neurons. Cell Reports 43 (4), 113990 (2024)

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Dvoretskova, E.; Ho, M. C.; Kittke, V.; Neuhaus, F.; Vitali, I.; Lam, D. D.; Delgado, I.; Feng, C.; Torres, M.; Winkelmann, J. et al.; Mayer, C.: Spatial enhancer activation influences inhibitory neuron identity during mouse embryonic development. Nature Neuroscience 27 (5), pp. 862 - 872 (2024)

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Eberhart-Hertel, L. J.; Safari, I.; Makomba, P.; Hertel, A.; Goymann, W.: Early-life demographic processes do not drive adult sex ratio biases and mating systems in sympatric coucal species. Functional Ecology 38 (8), pp. 1779 - 1795 (2024)

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Edelman, B. J.; Siegenthaler, D.; Wanken, P. G.; Jenkins, B. J.; Schmid, B.; Ressle, A.; Gogolla, N.; Frank, T.; Macé, E.: The COMBO window: A chronic cranial implant for multiscale circuit interrogation in mice. PLoS Biology 22 (6), e3002664 (2024)

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Edwards, S. V.; Cloutier, A.; Cockburn, G.; Driver, R.; Grayson, P.; Katoh, K.; Baldwin, M. W.; Sackton, T. B.; Baker, A. J.: A nuclear genome assembly of an extinct flightless bird, the little bush moa. Science Advances 10 (21), eadj6823 (2024)

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Evens, R.; Lathouwers, M.; Creemers, J.; Ulenaers, E.; Eens, M.; Kempenaers, B.: A case of facultative polygyny in an enigmatic monogamous species, the European Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus). Ecology and Evolution 14 (10), e70366 (2024)

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Fernholz, M. H. P.; Guggiana Nilo, D.; Bonhoeffer, T.; Kist, A. M.: DeepD3, an open framework for automated quantification of dendritic spines. PLoS Computational Biology 20 (2), e1011774 (2024)

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Giraldo Deck, L. M.; Loveland, J. L.; Goymann, W.; Lank, D. B.; Küpper, C.: A supergene affects androgen concentrations during early development in a bird with alternative reproductive morphs. Hormones and Behavior 166, 105645 (2024)

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Goymann, W.: Of hormones (well, not really!), behavior, and observer bias. Ethology 130 (6), e13450 (2024)

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Goymann, W.: Are scientific journals delaying doctoral theses? Ethology 130 (11), e13507 (2024)

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