Territorial aggression in urban and rural Song Sparrows is correlated with corticosterone, but not testosterone
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: androgen, challenge hypothesis, glucocorticoid, territorial aggression, urbanization
2018
Risk-averse personalities have a systemically potentiated neuroendocrine stress axis: A multilevel experiment in Parus major
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: acth, behavioral syndromes, corticosterone, dexamethasone, glucocorticoid receptor, hpa axis, mineralocorticoid receptor, negative feedback, personality, stress
2017
Early-life stress affects song complexity, song learning and volume of the brain nucleus RA in adult male song sparrows
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference
2013
Early-life stress affects the behavioural and neural response of female song sparrows to conspecific song
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference
2013
Effect of rapid modulation of circulating plasma testosterone concentration on begging, aggressive behavior and competition for food in black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) chicks
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: aggressive behavior, androgens, begging behavior, sibling competition, testosterone
2013
Olfactory imprinting as a mechanism for nest odour recognition in zebra finches
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: avian olfaction, early learning, familial imprinting, songbird, taeniopygia guttata, zebra finch
2013
Testosterone-dependency of male solo song in a duetting songbird — Evidence from females
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: cooperative breeding, seasonal, song, songbird, testosterone, tropics
2013
Robust behavioral effects of song playback in the absence of testosterone or corticosterone release
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: aggression, androgen responsiveness, challenge hypothesis, corticosterone, hpa, hpg, low-amplitude song, playback, simulated territorial intrusion, testosterone
2012
Testosterone increases repertoire size in an open-ended learner: An experimental study using adult male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: adult song learning, european starling, repertoire turnover, repetition rate, sexual signal, song bout length, sturnus vulgaris, testosterone
2012
Seasonal variation of vocal behaviour in a temperate songbird: Assessing the effects of laboratory housing on wild-caught, seasonally breeding birds
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: chickadee, seasonality, songbirds, vocalbehaviour
2011