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2019

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Delhey, K.; Dale, J.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Reconciling ecogeographical rules: Rainfall and temperature predict global colour variation in the largest bird radiation. Ecology Letters 22 (4), pp. 726 - 736 (2019)

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McQueen, A.; Kempenaers, B.; Dale, J.; Valcu, M.; Emery, Z. T.; Dey, C. J.; Peters, A.; Delhey, K.: Evolutionary drivers of seasonal plumage colours: Colour change by moult correlates with sexual selection, predation risk and seasonality across passerines. Ecology Letters 22 (11), pp. 1838 - 1849 (2019)

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Mutzel, A.; Olsen, A.-L.; Mathot, K. J.; Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Nicolaus, M.; Wijmenga, J. J.; Wright, J.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Effects of manipulated levels of predation threat on parental provisioning and nestling begging. Behavioral Ecology 30 (4), pp. 1123 - 1135 (2019)

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Santema, P.; Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B.: Testing the conditional cooperation model: What can we learn from parents taking turns when feeding offspring? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 94 (2019)

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Santema, P.; Valcu, M.; Clinchy, M.; Zanette, L. Y.; Kempenaers, B.: Effects of predator call playbacks on reproductive success and extrapair paternity in blue tits. Animal Behaviour 155, pp. 97 - 109 (2019)

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Santema, P.; Valcu, M.; Clinchy, M.; Zanette, L. Y.; Kempenaers, B.: Playback of predator calls inhibits and delays dawn singing in a songbird community. Behavioral Ecology 30 (5), pp. 1283 - 1288 (2019)

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Valcu, C.-M.; Scheltema, R. A.; Schweiggert, R. M.; Valcu, M.; Teltscher, K. L.; Walther, D. M.; Carle, R.; Kempenaers, B.: Life history shapes variation in egg composition in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus. Communications Biology 2, 6 (2019)

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Wang, D.; Forstmeier, W.; Valcu, M.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Bulla, M.; Both, C.; Duckworth, R. A.; Kiere, L. M.; Karell, P.; Albrecht, T. et al.; Kempenaers, B.: Scrutinizing assortative mating in birds. PLoS Biology 17 (2), e3000156 (2019)

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2018

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Abbey-Lee, R. N.; Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Mouchet, A.; Moiron, M.; Stuber, E. F.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Does perceived predation risk affect patterns of extra-pair paternity? A field experiment in a passerine bird. Functional Ecology 32 (4), pp. 1001 - 1010 (2018)

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Jeronimo, S.; Khadraoui, M.; Wang, D.; Martin, K.; Lesku, J. A.; Robert, K. A.; Schlicht, E.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Plumage color manipulation has no effect on social dominance or fitness in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology 29 (2), pp. 459 - 467 (2018)

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Kappers, E. F.; de Vries, C.; Alberda, A.; Forstmeier, W.; Both, C.; Kempenaers, B.: Inheritance patterns of plumage coloration in common buzzards Buteo buteo do not support a one-locus two-allele model. Biology Letters 14 (4), 20180007 (2018)

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Maldonado-Chaparro, A. A.; Montiglio, P.-O.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.; Farine, D. R.: Linking the fine-scale social environment to mating decisions: A future direction for the study of extra-pair paternity. Biological Reviews 93 (3), pp. 1558 - 1577 (2018)

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Mueller, J. C.; Kuhl, H.; Boerno, S.; Tella, J. L.; Carrete, M.; Kempenaers, B.: 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 (1878), 20180206 (2018)

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Pei, Y.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Interference competition pressure predicts the number of avian predators that shifted their timing of activity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1880), 20180744 (2018)

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Sanchez Tojar, A.; Nakagawa, S.; Sanchez-Fortun, M.; Martin, D. A.; Ramani, S.; Girndt, A.; Bókony, V.; Kempenaers, B.; Liker, A.; Westneat, D. F. et al.; Burke, T.; Schroeder, J.: Meta-analysis challenges a textbook example of status signalling and demonstrates publication bias. eLife 7, e37385 (2018)

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Santema, P.; Kempenaers, B.: 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 (5), pp. 1239 - 1250 (2018)

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Schlicht, E.; Kempenaers, B.: The immediate impact of ringing, blood sampling and PIT-tag implanting on the behaviour of Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus. Ardea 106 (1), pp. 39 - 50 (2018)

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Wang, D.; Forstmeier, W.; Ihle, M.; Khadraoui, M.; Jeronimo, S.; Martin, K.; Kempenaers, B.: Irreproducible text-book "knowledge": The effects of color bands on zebra finch fitness. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 72 (4), pp. 961 - 976 (2018)

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2017

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Botero‐Delgadillo, E.; Quirici, V.; Poblete, Y.; Cuevas, É.; Kuhn, S.; Girg, A.; Teltscher, K. L.; Poulin, E.; Kempenaers, B.; Vásquez, R. A.: Variation in fine-scale genetic structure and local dispersal patterns between peripheral populations of a South American passerine bird. Ecology and Evolution 7 (20), pp. 8363 - 8378 (2017)

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Bulla, M.; Prüter, H.; Vitnerova, H.; Tijsen, W.; Sládeček, M.; Alves, J. A.; Gilg, O.; Kempenaers, B.: Flexible parental care: Uniparental incubation in biparentally incubating shorebirds. Scientific Reports 7, 12851 (2017)

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Da Silva, A.; de Jong, M.; van Grunsven, R. H. A.; Visser, M. E.; Kempenaers, B.; Spoelstra, K.: 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 (1), 160638 (2017)

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Da Silva, A.; Diez-Méndez, D.; Kempenaers, B.: Effects of experimental night lighting on the daily timing of winter foraging in common European songbirds. Journal of Avian Biology 48 (6), pp. 862 - 871 (2017)

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Da Silva, A.; Kempenaers, B.: Singing from North to South: Latitudinal variation in timing of dawn singing under natural and artificial light conditions. Journal of Animal Ecology 86 (6), pp. 1286 - 1297 (2017)

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Forstmeier, W.; Ihle, M.; Opatová, P.; Martin, K.; Knief, U.; Albrechtová, J.; Albrecht, T.; Kempenaers, B.: Testing the phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis in the presence and absence of inbreeding. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30 (5), pp. 968 - 976 (2017)

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Gilsenan, C.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Difference in arrival date at the breeding site between former pair members predicts divorce in blue tits. Animal Behaviour 133, pp. 57 - 72 (2017)

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Kappers, E. F.; Chakarov, N.; Krüger, O.; Mueller, A. K.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.; Both, C.: Classification and temporal stability of plumage variation in Common Buzzards. Ardea 105 (2), pp. 125 - 136 (2017)

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Kempenaers, B.; Valcu, M.: Breeding site sampling across the Arctic by individual males of a polygynous shorebird. Nature 541 (7638), pp. 528 - 531 (2017)

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Knief, U.; Forstmeier, W.; Pei, Y.; Ihle, M.; Wang, D.; Martin, K.; Opatová, P.; Albrechtová, J.; Wittig, M.; Franke, A. et al.; Albrecht, T.; Kempenaers, B.: A sex-chromosome inversion causes strong overdominance for sperm traits that affect siring success. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (8), pp. 1177 - 1184 (2017)

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Knief, U.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Meiotic recombination shapes precision of pedigree- and marker-based estimates of inbreeding. Heredity 118 (3), pp. 239 - 248 (2017)

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Knief, U.; Schielzeth, H.; Backström, N.; Hemmrich-Stanisak, G.; Wittig, M.; Franke, A.; Griffith, S. C.; Ellegren, H.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Association mapping of morphological traits in wild and captive zebra finches: Reliable within, but not between populations. Molecular Ecology 26 (5), pp. 1285 - 1305 (2017)

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Mathot, K. J.; Olsen, A.-L.; Mutzel, A.; Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Nicolaus, M.; Westneat, D. F.; Wright, J.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Provisioning tactics of great tits (Parus major) in response to long-term brood size manipulations differ across years. Behavioral Ecology 28 (6), pp. 1402 - 1413 (2017)

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Mueller, J. C.; Edelaar, P.; Baños-Villalba, A.; Carrete, M.; Potti, J.; Blas, J.; Tella, J. L.; Kempenaers, B.: Selection on a behaviour-related gene during the first stages of the biological invasion pathway. Molecular Ecology 26 (21), pp. 6110 - 6121 (2017)

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Rattenborg, N. C.; de la Iglesia, H. O.; Kempenaers, B.; Lesku, J. A.; Meerlo, P.; Scriba, M. F.: Sleep research goes wild: New methods and approaches to investigate the ecology, evolution and functions of sleep. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 372 (1734), 20160251 (2017)

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Santema, P.; Schlicht, E.; Schlicht, L.; Kempenaers, B.: Blue tits do not return faster to the nest in response to either short- or long-term begging playbacks. Animal Behaviour 123, pp. 117 - 127 (2017)

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Wang, D.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: No mutual mate choice for quality in zebra finches: Time to question a widely-held assumption. Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 71 (11), pp. 2661 - 2676 (2017)

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Wang, D.; Kempenaers, N.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Male zebra finches have limited ability to identify high-fecundity females. Behavioral Ecology 28 (3), pp. 784 - 792 (2017)

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2016

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Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Kempenaers, B.: Timing of extrapair fertilizations: Within-pair fertilization trade-offs or pair synchrony spillovers? Behavioral Ecology 27 (2), pp. 377 - 384 (2016)

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Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Kuhn, S.; Mathot, K. J.; Mouchet, A.; Mutzel, A.; Nicolaus, M.; Wijmenga, J. J.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Sources of (co)variation in alternative siring routes available to male great tits (Parus major). Evolution: International journal of organic evolution 70 (10), pp. 2308 - 2321 (2016)

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Bulla, M.; Valcu, M.; Dokter, A. M.; Dondua, A. G.; Kosztolányi, A.; Rutten, A. L.; Helm, B.; Sandercock, B. K.; Casler, B.; Ens, B. J. et al.; Spiegel, C. S.; Hassell, C. J.; Küpper, C.; Minton, C.; Burgas, D.; Lank, D. B.; Payer, D. C.; Loktionov, E. Y.; Nol, E.; Kwon, E.; Smith, F.; Gates, H. R.; Vitnerova, H.; Prüter, H.; Johnson, J. A.; Clair, J. J. H. S.; Lamarre, J.-F.; Rausch, J.; Reneerkens, J.; Conklin, J. R.; Burger, J.; Liebezeit, J.; Bêty, J.; Coleman, J. T.; Figuerola, J.; Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W.; Alves, J. A.; Smith, J. A. M.; Weidinger, K.; Koivula, K.; Gosbell, K.; Exo, K.-M.; Niles, L.; Koloski, L.; McKinnon, L.; Praus, L.; Klaassen, M.; Giroux, M.-A.; Sládeček, M.; Boldenow, M. L.; Goldstein, M. I.; Šálek, M.; Senner, N. R.; Rönkä, N.; Lecomte, N.; Gilg, O.; Vincze, O.; Johnson, O. W.; Smith, P. A.; Woodard, P. F.; Tomkovich, P. S.; Battley, P. F.; Bentzen, R.; Lanctot, R. B.; Porter, R.; Saalfeld, S. T.; Freeman, S.; Brown, S. C.; Yezerinac, S.; Székely, T.; Montalvo, T.; Piersma, T.; Loverti, V.; Pakanen, V.-M.; Tijsen, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds. Nature 540 (7631), pp. 109 - 113 (2016)

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Da Silva, A.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Behavioural plasticity in the onset of dawn song under intermittent experimental night lighting. Animal Behaviour 117, pp. 155 - 165 (2016)

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Knief, U.; Hemmrich-Stanisak, G.; Wittig, M.; Franke, A.; Griffith, S. C.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.: Fitness consequences of polymorphic inversions in the zebra finch genome. Genome Biology 17, 199 (2016)

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Laine, V. N.; Gossmann, T. I.; Schachtschneider, K. M.; Garroway, C. J.; Madsen, O.; Verhoeven, K. J. F.; de Jager, V.; Megens, H.-J.; Warren, W. C.; Minx, P. et al.; Crooijmans, R. P. M. A.; Corcoran, P.; Adriaensen, F.; Belda, E.; Bushuev, A.; Cichon, M.; Charmantier, A.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Doligez, B.; Eeva, T.; Erikstad, K. E.; Fedorov, S.; Hau, M.; Hille, S.; Hinde, C. A.; Kempenaers, B.; Kerimov, A.; Krist, M.; Mänd, R.; Matthysen, E.; Nager, R.; Norte, A. C.; Orell, M.; Richner, H.; Slagsvold, T.; Tilgar, V.; Tinbergen, J. M.; Török, J.; Tschirren, B.; Yuta, T.; Sheldon, B. C.; Slate, J.; Zeng, K.; van Oers, K.; Visser, M. E.; Groenen, M. A. M.: Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome. Nature Communications 7, 10474 (2016)

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Mathot, K. J.; Abbey-Lee, R. N.; Kempenaers, B.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Do great tits (Parus major) suppress basal metabolic rate in response to increased perceived predation danger? A field experiment. Physiology & Behavior 164, pp. 400 - 406 (2016)

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Mueller, J. C.; Kuhl, H.; Timmermann, B.; Kempenaers, B.: Characterization of the genome and transcriptome of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus: Polymorphisms, sex-biased expression and selection signals. Molecular Ecology Resources 16 (2), pp. 549 - 561 (2016)

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Opatová, P.; Ihle, M.; Albrechtová, J.; Tomásek, O.; Kempenaers, B.; Forstmeier, W.; Albrecht, T.: Inbreeding depression of sperm traits in the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. Ecology and Evolution 6 (1), pp. 295 - 304 (2016)

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Schlicht, E.; Santema, P.; Schlicht, R.; Kempenaers, B.: Evidence for conditional cooperation in biparental care systems? A comment on Johnstone et al. Behavioral Ecology 27 (3), pp. e2 - e5 (2016)

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Schlicht, L.; Kempenaers, B.: Courtship calls in blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus: Daily and seasonal occurrence and link to paternity. Ardea 104 (2), pp. 107 - 117 (2016)

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Stuber, E. F.; Baumgartner, C.; Dingemanse, N. J.; Kempenaers, B.; Mueller, J. C.: Genetic correlates of individual differences in sleep behavior of free-living Great tits (Parus major). G3 - Genes, Genomes, Genetics 6 (3), pp. 599 - 607 (2016)

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van Oosten, H. H.; Mueller, J. C.; Ottenburghs, J.; Both, C.; Kempenaers, B.: Genetic structure among remnant populations of a migratory passerine, the Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe. Ibis 158 (4), pp. 857 - 867 (2016)

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2015

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Bulla, M.; Cresswell, W.; Rutten, A. L.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Biparental incubation-scheduling: No experimental evidence for major energetic constraints. Behavioral Ecology 26 (1), pp. 30 - 37 (2015)

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