Scriba, M. F.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Dreiss, A. N.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Roulin, A.: Sleep and vigilance linked to melanism in wild barn owls. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (10), S. 2057 - 2068 (2014)
Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.: Episodic-like memory and divergent brain systems in mammals and birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (40), E3741 (2013)
Scriba, M. F.; Ducrest, A.-L.; Henry, I.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roulin, A.: Linking melanism to brain development: Expression of a melanism-related gene in barn owl feather follicles covaries with sleep ontogeny. Frontiers in Zoology 10, 42 (2013)
Scriba, M. F.; Harmening, W. M.; Mettke-Hofmann, C.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Roulin, A.; Wagner, H.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Evaluation of two minimally invasive techniques for electroencephalogram recording in wild or freely behaving animals. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 199 (3), S. 183 - 189 (2013)
Pennycuick, C. J.; Fast, P. L. F.; Ballerstaedt, N.; Rattenborg, N. C.: The effect of an external transmitter on the drag coefficient of a bird's body, and hence on migration range, and energy reserves after migration. Journal of Ornithology 153 (3), S. 633 - 644 (2012)
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)
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), S. 2419 - 2428 (2011)
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), S. 658 - 691 (2011)
Roth, T. C. I.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Pravosudov, V. V.: The ecological relevance of sleep: The trade-off between sleep, memory and energy conservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1542), S. 945 - 959 (2010)
Lesku, J. A.; Roth, T. C. I.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: History and future of comparative analyses in sleep research. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 33 (7), S. 1024 - 1036 (2009)
Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lesku, J. A.: Avian sleep homeostasis: Convergent evolution of complex brains, cognition and sleep functions in mammals and birds. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 33 (3), S. 253 - 270 (2009)
Lesku, J. A.; Bark, R. J.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Predator-induced plasticity in sleep architecture in wild-caught Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). Behavioural Brain Research 189 (2), S. 298 - 305 (2008)
Lesku, J. A.; Roth, T. C. I.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Phylogenetics and the correlates of mammalian sleep: A reappraisal. Sleep Medicine Reviews 12 (3), S. 229 - 244 (2008)
Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Increased EEG spectral power density during sleep following short-term sleep deprivation in pigeons (Columba livia): Evidence for avian sleep homeostasis. Journal of sleep research 17 (2), S. 140 - 153 (2008)
Newman, S. M.; Paletz, E. M.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Obermeyer, W. H.; Benca, R. M.: Sleep deprivation in the pigeon using the Disk-Over-Water method. Physiology & Behavior 93 (1-2), S. 50 - 58 (2008)
Lima, S. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: A behavioural shutdown can make sleeping safer: A strategic perspective on the function of sleep. Animal Behaviour 74 (2), S. 189 - 197 (2007)
Rattenborg, N. C.: Response to commentary on evolution of slow-wave sleep and palliopallial connectivity in mammals and birds: A hypothesis. Brain Research Bulletin 72 (4-6), S. 187 - 193 (2007)
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Rattenborg, N. C.; Obermeyer, W. H.; Vacha, E.; Benca, R. M.: Acute effects of light and darkness on sleep in the pigeon (Columba livia). Physiology & Behavior 84 (4), S. 635 - 640 (2005)
Rattenborg, N. C.; Mandt, B. H.; Obermeyer, W. H.; Winsauer, P. J.; Huber, R.; Wikelski, M.; Benca, R. M.: Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii). PLoS Biology 2 (7), S. 924 - 936 (2004)
Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Unilateral eye closure and interhemispheric EEG asymmetry during sleep in the pigeon (Columba livia). Brain, behavior and evolution: Official journal of the J. B. Johnston Club 58 (6), S. 323 - 332 (2001)
Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Behavioral, neurophysiological and evolutionary perspectives on unihemispheric sleep. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 24 (8), S. 817 - 842 (2000)
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Benca, R. M.; Cirelli, C.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Tononi, G.: Basic science of sleep. In: Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, 8 Aufl., S. 280 - 294 (Hg. Sadock, B. J.; Sadock, V. A.). Lippincott, Williams and Williams, Baltimore (2004)
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