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2016

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Voigt, C.: Neuroendocrine correlates of sex-role reversal in barred buttonquails. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1843), 20161969 (2016)

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Voigt, C.; Leitner, S.; Bennett, N. C.: Breeding status affects the expression of androgen and progesterone receptor mRNA in the brain of male Damaraland mole-rats. Journal of Zoology 298 (3), pp. 209 - 216 (2016)

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Zuniga, D.; Falconer, J.; Fudickar, A. M.; Jensen, W.; Schmidt, A.; Wikelski, M.; Partecke, J.: Abrupt switch to migratory night flight in a wild migratory songbird. Scientific Reports 6, 34207 (2016)

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2015

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Dittrich, F.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Ko, M.-C.; Diales da Rocha, M.; Leitner, S.; Gahr, M.: Wie Geschlechtshormone den Vogelgesang regulieren. Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2015)

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El Filali, Z.; de Boer, P. A. C. M.; Pieneman, A. W.; de Lange, R. P. J.; Jansen, R. F.; Ter Maat, A.; van der Schors, R. C.; Li, K. W.; van Straalen, N. M.; Koene, J. M.: Single-cell analysis of peptide expression and electrophysiology of right parietal neurons involved in male copulation behavior of a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Invertebrate Neuroscience 15 (4), 7 (2015)

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Frankl-Vilches, C.; Kuhl, H.; Werber, M.; Klages, S.; Kerick, M.; Bakker, A.; de Oliveira, E. H. C.; Reusch, C.; Capuano, F.; Vowinckel, J. et al.; Leitner, S.; Ralser, M.; Timmermann, B.; Gahr, M.: Using the canary genome to decipher the evolution of hormone-sensitive gene regulation in seasonal singing birds. Genome Biology 16, 19 (2015)

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Fusani, L.; Gahr, M.: Differential expression of melatonin receptor subtypes MelIa, MelIb and MelIc in relation to melatonin binding in the male songbird brain. Brain, behavior and evolution: Official journal of the J. B. Johnston Club 85 (1), pp. 4 - 14 (2015)

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Fuxjager, M. J.; Eaton, J.; Lindsay, W. R.; Salwiczek, L. H.; Rensel, M. A.; Barske, J.; Sorenson, L.; Day, L. B.; Schlinger, B. A.: Evolutionary patterns of adaptive acrobatics and physical performance predict expression profiles of androgen receptor - but not oestrogen receptor - in the forelimb musculature. Functional Ecology 29 (9), pp. 1197 - 1208 (2015)

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Gill, L.; Goymann, W.; Ter Maat, A.; Gahr, M.: Patterns of call communication between group-housed zebra finches change during the breeding cycle. eLife 4, e07770 (2015)

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Goymann, W.; Makomba, M.; Urasa, F.; Schwabl, I.: Social monogamy vs. polyandry: Ecological factors associated with sex roles in two closely related birds within the same habitat. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28 (7), pp. 1335 - 1353 (2015)

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Goymann, W.; Villavicencio, C. P.; Apfelbeck, B. A.: Does a short-term increase in testosterone affect the intensity or persistence of territorial aggression? - An approach using an individual's hormonal reactive scope to study hormonal effects on behavior. Physiology & Behavior 149, pp. 310 - 316 (2015)

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Hau, M.; Goymann, W.: Endocrine mechanisms, behavioral phenotypes and plasticity: Known relationships and open questions. Frontiers in Zoology 12 (Suppl. 1), S7 (2015)

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Leitner, S.; Teichel, J.; Ter Maat, A.; Voigt, C.: Hatching late in the season requires flexibility in the timing of song learning. Biology Letters 11 (8), 8 (2015)

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Lobato, M.; Vellema, M.; Gahr, C.; Leitao, A.; de Lima, S.; Geberzahn, N.; Gahr, M.: Mismatch in sexual dimorphism of developing song and song control system in blue-capped cordon-bleus, a songbird species with singing females and males. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3, 117 (2015)

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Nakadera, Y.; Swart, E. M.; Maas, J. P. A.; Montagne-Wajer, K.; Ter Maat, A.; Koene, J. M.: Effects of age, size, and mating history on sex role decision of a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Behavioral Ecology 26 (1), pp. 232 - 241 (2015)

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Ota, N.; Gahr, M.; Soma, M.: Tap dancing birds: The multimodal mutual courtship display of males and females in a socially monogamous songbird. Scientific Reports 5, 16614 (2015)

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Quispe Valdez, R.; Trappschuh, M.; Gahr, M.; Goymann, W.: Towards more physiological manipulations of hormones in field studies: Comparing the release dynamics of three kinds of testosterone implants, silastic tubing, time-release pellets and beeswax. General and Comparative Endocrinology 212, pp. 100 - 105 (2015)

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Schwabl, H.; Dowling, J.; Baldassarre, D. T.; Gahr, M.; Lindsay, W. R.; Webster, M. S.: Variation in song system anatomy and androgen levels does not correspond to song characteristics in a tropical songbird. Animal Behaviour 104, pp. 39 - 50 (2015)

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Skrip, M. M.; Bauchinger, U.; Goymann, W.; Fusani, L.; Cardinale, M.; Alan, R. R.; McWilliams, S. R.: Migrating songbirds on stopover prepare for, and recover from, oxidative challenges posed by long-distance flight. Ecology and Evolution 5 (15), pp. 3198 - 3209 (2015)

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Skrip, M. M.; Bauchinger, U.; Goymann, W.; Fusani, L.; McWilliams, S. R.: Access to water affects the condition dependency of nocturnal restlessness in Garden Warblers on a Mediterranean island stopover. Journal of Ornithology 156 (Suppl. 1), pp. 425 - 432 (2015)

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2014

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Ashley, N. T.; Ubuka, T.; Schwabl, I.; Goymann, W.; Salli, B. M.; Bentley, G. E.; Buck, C. L.: Revealing a circadian clock in captive arctic-breeding songbirds, Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus), under constant illumination. Journal of Biological Rhythms 29 (6), pp. 456 - 469 (2014)

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D'Alba, L.; van Hemert, C.; Spencer, K. A.; Heidinger, B. J.; Gill, L.; Evans, N. P.; Monaghan, P.; Handel, C. M.; Shawkey, M. D.: Melanin-based color of plumage: Role of condition and of feathers' microstructure. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54 (4), pp. 633 - 644 (2014)

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Dittrich, F.; Ramenda, C.; Grillitsch, D.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Ko, M.-C.; Hertel, M.; Goymann, W.; Ter Maat, A.; Gahr, M.: Regulatory mechanisms of testosterone-stimulated song in the sensorimotor nucleus HVC of female songbirds. BMC Neuroscience 15 (1), 128 (2014)

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Gahr, M.: How hormone-sensitive are bird songs and what are the underlying mechanisms? Acta acustica united with acustica 100 (4), pp. 705 - 718 (2014)

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Goymann, W.; Wingfield, J. C.: Male-to-female testosterone ratios, dimorphism, and life history-what does it really tell us? Behavioral Ecology 25 (4), pp. 685 - 699 (2014)

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Goymann, W.; Wingfield, J. C.: Correlated evolution of female and male testosterone-internal constraints or external determinants? A response to comments on Goymann and Wingfield. Behavioral Ecology 25 (4), pp. 704 - 705 (2014)

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Leitner, S.: Von Grünpflanzen beeinflusst: Brutverhalten des Kanarengirlitzes. Der Falke 61 (7), pp. 30 - 32 (2014)

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Ter Maat, A.; Trost, L.; Sagunsky, H.; Seltmann, S.; Gahr, M.: Zebra finch mates use their forebrain song system in unlearned call communication. PLoS One 9 (10), e109334 (2014)

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Vellema, M.; Hertel, M.; Urbanus, S. L.; Van der Linden, A.; Gahr, M.: Evaluating the predictive value of doublecortin as a marker for adult neurogenesis in canaries (Serinus canaria). The Journal of Comparative Neurology 522 (6), pp. 1299 - 1315 (2014)

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Vellema, M.; Ko, M.-C.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Gahr, M.: What makes a marker a good marker? Brain, behavior and evolution: Official journal of the J. B. Johnston Club 84 (1), pp. 5 - 7 (2014)

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Villavicencio, C. P.; Apfelbeck, B. A.; Goymann, W.: Parental care, loss of paternity and circulating levels of testosterone and corticosterone in a socially monogamous song bird. Frontiers in Zoology 11, 11 (2014)

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Villavicencio, C. P.; Blas, J.; Goymann, W.: The number of life-history stages does not influence the androgen responsiveness to male–male interactions: Sedentary and migratory black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) do not elevate testosterone in response to simulated territorial intrusions. General and Comparative Endocrinology 205, pp. 159 - 165 (2014)

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Voigt, C.; Gahr, M.; Leitner, S.; Lutermann, H.; Bennett, N. C.: Breeding status and social environment differentially affect the expression of sex steroid receptor and aromatase mRNA in the brain of female Damaraland mole-rats. Frontiers in Zoology 11, 38 (2014)

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Woodgate, J. L.; Buchanan, K. L.; Bennett, A. T. D.; Catchpole, C. K.; Brighton, R.; Leitner, S.: Environmental and genetic control of brain and song structure in the zebra finch. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 68 (1), pp. 230 - 240 (2014)

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2013

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Apfelbeck, B. A.; Mortega, K. G.; Kiefer, S.; Kipper, S.; Goymann, W.: Life-history and hormonal control of aggression in black redstarts: Blocking testosterone does not decrease territorial aggression, but changes the emphasis of vocal behaviours during simulated territorial intrusions. Frontiers in Zoology 10, 8 (2013)

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Apfelbeck, B. A.; Mortega, K. G.; Kiefer, S.; Kipper, S.; Vellema, M.; Villavicencio, C. P.; Gahr, M.; Goymann, W.: Associated and disassociated patterns in hormones, song, behavior and brain receptor expression between life-cycle stages in male black redstarts, Phoenicurus ochruros. General and Comparative Endocrinology 184, pp. 93 - 102 (2013)

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Ashley, N. T.; Schwabl, I.; Goymann, W.; Buck, C. L.: Keeping time under the midnight sun: Behavioral and plasma melatonin profiles of free-living Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) during the arctic summer. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A - Ecological Genetics and Physiology 319 (1), pp. 10 - 22 (2013)

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Creel, S.; Dantzer, B.; Goymann, W.; Rubenstein, D. R.: The ecology of stress: Effects of the social environment. Functional Ecology 27 (1), pp. 66 - 80 (2013)

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Deregnaucourt, S.; Gahr, M.: Horizontal transmission of the father's song in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Biology Letters 9 (4), 20130247 (2013)

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Deregnaucourt, S.; Poirier, C.; van der Kant, A.; van der Linden, A.; Gahr, M.: Comparisons of different methods to train a young zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) to learn a song. Journal of Physiology-Paris 107 (3), pp. 210 - 218 (2013)

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Dittrich, F.; Ter Maat, A.; Jansen, R. F.; Pieneman, A. W.; Hertel, M.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Gahr, M.: Maximized song learning of juvenile male zebra finches following BDNF expression in the HVC. European Journal of Neuroscience: European Neuroscience Association 38 (9), pp. 3338 - 3344 (2013)

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Dominoni, D. M.; Goymann, W.; Helm, B.; Partecke, J.: Urban-like night illumination reduces melatonin release in European blackbirds (Turdus merula): Implications of city life for biological time-keeping of songbirds. Frontiers in Zoology 10, 60 (2013)

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Fusani, L.; Coccon, F.; Rojas Mora, A.; Goymann, W.: Melatonin reduces migratory restlessness in Sylvia warblers during autumnal migration. Frontiers in Zoology 10, 79 (2013)

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Geberzahn, N.; Gahr, M.: Song learning in male and female Uraeginthus cyanocephalus, a tropical songbird species. Journal of Comparative Psychology 127 (4), pp. 352 - 364 (2013)

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Gehrold, A.; Leitner, S.; Laucht, S.; Deregnaucourt, S.: Heterospecific exposure affects the development of secondary sexual traits in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Behavioural Processes 94, pp. 67 - 75 (2013)

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Hirschenhauser, K.; Gahr, M.; Goymann, W.: Winning and losing in public: Audiences direct future success in Japanese quail. Hormones and Behavior 63 (4), pp. 625 - 633 (2013)

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Landys, M. M.; Goymann, W.; Soma, K. K.; Slagsvold, T.: Year-round territorial aggression is independent of plasma DHEA in the European nuthatch Sitta europaea. Hormones and Behavior 63 (1), pp. 166 - 172 (2013)

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Leitner, S.: Gene und Umwelt: Wie beeinflussen sie Verhalten und Physiologie bei Singvögeln? Jahrbuch - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (2013)

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Marquenie, J.; Donners, M.; Poot, H.; Steckel, W.; de Wit, B.: Bird-friendly light sources. Adapting the spectral composition of artificial lighting. IEEE Industry Applications Magazine 19 (2), pp. 56 - 62 (2013)

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Nemeth, E.; Pieretti, N.; Zollinger, S. A.; Geberzahn, N.; Partecke, J.; Miranda, A. C.; Brumm, H.: Bird song and anthropogenic noise: Vocal constraints may explain why birds sing higher-frequency songs in cities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1754), 20122798 (2013)

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