Publications of the MPI for Ornithology

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Jones, P. L.; Page, R. A.; Hartbauer, M.; Siemers, B. M.: Behavioral evidence for eavesdropping on prey song in two Palearctic sibling bat species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 (2), pp. 333 - 340 (2011)

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Kays, R.; Jansen, P. A.; Knecht, E. M. H.; Vohwinkel, R.; Wikelski, M.: The effect of feeding time on dispersal of Virola seeds by toucans determined from GPS tracking and accelerometers. Acta oecologica: international journal of ecology 37 (6), pp. 625 - 631 (2011)

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Kays, R.; Tilak, S.; Crofoot, M. C.; Fountain, T.; Obando, D.; Ortega, A.; Kuemmeth, F.; Mandel, J.; Swenson, G.; Lambert, T. et al.; Hirsch, B.; Wikelski, M.: Tracking animal location and activity with an automated radio telemetry system in a tropical rainforest. Computer Journal 54 (12), pp. 1931 - 1948 (2011)

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Kays, R.; Tilak, S.; Kranstauber, B.; Jansen, P.; Carbone, C.; Rowcliffe, M.; Fountain, T.; Eggert, J.; He, Z.: Camera traps as sensor networks for monitoring animal communities. International Journal of Research and Reviews in Wireless Sensor Networks 1, pp. 19 - 29 (2011)

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Kerth, G.; Perony, N.; Schweitzer, F.: Bats are able to maintain long-term social relationships despite the high fission-fusion dynamics of their groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1719), pp. 2761 - 2767 (2011)

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Koch, W.; Schatke, A.; Wolferstetter, H.; Mueller, J. C.; Schoemig, A.; Kastrati, A.: Extended evidence for association between the melanoma inhibitory activity 3 gene and myocardial infarction. Thrombosis and Haemostasis 105 (4), pp. 670 - 675 (2011)

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Koselj, K.; Presetnik, P.: The Life of Bats from the Cave Ajdovska jama near Krško (Slovenia). A review. Mitt. Komm. Quartärforsch. Österr. Akad. Wiss. 20, pp. 95 - 103 (2011)

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Koselj, K.; Schnitzler, H.-U.; Siemers, B. M.: Horseshoe bats make adaptive prey-selection decisions, informed by echo cues. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1721), pp. 3034 - 3041 (2011)

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Kranstauber, B.; Cameron, A.; Weinzierl, R.; Fountain, T.; Tilak, S.; Wikelski, M.; Kays, R.: The Movebank data model for animal tracking. Environmental Modelling and Software 26 (6), pp. 834 - 835 (2011)

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Landys, M. M.; Goymann, W.; Slagsvold, T.: Rearing conditions have long-term consequences for stress responsiveness in free-living great tits. General and Comparative Endocrinology 174 (2), pp. 219 - 224 (2011)

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Laucht, S.; Dale, J.; Mutzel, A.; Kempenaers, B.: Individual variation in plasma testosterone levels and its relation to badge size in House Sparrows Passer domesticus: It's a night-and-day difference. General and Comparative Endocrinology 170 (3), pp. 501 - 508 (2011)

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Lenz, J.; Fiedler, W.; Caprano, T.; Friedrichs, W.; Gaese, B. H.; Wikelski, M.; Boehning-Gaese, K.: Seed-dispersal distributions by trumpeter hornbills in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1716), pp. 2257 - 2264 (2011)

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Lesku, J. A.; Meyer, L. C. R.; Fuller, A.; Maloney, S. K.; Dell’Omo, G.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Ostriches sleep like platypuses. PLoS One 6 (8), e23203 (2011)

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Lesku, J. A.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Wilzeck, C.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Local sleep homeostasis in the avian brain: Convergence of sleep function in mammals and birds? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1717), pp. 2419 - 2428 (2011)

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Lindström, A.; Gill, R. E.,. J.; Jamieson, S. E.; McCaffery, B.; Wennerberg, L.; Wikelski, M.; Klaassen, M.: A puzzling migratory detour: Are fueling conditions in Alaska driving the movement of juvenile sharp-tailed sandpipers? The Condor 113 (1), pp. 129 - 139 (2011)

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Manousaki, T.; Feiner, N.; Begemann, G.; Meyer, A.; Kuraku, S.: Co-orthology of Pax4 and Pax6 to the fly eyeless gene: Molecular phylogenetic, comparative genomic, and embryological analyses. Evolution and Development 13 (5), pp. 448 - 459 (2011)

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Mathot, K. J.; van den Hout, P. J.; Piersma, T.; Kempenaers, B.; Réale, D.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Disentangling the roles of frequency-vs. state-dependence in generating individual differences in behavioural plasticity. Ecology Letters 14 (12), pp. 1254 - 1262 (2011)

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Matuszak, A.; Voigt, C. C.; Storch, I.; Bauer, H.-G.; Quillfeldt, P.: Depth-specific and spatiotemporal variation of delta C-13 and delta N-15 in Charophytes of Lake Constance: Implications for food web studies. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25 (14), pp. 2089 - 2094 (2011)

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Michler, S. P. M.; Nicolaus, M.; Ubels, R.; van der Velde, M.; Both, C.; Tinbergen, J. M.; Komdeur, J.: Do sex-specific densities affect local survival of free-ranging great tits? Behavioral Ecology 22 (4), pp. 869 - 879 (2011)

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Michler, S. P. M.; Nicolaus, M.; Ubels, R.; van der Velde, M.; Komdeur, J.; Both, C.; Tinbergen, J. M.: Sex-specific effects of the local social environment on juvenile post-fledging dispersal in great tits. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65 (10), pp. 1975 - 1986 (2011)

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Muck, C.; Goymann, W.: Throat patch size and darkness covaries with testosterone in females of a sex-role reversed species. Behavioral Ecology 22 (6), pp. 1312 - 1319 (2011)

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Mueller, J. C.; Hermisson, J.; Olano-Marin, J.; Hansson, B.; Kempenaers, B.: Linking genetic mechanisms of heterozygosity-fitness correlations to footprints of selection at single loci. Evolutionary Ecology 25 (1), pp. 1 - 11 (2011)

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Mueller, J. C.; Pulido, F.; Kempenaers, B.: Identification of a gene associated with avian migratory behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1719), pp. 2848 - 2856 (2011)

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Mutzel, A.; Kempenaers, B.; Laucht, S.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Dale, J.: Circulating testosterone levels do not affect exploration in house sparrows: Observational and experimental tests. Animal Behaviour 81 (4), pp. 731 - 739 (2011)

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Olano-Marin, J.; Mueller, J. C.; Kempenaers, B.: Correlations betweeen heterozygosity and reproductive success in the blue tit (cyanistes caeruleus): An analysis of inbreeding and single locus effects. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 65 (11), pp. 3175 - 3194 (2011)

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Olano-Marin, J.; Mueller, J. C.; Kempenaers, B.: Heterozygosity and survival in blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): Contrasting effects of presumably functional and neutral loci. Molecular Ecology 20 (19), pp. 4028 - 4041 (2011)

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Ouyang, J. Q.; Hau, M.; Bonier, F.: Within seasons and among years: When are corticosterone levels repeatable? Hormones and Behavior 60 (5), pp. 559 - 564 (2011)

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Ouyang, J. Q.; Sharp, P. J.; Dawson, A.; Quetting, M.; Hau, M.: Hormone levels predict individual differences in reproductive success in a passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1717), pp. 2537 - 2545 (2011)

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Perfito, N.; Zann, R. A.; Ubuka, T.; Bentley, G. E.; Hau, M.: Potential roles for GNIH and GNRH-II in reproductive axis regulation of an opportunistically breeding songbird. General and Comparative Endocrinology 173 (1), pp. 20 - 26 (2011)

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Pfannkuche, K. A.; Gahr, M.; Weites, I. M.; Riedstra, B.; Reusch, C.; Groothuis, T. G. G.: Examining a pathway for hormone mediated maternal effects - Yolk testosterone affects androgen receptor expression and endogenous testosterone production in young chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). General and Comparative Endocrinology 172 (3), pp. 487 - 493 (2011)

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Pika, S.: Schau Dir das an: Raben verwenden hinweisende Gesten. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2011)

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Pika, S.; Bugnyar, T.: The use of referential gestures in ravens (Corvus corax) in the wild. Nature Communications 2, 560 (2011)

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Pintér, O.; Péczely, P.; Zsebök, S.; Zelena, D.: Seasonal changes in courtship behavior, plasma androgen levels and in hypothalamic aromatase immunoreactivity in male free-living European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). General and Comparative Endocrinology 172 (1), pp. 151 - 157 (2011)

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Poirier, C.; Boumans, T.; Vellema, M.; De Groof, G.; Charlier, T. D.; Verhoye, M.; Van der Linden, A.; Balthazart, J.: Own song selectivity in the songbird auditory pathway: Suppression by norepinephrine. PLoS One 6 (5), e20131 (2011)

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Puechmaille, S. J.; Gouilh, M. A.; Piyapan, P.; Yokubol, M.; Mie, K. M.; Bates, P. J.; Satasook, C.; Nwe, T.; Bu, S. S. H.; Mackie, I. J. et al.; Petit, E. J.; Teeling, E. C.: The evolution of sensory divergence in the context of limited gene flow in the bumblebee bat. Nature Communications 2, 573 (2011)

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Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.: A bird-brain view of episodic memory. Behavioural Brain Research 222 (1), pp. 236 - 245 (2011)

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Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Roth, T. C. I.; Pravosudov, V. V.: Hippocampal memory consolidation during sleep: A comparison of mammals and birds. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 86 (3), pp. 658 - 691 (2011)

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Reers, H.; Jacot, A.: The effect of hunger on the acoustic individuality in begging calls of a colonially breeding weaver bird. BMC Ecology 11, 3 (2011)

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Reers, H.; Jacot, A.; Forstmeier, W.: Do zebra finch parents fail to recognise their own offspring? PLoS One 6 (4), e18466 (2011)

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Ritschard, M.; Brumm, H.: Effects of vocal learning, phonetics and inheritance on song amplitude in zebra finches. Animal Behaviour 82 (6), pp. 1415 - 1422 (2011)

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Ritschard, M.; Laucht, S.; Dale, J.; Brumm, H.: Enhanced testosterone levels affect singing motivation but not song structure and amplitude in Bengalese finches. Physiology & Behavior 102 (1), pp. 30 - 35 (2011)

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Rodrigues, A. S. L.; Grenyer, R.; Baillie, J. E. M.; Bininda-Emonds, O. R. P.; Gittlemann, J. L.; Hoffmann, M.; Safi, K.; Schipper, J.; Stuart, S. N.; Brooks, T.: Complete, accurate, mammalian phylogenies aid conservation planning, but not much. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 366 (1578), pp. 2652 - 2660 (2011)

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Römer, A.; Fiedler, W.: Kontakte zwischen Wildvögeln und Hausgeflügel – Ein ernst zu nehmender Faktor bei der Verbreitung von Vogelgrippe? Vogelwarte - Zeitschrift für Vogelkunde 49 (3), pp. 149 - 161 (2011)

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Rowcliffe, J. M.; Carbone, C.; Jansen, P. A.; Kays, R.; Kranstauber, B.: Quantifying the sensitivity of camera traps: An adapted distance sampling approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2 (5), pp. 464 - 476 (2011)

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Ruczynski, I.; Siemers, B. M.: Hibernation does not affect memory retention in bats. Biology Letters 7 (1), pp. 153 - 155 (2011)

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Ruczynski, I.; Szarlik, A.; Siemers, B. M.: Conspicuous visual cues can help bats to find tree cavities. Acta Chiropterologica 13 (2), pp. 385 - 389 (2011)

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Sadeghayobi, E.; Blake, S.; Wikelski, M.; Gibbs, J.; Mackie, R.; Cabrera, F.: Digesta retention time in the Galapagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology 160 (4), pp. 493 - 497 (2011)

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Safi, K.: "Eigenvector estimation of phylogenetic and functional diversity": From patterns to processes. Functional Ecology 25 (4), pp. 745 - 746 (2011)

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Safi, K.; Cianciaruso, M. V.; Loyola, R. D.; Brito, D.; Armour-Marshall, K.; Diniz-Filho, J. A. F.: Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 366 (1577), pp. 2536 - 2544 (2011)

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Salewski, V.; Childress, B.; Wikelski, M.: Movements of a Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor in West Africa. Malimbus 33 (2), pp. 87 - 90 (2011)

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