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Editorials

Kempenaers B (2026). Publishing Anecdotal Information. Ardea, 113. doi:10.5253/arde.2025.a20

Kempenaers B (2024). Ornithology from the lakeshore: Life’s Mass Murderers. Ardea, 112. doi:10.5253/arde.2024.a1

Kempenaers B (2022). Ornithology from the lakeshore: The Firebirds. Ardea, 110, 1–4. doi:10.5253/arde.v110i1.a9

Kempenaers B (2020). Ornithology from the lakeshore: Moult and misfortune. Ardea, 108, 1–4. doi:10.5253/arde.v108i1.a11

Kempenaers B (2019). Ornithology from the lakeshore: Antipodean attractions. Ardea, 107, 1–4. doi:10.5253/arde.v107i1.a12

Kempenaers B (2017). Ornithology from the lakeshore: The evolution of advertising. Ardea, 105, 85–87. doi:10.5253/arde.v105i2.a0

Kempenaers B (2016). Ornithology from the lakeshore. Ardea, 104, 103–105. doi:10.5253/arde.v104i2.a0

Kempenaers B (2015). Ornithology from the lakeshore. Ardea, 103, 1–2. doi:10.5253/arde.v103i1.a0

Publications

2026

Santema P, Krietsch J, Kempenaers B (2026). Factors associated with breeding site fidelity in the sex-role reversed red phalarope. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arag090

Jelínek V, Mari L, Petrželková A, Albrechtová J, Cepák J, Kuhn S, Munclinger P, Tomášek O, Šulc M, Albrecht T (2026). Conspecific brood parasitism in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) and other Hirundinidae. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 80. doi:10.1007/s00265-026-03725-5

Carranco AS, Romo D, Torres MdL, Wilhelm K, Gillingham MA, Sommer S (2026). Egg microbiome of the yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) modulates fusariosis fungal infection and hatching success. Communications Biology, 9. doi:10.1038/s42003-026-10404-8

Negro JJ, Camacho C, Tella JL, Serrano D, Tejedo M, Figuerola J, Redondo T, Galván I, Mendoza Sagrera I, Margalida A (2026). Letter to the editor concerning the paper" Attraction points: A new sampling design method to quantify common finches’ populations" published by Marazuela Pinela et al. in Ecological Indicators, 171, 113155 (2025). Ecological Indicators. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2026.114719

Zhang J, Santema P, Zhao C, Lin Z, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2026). Double Parasitism by Two Cuckoo Gentes in a Daurian Redstart Nest. Ecology and Evolution, 16. doi:10.1002/ece3.73968

Delhey K, Kappers EF, Valcu M, Both C, Kempenaers B (2026). Environmental correlates of spatio-temporal patterns of colour variation in a bird of prey: The common buzzard (Buteo buteo). Ibis. doi:10.1111/ibi.70041

Jarayseh B, Masoero G, Bize P (2026). The role of viability selection in shaping short-and long-term consequences of early-life conditions: An experiment in the Alpine swift. Journal of Animal Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.70314

Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2026). Genes Related to Sperm Motility Are Under Recent Ongoing Selection in Two Shorebird Species With a Polygynous Mating System and Frequent Multiple Paternity. Molecular Ecology, 35. doi:10.1111/mec.70493

Kempenaers B, Santema P, Cragnolini M, Eberhart-Hertel L, Krietsch J, Kwon E, Lislevand T (2026). Females of a socially polyandrous, sex-role reversed shorebird visit multiple breeding sites within a single season. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 293. doi:10.1098/rspb.2026.1110

Funosas D, Massol E, Bas Y, Schmidt S, Bennett D, Arend D, Gebhard A, Barbaro L, König S, Font RC, others (2026). A finely annotated dataset for the automated acoustic identification of European Orthoptera and Cicadidae. Scientific Data. doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07150-1

Conklin JR, Ruthrauff DR, Valcu M, Verkuil YI, Johnson JA, Kempenaers B (2026). Post-hatch ecology, diet, and first migration of juvenile Alaskan Bar-tailed Godwits. Wader Study, 133, 12–25. doi:10.18194/ws.00394

2025

Santema P, Eberhart-Hertel L, Aulsebrook A, Kwon E, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2025). Factors associated with breeding site fidelity in a nomadic shorebird with extremely low local return rates. Animal Behaviour, 223. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123151

Zhao C, Zhang J, Santema P, Lin Z, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2025). No egg or nestling-retrieval behavior in a cavity-nesting cuckoo host. Avian Research. doi:10.1016/j.avrs.2025.100322

Gould E, Fraser HS, Parker TH, Nakagawa S, Griffith SC, Vesk PA, Fidler F, Hamilton DG, Abbey-Lee RN, Abbott JK, others (2025). Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC biology, 23. doi:10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x

Krietsch J, Goymann W, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2025). Sex differences in testosterone and hematocrit levels reflect mating system differences of two Arctic-breeding shorebird species. Behavioral Ecology, 36. doi:10.1093/beheco/araf136

Delhey K, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2025). Unpalatable birds are black: a re-analysis of Hugh Cott’s data on bird palatability. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 144. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blaf005

Harrison A, Stenzel C, Anderson A, Howell J, Lanctot RB, Aikens M, Aldabe J, Berigan LA, Bêty J, Blomberg E, others (2025). The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation. Conservation Biology. doi:10.1111/cobi.70194

Ibáñez-Álamo JD, Delhey K, Izquierdo L, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2025). Colourful urban birds: bird species successful in urban environments have more elaborate colours and less brown. Ecology Letters, 28. doi:10.1111/ele.70106

Jacques-Hamilton R, Valcu M, Kwon E, Versluijs TSL, Kempenaers B (2025). Measurement error in remotely sensed fractional snow cover datasets: implications for ecological research. Environmental Research: Ecology, 4. doi:10.1088/2752-664X/ada8b3

Rohr-Bender VA, Kupán K, Lopez-Nava G, Forstmeier W, Hertel A, Razumov V, Martin K, Kempenaers B, Küpper C (2025). Sex and morph variation in activity from early ontogeny to maturity in ruffs (Calidris pugnax). Ethology, 131. doi:10.1111/eth.13543

de Framond L, Francis CD, Valcu M, Brumm H (2025). Latitudinal variation in the timing of nest predator activity is habitat specific. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34. doi:10.1111/geb.13945

Weiser EL, Lanctot RB, Ruthrauff DR, Saalfeld ST, Tibbitts TL, Abad-Gómez JM, Aldabe J, Almeida JBd, Alves JA, Anderson GQ, others (2025). Power source, data retrieval method, and attachment type affect success of dorsally mounted tracking tag deployments in 37 species of shorebirds. Journal of Avian Biology, 2025. doi:10.1002/jav.03487

Eberhart-Hertel L, Williams EM, McGilvary-Howard A, Howard T, Habraken T, O’Donnell CF, Küpper C, Kempenaers B (2025). Evaluating the effects of tracking devices on survival, breeding success, behavior, and condition of a small, partially migratory shorebird. Journal of Avian Biology, 2025. doi:10.1002/jav.03490

Belfín O, Kempenaers B, Piersma T (2025). Daily and seasonal use of vocalizations by nesting black-tailed godwits. Journal of Avian Biology, 2025. doi:10.1111/jav.03362

Valcu C, Valcu M, Delhey K, Kempenaers B (2025). Mechanisms of colour-production modulate the link between extra-pair paternity and avian sexual dichromatism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi:10.1093/jeb/voaf085

Pei Y, Forstmeier W, Suh A, Bambach L, Borges I, Low GW, Dion-Côté A, Knief U, Wolf J, Kempenaers B (2025). Evolution of large polymorphic inversions in a panmictic songbird. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaf262

Kwon E, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2025). Strong wintering site fidelity contrasts with exploratory breeding site sampling in a socially monogamous shorebird. Movement Ecology, 13. doi:10.1186/s40462-025-00580-3

Kempenaers B, Valcu M, Piersma T, Santema P, Vervoort R (2025). Large-scale sampling of potential breeding sites in male ruffs. Proceedings B, 292. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2225

Zhang J, Zhao C, Santema P, Lin Z, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2025). Nestling birds learn socially to eavesdrop on heterospecific alarm calls through acoustic association. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292. doi:10.1098/rspb.2025.0879

Gillingham MA, Prüter H, Montero BK, Kempenaers B (2025). The costs and benefits of a dynamic host microbiome. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 40, 255–272. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.008

2024

Volkmer T, Kupán K, Rohr-Bender VA, Guirao-Ortiz M, Cruz-López M, del Angel SG, Rodrigues LF, Eberhart-Hertel L, Küpper C (2024). Hidden in plain sight: camouflage and hiding behaviour of wild precocial chicks in an open landscape. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78. doi:10.1007/s00265-024-

Zaid E, Rainsford FW, Johnsson RD, Valcu M, Vyssotski AL, Meerlo P, Lesku JA (2024). Semelparous marsupials reduce sleep for sex. Current Biology, 34, 606–614. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.064

Evens R, Lathouwers M, Creemers J, Ulenaers E, Eens M, Kempenaers B (2024). A case of facultative polygyny in an enigmatic monogamous species, the European Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus). Ecology and Evolution, 14. doi:10.1002/ece3.70366

Zhang J, Santema P, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2024). Video evidence that cuckoos farm their hosts by ejecting nestlings. Ecology and Evolution, 14. doi:10.1002/ece3.11196

Santema P, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B (2024). Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions. Evolution, 78, 1751–1760. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpae131

Bulla M, Küpper C, Lank DB, Albrechtová J, Loveland JL, Martin K, Teltscher K, Cragnolini M, Lierz M, Albrecht T, others (2024). 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. doi:10.3389/fevo.2024.1476254

Eberhart-Hertel L, Safari I, Makomba P, Hertel A, Goymann W (2024). Early-life demographic processes do not drive adult sex ratio biases and mating systems in sympatric coucal species. Functional Ecology, 38, 1779–1795. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14600

Chagnon-Lafortune A, Duchesne É, Legagneux P, McKinnon L, Reneerkens J, Casajus N, Abraham KF, Bolduc É, Brown GS, Brown SC, others (2024). A circumpolar study unveils a positive non-linear effect of temperature on arctic arthropod availability that may reduce the risk of warming-induced trophic mismatch for breeding shorebirds. Global Change Biology, 30. doi:10.1111/gcb.17356

Tavera EA, Lank DB, Douglas DC, Sandercock BK, Lanctot RB, Schmidt NM, Reneerkens J, Ward DH, Bêty J, Kwon E, others (2024). Why do avian responses to change in Arctic green-up vary? Global Change Biology, 30. doi:10.1111/gcb.17335

Botero-Delgadillo E, Vásquez RA, Kempenaers B (2024). Assessing the reproductive consequences of mate retention and pair bond duration in Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda), a short-lived, socially monogamous neotropical bird. Ibis, 166. doi:10.1111/ibi.13183

Mentesana L, Amador A, Amorim P, Delhey K, Diniz P, Fraga R, Mindlin GB, Reboreda JC, Schaaf A, Tassino B, others (2024). Biology of the Rufous Hornero, from mechanisms to behavioral ecology: a potential Neotropical model species? Journal of Field Ornithology, 95. doi:10.5751/JFO-00544-950402

Cimiotti DV, Eberhart-Hertel L, Audevard A, Garcias Salas PJ, Gelinaud G, Günther K, Rocha A, Schulz R, van der Winden J, Schmaljohann H, others (2024). Dispersal in Kentish Plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus): adult females perform furthest movements. Journal of Ornithology, 165, 301–314. doi:10.1007/s10336-023-02120-5

Saalfeld ST, Valcu M, Brown S, English W, Giroux M, Harrison A, Krietsch J, Kuletz K, Lamarre J, Latty C, Lecomte N, McGuire R, Robards M, Scarpignato A, Schulte S, Smith PA, Kempenaers B, Lanctot RB (2024). From land to sea: the fall migration of the red phalarope through the Western Hemisphere. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 729, 1–29. doi:10.3354/meps14531

Spurgin LG, Bosse M, Adriaensen F, Albayrak T, Barboutis C, Belda E, Bushuev A, Cecere JG, Charmantier A, Cichon M, others (2024). The great tit HapMap project: A continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird. Molecular ecology resources. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13969

Linscott JA, Basso E, Bathrick R, Bosi de Almeida J, Anderson AM, Angulo-Pratolongo F, Ballard BM, Bêty J, Brown SC, Christie KS, Clements SJ, Friis C, Gesmundo C, Giroux M, Harrison A, Harwood CM, Hill JM, Johnson JA, Kempenaers B, Laliberté B, Lamarre J, Lanctot RB, Latty C, Lecomte N, McDuffie LA, Navedo JG, Nol E, Pohlen ZM, Rausch J, Renfrew RB, Ruiz J, Russell M, Ruthrauff DR, Saalfeld ST, Sandercock BK, Schulte SA, Smith PA, Taylor AR, Tibbitts TL, Valcu M, Weegman MD, Wright JR, Senner NR (2024). The Amazon Basin’s rivers and lakes support Nearctic-breeding shorebirds during southward migration. Ornithological Applications, 126. doi:10.1093/ornithapp/duae034

Delhey K, Krietsch J, Parisi A, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2024). Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope). Ornithology. doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukae016

Lawson LP, Nemeth E, Dvorak M, Cunninghame F, Fessl B, Mueller JC, Mosquera D, Wendelin B, Petren K (2024). A hidden finch from the Galapagos Islands: a genetically and morphologically distinctive woodpecker finch from San Cristobal Island. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 202. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae163

Schlicht E, Gilsenan C, Santema P, Türk A, Wittenzellner A, Kempenaers B (2024). Removal of older males increases extra-pair siring success of yearling males. Plos Biology, 22. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002584

Aulsebrook AE, Jacques-Hamilton R, Kempenaers B (2024). Quantifying mating behaviour using accelerometry and machine learning: Challenges and opportunities. Animal Behaviour, 207, 55–76. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.10.013

Krietsch J, Valcu M, Cragnolini M, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B (2024). Mutual mate guarding with limited sexual conflict in a sex-role-reversed shorebird. Behavioral Ecology, 35. doi:10.1093/beheco/arad084

Zhang J, Santema P, Wang H, Lin Z, Yang L, Yan D, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2024). The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host. Behavioral Ecology, 35. doi:10.1093/beheco/arad111

2023

Kwon E, Kempenaers B (2023). Lack of Breeding Site Fidelity and Mate Fidelity in an Enigmatic Socially Monogamous Shorebird. Animal Behaviour, 204, 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.07.010

Schlicht L, Santema P, Kempenaers B (2023). Start and End of Daily Activity Predict Extrapair Siring Success Independently of Age in Male Blue Tits. Animal Behaviour, 198, 21–31. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.01.016

Santema P, Kempenaers B (2023). Experimentally Advancing Morning Emergence Time Does Not Increase Extra-Pair Siring Success in Blue Tit Males. Behavioral Ecology, 34, 346–353. doi:10.1093/beheco/arad006

Santema P, Kempenaers B (2023). Patterns of Extra-Territorial Nest-Box Visits in a Songbird Suggest a Role in Extrapair Mating. Behavioral Ecology, 34, 150–159. doi:10.1093/beheco/arac111

Nolazco S, Delhey K, Fan M, Hall ML, Kingma SA, Roast MJ, Teunissen N, Peters A (2023). Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren? Behavioral Ecology, 34, 50–62. doi:10.1093/beheco/arac096

Santema P, Eberhart-Hertel L, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2023). Sexual Selection for Extreme Physical Performance in a Polygynous Bird Is Associated with Exceptional Sex Differences in Oxygen Carrying Capacity. Biology Letters, 19. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2023.0391

Zhang J, Santema P, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2023). Brood Parasitism Risk Drives Birds to Breed near Humans. Current Biology, 33. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.047

Vontzou N, Pei Y, Mueller JC, Reifova R, Ruiz-Ruano FJ, Schlebusch SA, Suh A (2023). Songbird germline-restricted chromosome as a potential arena of genetic conflicts. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 83. doi:10.1016/j.gde.2023.102113

Vriend SJ, Grøtan V, Gamelon M, Adriaensen F, Ahola MP, Alvarez E, Bailey LD, Barba E, Bouvier J, Burgess MD, others (2023). Temperature synchronizes temporal variation in laying dates across European hole-nesting passerines. Ecology, 104.

Teltscher K, Kempenaers B (2023). Genotyping Blastoderms of Avian Eggs. Ecology and Evolution, 13. doi:10.1002/ece3.10821

Perkins M, Stenhouse IJ, Lanctot RB, Brown S, Bêty J, Boldenow M, Cunningham J, English W, Gates R, Gilchrist HG, others (2023). Factors influencing mercury exposure in Arctic-breeding shorebirds. Ecotoxicology, 32, 1062–1083. doi:10.1007/s10646-023-02708-w

Eberhart-Hertel LJ, Rodrigues LF, Krietsch J, Hertel AG, Cruz-López M, Vázquez-Rojas KA, González-Medina E, Schroeder J, Küpper C (2023). Egg Size Variation in the Context of Polyandry: A Case Study Using Long-Term Field Data from Snowy Plovers. Evolution, 77, 2590–2605. doi:10.1093/evolut/qpad168

Prüter H, Gillingham MAF, Krietsch J, Kuhn S, Kempenaers B (2023). Sexual Transmission May Drive Pair Similarity of the Cloacal Microbiome in a Polyandrous Species. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92, 1639–1657. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13961

Delhey K, Valcu M, Dale J, Kempenaers B (2023). The Evolution of Carotenoid-based Plumage Colours in Passerine Birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92, 66–77. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13791

Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2023). Age Trajectories in Extra-pair Siring Success Suggest an Effect of Maturation or Early-life Experience. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36, 1213–1225. doi:10.1111/jeb.14201

Valcu M, Valcu C, Kempenaers B (2023). Extra-pair Paternity and Sexual Dimorphism in Birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36, 764–779. doi:10.1111/jeb.14172

Mueller JC, Schlebusch SA, Pei Y, Poignet M, Vontzou N, Ruiz-Ruano FJ, Albrecht T, Reifová R, Forstmeier W, Suh A, Kempenaers B (2023). Micro Germline-Restricted Chromosome in Blue Tits: Evidence for Meiotic Functions. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40. doi:10.1093/molbev/msad096

Pei Y, Forstmeier W, Knief U, Kempenaers B (2023). Weak Antagonistic Fitness Effects Can Maintain an Inversion Polymorphism. Molecular Ecology, 32, 3575–3585. doi:10.1111/mec.16963

Eastwood JR, Dupoué A, Delhey K, Verhulst S, Cockburn A, Peters A (2023). When does early-life telomere length predict survival? A case study and meta-analysis. Molecular Ecology, 32, 3000–3013. doi:10.1111/mec.16894

Delhey K, Valcu M, Muck C, Dale J, Kempenaers B (2023). Evolutionary Predictors of the Specific Colors of Birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2217692120

Schlicht L, Schlicht E, Santema P, Kempenaers B (2023). A Dawn and Dusk Chorus Will Emerge If Males Sing in the Absence of Their Mate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290. doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.2266

Zhang J, Santema P, Lin Z, Yang L, Liu M, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2023). Differences in the Costs and Benefits of Choosiness May Explain Variation in Cuckoo Egg-Matching Strategy: A Reply to Wang and Liang (2023). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290. doi:10.1098/rspb.2023.1219

Zhang J, Santema P, Lin Z, Yang L, Liu M, Li J, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2023). Experimental Evidence That Cuckoos Choose Host Nests Following an Egg Matching Strategy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.2094

Evens R, Lathouwers M, Pradervand J, Jechow A, Kyba CCM, Shatwell T, Jacot A, Ulenaers E, Kempenaers B, Eens M (2023). Skyglow relieves a crepuscular bird from visual constraints on being active. Science of The Total Environment, 900. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165760

Call MN, Wilke AL, Poulton Z, Boettcher R, Karpanty SM, Kwon E, Lipford A, Gardner ED, Anderson L, Fraser JD, others (2023). Comparing in-person versus camera monitoring of shorebird reproductive success. Waterbirds, 45, 312–327. doi:10.1675/063.045.0310

Santangeli A, Haukka A, Morris W, Arkkila S, Delhey K, Kempenaers B, Valcu M, Dale J, Lehikoinen A, Mammola S (2023). What drives our aesthetic attraction to birds? npj Biodiversity, 2. doi:10.1038/s44185-023-00026-2

2022

Krietsch J, Cragnolini M, Kuhn S, Lanctot RB, Saalfeld ST, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2022). Extrapair Paternity in a Sequentially Polyandrous Shorebird: Limited Evidence for the Sperm Storage Hypothesis. Animal Behaviour, 183, 77–92. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.10.021

Vervoort R, Schmaltz LE, Hooijmeijer JC, Verkuil YI, Kempenaers B, Piersma T (2022). Within-and between-year variation in the presence of individually marked Ruff Calidris pugnax at a stopover site during northward migration. Ardea, 110, 41–59. doi:10.5253/arde.v110i1.a1

Zhang J, Santema P, Li J, Feeney WE, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2022). The Mere Presence of Cuckoos in Breeding Area Alters Egg-Ejection Decisions in Daurian Redstarts. Behavioral Ecology, 33, 1153–1160. doi:10.1093/beheco/arac084

Kwon E, Valcu M, Cragnolini M, Bulla M, Lyon B, Kempenaers B (2022). Breeding Site Fidelity Is Lower in Polygamous Shorebirds and Male-Biased in Monogamous Species. Behavioral Ecology, 33, 592–605. doi:10.1093/beheco/arac014

Borodin P, Chen A, Forstmeier W, Fouché S, Malinovskaya L, Pei Y, Reifová R, Ruiz-Ruano FJ, Schlebusch SA, Sotelo-Munoz M, others (2022). Mendelian nightmares: the germline-restricted chromosome of songbirds: Mendelian nightmares: the germline-restricted chromosome of songbirds. Chromosome Research, 30, 255–272. doi:10.1007/s10577-022-09688-3

Kempenaers B (2022). Mating Systems in Birds. Current Biology, 32. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.066

Adreani NM, Valcu M, Scientists C, Mentesana L (2022). Asymmetric architecture is non-random and repeatable in a bird’s nests. Current Biology, 32. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.03.075

Botero-Delgadillo E, Quirici V, Ippi S, Vásquez RA, Kempenaers B (2022). Evidence of Low Within-pair Genetic Relatedness in a Relict Population of Thorn-tailed Rayadito despite Long-term Isolation. Ecology and Evolution, 12. doi:10.1002/ece3.8679

Camerlenghi E, McQueen A, Delhey K, Cook CN, Kingma SA, Farine DR, Peters A (2022). Cooperative breeding and the emergence of multilevel societies in birds. Ecology letters, 25, 766–777. doi:10.1111/ele.13950

Espíndola-Hernández P, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2022). Genomic Signatures of the Evolution of a Diurnal Lifestyle in Strigiformes. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 12. doi:10.1093/g3journal/jkac135

Bulla M, Muck C, Tritscher D, Kempenaers B (2022). Nest Reliefs in a Cryptically Incubating Shorebird Are Quick, but Vocal. Ibis, 164, 1013–1034. doi:10.1111/ibi.13069

Mueller JC, Botero-Delgadillo E, Espíndola-Hernández P, Gilsenan C, Ewels P, Gruselius J, Kempenaers B (2022). Local Selection Signals in the Genome of Blue Tits Emphasize Regulatory and Neuronal Evolution. Molecular Ecology, 31, 1504–1514. doi:10.1111/mec.16345

Bailey LD, van de Pol M, Adriaensen F, Arct A, Barba E, Bellamy PE, Bonamour S, Bouvier J, Burgess MD, Charmantier A, others (2022). Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation. Nature Communications, 13. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29635-4

Giraldo-Deck LM, Loveland JL, Goymann W, Tschirren B, Burke T, Kempenaers B, Lank DB, Küpper C (2022). Intralocus conflicts associated with a supergene. Nature Communications, 13. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29033-w

Wang D, Forstmeier W, Farine DR, Maldonado-Chaparro AA, Martin K, Pei Y, Alarcón-Nieto G, Klarevas-Irby JA, Ma S, Aplin LM, Kempenaers B (2022). Machine Learning Reveals Cryptic Dialects That Explain Mate Choice in a Songbird. Nature Communications, 13. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28881-w

Nolazco S, Delhey K, Nakagawa S, Peters A (2022). Ornaments are equally informative in male and female birds. Nature Communications, 13. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33548-7

Pei Y, Forstmeier W, Ruiz-Ruano FJ, Mueller JC, Cabrero J, Camacho JPM, Alché JD, Franke A, Hoeppner M, Börno S, Gessara I, Hertel M, Teltscher K, Knief U, Suh A, Kempenaers B (2022). Occasional Paternal Inheritance of the Germline-Restricted Chromosome in Songbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2103960119

Eastwood JR, Connallon T, Delhey K, Hall ML, Teunissen N, Kingma SA, La Porte AM, Verhulst S, Peters A (2022). Hot and dry conditions predict shorter nestling telomeres in an endangered songbird: Implications for population persistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119. doi:10.1073/pnas.212294411

Rozzi R, Quilodrán CS, Botero-Delgadillo E, Napolitano C, Torres-Mura JC, Barroso O, Crego RD, Bravo C, Ippi S, Quirici V, others (2022). The Subantarctic Rayadito (Aphrastura subantarctica), a new bird species on the southernmost islands of the Americas. Scientific Reports, 12. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-17985-4

2021

Wang D, Forstmeier W, D’Amelio PB, Martin K, Kempenaers B (2021). Is Female Mate Choice Repeatable across Males with Nearly Identical Songs? Animal Behaviour, 181, 137–149. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.09.001

Santema P, Schlicht L, Beck KB, Kempenaers B (2021). Effects of Exposure to Predator Models on Fledging Behaviour in Blue Tits. Animal Behaviour, 181, 61–69. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.030

Santema P, Schlicht L, Sheldon BC, Kempenaers B (2021). Experimental Evidence That Nestlings Adjust Their Fledging Time to Each Other in a Multiparous Bird. Animal Behaviour, 180, 143–150. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.007

Santema P, Schlicht L, Beck KB, Sheldon BC, Kempenaers B (2021). Why Do Nestling Birds Fledge Early in the Day? Animal Behaviour, 174, 79–86. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.01.026

Maldonado-Chaparro AA, Forstmeier W, Farine DR (2021). Relationship quality underpins pair bond formation and subsequent reproductive performance. Animal Behaviour, 182, 43–58. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.09.009

Evens R, Jacot A, Artois T, Ulenaers E, Neyens T, Rappaz L, Theux C, Pradervand J (2021). Improved Ecological Insights Commission New Conservation Targets for a Crepuscular Bird Species. Animal Conservation, 24, 457–469. doi:10.1111/acv.12650

Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2021). Origin and Outcome of Social Polygyny in the Blue Tit. Ardea, 109. doi:10.5253/arde.v109i1.a4

Knief U, Forstmeier W (2021). Violating the Normality Assumption May Be the Lesser of Two Evils. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 2576–2590. doi:10.3758/s13428-021-01587-5

Beck KB, Farine DR, Kempenaers B (2021). Social Network Position Predicts Male Mating Success in a Small Passerine. Behavioral Ecology, 32, 856–864. doi:10.1093/beheco/arab034

McQueen A, Delhey K, Szecsenyi B, Crino OL, Roast MJ, Peters A (2021). Physiological costs and age constraints of a sexual ornament: an experimental study in a wild bird. Behavioral Ecology, 32, 327–338. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa143

McQueen A, Delhey K, Barzan FR, Naimo AC, Peters A (2021). Male fairy-wrens produce and maintain vibrant breeding colors irrespective of individual quality. Behavioral Ecology, 32, 178–187. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa128

Delhey K, Dale J, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2021). Migratory Birds Are Lighter Coloured. Current Biology, 31. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.048

Mikula P, Valcu M, Brumm H, Bulla M, Forstmeier W, Petrusková T, Kempenaers B, Albrecht T (2021). A Global Analysis of Song Frequency in Passerines Provides No Support for the Acoustic Adaptation Hypothesis but Suggests a Role for Sexual Selection. Ecology Letters, 24, 477–486. doi:10.1111/ele.13662

Laitly A, Callaghan CT, Delhey K, Cornwell WK (2021). Is color data from citizen science photographs reliable for biodiversity research? Ecology and Evolution, 11, 4071–4083. doi:10.1002/ece3.7307

Joseph L, Burbidge AH, Delhey K, Hansen BD, Kleindorfer S, Maurer G (2021). Emu’s first 120 years: landmark papers of change in austral ornithology. Emu-Austral Ornithology, 121, 284–291. doi:10.1080/01584197.2021.1993529

Fan M, Hall ML, Roast M, Peters A, Delhey K (2021). Variability, Heritability and Condition-Dependence of the Multidimensional Male Colour Phenotype in a Passerine Bird. Heredity, 127, 300–311. doi:10.1038/s41437-021-00453-6

Culina A, Adriaensen F, Bailey LD, Burgess MD, Charmantier A, Cole EF, Eeva T, Matthysen E, Nater CR, Sheldon BC, others (2021). Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90, 2147–2160. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13388

Santema P, Teltscher K, Kempenaers B (2021). Sperm Numbers on the Perivitelline Layers of Blue Tit Eggs Are Repeatable within a Clutch, but Independent of the Occurrence of Extra-pair Paternity. Journal of Avian Biology, 52. doi:10.1111/jav.02826

Santema P, Kempenaers B (2021). Offspring Provisioning by Extra-pair Males in Blue Tits. Journal of Avian Biology, 52. doi:10.1111/jav.02755

Olsson P, Lind O, Mitkus M, Delhey K, Kelber A (2021). Lens and cornea limit UV vision of birds–a phylogenetic perspective. Journal of Experimental Biology, 224. doi:10.1242/jeb.243129

Valcu C, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2021). The Macroecology of Extra-pair Paternity in Birds. Molecular Ecology, 30, 4884–4898. doi:10.1111/mec.16081

Forstmeier W, Wang D, Martin K, Kempenaers B (2021). Fitness Costs of Female Choosiness Are Low in a Socially Monogamous Songbird. PLOS Biology, 19. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001257

Zhang J, Santema P, Li J, Yang L, Deng W, Kempenaers B (2021). Host Personality Predicts Cuckoo Egg Rejection in Daurian Redstarts Phoenicurus Auroreus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.0228

Knief U, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B, Wolf JBW (2021). A Sex Chromosome Inversion Is Associated with Copy Number Variation of Mitochondrial DNA in Zebra Finch Sperm. Royal Society Open Science, 8. doi:10.1098/rsos.211025

Feeney WE, Bertucci F, Gairin E, Siu G, Waqalevu V, Antoine M, De Loma TL, Planes S, Galzin R, Lecchini D (2021). Long Term Relationship between Farming Damselfish, Predators, Competitors and Benthic Habitat on Coral Reefs of Moorea Island. Scientific Reports, 11. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-94010-0

2020

Vervoort R, Kempenaers B (2020). Variation in Lek Attendance and Copulation Success of Independent and Satellite Male Ruffs Calidris Pugnax. Ardea, 107. doi:10.5253/arde.v107i3.a9

Beck KB, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2020). Analysis of Within-Individual Variation in Extrapair Paternity in Blue Tits ( Cyanistes Caeruleus ) Shows Low Repeatability and Little Effect of Changes in Neighborhood. Behavioral Ecology, 31, 1303–1315. doi:10.1093/beheco/araa069

Nolazco S, Hall ML, Kingma SA, Delhey K, Peters A (2020). No evidence for an adaptive role of early molt into breeding plumage in a female fairy wren. Behavioral Ecology, 31, 411–420. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz203

Delhey K, Dale J, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2020). Why Climate Change Should Generally Lead to Lighter Coloured Animals. Current Biology, 30. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.070

Knief U, Forstmeier W, Pei Y, Wolf J, Kempenaers B (2020). A Test for Meiotic Drive in Hybrids between Australian and Timor Zebra Finches. Ecology and Evolution, 10, 13464–13475. doi:10.1002/ece3.6951

Botero-Delgadillo E, Quirici V, Poblete Y, Ippi S, Kempenaers B, Vásquez RA (2020). Extrapair paternity in two populations of the socially monogamous Thorn-tailed Rayadito Aphrastura spinicauda (Passeriformes: Furnariidae). Ecology and Evolution, 10, 11861–11868. doi:10.1002/ece3.6850

Evens R, Kowalczyk C, Norevik G, Ulenaers E, Davaasuren B, Bayargur S, Artois T, Åkesson S, Hedenström A, Liechti F, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2020). Lunar Synchronization of Daily Activity Patterns in a Crepuscular Avian Insectivore. Ecology and Evolution, 10, 7106–7116. doi:10.1002/ece3.6412

Delhey K (2020). Behavioral ecology of neotropical birds. El Hornero, 35, 54–55. doi:10.56178/eh.v35i1.1494

McWilliams S, Pierce B, Wittenzellner A, Langlois L, Engel S, Speakman JR, Fatica O, DeMoranville K, Goymann W, Trost L, others (2020). The energy savings-oxidative cost trade-off for migratory birds during endurance flight. Elife, 9. doi:10.7554/eLife.60626

Pei Y, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B (2020). Offspring Performance Is Well Buffered against Stress Experienced by Ancestors. Evolution, 74, 1525–1539. doi:10.1111/evo.14026

Wang D, Forstmeier W, Martin K, Wilson A, Kempenaers B (2020). The Role of Genetic Constraints and Social Environment in Explaining Female Extra-pair Mating. Evolution, 74, 544–558. doi:10.1111/evo.13905

Espíndola-Hernández P, Mueller JC, Carrete M, Boerno S, Kempenaers B (2020). Genomic Evidence for Sensorial Adaptations to a Nocturnal Predatory Lifestyle in Owls. Genome Biology and Evolution, 12, 1895–1908. doi:10.1093/gbe/evaa166

Schlicht L, Kempenaers B (2020). The Effects of Season, Sex, Age and Weather on Population-level Variation in the Timing of Activity in Eurasian Blue Tits Cyanistes Caeruleus. Ibis, 162, 1146–1162. doi:10.1111/ibi.12818

Valcu C, Valcu M, Teltscher K, Kempenaers B (2020). Non-analytical Methods for the Estimation of Total Yolk Carotenoids in Passerine Eggs. Ibis, 162, 1075–1081. doi:10.1111/ibi.12803

Delhey K, Guallar S, Rueda-Hernández R, Valcu M, Wang D, Kempenaers B (2020). Partial or Complete? The Evolution of Post-juvenile Moult Strategies in Passerine Birds. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 2896–2908. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13354

Kempenaers B (2020). Why Do Females of a Lekking Species Mate with Multiple Males? Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 1138–1141. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13231

Gilsenan C, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2020). Timing of Arrival in the Breeding Area Is Repeatable and Affects Reproductive Success in a Non-migratory Population of Blue Tits. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 1017–1031. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13160

Santema P, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2020). Exposure to Predator Models during the Fertile Period Leads to Higher Levels of Extra-pair Paternity in Blue Tits. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 647–657. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13114

Santema P, Teltscher K, Kempenaers B (2020). Extra-pair Copulations Can Insure Female Blue Tits against Male Infertility. Journal of Avian Biology, 51. doi:10.1111/jav.02499

Botero-Delgadillo E, Quirici V, Poblete Y, Poulin E, Kempenaers B, Vásquez RA (2020). Exploratory behavior, but not aggressiveness, is correlated with breeding dispersal propensity in the highly philopatric thorn-tailed rayadito. Journal of Avian Biology, 51. doi:10.1111/jav.02262

Delhey K (2020). Revealing the colourful side of birds: spatial distribution of conspicuous plumage colours on the body of Australian birds. Journal of Avian Biology, 51. doi:10.1111/jav.02222

Prasetya AM, Peters A, Delhey K (2020). Carotenoid-based plumage colour saturation increases with temperature in Australian passerines. Journal of Biogeography, 47, 2671–2683. doi:10.1111/jbi.13968

Carballo L, Delhey K, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2020). Body Size and Climate as Predictors of Plumage Colouration and Sexual Dichromatism in Parrots. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33, 1543–1557. doi:10.1111/jeb.13690

Kappers EF, De Vries C, Alberda A, Kuhn S, Valcu M, Kempenaers B, Both C (2020). Morph-dependent Fitness and Directional Change of Morph Frequencies over Time in a Dutch Population of Common Buzzards Buteo Buteo. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33, 1306–1315. doi:10.1111/jeb.13675

Botero-Delgadillo E, Quirici V, Vásquez RA, Kempenaers B (2020). Heterozygosity-Fitness Correlations in a Continental Island Population of Thorn-Tailed Rayadito. Journal of Heredity, 111, 628–639. doi:10.1093/jhered/esaa056

Botero-Delgadillo E, Gilsenan C, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2020). Negative Effects of Individual Heterozygosity on Reproductive Success in a Wild Bird Population. Molecular Ecology, 29, 3196–3216. doi:10.1111/mec.15553

Mueller JC, Carrete M, Boerno S, Kuhl H, Tella JL, Kempenaers B (2020). Genes Acting in Synapses and Neuron Projections Are Early Targets of Selection during Urban Colonization. Molecular Ecology, 29, 3403–3412. doi:10.1111/mec.15451

Würbel H, Voelkl B, Altman NS, Forsman A, Forstmeier W, Gurevitch J, Jaric I, Karp NA, Kas MJ, Schielzeth H, others (2020). Reply to ‘It is time for an empirically informed paradigm shift in animal research’. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 21, 661–662. doi:10.1038/s41583-020-0370-7

Voelkl B, Altman NS, Forsman A, Forstmeier W, Gurevitch J, Jaric I, Karp NA, Kas MJ, Schielzeth H, Van de Casteele T, others (2020). Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 21, 384–393. doi:10.1038/s41583-020-0313-3

Delhey K (2020). Darker eggs feel the heat. Nature ecology & evolution, 4, 22–23. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-1061-5

De Villemereuil P, Charmantier A, Arlt D, Bize P, Brekke P, Brouwer L, Cockburn A, Côté SD, Dobson FS, Evans SR, others (2020). Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 31969–31978. doi:10.1073/pnas.2009003117

Beck KB, Farine DR, Kempenaers B (2020). Winter Associations Predict Social and Extra-Pair Mating Patterns in a Wild Songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.2606

Krietsch J, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2020). Wind Conditions Influence Breeding Season Movements in a Nomadic Polygynous Shorebird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.2789

Botero-Delgadillo E, Quirici V, Poblete Y, Acevedo M, Cuevas É, Bravo C, Cragnolini M, Rozzi R, Poulin E, Mueller JC, others (2020). Range-wide genetic structure in the thorn-tailed rayadito suggests limited gene flow towards peripheral populations. Scientific Reports, 10. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-66450-7

Pei (裴一凡) Y, Forstmeier W, Wang (王代平) D, Martin K, Rutkowska J, Kempenaers B (2020). Proximate Causes of Infertility and Embryo Mortality in Captive Zebra Finches. The American Naturalist, 196, 577–596. doi:10.1086/710956

2019

Santema P, Valcu M, Clinchy M, Zanette LY, Kempenaers B (2019). Effects of Predator Call Playbacks on Reproductive Success and Extrapair Paternity in Blue Tits. Animal Behaviour, 155, 97–109. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.027

Leitão AV, Hall ML, Delhey K, Mulder RA (2019). Female and male plumage colour signals aggression in a dichromatic tropical songbird. Animal Behaviour, 150, 285–301. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.01.025

Santema P, Valcu M, Clinchy M, Zanette L, Kempenaers B (2019). Playback of Predator Calls Inhibits and Delays Dawn Singing in a Songbird Community. Behavioral Ecology, 30, 1283–1288. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz075

Mutzel A, Olsen A, Mathot KJ, Araya-Ajoy YG, Nicolaus M, Wijmenga JJ, Wright J, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2019). Effects of Manipulated Levels of Predation Threat on Parental Provisioning and Nestling Begging. Behavioral Ecology, 30, 1123–1135. doi:10.1093/beheco/arz060

Fan M, D’alba L, Shawkey MD, Peters A, Delhey K (2019). Multiple components of feather microstructure contribute to structural plumage colour diversity in fairy-wrens. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 128, 550–568. doi:10.1093/biolinnean/blz114

Delhey K (2019). A review of Gloger’s rule, an ecogeographical rule of colour: Definitions, interpretations and evidence. Biological Reviews, 94, 1294–1316. doi:10.1111/brv.12503

Valcu C, Scheltema RA, Schweiggert RM, Valcu M, Teltscher K, Walther DM, Carle R, Kempenaers B (2019). Life History Shapes Variation in Egg Composition in the Blue Tit Cyanistes Caeruleus. Communications Biology, 2. doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0247-8

Zollinger SA, Dorado-Correa A, Goymann W, Forstmeier W, Knief U, BastidasUrrutia AM, Brumm H (2019). Traffic noise exposure depresses plasma corticosterone and delays offspring growth in breeding zebra finches. Conservation physiology, 7. doi:10.1093/conphys/coz056

McQueen A, Kempenaers B, Dale J, Valcu M, Emery ZT, Dey CJ, Peters A, Delhey K (2019). Evolutionary drivers of seasonal plumage colours: colour change by moult correlates with sexual selection, predation risk and seasonality across passerines. Ecology Letters, 22, 1838–1849. doi:10.1111/ele.13375

Delhey K, Dale J, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2019). Reconciling Ecogeographical Rules: Rainfall and Temperature Predict Global Colour Variation in the Largest Bird Radiation. Ecology Letters, 22, 726–736. doi:10.1111/ele.13233

Peters A, Delhey K, Nakagawa S, Aulsebrook A, Verhulst S (2019). Immunosenescence in wild animals: meta-analysis and outlook. Ecology Letters, 22, 1709–1722. doi:10.1111/ele.13343

Santema P, Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2019). Testing the Conditional Cooperation Model: What Can We Learn From Parents Taking Turns When Feeding Offspring? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00094

Bulla M, Valcu M, Rutten AL, Kempenaers B (2019). Temporary Mate Removal During Incubation Leads to Variable Compensation in a Biparental Shorebird. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00093

Bambini G, Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2019). Patterns of female nest attendance and male feeding throughout the incubation period in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Ibis, 161, 50–65. doi:10.1111/ibi.12614

Carballo L, Battistotti A, Teltscher K, Lierz M, Bublat A, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2019). Sperm Morphology and Evidence for Sperm Competition among Parrots. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 32, 856–867. doi:10.1111/jeb.13487

Kinsella CM, Ruiz-Ruano FJ, Dion-Côté A, Charles AJ, Gossmann TI, Cabrero J, Kappei D, Hemmings N, Simons MJP, Camacho JPM, Forstmeier W, Suh A (2019). Programmed DNA Elimination of Germline Development Genes in Songbirds. Nature Communications, 10. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13427-4

Wang D, Forstmeier W, Valcu M, Dingemanse NJ, Bulla M, Both C, Duckworth RA, Kiere LM, Karell P, Albrecht T, Kempenaers B (2019). Scrutinizing Assortative Mating in Birds. PLOS Biology, 17. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000156

Bulla M, Reneerkens J, Weiser EL, Sokolov A, Taylor AR, Sittler B, McCaffery BJ, Ruthrauff DR, Catlin DH, Payer DC, Ward DH, Solovyeva DV, Santos ESA, Rakhimberdiev E, Nol E, Kwon E, Brown GS, Hevia GD, Gates HR, Johnson JA, Van Gils JA, Hansen J, Lamarre J, Rausch J, Conklin JR, Liebezeit J, Bêty J, Lang J, Alves JA, Fernández-Elipe J, Exo K, Bollache L, Bertellotti M, Giroux M, Van De Pol M, Johnson M, Boldenow ML, Valcu M, Soloviev M, Sokolova N, Senner NR, Lecomte N, Meyer N, Schmidt NM, Gilg O, Smith PA, Machín P, McGuire RL, Cerboncini RAS, Ottvall R, Van Bemmelen RSA, Swift RJ, Saalfeld ST, Jamieson SE, Brown S, Piersma T, Albrecht T, D’Amico V, Lanctot RB, Kempenaers B (2019). Comment on “Global Pattern of Nest Predation Is Disrupted by Climate Change in Shorebirds”. Science, 364. doi:10.1126/science.aaw8529

Cain KE, Hall ML, Medina I, Leitao AV, Delhey K, Brouwer L, Peters A, Pruett-Jones S, Webster MS, Langmore NE, others (2019). Conspicuous plumage does not increase predation risk: a continent-wide test using model songbirds. The American Naturalist, 193, 359–372. doi:10.1086/701632

Gandoy FA, Delhey K, Winkler DW, Mangini G, Areta JI (2019). Lower breeding success in a new range: No evidence for the enemy release hypothesis in South American Barn Swallows. The Auk, 136. doi:10.1093/auk/ukz050

Botero-Delgadillo E, Quirici V, Poblete Y, Cuevas É, Kuhn S, Girg A, Poulin E, Kempenaers B, Vásquez RA (2019). Ecological and social correlates of natal dispersal in female and male Thorn-tailed Rayadito (Aphrastura spinicauda) in a naturally isolated and fragmented habitat. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 136. doi:10.1093/auk/ukz016

2018

Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2018). The Immediate Impact of Ringing, Blood Sampling and PIT-Tag Implanting on the Behaviour of Blue Tits Cyanistes Caeruleus. Ardea, 106. doi:10.5253/arde.v106i1.a8

Jerónimo S, Khadraoui M, Wang D, Martin K, Lesku JA, Robert KA, Schlicht E, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B (2018). Plumage Color Manipulation Has No Effect on Social Dominance or Fitness in Zebra Finches. Behavioral Ecology, 29, 459–467. doi:10.1093/beheco/arx195

Maldonado-Chaparro AA, Montiglio P, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B, Farine DR (2018). Linking the fine-scale social environment to mating decisions: a future direction for the study of extra-pair paternity. Biological Reviews, 93, 1558–1577. doi:10.1111/brv.12408

Kappers EF, De Vries C, Alberda A, Forstmeier W, Both C, Kempenaers B (2018). Inheritance Patterns of Plumage Coloration in Common Buzzards Buteo Buteo Do Not Support a One-Locus Two-Allele Model. Biology Letters, 14. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2018.0007

Delhey K (2018). Darker where cold and wet: Australian birds follow their own version of Gloger’s rule. Ecography, 41, 673–683. doi:10.1111/ecog.03040

Delhey K (2018). Nest webs beyond woodpeckers. Ecology, 99, 985–988. doi:10.1002/ecy.2108

Sanchez-Tojar A, Nakagawa S, Sanchez-Fortun M, Martin DA, Ramani S, Girndt A, Bokony V, Kempenaers B, Liker A, Westneat DF, others (2018). Meta-analysis challenges a textbook example of status signalling and demonstrates publication bias. Elife, 7. doi:10.7554/eLife.37385

Wang D, Forstmeier W, Ihle M, Khadraoui M, Jerónimo S, Martin K, Kempenaers B (2018). Irreproducible Text-Book “Knowledge”: The Effects of Color Bands on Zebra Finch Fitness: COLOR BANDS HAVE NO EFFECT ON FITNESS IN ZEBRA FINCHES. Evolution, 72, 961–976. doi:10.1111/evo.13459

Abbey-Lee RN, Araya-Ajoy YG, Mouchet A, Moiron M, Stuber EF, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2018). Does perceived predation risk affect patterns of extra-pair paternity? A field experiment in a passerine bird. Functional Ecology, 32, 1001–1010. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13052

Santema P, Kempenaers B (2018). Complete Brood Failure in an Altricial Bird Is Almost Always Associated with the Sudden and Permanent Disappearance of a Parent. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87, 1239–1250. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12848

Matthews G, Goulet CT, Delhey K, Atkins ZS, While GM, Gardner MG, Chapple DG (2018). Avian predation intensity as a driver of clinal variation in colour morph frequency. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87, 1667–1684. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12894

Fan M, Teunissen N, Hall ML, Hidalgo Aranzamendi N, Kingma SA, Roast M, Delhey K, Peters A (2018). From ornament to armament or loss of function? Breeding plumage acquisition in a genetically monogamous bird. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87, 1274–1285. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12855

Parker TH, Griffith SC, Bronstein JL, Fidler F, Foster S, Fraser H, Forstmeier W, Gurevitch J, Koricheva J, Seppelt R, others (2018). Empowering peer reviewers with a checklist to improve transparency. Nature ecology & evolution, 2, 929–935. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0545-z

Pei Y, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2018). Interference Competition Pressure Predicts the Number of Avian Predators That Shifted Their Timing of Activity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0744

Mueller JC, Kuhl H, Boerno S, Tella JL, Carrete M, Kempenaers B (2018). Evolution of Genomic Variation in the Burrowing Owl in Response to Recent Colonization of Urban Areas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0206

Gwinner H, Capilla-Lasheras P, Cooper C, Helm B (2018). ‘Green Incubation’: Avian Offspring Benefit from Aromatic Nest Herbs through Improved Parental Incubation Behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0376

Mendonca T, Birkhead TR, Cadby AJ, Forstmeier W, Hemmings N (2018). A trade-off between thickness and length in the zebra finch sperm mid-piece. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0865

Petracci PF, Burgos JM, López GC, Delhey K, Carrizo M, Sarria R, Sotelo M, Somoza GM, La Sala LF (2018). Field sexing Olrog’s Gull (Larus atlanticus) using morphometry. Waterbirds, 41, 411–416. doi:10.1675/063.041.0404

2017

Gilsenan C, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2017). Difference in Arrival Date at the Breeding Site between Former Pair Members Predicts Divorce in Blue Tits. Animal Behaviour, 133, 57–72. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.09.004

Santema P, Schlicht E, Schlicht L, Kempenaers B (2017). Blue Tits Do Not Return Faster to the Nest in Response to Either Short- or Long-Term Begging Playbacks. Animal Behaviour, 123, 117–127. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.10.016

Stuber E, Dingemanse N, Mueller J (2017). Temperature Affects Frequency but Not Rhythmicity of Nocturnal Awakenings in Free-Living Great Tits, Parus Major. Animal Behaviour, 128, 135–141. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.03.004

Kappers E, Chakarov N, Krüger O, Mueller A, Valcu M, Kempenaers B, Both C (2017). Classification and Temporal Stability of Plumage Variation in Common Buzzards. Ardea, 105, 125–136. doi:10.5253/arde.v105i2.a1

Medina I, Delhey K, Peters A, Cain KE, Hall ML, Mulder RA, Langmore NE (2017). Habitat structure is linked to the evolution of plumage colour in female, but not male, fairy-wrens. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0861-3

Mathot KJ, Olsen A, Mutzel A, Araya-Ajoy YG, Nicolaus M, Westneat DF, Wright J, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2017). Provisioning tactics of great tits (Parus major) in response to long-term brood size manipulations differ across years. Behavioral Ecology, 28, 1402–1413. doi:10.1093/beheco/arx083

Wang D, Kempenaers N, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2017). Male Zebra Finches Have Limited Ability to Identify High-Fecundity Females. Behavioral Ecology, 28, 784–792. doi:10.1093/beheco/arx037

Forstmeier W (2017). Preregister Now for an Upgrade to Behavioral Ecology 2.0: A Comment on Ihle et Al. Behavioral Ecology, 28, 358–359. doi:10.1093/beheco/arx005

Fan M, Hall ML, Kingma SA, Mandeltort LM, Hidalgo Aranzamendi N, Delhey K, Peters A (2017). No fitness benefits of early molt in a fairy-wren: relaxed sexual selection under genetic monogamy? Behavioral Ecology, 28, 1055–1067. doi:10.1093/beheco/arx065

Forstmeier W, Wagenmakers E, Parker TH (2017). Detecting and Avoiding Likely False-positive Findings a Practical Guide. Biological Reviews, 92, 1941–1968. doi:10.1111/brv.12315

Delhey K, Peters A (2017). Conservation implications of anthropogenic impacts on visual communication and camouflage. Conservation Biology, 31, 30–39. doi:10.1111/cobi.12834

Lawson LP, Fessl B, Hernán Vargas F, Farrington HL, Francesca Cunninghame H, Mueller JC, Nemeth E, Christian Sevilla P, Petren K (2017). Slow motion extinction: inbreeding, introgression, and loss in the critically endangered mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates). Conservation Genetics, 18, 159–170. doi:10.1007/s10592-016-0890-x

Delhey K (2017). Gloger’s rule. Current Biology, 27. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.031

Botero-Delgadillo E, Quirici V, Poblete Y, Cuevas É, Kuhn S, Girg A, Teltscher K, Poulin E, Kempenaers B, Vásquez RA (2017). Variation in fine-scale genetic structure and local dispersal patterns between peripheral populations of a South American passerine bird. Ecology and Evolution, 7, 8363–8378. doi:10.1002/ece3.3342

Little R, Gardner JL, Amano T, Delhey K, Peters A (2017). Are long-term widespread avian body size changes related to food availability? A test using contemporaneous changes in carotenoid-based color. Ecology and Evolution, 7, 3157–3166. doi:10.1002/ece3.2739

Griffith SC, Crino OL, Andrew SC, Nomano FY, Adkins-Regan E, Alonso-Alvarez C, Bailey IE, Bittner SS, Bolton PE, Boner W, others (2017). Variation in reproductive success across captive populations: methodological differences, potential biases and opportunities. Ethology, 123, 1–29. doi:10.1111/eth.12576

Wang D, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B (2017). No Mutual Mate Choice for Quality in Zebra Finches: Time to Question a Widely Held Assumption: NO MUTUAL MATE CHOICE FOR QUALITY IN ZEBRA FINCHES. Evolution, 71, 2661–2676. doi:10.1111/evo.13341

Delhey K, Carrizo M, Mahler B, Peters A (2017). Complex nest decorations of a small brown bird in the Pampas. Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 15. doi:10.1002/fee.1525

van de Crommenacker J, Hammers M, van der Woude J, Louter M, Santema P, Richardson DS, Komdeur J (2017). Oxidative status and fitness components in the Seychelles warbler. Functional Ecology, 31, 1210–1219. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12861

Delhey K, Peters A (2017). The effect of colour-producing mechanisms on plumage sexual dichromatism in passerines and parrots. Functional Ecology, 31, 903–914. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12796

Knief U, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2017). Meiotic Recombination Shapes Precision of Pedigree- and Marker-Based Estimates of Inbreeding. Heredity, 118, 239–248. doi:10.1038/hdy.2016.95

Da Silva A, Kempenaers B (2017). Singing from North to South: Latitudinal Variation in Timing of Dawn Singing under Natural and Artificial Light Conditions. Journal of Animal Ecology, 86, 1286–1297. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12739

Silva AD, Diez-Méndez D, Kempenaers B (2017). Effects of Experimental Night Lighting on the Daily Timing of Winter Foraging in Common European Songbirds. Journal of Avian Biology, 48, 862–871. doi:10.1111/jav.01232

Morales HE, Pavlova A, Sunnucks P, Major R, Amos N, Joseph L, Wang B, Lemmon AR, Endler JA, Delhey K (2017). Neutral and selective drivers of colour evolution in a widespread Australian passerine. Journal of Biogeography, 44, 522–536. doi:10.1111/jbi.12942

Forstmeier W, Ihle M, Opatová P, Martin K, Knief U, Albrechtová J, Albrecht T, Kempenaers B (2017). Testing the Phenotype-linked Fertility Hypothesis in the Presence and Absence of Inbreeding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30, 968–976. doi:10.1111/jeb.13062

Scriba MF, Henry I, Vyssotski AL, Mueller JC, Rattenborg NC, Roulin A (2017). Ultradian rhythmicity in sleep-wakefulness is related to color in nestling barn owls. Journal of biological rhythms, 32, 456–468. doi:10.1177/0748730417722250

Mueller JC, Edelaar P, Baños-Villalba A, Carrete M, Potti J, Blas J, Tella JL, Kempenaers B (2017). Selection on a Behaviour-related Gene during the First Stages of the Biological Invasion Pathway. Molecular Ecology, 26, 6110–6121. doi:10.1111/mec.14353

Knief U, Schielzeth H, Backström N, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig M, Franke A, Griffith SC, Ellegren H, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2017). Association Mapping of Morphological Traits in Wild and Captive Zebra Finches: Reliable within, but Not between Populations. Molecular Ecology, 26, 1285–1305. doi:10.1111/mec.14009

Kempenaers B, Valcu M (2017). Breeding Site Sampling across the Arctic by Individual Males of a Polygynous Shorebird. Nature, 541, 528–531. doi:10.1038/nature20813

Knief U, Forstmeier W, Pei Y, Ihle M, Wang D, Martin K, Opatová P, Albrechtová J, Wittig M, Franke A, Albrecht T, Kempenaers B (2017). A Sex-Chromosome Inversion Causes Strong Overdominance for Sperm Traits That Affect Siring Success. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 1177–1184. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0236-1

Rattenborg NC, de la Iglesia HO, Kempenaers B, Lesku JA, Meerlo P, Scriba MF (2017). Sleep research goes wild: new methods and approaches to investigate the ecology, evolution and functions of sleep. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0251

Bulla M, Oudman T, Bijleveld AI, Piersma T, Kyriacou CP (2017). Marine Biorhythms: Bridging Chronobiology and Ecology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0253

Dominoni DM, Åkesson S, Klaassen R, Spoelstra K, Bulla M (2017). Methods in Field Chronobiology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372. doi:10.1098/rstb.2016.0247

McQueen A, Naimo AC, Teunissen N, Magrath RD, Delhey K, Peters A (2017). Bright birds are cautious: seasonally conspicuous plumage prompts risk avoidance by male superb fairy-wrens. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0446

Delhey K, Szecsenyi B, Nakagawa S, Peters A (2017). Conspicuous plumage colours are highly variable. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2593

Da Silva A, De Jong M, Van Grunsven RHA, Visser ME, Kempenaers B, Spoelstra K (2017). Experimental Illumination of a Forest: No Effects of Lights of Different Colours on the Onset of the Dawn Chorus in Songbirds. Royal Society Open Science, 4. doi:10.1098/rsos.160638

Bulla M, Prüter H, Vitnerová H, Tijsen W, Sládeček M, Alves JA, Gilg O, Kempenaers B (2017). Flexible Parental Care: Uniparental Incubation in Biparentally Incubating Shorebirds. Scientific Reports, 7. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13005-y

2016

Valcu C, Valcu M (2016). Sources of Experimental Variation in 2-D Maps: The Importance of Experimental Design in Gel-Based Proteomics. In Marengo E, Robotti E (eds.), 2-D PAGE Map Analysis, volume 1384, 3–37. Springer New York, New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-4939-3254-2 978-1-4939-3255-9, doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3255-9_1.

Da Silva A, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2016). Behavioural Plasticity in the Onset of Dawn Song under Intermittent Experimental Night Lighting. Animal Behaviour, 117, 155–165. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.05.001

Fulmer A, Santema P, Hauber M (2016). Intrabrood rank, age and adult presence predict novelty seeking in individual Arabian babblers, Turdoides squamiceps. Animal Behaviour, 114, 93–99. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.01.012

Schlicht L, Kempenaers B (2016). Courtship Calls in Blue Tits Cyanistes Caeruleus : Daily and Seasonal Occurrence and Link to Paternity. Ardea, 104, 107–117. doi:10.5253/arde.v104i2.a4

Schlicht E, Santema P, Schlicht R, Kempenaers B (2016). Evidence for Conditional Cooperation in Biparental Care Systems? A Comment on Johnstone et Al. Behavioral Ecology, 27. doi:10.1093/beheco/arw036

Araya-Ajoy YG, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B (2016). Timing of Extrapair Fertilizations: Within-Pair Fertilization Trade-Offs or Pair Synchrony Spillovers? Behavioral Ecology, 27, 377–384. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv187

Knief U, Forstmeier W (2016). Mapping Centromeres of Microchromosomes in the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia Guttata) Using Half-Tetrad Analysis. Chromosoma, 125, 757–768. doi:10.1007/s00412-015-0560-7

Opatová P, Ihle M, Albrechtová J, Tomášek O, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W, Albrecht T (2016). Inbreeding depression of sperm traits in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. Ecology and evolution, 6, 295–304. doi:10.1002/ece3.1868

Araya-Ajoy YG, Kuhn S, Mathot KJ, Mouchet A, Mutzel A, Nicolaus M, Wijmenga JJ, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2016). Sources of (co) variation in alternative siring routes available to male great tits (Parus major). Evolution, 70, 2308–2321. doi:10.1111/evo.13024

Webb WH, Brunton DH, Aguirre JD, Thomas DB, Valcu M, Dale J (2016). Female Song Occurs in Songbirds with More Elaborate Female Coloration and Reduced Sexual Dichromatism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 4. doi:10.3389/fevo.2016.00022

Stuber EF, Baumgartner C, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B, Mueller JC (2016). Genetic Correlates of Individual Differences in Sleep Behavior of Free-Living Great Tits ( Parus Major ). G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 6, 599–607. doi:10.1534/g3.115.024216

Knief U, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig M, Franke A, Griffith SC, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2016). Fitness Consequences of Polymorphic Inversions in the Zebra Finch Genome. Genome Biology, 17. doi:10.1186/s13059-016-1056-3

Van Oosten HH, Mueller JC, Ottenburghs J, Both C, Kempenaers B (2016). Genetic Structure among Remnant Populations of a Migratory Passerine, the Northern Wheatear Oenanthe Oenanthe. Ibis, 158, 857–867. doi:10.1111/ibi.12393

Matthews G, Goulet CT, Delhey K, Chapple DG (2016). The effect of skin reflectance on thermal traits in a small heliothermic ectotherm. Journal of Thermal Biology, 60, 109–124. doi:10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.06.013

Mueller JC, Kuhl H, Timmermann B, Kempenaers B (2016). Characterization of the Genome and Transcriptome of the Blue Tit Yanistes Caeruleus : Polymorphisms, Sex-biased Expression and Selection Signals. Molecular Ecology Resources, 16, 549–561. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12450

Bulla M, Valcu M, Dokter AM, Dondua AG, Kosztolányi A, Rutten AL, Helm B, Sandercock BK, Casler B, Ens BJ, Spiegel CS, Hassell CJ, Küpper C, Minton C, Burgas D, Lank DB, Payer DC, Loktionov EY, Nol E, Kwon E, Smith F, Gates HR, Vitnerová H, Prüter H, Johnson JA, St Clair JJH, Lamarre J, Rausch J, Reneerkens J, Conklin JR, Burger J, Liebezeit J, Bêty J, Coleman JT, Figuerola J, Hooijmeijer JCEW, Alves JA, Smith JAM, Weidinger K, Koivula K, Gosbell K, Exo K, Niles L, Koloski L, McKinnon L, Praus L, Klaassen M, Giroux M, Sládeček M, Boldenow ML, Goldstein MI, Šálek M, Senner N, Rönkä N, Lecomte N, Gilg O, Vincze O, Johnson OW, Smith PA, Woodard PF, Tomkovich PS, Battley PF, Bentzen R, Lanctot RB, Porter R, Saalfeld ST, Freeman S, Brown SC, Yezerinac S, Székely T, Montalvo T, Piersma T, Loverti V, Pakanen V, Tijsen W, Kempenaers B (2016). Unexpected Diversity in Socially Synchronized Rhythms of Shorebirds. Nature, 540, 109–113. doi:10.1038/nature20563

Laine VN, Gossmann TI, Schachtschneider KM, Garroway CJ, Madsen O, Verhoeven KJ, De Jager V, Megens H, Warren WC, Minx P, others (2016). Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome. Nature communications, 7. doi:10.1038/ncomms10474

Braga Goncalves I, Heistermann M, Santema P, Dantzer B, Mausbach J, Ganswindt A, Manser MB (2016). Validation of a fecal glucocorticoid assay to assess adrenocortical activity in meerkats using physiological and biological stimuli. PLoS One, 11. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153161

Mathot KJ, Abbey-Lee RN, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2016). Do great tits (Parus major) suppress basal metabolic rate in response to increased perceived predation danger? A field experiment. Physiology & behavior, 164, 400–406. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.06.029

Jønsson KA, Delhey K, Sangster G, Ericson PG, Irestedt M (2016). The evolution of mimicry of friarbirds by orioles (Aves: Passeriformes) in Australo-Pacific archipelagos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0409

Parker TH, Forstmeier W, Koricheva J, Fidler F, Hadfield JD, Chee YE, Kelly CD, Gurevitch J, Nakagawa S (2016). Transparency in ecology and evolution: real problems, real solutions. Trends in ecology & evolution, 31, 711–719. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.07.002

Lindholm AK, Dyer KA, Firman RC, Fishman L, Forstmeier W, Holman L, Johannesson H, Knief U, Kokko H, Larracuente AM, others (2016). The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive. Trends in ecology & evolution, 31, 315–326. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.001

2015

Stuber EF, Mathot KJ, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ, Mueller JC (2015). Sex-Specific Association between Sleep and Basal Metabolic Rate in Great Tits. Animal Behaviour, 109, 15–22. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.004

Stuber E, Dingemanse N, Kempenaers B, Mueller J (2015). Sources of Intraspecific Variation in Sleep Behaviour of Wild Great Tits. Animal Behaviour, 106, 201–221. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.05.025

Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2015). Immediate Effects of Capture on Nest Visits of Breeding Blue Tits, Cyanistes Caeruleus, Are Substantial. Animal Behaviour, 105, 63–78. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.04.010

Schlicht L, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2015). Male Extraterritorial Behavior Predicts Extrapair Paternity Pattern in Blue Tits, Cyanistes Caeruleus. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 1404–1413. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv076

Delhey K, Delhey V, Kempenaers B, Peters A (2015). A Practical Framework to Analyze Variation in Animal Colors Using Visual Models. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 367–375. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru198

Bulla M, Cresswell W, Rutten AL, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2015). Biparental Incubation-Scheduling: No Experimental Evidence for Major Energetic Constraints. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 30–37. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru156

Valcu C, Kempenaers B (2015). Finding One’s Way through the Proteome: A Response to Comments on Valcu and Kempenaers. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 19–20. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru225

Valcu C, Kempenaers B (2015). Proteomics in Behavioral Ecology. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 1–15. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru096

Forstmeier W (2015). Caution Is Needed When 90% of All Possible Estimates Remain Unpublished: A Comment on Arct et Al. Behavioral Ecology, 26, 972–973. doi:10.1093/beheco/arv044

Soanes R, Peters A, Delhey K, Doody JS (2015). The influence of nest-site choice and predator sensory cues on nesting success in the Crimson Finch (Neochmia phaeton). Emu, 115, 317–325. doi:10.1071/MU14046

Mathot KJ, Nicolaus M, Araya-Ajoy YG, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B (2015). Does Metabolic Rate Predict Risk-taking Behaviour? A Field Experiment in a Wild Passerine Bird. Functional Ecology, 29, 239–249. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12318

Knief U, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig M, Franke A, Griffith SC, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2015). Quantifying Realized Inbreeding in Wild and Captive Animal Populations. Heredity, 114, 397–403. doi:10.1038/hdy.2014.116

Bulla M, Stich E, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2015). Off-nest Behaviour in a Biparentally Incubating Shorebird Varies with Sex, Time of Day and Weather. Ibis, 157, 575–589. doi:10.1111/ibi.12276

Schlicht L, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2015). Spatial Patterns of Extra-pair Paternity: Beyond Paternity Gains and Losses. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84, 518–531. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12293

Dey CJ, Valcu M, Kempenaers B, Dale J (2015). Carotenoid-based Bill Coloration Functions as a Social, Not Sexual, Signal in Songbirds (Aves: Passeriformes). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28, 250–258. doi:10.1111/jeb.12560

Lind O, Delhey K (2015). Visual modelling suggests a weak relationship between the evolution of ultraviolet vision and plumage coloration in birds. Journal of evolutionary biology, 28, 715–722. doi:10.1111/jeb.12595

Knief U, Schielzeth H, Ellegren H, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2015). A Prezygotic Transmission Distorter Acting Equally in Female and Male Zebra Finches Taeniopygia Guttata. Molecular Ecology, 24, 3846–3859. doi:10.1111/mec.13281

Dale J, Dey CJ, Delhey K, Kempenaers B, Valcu M (2015). The Effects of Life History and Sexual Selection on Male and Female Plumage Colouration. Nature, 527, 367–370. doi:10.1038/nature15509

Delhey K (2015). EDITORIAL DECISIONS AND RESPONSES BY AUTHORS: HOW TO PREPARE A REVISED VERSION OF YOUR MANUSCRIPT AND THE COVER LETTER. Ornitología Neotropical, 26, 219–221. doi:10.58843/ornneo.v26i3.54

Delhey K (2015). WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF ORNITOLOGÍA NEOTROPICAL? Ornitología Neotropical, 26, 125–127. doi:10.58843/ornneo.v26i2.35

Delhey K (2015). CHANGES IN ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL: MOVING WITH THE TIMES. Ornitología Neotropical, 26, 299–300. doi:10.58843/ornneo.v26i4.66

Ihle M, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2015). Fitness Benefits of Mate Choice for Compatibility in a Socially Monogamous Species. PLOS Biology, 13. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002248

Bertram K, Valcu C, Weitnauer M, Linne U, Görlach A (2015). NOX1 supports the metabolic remodeling of HepG2 cells. PLoS One, 10. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122002

De Jong M, Ouyang JQ, Da Silva A, van Grunsven RH, Kempenaers B, Visser ME, Spoelstra K (2015). Effects of nocturnal illumination on life-history decisions and fitness in two wild songbird species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0128

Da Silva A, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2015). Light Pollution Alters the Phenology of Dawn and Dusk Singing in Common European Songbirds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 370. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0126

Nicolaus M, Mathot KJ, Araya-Ajoy YG, Mutzel A, Wijmenga JJ, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2015). Does coping style predict optimization? An experimental test in a wild passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2405

Delhey K (2015). The colour of an avifauna: A quantitative analysis of the colour of Australian birds. Scientific Reports, 5. doi:10.1038/srep18514

Riede T, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B, Goller F (2015). The Functional Morphology of Male Courtship Displays in the Pectoral Sandpiper ( Calidris Melanotos ). The Auk, 132, 65–77. doi:10.1642/AUK-14-25.1

2014

Stuber EF, Grobis MM, Abbey-Lee R, Kempenaers B, Mueller JC, Dingemanse NJ (2014). Perceived Predation Risk Affects Sleep Behaviour in Free-Living Great Tits, Parus Major. Animal Behaviour, 98, 157–165. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.10.010

Bijlsma R, Kempenaers B, Piersma T (2014). Creating long-term value: Natural history is the basis. Ardea, 102, 1–2. doi:10.5253/078.102.0117

Da Silva A, Samplonius JM, Schlicht E, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2014). Artificial Night Lighting Rather than Traffic Noise Affects the Daily Timing of Dawn and Dusk Singing in Common European Songbirds. Behavioral Ecology, 25, 1037–1047. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru103

Schlicht L, Valcu M, Loës P, Girg A, Kempenaers B (2014). No Relationship between Female Emergence Time from the Roosting Place and Extrapair Paternity. Behavioral Ecology, 25, 650–659. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru035

Bulla M, Valcu M, Rutten AL, Kempenaers B (2014). Biparental Incubation Patterns in a High-Arctic Breeding Shorebird: How Do Pairs Divide Their Duties? Behavioral Ecology, 25, 152–164. doi:10.1093/beheco/art098

Valcu M, Dale J, Griesser M, Nakagawa S, Kempenaers B (2014). Global Gradients of Avian Longevity Support the Classic Evolutionary Theory of Ageing. Ecography, 37, 930–938. doi:10.1111/ecog.00929

Garamszegi LZ, Mueller JC, Markó G, Szász E, Zsebők S, Herczeg G, Eens M, Török J (2014). The relationship between DRD 4 polymorphisms and phenotypic correlations of behaviors in the collared flycatcher. Ecology and evolution, 4, 1466–1479. doi:10.1002/ece3.1041

Rojas Mora A, Forstmeier W (2014). The Importance of Validating Experimental Setups: Lessons from Studies of Food Choice Copying in Zebra Finches. Ethology, 120, 913–922. doi:10.1111/eth.12263

Girndt A, Knief U, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B (2014). Triploid ZZZ Zebra Finches Aeniopygia Guttata Exhibit Abnormal Sperm Heads and Poor Reproductive Performance. Ibis, 156, 472–477. doi:10.1111/ibi.12135

Schlicht L, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2014). Thiessen Polygons as a Model for Animal Territory Estimation. Ibis, 156, 215–219. doi:10.1111/ibi.12105

Rheindt FE, Christidis L, Kuhn S, de Kloet S, Norman JA, Fidler A (2014). The timing of diversification within the most divergent parrot clade. Journal of Avian Biology, 45, 140–148. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2013.00200.x

Mueller JC, Edelaar P, Carrete M, Serrano D, Potti J, Blas J, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B, Tella JL (2014). Behaviour-related DRD4 Polymorphisms in Invasive Bird Populations. Molecular Ecology, 23, 2876–2885. doi:10.1111/mec.12763

Sardell RJ, Kempenaers B, DuVal EH (2014). Female mating preferences and offspring survival: testing hypotheses on the genetic basis of mate choice in a wild lekking bird. Molecular ecology, 23, 933–946. doi:10.1111/mec.12652

Evans SR, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W, Sheldon BC, Husby A (2014). Nonautosomal genetic variation in carotenoid coloration. The American Naturalist, 184, 374–383. doi:10.1086/677397

Forstmeier W, Nakagawa S, Griffith SC, Kempenaers B (2014). Female Extra-Pair Mating: Adaptation or Genetic Constraint? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 29, 456–464. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.05.005

Kingma SA, Santema P, Taborsky M, Komdeur J (2014). Group augmentation and the evolution of cooperation. Trends in ecology & evolution, 29, 476–484. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2014.05.013

2013

Mutzel A, Blom MP, Spagopoulou F, Wright J, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B (2013). Temporal Trade-Offs between Nestling Provisioning and Defence against Nest Predators in Blue Tits. Animal Behaviour, 85, 1459–1469. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.043

Reers H, Forstmeier W, Jacot A (2013). Acoustic Similarity to Parental Calls Promotes Response to Unfamiliar Calls in Zebra Finch Fledglings. Animal Behaviour, 86, 159–167. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.007

Koch W, Mueller JC, Schrempf M, Wolferstetter H, Kirchhofer J, Schömig A, Kastrati A (2013). Two rare variants explain association with acute myocardial infarction in an extended genomic region including the apolipoprotein (A) gene. Annals of Human Genetics, 77, 47–55. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1809.2012.00739.x

Gwinner H, Yohannes E, Schwabl H (2013). Nest Composition and Yolk Hormones: Do Female European Starlings Adjust Yolk Androgens to Nest Quality? Avian Biology Research, 6, 307–312. doi:10.3184/175815513X13823680612392

Ihle M, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2013). Does Hatching Failure Breed Infidelity? Behavioral Ecology, 24, 119–127. doi:10.1093/beheco/ars142

Ihle M, Forstmeier W (2013). Revisiting the Evidence for Inbreeding Avoidance in Zebra Finches. Behavioral Ecology, 24, 1356–1362. doi:10.1093/beheco/art074

Stuber EF, Araya-Ajoy YG, Mathot KJ, Mutzel A, Nicolaus M, Wijmenga JJ, Mueller JC, Dingemanse NJ (2013). Slow Explorers Take Less Risk: A Problem of Sampling Bias in Ecological Studies. Behavioral Ecology, 24, 1092–1098. doi:10.1093/beheco/art035

Peters A, Kingma SA, Delhey K (2013). Seasonal male plumage as a multi-component sexual signal: insights and opportunities. Emu, 113, 232–247. doi:10.1071/MU12083

Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2013). EFFECTS OF SOCIAL AND EXTRA-PAIR MATING ON SEXUAL SELECTION IN BLUE TITS ( CYANISTES CAERULEUS ): PROMISCUITY AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN BLUE TITS. Evolution. doi:10.1111/evo.12073

Husby A, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W, Gustafsson L, Qvarnström A (2013). Sex chromosome linked genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism of quantitative traits. Evolution, 67, 609–619. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01806.x

Mathot KJ, Martin K, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2013). Basal Metabolic Rate Can Evolve Independently of Morphological and Behavioural Traits. Heredity, 111, 175–181. doi:10.1038/hdy.2013.35

Steinmeyer C, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2013). Individual Variation in Sleep Behaviour in Blue Tits Cyanistes Caeruleus : Assortative Mating and Associations with Fitness-related Traits. Journal of Avian Biology, 44, 159–168. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05750.x

Delhey K, Smith J, Peters A (2013). Colour-variable birds have broader ranges, wider niches and are less likely to be threatened. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, 1559–1568. doi:10.1111/jeb.12157

Nakagawa S, Schielzeth H (2013). A General and Simple Method for Obtaining R from Generalized Linear Mixed-effects Models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4, 133–142.

Mueller JC, Korsten P, Hermannstaedter C, Feulner T, Dingemanse NJ, Matthysen E, Van Oers K, Van Overveld T, Patrick SC, Quinn JL, Riemenschneider M, Tinbergen JM, Kempenaers B (2013). Haplotype Structure, Adaptive History and Associations with Exploratory Behaviour of the DRD4 Gene Region in Four Great Tit ( Parus Major ) Populations. Molecular Ecology, 22, 2797–2809. doi:10.1111/mec.12282

Mueller JC, Partecke J, Hatchwell BJ, Gaston KJ, Evans KL (2013). Candidate Gene Polymorphisms for Behavioural Adaptations during Urbanization in Blackbirds. Molecular Ecology, 22, 3629–3637. doi:10.1111/mec.12288

Mutzel A, Dingemanse NJ, Araya-Ajoy YG, Kempenaers B (2013). Parental Provisioning Behaviour Plays a Key Role in Linking Personality with Reproductive Success. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1019

Steiger SS, Valcu M, Spoelstra K, Helm B, Wikelski M, Kempenaers B (2013). When the Sun Never Sets: Diverse Activity Rhythms under Continuous Daylight in Free-Living Arctic-Breeding Birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1016

Heber S, Varsani A, Kuhn S, Girg A, Kempenaers B, Briskie J (2013). The Genetic Rescue of Two Bottlenecked South Island Robin Populations Using Translocations of Inbred Donors. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2228

Delhey K, Hall M, Kingma SA, Peters A (2013). Increased conspicuousness can explain the match between visual sensitivities and blue plumage colours in fairy-wrens. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1771

2012

Schlicht L, Girg A, Loës P, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2012). Male Extrapair Nestlings Fledge First. Animal Behaviour, 83, 1335–1343. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.02.021

Kluen E, Kuhn S, Kempenaers B, Brommer JE (2012). A simple cage test captures intrinsic differences in aspects of personality across individuals in a passerine bird. Animal Behaviour, 84. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.04.022

Atagan Y, Forstmeier W (2012). Protein Supplementation Decreases Courtship Rate in the Zebra Finch. Animal Behaviour, 83, 69–74. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.10.006

Langlois LA, Murböck K, Bulla M, Kempenaers B (2012). Unusual Incubation: Long-Billed Dowitcher Incubates Mammalian Bones. Ardea, 100, 206–210. doi:10.5253/078.100.0213

Johnsen A, Carter KL, Delhey K, Lifjeld JT, Robertson RJ, Kempenaers B (2012). Laying-Order Effects on Sperm Numbers and on Paternity: Comparing Three Passerine Birds with Different Life Histories. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66, 181–190. doi:10.1007/s00265-011-1265-4

Bolund E, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W (2012). Singing Activity Stimulates Partner Reproductive Investment Rather than Increasing Paternity Success in Zebra Finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66, 975–984. doi:10.1007/s00265-012-1346-z

Dingemanse NJ, Dochtermann NA, Nakagawa S (2012). Defining Behavioural Syndromes and the Role of ‘Syndrome Deviation’ in Understanding Their Evolution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 66, 1543–1548. doi:10.1007/s00265-012-1416-2

Mueller JC, Steinmeyer C, Kempenaers B (2012). Individual Variation in Sleep-Wake Rhythms in Free-Living Birds. Chronobiology International, 29, 1216–1226. doi:10.3109/07420528.2012.705404

Laucht S, Dale J (2012). Development of Badges of Status in Captive Male House Sparrows ( Passer Domesticus ) in Relation to the Relative Ornamentation of Flock-Mates. Ethology, 118, 644–653. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02053.x

Schielzeth H, Kempenaers B, Ellegren H, Forstmeier W (2012). QTL LINKAGE MAPPING OF ZEBRA FINCH BEAK COLOR SHOWS AN OLIGOGENIC CONTROL OF A SEXUALLY SELECTED TRAIT: QTL MAPPING OF BEAK COLOR. Evolution, 66, 18–30. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01431.x

Wutzler R, Foerster K, Kempenaers B (2012). MHC Class I Variation in a Natural Blue Tit Population (Cyanistes Caeruleus). Genetica, 140, 349–364. doi:10.1007/s10709-012-9679-0

Steinmeyer C, Kempenaers B, Mueller JC (2012). Testing for Associations between Candidate Genes for Circadian Rhythms and Individual Variation in Sleep Behaviour in Blue Tits. Genetica, 140, 219–228. doi:10.1007/s10709-012-9673-6

Valcu M, Dale J, Kempenaers B (2012). rangeMapper : A Platform for the Study of Macroecology of Life-history Traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21, 945–951. doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00739.x

Yohannes E, Lee RW, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2012). Feather Deuterium as an Indicator of Age-class in the Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris Melanotos. Ibis, 154, 868–873. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01245.x

Steinmeyer C, Pennings PS, Foitzik S (2012). Multicolonial Population Structure and Nestmate Recognition in an Extremely Dense Population of the European Ant Lasius Flavus. Insectes Sociaux, 59, 499–510. doi:10.1007/s00040-012-0244-8

Dingemanse NJ, Bouwman KM, Van De Pol M, Van Overveld T, Patrick SC, Matthysen E, Quinn JL (2012). Variation in Personality and Behavioural Plasticity across Four Populations of the Great Tit Parus Major. Journal of Animal Ecology, 81, 116–126. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01877.x

Peters A, Roberts ML, Kurvers RH, Delhey K (2012). Testosterone treatment can increase circulating carotenoids but does not affect yellow carotenoid-based plumage colour in blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Journal of Avian Biology, 43, 362–368. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05713.x

Dingemanse NJ, Barber I, Wright J, Brommer JE (2012). Quantitative Genetics of Behavioural Reaction Norms: Genetic Correlations between Personality and Behavioural Plasticity Vary across Stickleback Populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25, 485–496. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02439.x

Knief U, Schielzeth H, Kempenaers B, Ellegren H, Forstmeier W (2012). QTL and Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Beak Morphology Reveals Patterns of Standing Genetic Variation in an Estrildid Finch. Molecular Ecology, 21, 3704–3717. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05661.x

Forstmeier W, Schielzeth H, Mueller JC, Ellegren H, Kempenaers B (2012). HeterozygosityCorrelations in Zebra Finches: Microsatellite Markers Can Be Better than Their Reputation. Molecular Ecology, 21, 3237–3249. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05593.x

Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W, Kempenaers B, Ellegren H (2012). QTL Linkage Mapping of Wing Length in Zebra Finch Using Genome-wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Markers. Molecular Ecology, 21, 329–339. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05365.x

Mathot KJ, Wright J, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2012). Adaptive strategies for managing uncertainty may explain personality-related differences in behavioural plasticity. Oikos, 121, 1009–1020. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20339.x

Nemeth E, Kempenaers B, Matessi G, Brumm H (2012). Rock Sparrow Song Reflects Male Age and Reproductive Success. PLOS ONE, 7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043259

Seguin A, Forstmeier W (2012). No Band Color Effects on Male Courtship Rate or Body Mass in the Zebra Finch: Four Experiments and a Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE, 7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037785

Nicolaus M, Tinbergen JM, Bouwman KM, Michler SP, Ubels R, Both C, Kempenaers B, Dingemanse NJ (2012). Experimental evidence for adaptive personalities in a wild passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1936

Lesku JA, Rattenborg NC, Valcu M, Vyssotski AL, Kuhn S, Kuemmeth F, Heidrich W, Kempenaers B (2012). Adaptive Sleep Loss in Polygynous Pectoral Sandpipers. Science, 337, 1654–1658. doi:10.1126/science.1220939

Bulla M, Miroslav Š, Gosler A (2012). Eggshell Spotting Does Not Predict Male Incubation but Marks Thinner Areas of a Shorebird’s Shells. The Auk, 129, 26–35. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.11090

Laucht S, Dale J (2012). Correlations of Condition, Testosterone, and Age with Multiple Ornaments in Male House Sparrows: Patterns and Implications. The Condor, 114, 865–873. doi:10.1525/cond.2012.110194

2011

Schlicht E, Kempenaers B (2011). Extra-Pair Paternity and Sexual Selection. In Matsuzawa T, Yamagiwa J, Inoue-Murayama M, Kawamura S, Weiss A (eds.), From Genes to Animal Behavior, 35–65. Springer Japan, Tokyo. ISBN 978-4-431-53891-2 978-4-431-53892-9, doi:10.1007/978-4-431-53892-9_2.

Mutzel A, Kempenaers B, Laucht S, Dingemanse NJ, Dale J (2011). Circulating Testosterone Levels Do Not Affect Exploration in House Sparrows: Observational and Experimental Tests. Animal Behaviour, 81, 731–739. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.001

Reers H, Jacot A (2011). The Effect of Hunger on the Acoustic Individuality in Begging Calls of a Colonially Breeding Weaver Bird. BMC Ecology, 11. doi:10.1186/1472-6785-11-3

Bolund E, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W (2011). Correlates of Male Fitness in Captive Zebra Finches - a Comparison of Methods to Disentangle Genetic and Environmental Effects. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-327

Schielzeth H, Bolund E, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2011). Quantitative Genetics and Fitness Consequences of Neophilia in Zebra Finches. Behavioral Ecology, 22, 126–134. doi:10.1093/beheco/arq184

Forstmeier W, Schielzeth H (2011). Cryptic Multiple Hypotheses Testing in Linear Models: Overestimated Effect Sizes and the Winner’s Curse. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 65, 47–55. doi:10.1007/s00265-010-1038-5

Mathot KJ, van den Hout PJ, Piersma T, Kempenaers B, Réale D, Dingemanse NJ (2011). Disentangling the roles of frequency-vs. state-dependence in generating individual differences in behavioural plasticity. Ecology letters, 14, 1254–1262. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01698.x

Olano-Marin J, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2011). CORRELATIONS BETWEEN HETEROZYGOSITY AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN THE BLUE TIT (CYANISTES CAERULEUS): AN ANALYSIS OF INBREEDING AND SINGLE LOCUS EFFECTS: HETEROZYGOSITY-FITNESS CORRELATION IN THE BLUE TIT. Evolution, 65, 3175–3194. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01369.x

Mueller JC, Hermisson J, Olano-Marin J, Hansson B, Kempenaers B (2011). Linking Genetic Mechanisms of Heterozygosity-Fitness Correlations to Footprints of Selection at Single Loci. Evolutionary Ecology, 25, 1–11. doi:10.1007/s10682-010-9377-2

Laucht S, Dale J, Mutzel A, Kempenaers B (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, 170, 501–508. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.11.007

DuVal EH, Goymann W (2011). Hormonal Correlates of Social Status and Courtship Display in the Cooperatively Lekking Lance-Tailed Manakin. Hormones and Behavior, 59, 44–50. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.10.004

Delhey K, Carrizo M, Verniere L, Mahler B, Peters A (2011). Rejection of brood-parasitic shiny cowbird Molothrus bonariensis nestlings by the firewood-gatherer Anumbius annumbi? Journal of Avian Biology, 42, 463–467. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2011.05439.x

Szöllősi E, Cichoń M, Eens M, Hasselquist D, Kempenaers B, Merino S, Nilsson J, Rosivall B, Rytkönen S, Török J, others (2011). Determinants of distribution and prevalence of avian malaria in blue tit populations across Europe: separating host and parasite effects. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, 2014–2024. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02339.x

Peters A, Kurvers R, Roberts ML, Delhey K (2011). No evidence for general condition-dependence of structural plumage colour in blue tits: an experiment. Journal of evolutionary biology, 24, 976–987. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02229.x

Olano-Marin J, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2011). Heterozygosity and Survival in Blue Tits (Cyanistes Caeruleus): Contrasting Effects of Presumably Functional and Neutral Loci: HETEROZYGOSITY AND SURVIVAL IN BLUE TITS. Molecular Ecology, 20, 4028–4041. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05177.x

Valcu M, Valcu C (2011). Data Transformation Practices in Biomedical Sciences. Nature Methods, 8, 104–105. doi:10.1038/nmeth0211-104

Haubenberger D, Reinthaler E, Mueller JC, Pirker W, Katzenschlager R, Froehlich R, Bruecke T, Daniel G, Auff E, Zimprich A (2011). Association of transcription factor polymorphisms PITX3 and EN1 with Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiology of aging, 32, 302–307. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.02.015

Peters A, Magdeburg S, Delhey K (2011). The carotenoid conundrum: improved nutrition boosts plasma carotenoid levels but not immune benefits of carotenoid supplementation. Oecologia, 166, 35–43. doi:10.1007/s00442-011-1921-4

Reers H, Jacot A, Forstmeier W (2011). Do Zebra Finch Parents Fail to Recognise Their Own Offspring? PLoS ONE, 6. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018466

Forstmeier W, Martin K, Bolund E, Schielzeth H, Kempenaers B (2011). Female Extrapair Mating Behavior Can Evolve via Indirect Selection on Males. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 10608–10613. doi:10.1073/pnas.1103195108

Mueller JC, Pulido F, Kempenaers B (2011). Identification of a Gene Associated with Avian Migratory Behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278, 2848–2856. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2567

Forstmeier W (2011). Women Have Relatively Larger Brains than Men: A Comment on the Misuse of General Linear Models in the Study of Sexual Dimorphism. The Anatomical Record, 294, 1856–1863. doi:10.1002/ar.21423

Koch W, Schatke A, Wolferstetter H, Mueller JC, Schömig A, Kastrati A (2011). Extended evidence for association between the melanoma inhibitory activity 3 gene and myocardial infarction. Thrombosis and haemostasis, 105, 670–675. doi:10.1160/TH10-10-0641

2010

Kempenaers B, Schlicht E (2010). Extra-Pair Behaviour. In Kappeler P (ed.), Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms, 359–411. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-02623-2 978-3-642-02624-9, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02624-9_13.

Steinmeyer C, Schielzeth H, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2010). Variation in Sleep Behaviour in Free-Living Blue Tits, Cyanistes Caeruleus: Effects of Sex, Age and Environment. Animal Behaviour, 80, 853–864. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.005

Bolund E, Martin K, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2010). Inbreeding Depression of Sexually Selected Traits and Attractiveness in the Zebra Finch. Animal Behaviour, 79, 947–955. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.014

Schielzeth H, Bolund E (2010). Patterns of Conspecific Brood Parasitism in Zebra Finches. Animal Behaviour, 79, 1329–1337. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.006

Peters A, Klonczinski E, Delhey K (2010). Fat quill secretion in pigeons: could it function as a cosmetic? Animal Biology, 60, 69–78. doi:10.1163/157075610X12610595764219

Delhey K, Roberts ML, Peters A (2010). The carotenoid-continuum: carotenoid-based plumage ranges from conspicuous to cryptic and back again. BMC ecology, 10. doi:10.1186/1472-6785-10-13

Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2010). Spatial Autocorrelation: An Overlooked Concept in Behavioral Ecology. Behavioral Ecology, 21, 902–905. doi:10.1093/beheco/arq107

Laucht S, Kempenaers B, Dale J (2010). Bill Color, Not Badge Size, Indicates Testosterone-Related Information in House Sparrows. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 1461–1471. doi:10.1007/s00265-010-0961-9

Jacot A, Reers H, Forstmeier W (2010). Individual Recognition and Potential Recognition Errors in ParentCommunication. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 1515–1525. doi:10.1007/s00265-010-0965-5

Gladbach A, Gladbach DJ, Kempenaers B, Quillfeldt P (2010). Female-specific colouration, carotenoids and reproductive investment in a dichromatic species, the upland goose Chloephaga picta leucoptera. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 64, 1779–1789. doi:10.1007/s00265-010-0990-4

Nakagawa S, Schielzeth H (2010). Repeatability for Gaussian and non-Gaussian Data: A Practical Guide for Biologists. Biological Reviews, 85, 935–956. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00141.x

Kempenaers B, Borgström P, Loës P, Schlicht E, Valcu M (2010). Artificial Night Lighting Affects Dawn Song, Extra-Pair Siring Success, and Lay Date in Songbirds. Current Biology, 20, 1735–1739. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.028

Schielzeth H, Bolund E, Forstmeier W (2010). Heritability of and early environment effects on variation in mating preferences. Evolution, 64, 998–1006. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00890.x

Backström N, Forstmeier W, Schielzeth H, Mellenius H, Nam K, Bolund E, Webster MT, Öst T, Schneider M, Kempenaers B, others (2010). The recombination landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome. Genome research, 20, 485–495. doi:10.1101/gr.101410.109

Hansson B, Ljungqvist M, Dawson D, Mueller JC, Olano-Marin J, Ellegren H, Nilsson J (2010). Avian genome evolution: insights from a linkage map of the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). Heredity, 104, 67–78. doi:10.1038/hdy.2009.107

Kurvers RH, Delhey K, Roberts ML, Peters A (2010). No consistent female preference for higher crown UV reflectance in Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus: a mate choice experiment. Ibis (0019-1019), 152. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00998.x

Yohannes E, Valcu M, Lee RW, Kempenaers B (2010). Resource Use for Reproduction Depends on Spring Arrival Time and Wintering Area in an Arctic Breeding Shorebird. Journal of Avian Biology, 41, 580–590. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2010.04965.x

Bolund E, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W (2010). No Heightened Condition Dependence of Zebra Finch Ornaments a Quantitative Genetic Approach. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23, 586–597. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01927.x

Steiger SS, Fidler AE, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2010). Evidence for Adaptive Evolution of Olfactory Receptor Genes in 9 Bird Species. Journal of Heredity, 101, 325–333. doi:10.1093/jhered/esp105

Jacot A, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2010). Within-Season Divorce in Blue Tits (Cyanistes Caeruleus). Journal of Ornithology, 151, 477–482. doi:10.1007/s10336-009-0483-2

Korsten P, Mueller JC, Hermannstädter C, Bouwman KM, Dingemanse NJ, Drent PJ, Liedvogel M, Matthysen E, Van Oers K, Van Overveld T, Patrick SC, Quinn JL, Sheldon BC, Tinbergen JM, Kempenaers B (2010). Association between DRD4 Gene Polymorphism and Personality Variation in Great Tits: A Test across Four Wild Populations: AVIAN PERSONALITY AND DRD4 GENE POLYMORPHISM. Molecular Ecology, 19, 832–843. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04518.x

Olano-Marin J, Dawson DA, Girg A, Hansson B, Ljungqvist M, Kempenaers B, Mueller JC (2010). A Genome-wide Set of 106 Microsatellite Markers for the Blue Tit ( Cyanistes Caeruleus ). Molecular Ecology Resources, 10, 516–532. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02777.x

Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2010). Is Spatial Autocorrelation an Intrinsic Property of Territory Size? Oecologia, 162, 609–615. doi:10.1007/s00442-009-1509-4

De Groof G, Gwinner H, Steiger S, Kempenaers B, Van der Linden A (2010). Neural correlates of behavioural olfactory sensitivity changes seasonally in European starlings. PLoS One, 5. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014337

Barber I, Dingemanse NJ (2010). Parasitism and the Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Personality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365, 4077–4088. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0182

Dingemanse NJ, Wolf M (2010). Recent Models for Adaptive Personality Differences: A Review. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365, 3947–3958. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0221

Van Oers K, Mueller JC (2010). Evolutionary Genomics of Animal Personality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365, 3991–4000. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0178

Rochester JR, Forstmeier W, Millam JR (2010). Post-Hatch Oral Estrogen in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia Guttata): Is Infertility Due to Disrupted Testes Morphology or Reduced Copulatory Behavior? Physiology & Behavior, 101, 13–21. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.04.002

Delhey K, Burger C, Fiedler W, Peters A (2010). Seasonal changes in colour: a comparison of structural, melanin-and carotenoid-based plumage colours. PloS one, 5. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011582

Forstmeier W, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2010). A Polymorphism in the Oestrogen Receptor Gene Explains Covariance between Digit Ratio and Mating Behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, 3353–3361. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1007

Forstmeier W, Ellegren H (2010). Trisomy and Triploidy Are Sources of Embryo Mortality in the Zebra Finch. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, 2655–2660. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0394

Van den Steen E, Pinxten R, Covaci A, Carere C, Eeva T, Heeb P, Kempenaers B, Lifjeld JT, Massa B, Norte AC, others (2010). The use of blue tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool for organohalogenated pollutants in the European environment. Science of the total environment, 408, 1451–1457. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.12.028

Brommer JE, Alho JS, Biard C, Chapman JR, Charmantier A, Dreiss A, Hartley IR, Hjernquist MB, Kempenaers B, Komdeur J, others (2010). Passerine extrapair mating dynamics: a Bayesian modeling approach comparing four species. The American Naturalist, 176, 178–187. doi:10.1086/653660

Jacot A, Romero-Diaz C, Tschirren B, Richner H, Fitze P (2010). Dissecting Carotenoid from Structural Components of Carotenoid-Based Coloration: A Field Experiment with Great Tits ( Parus Major ). The American Naturalist, 176, 55–62. doi:10.1086/653000

Delhey K, Carrizo M, Verniere LC, Mahler B, Peters A (2010). Seasonal variation in reproductive output of a neotropical temperate suboscine, the Firewood-gatherer (Anumbius annumbi). The Auk, 127, 222–231. doi:10.1525/auk.2009.09050

Koch W, Schrempf M, Erl A, Mueller JC, Hoppmann P, Schömig A, Kastrati A (2010). 4G/5G polymorphism and haplotypes of SERPINE1 in atherosclerotic diseases of coronary arteries. Thrombosis and haemostasis, 103, 1170–1180. doi:10.1160/TH09-10-0702

Dingemanse NJ, Edelaar P, Kempenaers B (2010). Why Is There Variation in Baseline Glucocorticoid Levels? Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25, 261–262. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2010.01.008

2009

Jacot A, Valcu M, Van Oers K, Kempenaers B (2009). Experimental Nest Site Limitation Affects Reproductive Strategies and Parental Investment in a Hole-Nesting Passerine. Animal Behaviour, 77, 1075–1083. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.012

Steiger SS, Fidler AE, Kempenaers B (2009). Evidence for Increased Olfactory Receptor Gene Repertoire Size in Two Nocturnal Bird Species with Well-Developed Olfactory Ability. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-117

Steiger SS, Kuryshev VY, Stensmyr MC, Kempenaers B, Mueller JC (2009). A Comparison of Reptilian and Avian Olfactory Receptor Gene Repertoires: Species-specific Expansion of Group Genes in Birds. BMC Genomics, 10. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-446

Muck C, Kempenaers B, Kuhn S, Valcu M, Goymann W (2009). Paternity in the Classical Polyandrous Black Coucal (Centropus Grillii)—a Cuckoo Accepting Cuckoldry? Behavioral Ecology, 20, 1185–1193. doi:10.1093/beheco/arp118

Wiebe KL, Kempenaers B (2009). The Social and Genetic Mating System in Flickers Linked to Partially Reversed Sex Roles. Behavioral Ecology, 20, 453–458. doi:10.1093/beheco/arn138

Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W (2009). Conclusions beyond Support: Overconfident Estimates in Mixed Models. Behavioral Ecology, 20, 416–420. doi:10.1093/beheco/arn145

Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W (2009). A Quantitative Genetic Approach to Understanding Aggressive Behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 282–283. doi:10.1017/S0140525X09990380

Dawy Z, Morcos F, Weindl J, Mueller JC (2009). Translation initiation modeling and mutational analysis based on the 3′-end of the Escherichia coli 16S rRNA sequence. Biosystems, 96, 58–64. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.11.008

Kempenaers B (2009). Behavioural Ecology: Cuckolder Eggs Come First. Current Biology, 19. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.028

Van den Steen E, Pinxten R, Jaspers VL, Covaci A, Barba E, Carere C, Cichoń M, Dubiec A, Eeva T, Heeb P, others (2009). Brominated flame retardants and organochlorines in the European environment using great tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool. Environment International, 35, 310–317. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2008.08.002

Mettke-Hofmann C, Lorentzen S, Schlicht E, Schneider J, Werner F (2009). Spatial neophilia and spatial neophobia in resident and migratory warblers (Sylvia). Ethology, 115, 482–492. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01632.x

Schielzeth H, Bolund E, Forstmeier W (2009). HERITABILITY OF AND EARLY ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS ON VARIATION IN MATING PREFERENCES: QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF MATING CHOICE. Evolution, 64, 998–1006. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00890.x

Forstmeier W, Burger C, Temnow K, Derégnaucourt S (2009). THE GENETIC BASIS OF ZEBRA FINCH VOCALIZATIONS. Evolution, 63, 2114–2130. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00688.x

Steinmeyer C, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2009). Search for Informative Polymorphisms in Candidate Genes: Clock Genes and Circadian Behaviour in Blue Tits. Genetica, 136, 109–117. doi:10.1007/s10709-008-9318-y

Yohannes E, Križanauskien. e A, Valcu M, Bensch S, Kempenaers B (2009). Prevalence of Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites in Two Shorebird Species with Different Winter Habitat Distribution. Journal of Ornithology, 150, 287–291. doi:10.1007/s10336-008-0349-z

Weindl J, Dawy Z, Hanus P, Zech J, Mueller JC (2009). Modeling promoter search by E. coli RNA polymerase: one-dimensional diffusion in a sequence-dependent energy landscape. Journal of theoretical biology, 259, 628–634. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.05.006

Cohas A, Bonenfant C, Kempenaers B, Allaine D (2009). Age-specific effect of heterozygosity on survival in alpine marmots, Marmota marmota. Molecular Ecology, 18, 1491–1503. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04116.x

Kuhn S, Wiebe KL, Kempenaers B (2009). Isolation and Characterization of Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci for the Northern Flicker ( Colaptes Auratus ; Aves). Molecular Ecology Resources, 9, 845–848. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02293.x

Fuchs J, Mueller JC, Lichtner P, Schulte C, Munz M, Berg D, Wüllner U, Illig T, Sharma M, Gasser T (2009). The transcription factor PITX3 is associated with sporadic Parkinson’s disease. Neurobiology of aging, 30, 731–738. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.08.014

Schlachter K, Gruber-Sedlmayr U, Stogmann E, Lausecker M, Hotzy C, Balzar J, Schuh E, Baumgartner C, Mueller JC, Illig T, others (2009). A splice site variant in the sodium channel gene SCN1A confers risk of febrile seizures. Neurology, 72, 974–978. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000344401.02915.00

Schule R, Bonin M, Durr A, Forlani S, Sperfeld A, Klimpe S, Mueller JC, Seibel A, Van De Warrenburg B, Bauer P, others (2009). Autosomal dominant spastic paraplegia with peripheral neuropathy maps to chr12q23-24. Neurology, 72, 1893–1898. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181a6086

Golub Y, Berg D, Calne DB, Pfeiffer RF, Uitti RJ, Stoessl AJ, Wszolek ZK, Farrer MJ, Mueller JC, Gasser T, others (2009). Genetic factors influencing age at onset in LRRK2-linked Parkinson disease. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 15, 539–541. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2008.10.008

Bolund E, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W (2009). Compensatory Investment in Zebra Finches: Females Lay Larger Eggs When Paired to Sexually Unattractive Males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276, 707–715. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1251

2008

Van Oers K, Drent PJ, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B (2008). Personality Is Associated with Extrapair Paternity in Great Tits, Parus Major. Animal Behaviour, 76, 555–563. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.011

Cohas A, Yoccoz NG, Bonenfant C, Goossens B, Genton C, Galan M, Kempenaers B, Allainé D (2008). The genetic similarity between pair members influences the frequency of extrapair paternity in alpine marmots. Animal Behaviour, 76, 87–95. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.01.012

Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2008). Causes and Consequences of Breeding Dispersal and Divorce in a Blue Tit, Cyanistes Caeruleus, Population. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1949–1963. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.12.005

Schielzeth H, Burger C, Bolund E, Forstmeier W (2008). Assortative versus Disassortative Mating Preferences of Female Zebra Finches Based on Self-Referent Phenotype Matching. Animal Behaviour, 76, 1927–1934. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.014

Koch W, Hoppmann P, Biele J, Mueller JC, Schömig A, Kastrati A (2008). Fibrinogen genes and myocardial infarction: a haplotype analysis. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 28, 758–763. doi:10.1161/ATVBAHA.107.157842

Dingel J, Hanus P, Leonardi N, Hagenauer J, Zech J, Mueller JC (2008). Local Conservation Scores without a Priori Assumptions on Neutral Substitution Rates. BMC Bioinformatics, 9. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-190

Schmidt-Wellenburg CA, Visser GH, Biebach B, Delhey K, Oltrogge M, Wittenzellner A, Biebach H, Kempenaers B (2008). Trade-off between migration and reproduction: does a high workload affect body condition and reproductive state? Behavioral Ecology, 19, 1351–1360. doi:10.1093/beheco/arn066

Zimprich F, Stogmann E, Bonelli S, Baumgartner C, Mueller JC, Meitinger T, Zimprich A, Strom TM (2008). A functional polymorphism in the SCN1A gene is not associated with carbamazepine dosages in Austrian patients with epilepsy. Epilepsia, 49, 1108–1109. doi:10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01549_4.x

Peters A, Delhey K, Andersson S, Van Noordwijk H, Förschler MI (2008). Condition-dependence of multiple carotenoid-based plumage traits: an experimental study. Functional Ecology, 22, 831–839. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01437.x

Forstmeier W, Rochester J, Millam JR (2008). Digit Ratio Unaffected by Estradiol Treatment of Zebra Finch Nestlings. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 156, 379–384. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.01.007

Dawy Z, Sarkis M, Hagenauer J, Mueller J (2008). Fine-Scale Genetic Mapping Using Independent Component Analysis. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 5, 448–460. doi:10.1109/TCBB.2007.1072

Helfenstein F, Szép T, Nagy Z, Kempenaers B, Wagner RH (2008). Between-male variation in sperm size, velocity and longevity in sand martins Riparia riparia. Journal of Avian Biology, 39, 647–652. doi:10.1111/j.1600-048X.2008.04450.x

Laucht S, DuVal EH, Kempenaers B (2008). Maternal Correlates of Brood Sex Ratio Variation in the Lekking Lance-Tailed Manakin Chiroxiphia Lanceolata. Journal of Avian Biology, 39, 198–205. doi:10.1111/j.2008.0908-8857.04165.x

Schielzeth H, Burger C, Bolund E, Forstmeier W (2008). Sexual Imprinting on Continuous Variation: Do Female Zebra Finches Prefer or Avoid Unfamiliar Sons of Their Foster Parents? Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21, 1274–1280. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01568.x

Steiger SS, Fidler AE, Kempenaers B (2008). Detection of Olfactory Receptor Transcripts in Bird Testes. Journal of Heredity, 99, 624–628. doi:10.1093/jhered/esn051

Mueller JC, Steiger S, Fidler AE, Kempenaers B (2008). Biogenic Trace AmineReceptors (TAARs) Are Encoded in Avian Genomes: Evidence and Possible Implications. Journal of Heredity, 99, 174–176. doi:10.1093/jhered/esm113

Koch W, Hoppmann P, Mueller JC, Schoemig A, Kastrati A (2008). Lack of support for association between common variation in TNFSF4 and myocardial infarction in a German population. Nature genetics, 40, 1386–1387. doi:10.1038/ng1208-1386

Delhey K, Peters A, Biedermann PHW, Kempenaers B (2008). Optical Properties of the Uropygial Gland Secretion: No Evidence for UV Cosmetics in Birds. Naturwissenschaften, 95, 939–946. doi:10.1007/s00114-008-0406-8

Delhey K, Peters A (2008). Quantifying variability of avian colours: are signalling traits more variable? PLoS One, 3. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001689

Kempenaers B, Peters A, Foerster K (2008). Sources of Individual Variation in Plasma Testosterone Levels. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363, 1711–1723. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.0001

DuVal EH, Kempenaers B (2008). Sexual Selection in a Lekking Bird: The Relative Opportunity for Selection by Female Choice and Male Competition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 1995–2003. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0151

Steiger SS, Fidler AE, Valcu M, Kempenaers B (2008). Avian Olfactory Receptor Gene Repertoires: Evidence for a Well-Developed Sense of Smell in Birds? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 2309–2317. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0607

Jacot A, Scheuber H, Holzer B, Otti O, Brinkhof MW (2008). Diel Variation in a Dynamic Sexual Display and Its Association with Female Mate-Searching Behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 579–585. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1500

Bolund E, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W (2008). Compensatory investment in zebra finches: females lay larger eggs when paired to sexually unattractive males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1251

Goymann W, Wittenzellner A, Schwabl I, Makomba M (2008). Progesterone modulates aggression in sex-role reversed female African black coucals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1707

Logue D, Forstmeier W (2008). Constrained Performance in a Communication Network: Implications for the Function of Song-Type Matching and for the Evolution of Multiple Ornaments. The American Naturalist, 172, 34–41. doi:10.1086/587849

Fuchs J, Tichopad A, Golub Y, Munz M, Schweitzer KJ, Wolf B, Berg D, Mueller JC, Gasser T (2008). Genetic variability in the SNCA gene influences -synuclein levels in the blood and brain. The FASEB journal, 22, 1327–1334. doi:10.1096/fj.07-9348com

Tibbetts EA, Sheehan MJ, Dale J (2008). A Testable Definition of Individual Recognition. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.03.007

2007

Kempenaers B (2007). Mate Choice and Genetic Quality: A Review of the Heterozygosity Theory. In Advances in the Study of Behavior, volume 37, 189–278. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-004537-2, doi:10.1016/S0065-3454(07)37005-8.

Vollmert C, Hahn S, Lamina C, Huth C, Kolz M, Schopfer-Wendels A, Mann K, Bongardt F, Mueller JC, Kronenberg F, others (2007). Calpain-10 variants and haplotypes are associated with polycystic ovary syndrome in Caucasians. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, 292. doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00584.200

Bolund E, Schielzeth H, Forstmeier W (2007). Intrasexual Competition in Zebra Finches, the Role of Beak Colour and Body Size. Animal Behaviour, 74, 715–724. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.032

DuVal EH (2007). Social Organization and Variation in Cooperative Alliances among Male Lance-Tailed Manakins. Animal Behaviour, 73, 391–401. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.05.017

Kempenaers B, Lanctot RB, Gill VA, Hatch SA, Valcu M (2007). Do Females Trade Copulations for Food? An Experimental Study on Kittiwakes (Rissa Tridactyla). Behavioral Ecology, 18, 345–353. doi:10.1093/beheco/arl090

Jacot A, Kempenaers B (2007). Effects of Nestling Condition on UV Plumage Traits in Blue Tits: An Experimental Approach. Behavioral Ecology, 18, 34–40. doi:10.1093/beheco/arl054

Delhey K, Peters A, Johnsen A, Kempenaers B (2007). Fertilization Success and UV Ornamentation in Blue Tits Cyanistes Caeruleus: Correlational and Experimental Evidence. Behavioral Ecology, 18, 399–409. doi:10.1093/beheco/arl096

Delhey K, Peters A, Johnsen A, Kempenaers B (2007). Brood Sex Ratio and Male UV Ornamentation in Blue Tits (Cyanistes Caeruleus): Correlational Evidence and an Experimental Test. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, 853–862. doi:10.1007/s00265-006-0314-x

Petracci PF, Delhey KV, Sotelo MR (2007). Granivorous habit in olrog’s gull (Larus atlanticus): implications for its specialist status. El Hornero, 22.

Hanus P, Goebel B, Dingel J, Weindl J, Zech J, Dawy Z, Hagenauer J, Mueller JC (2007). Information and Communication Theory in Molecular Biology. Electrical Engineering, 90, 161–173. doi:10.1007/s00202-007-0062-6

Jacot A, Scheuber H, Brinkhof MWG (2007). The Effect of Age on a Sexually Selected Acoustic Display. Ethology, 113, 615–620. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01360.x

Koch W, Hoppmann P, Mueller JC, Schömig A, Kastrati A (2007). No association of polymorphisms in the gene encoding 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein and myocardial infarction in a large central European population. Genetics in Medicine, 9, 123–129. doi:10.1097/GIM.0b013e318030c9c5

Beck J, Forstmeier W (2007). Superstition and Belief as Inevitable By-Products of an Adaptive Learning Strategy. Human Nature, 18, 35–46. doi:10.1007/BF02820845

Koch W, Hoppmann P, Michou E, Jung V, Pfeufer A, Mueller JC, Gieger C, Wichmann H, Meitinger T, Schömig A, others (2007). Association of variants in the BAT1-NFKBIL1-LTA genomic region with protection against myocardial infarction in Europeans. Human molecular genetics, 16, 1821–1827. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddm130

Sarkis M, Goebel B, Dawy Z, Hagenauer J, Hanus P, Mueller JC (2007). Gene mapping of complex diseases-a comparison of methods from statistics informnation theory, and signal processing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 24, 83–90. doi:10.1109/MSP.2007.273061

Sedlacek K, Neureuther K, Mueller JC, Stark K, Fischer M, Baessler A, Reinhard W, Broeckel U, Lieb W, Erdmann J, others (2007). Lymphotoxin- and galectin-2 SNPs are not associated with myocardial infarction in two different German populations. Journal of Molecular Medicine, 85, 997–1004. doi:10.1007/s00109-007-0211-4

Poesel A, Dabelsteen T, Darden S, Delhey K, Peters A (2007). Territorial responses of male blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, to UV-manipulated neighbours. Journal of Ornithology, 148, 179–187. doi:10.1007/s10336-006-0117-x

Valcu C, Valcu M (2007). Reproducibility of Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis at Different Replication Levels. Journal of Proteome Research, 6, 4677–4683. doi:10.1021/pr070396e

Forstmeier W, Segelbacher G, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2007). Genetic Variation and Differentiation in Captive and Wild Zebra Finches ( Taeniopygia Guttata ). Molecular Ecology, 16, 4039–4050. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03444.x

Johnsen A, Fidler AE, Kuhn S, Carter KL, Hoffmann A, Barr IR, Biard C, Charmantier A, Eens M, Korsten P, Siitari H, Tomiuk J, Kempenaers B (2007). Avian Clock Gene Polymorphism: Evidence for a Latitudinal Cline in Allele Frequencies. Molecular Ecology, 16, 4867–4880. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03552.x

Duval EH, Carter KL, Kempenaers B (2007). Isolation and Characterization of Novel Microsatellite Loci for Parentage Assessment in the Lance-tailed Manakin ( Chiroxiphia Lanceolata ). Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, 1111–1113. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01795.x

Forstmeier W, Schielzeth H, Schneider M, Kempenaers B (2007). Development of Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers for the Zebra Finch ( Taeniopygia Guttata ). Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, 1026–1028. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01762.x

Carter KL, Kempenaers B (2007). Eleven Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers for Paternity Analysis in the Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris Melanotos. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, 658–660. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01666.x

Riemenschneider M, Schoepfer-Wendels A, Friedrich P, Konta L, Laws S, Mueller JC, Kurz A, Förstl H (2007). No association of vacuolar protein sorting 26 polymorphisms with Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 28, 883–884. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.05.009

Mueller JC, Riemenschneider M, Schoepfer-Wendels A, Gohlke H, Konta L, Friedrich P, Illig T, Laws SM, Förstl H, Kurz A (2007). Weak independent association signals between IDE polymorphisms, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive measures. Neurobiology of aging, 28, 727–734. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.03.009

Maetzler W, Berg D, Schalamberidze N, Melms A, Schott K, Mueller JC, Liaw L, Gasser T, Nitsch C (2007). Osteopontin is elevated in Parkinson’s disease and its absence leads to reduced neurodegeneration in the MPTP model. Neurobiology of disease, 25, 473–482. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2006.10.020

Weindl J, Hanus P, Dawy Z, Zech J, Hagenauer J, Mueller JC (2007). Modeling DNA-binding of Escherichia coli 70 exhibits a characteristic energy landscape around strong promoters. Nucleic acids research, 35, 7003–7010. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm720

Forstmeier W (2007). Do Individual Females Differ Intrinsically in Their Propensity to Engage in Extra-Pair Copulations? PLoS ONE, 2. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000952

Fidler AE, Van Oers K, Drent PJ, Kuhn S, Mueller JC, Kempenaers B (2007). Drd4 Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated with Personality Variation in a Passerine Bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274, 1685–1691. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0337

Dale J, Dunn PO, Figuerola J, Lislevand T, Székely T, Whittingham LA (2007). Sexual Selection Explains Rensch’s Rule of Allometry for Sexual Size Dimorphism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274, 2971–2979. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1043

Peters A, Delhey K, Johnsen A, Kempenaers B (2007). The Condition-Dependent Development of Carotenoid-Based and Structural Plumage in Nestling Blue Tits: Males and Females Differ. The American Naturalist, 169. doi:10.1086/510139

Delhey K, Peters A, Kempenaers B (2007). Cosmetic Coloration in Birds: Occurrence, Function, and Evolution. The American Naturalist, 169. doi:10.1086/510095

DuVal EH (2007). Cooperative Display and Lekking Behavior of the Lance-Tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia Lanceolata). The Auk, 124, 1168–1185. doi:10.1093/auk/124.4.1168

Tibbetts EA, Dale J (2007). Individual Recognition: It Is Good to Be Different. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 22, 529–537. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.09.001

2006

Poesel A, Kunc HP, Foerster K, Johnsen A, Kempenaers B (2006). Early Birds Are Sexy: Male Age, Dawn Song and Extrapair Paternity in Blue Tits, Cyanistes (Formerly Parus) Caeruleus. Animal Behaviour, 72, 531–538. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.10.022

Koch W, Hoppmann P, Mueller JC, Schömig A, Kastrati A (2006). Association of transforming growth factor-1 gene polymorphisms with myocardial infarction in patients with angiographically proven coronary heart disease. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 26, 1114–1119. doi:10.1161/01.ATV.0000217747.66517.11

Delhey K, Peters A, Johnsen A, Kempenaers B (2006). Seasonal Changes in Blue Tit Crown Color: Do They Signal Individual Quality? Behavioral Ecology, 17, 790–798. doi:10.1093/beheco/arl012

Peters A, Delhey K, Goymann W, Kempenaers B (2006). Age-Dependent Association between Testosterone and Crown UV Coloration in Male Blue Tits (Parus Caeruleus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 59, 666–673. doi:10.1007/s00265-005-0095-7

Forstmeier W, Hasselquist D, Bensch S, Leisler B (2006). Does Song Reflect Age and Viability? A Comparison between Two Populations of the Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus Arundinaceus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 59, 634–643. doi:10.1007/s00265-005-0090-z

Vâlcu M (2006). Seasonal changes in bird species diversity at the interface between forest and reed-bed. Biodiversity & Conservation, 15, 3459–3467. doi:10.1007/s10531-005-1535-4

Griebeler EM, Müller JC, Seitz A (2006). Spatial genetic patterns generated by two admixing genetic lineages: a simulation study. Conservation Genetics, 7, 753–766. doi:10.1007/s10592-005-9111-8

Heid IM, Wagner SA, Gohlke H, Iglseder B, Mueller JC, Cip P, Ladurner G, Reiter R, Stadlmayr A, Mackevics V, others (2006). Genetic architecture of the APM1 gene and its influence on adiponectin plasma levels and parameters of the metabolic syndrome in 1,727 healthy Caucasians. Diabetes, 55, 375–384. doi:10.2337/diabetes.55.02.06.db05-0747

Kunc HP, Foerster K, Vermeirssen ELM, Kempenaers B (2006). Experimentally Elevated Plasma Testosterone Levels Do Not Influence Singing Behaviour of Male Blue Tits (Parus Caeruleus) During the Early Breeding Season. Ethology, 112, 984–992. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01254.x

Steiger SS, Goymann W, Kempenaers B (2006). Plasma Steroid Hormones in Two Arctic-breeding Shorebirds: Monogamy versus Polygyny. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 147, 133–140. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2005.12.015

Riemenschneider M, Konta L, Friedrich P, Schwarz S, Taddei K, Neff F, Padovani A, Kölsch H, Laws SM, Klopp N, others (2006). A functional polymorphism within plasminogen activator urokinase (PLAU) is associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Human Molecular Genetics, 15, 2446–2456. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddl167

Dawy Z, Goebel B, Hagenauer J, Andreoli C, Meitinger T, Mueller JC (2006). Gene mapping and marker clustering using Shannon’s mutual information. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 3, 47–56. doi:10.1109/TCBB.2006.9

Delhey K, Kempenaers B (2006). Age Differences in Blue Tit Parus Caeruleus Plumage Colour: Within-individual Changes or Colour-biased Survival? Journal of Avian Biology, 37, 339–348. doi:10.1111/j.2006.0908-8857.03655.x

Griesfeller A, Griesfeller J, Hase F, Kramer I, Loes P, Mikuteit S, Raffalski U, Blumenstock T, Nakajima H (2006). Comparison of ILAS-II and ground-based FTIR measurements of O3, HNO3, N2O, and CH4 over Kiruna, Sweden. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 111. doi:10.1029/2005JD006451

Denk AG, Kempenaers B (2006). Testosterone and Testes Size in Mallards (Anas Platyrhynchos). Journal of Ornithology, 147, 436–440. doi:10.1007/s10336-005-0031-7

Sharma M, Mueller JC, Zimprich A, Lichtner P, Hofer A, Leitner P, Maass S, Berg D, Dürr A, Bonifati V, others (2006). The sepiapterin reductase gene region reveals association in the PARK3 locus: analysis of familial and sporadic Parkinson’s disease in European populations. Journal of medical genetics, 43, 557–562. doi:10.1136/jmg.2005.039149

Foerster K, Valcu M, Johnsen A, Kempenaers B (2006). A Spatial Genetic Structure and Effects of Relatedness on Mate Choice in a Wild Bird Population. Molecular Ecology, 15, 4555–4567. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03091.x

Wattier RA, Beguet J, Gaillard M, Mueller JC, Bollache L, PERROT-MINNOT M (2006). Molecular markers for systematic identification and population genetics of the invasive Ponto-Caspian freshwater gammarid Dikerogammarus villosus (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Molecular Ecology Notes, 6, 487–489. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01283.x

Johnsen A, Andersson S, Fernandez JG, Kempenaers B, Pavel V, Questiau S, Raess M, Rindal E, Lifjeld JT (2006). Molecular and phenotypic divergence in the bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) subspecies complex. Molecular ecology, 15, 4033–4047. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03075.x

2005

Johnsen A, Delhey K, Schlicht E, Peters A, Kempenaers B (2005). Male Sexual Attractiveness and Parental Effort in Blue Tits: A Test of the Differential Allocation Hypothesis. Animal Behaviour, 70, 877–888. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.01.005

Biskup S, Mueller JC, Sharma M, Lichtner P, Zimprich A, Berg D, Wüllner U, Illig T, Meitinger T, Gasser T (2005). Common variants of LRRK2 are not associated with sporadic Parkinson’s disease. Annals of Neurology: Official Journal of the American Neurological Association and the Child Neurology Society, 58, 905–908. doi:10.1002/ana.20664

Mueller JC, Fuchs J, Hofer A, Zimprich A, Lichtner P, Illig T, Berg D, Wüllner U, Meitinger T, Gasser T (2005). Multiple regions of -synuclein are associated with Parkinson’s disease. Annals of neurology, 57, 535–541. doi:10.1002/ana.20438

Denk AG, Holzmann A, Peters A, Vermeirssen EL, Kempenaers B (2005). Paternity in Mallards: Effects of Sperm Quality and Female Sperm Selection for Inbreeding Avoidance. Behavioral Ecology, 16, 825–833. doi:10.1093/beheco/ari065

Foerster K, Kempenaers B (2005). Effects of Testosterone on Male-Male Competition and Male-Female Interactions in Blue Tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 57, 215–223. doi:10.1007/s00265-004-0858-6

Garamszegi LZ, Balsby TJ, Bell BD, Borowiec M, Byers BE, Draganoiu T, Eens M, Forstmeier W, Galeotti P, Gil D, others (2005). Estimating the complexity of bird song by using capture-recapture approaches from community ecology. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 57, 305–317. doi:10.1007/s00265-004-0866-6

Van Oers K, de Jong G, van Noordwijk AJ, Kempenaers B, Drent PJ (2005). Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies. Behaviour, 1185–1206. doi:10.1163/156853905774539364

Koch W, Hoppmann P, Pfeufer A, Mueller JC, Schömig A, Kastrati A (2005). No replication of association between estrogen receptor gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to myocardial infarction in a large sample of patients of European descent. Circulation, 112, 2138–2142. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.545913

Pfeufer A, Jalilzadeh S, Perz S, Mueller JC, Hinterseer M, Illig T, Akyol M, Huth C, Schöpfer-Wendels A, Kuch B, others (2005). Common variants in myocardial ion channel genes modify the QT interval in the general population: results from the KORA study. Circulation research, 96, 693–701. doi:10.1161/01.RES.0000161077.53751.e

Iribarne O, Bruschetti M, Escapa M, Bava J, Botto F, Gutierrez J, Palomo G, Delhey K, Petracci P, Gagliardini A (2005). 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, 87–101. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2004.09.006

Goymann W, Kempenaers B, Wingfield J (2005). Breeding biology, sexually dimorphic development and nestling testosterone concentrations of the classically polyandrous African black coucal, Centropus grillii. Journal of Ornithology, 146, 314–324. doi:10.1007/s10336-005-0004-x

Forstmeier W (2005). Quantitative Genetics and Behavioural Correlates of Digit Ratio in the Zebra Finch. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272, 2641–2649. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3264

Lohmussaar E, Gschwendtner A, Mueller JC, Org T, Wichmann E, Hamann G, Meitinger T, Dichgans M (2005). ALOX5AP gene and the PDE4D gene in a central European population of stroke patients. Stroke, 36, 731–736. doi:10.1161/01.STR.0000157587.59821.8

Mueller JC, Lohmussaar E, Mägi R, Remm M, Bettecken T, Lichtner P, Biskup S, Illig T, Pfeufer A, Luedemann J, others (2005). Linkage disequilibrium patterns and tagSNP transferability among European populations. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 76, 387–398. doi:10.1086/427925

2004

Forstmeier W (2004). Female resistance to male seduction in zebra finches. Animal Behaviour, 68, 1005–1015. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.02.003

Forstmeier W, Birkhead TR (2004). Repeatability of mate choice in the zebra finch: consistency within and between females. Animal Behaviour, 68, 1017–1028. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.02.007

Forstmeier W, Leisler B (2004). Repertoire size, sexual selection, and offspring viability in the great reed warbler: changing patterns in space and time. Behavioral Ecology, 15, 555–563. doi:10.1093/beheco/arh051

Foerster K, Kempenaers B (2004). Experimentally Elevated Plasma Levels of Testosterone Do Not Increase Male Reproductive Success in Blue Tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 56. doi:10.1007/s00265-004-0809-2

Mueller JC, Andreoli C (2004). Plotting haplotype-specific linkage disequilibrium patterns by extended haplotype homozygosity. Bioinformatics, 20, 786–787. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btg481

Mueller JC (2004). Linkage disequilibrium for different scales and applications. Briefings in bioinformatics, 5, 355–364. doi:10.1093/bib/5.4.355

Dauwe T, Janssens E, Kempenaers B, Eens M (2004). The effect of heavy metal exposure on egg size, eggshell thickness and the number of spermatozoa in blue tit Parus caeruleus eggs. Environmental pollution, 129, 125–129. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2003.09.028

Goymann W, Wittenzellner A, Wingfield JC (2004). Competing females and caring males. Polyandry and sex-role reversal in African black coucals, Centropus grillii. Ethology, 110, 807–823. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.01015.x

Forstmeier W, Coltman DW, Birkhead TR (2004). Maternal effects influence the sexual behavior of sons and daughters in the zebra finch. Evolution, 58, 2574–2583. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00885.x

Petracci PF, Delhey K (2004). Nesting attempts of the Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonotain Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Ibis (0019-1019), 146. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00262.x

Peters A, Denk AG, Delhey K, Kempenaers B (2004). Carotenoid-Based Bill Colour as an Indicator of Immunocompetence and Sperm Performance in Male Mallards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 17, 1111–1120. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00743.x

Mueller JC, Andreoli C, Prokisch H, Meitinger T (2004). Mechanisms for multiple intracellular localization of human mitochondrial proteins. Mitochondrion, 3, 315–325. doi:10.1016/j.mito.2004.02.002

Denk AG, Gautschi B, Carter K, Kempenaers B (2004). Seven Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci for Paternity Assessment in the Mallard ( Anas Platyrhynchos ). Molecular Ecology Notes, 4, 506–508. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2004.00707.x

Fidler AE, Kuhn S, Gwinner E (2004). Convergent Evolution of Strigiform and Caprimulgiform Dark-Activity Is Supported by Phylogenetic Analysis Using the Arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase (Aanat) Gene. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 33, 908–921. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.08.015

Binder EB, Salyakina D, Lichtner P, Wochnik GM, Ising M, Pütz B, Papiol S, Seaman S, Lucae S, Kohli MA, others (2004). Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with increased recurrence of depressive episodes and rapid response to antidepressant treatment. Nature genetics, 36, 1319–1325. doi:10.1038/ng1479

Forstmeier W, Weiss I (2004). Adaptive plasticity in nest-site selection in response to changing predation risk. Oikos, 104, 487–499. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.1999.12698.x

Peters A, Delhey K, Denk A, Kempenaers B (2004). Trade-Offs between Immune Investment and Sexual Signaling in Male Mallards. The American Naturalist, 164, 51–59. doi:10.1086/421302

2003

Forstmeier W (2003). Extra-Pair Paternity in the Dusky Warbler, Phylloscopus Fuscatus: A Test of the ‘Constrained Female Hypothesis’. Behaviour, 140, 1117–1134. doi:10.1163/156853903322589669

Blomqvist D, Andersson M, Küpper C, Cuthill IC, Kis J, Lanctot RB, Sandercock BK, Székely T, Wallander J, Kempenaers B (2003). Why Do Birds Engage in Extra-Pair Copulation? A reply to Griffith & Montgomerie. Nature, 422, 833–834. doi:10.1038/422833b

Foerster K, Delhey K, Johnsen A, Lifjeld JT, Kempenaers B (2003). Females Increase Offspring Heterozygosity and Fitness through Extra-Pair Matings. Nature, 425, 714–717. doi:10.1038/nature01969

Delhey K, Johnsen A, Peters A, Andersson S, Kempenaers B (2003). Paternity Analysis Reveals Opposing Selection Pressures on Crown Coloration in the Blue Tit ( Parus Caeruleus ). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 270, 2057–2063. doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2460

Johnsen A, Delhey K, Andersson S, Kempenaers B (2003). Plumage Colour in Nestling Blue Tits: Sexual Dichromatism, Condition Dependence and Genetic Effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 270, 1263–1270. doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2375