Student Publications

Afify, A. F. A.; Galizia, C. G.: Gravid females of the mosquito Aedes aegypti avoid oviposition on m-cresol in the presence of the deterrent isomer p-cresol. Parasites & Vectors 7 (1), pp. 315 - 324 (2014)

Afify, A. F. A.; Horlacher, B.; Roller, J.; Galizia, C. G.: Different repellents for Aedes aegypti against blood-feeding and oviposition. PLoS One 9 (7), e103765 (2014)

Araya-Ajoy, Y. G.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Characterizing behavioural "characters": An evolutionary framework. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1776), 20132645 (2014)

Beckers, G. J. L.; van der Meij, J.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Plumes of neuronal activity propagate in three dimensions through the nuclear avian brain. BMC Biology 12, 16 (2014)

Bulla, M.; Valcu, M.; Rutten, A. L.; Kempenaers, B.: Biparental incubation patterns in a high-Arctic breeding shorebird: How do pairs divide their duties? Behavioral Ecology 25 (1), pp. 152 - 164 (2014)

Clarin, T. M. A.; Borissov, I. M.; Page, R. A.; Ratcliffe, J. M.; Siemers, B. M.: Social learning within and across species: Information transfer in mouse-eared bats. Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne de Zoologie 92 (2), pp. 129 - 139 (2014)

Da Silva, A.; Samplonius, J. M.; Schlicht, E.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Artificial night lighting rather than traffic noise affects the daily timing of dawn and dusk singing in common European songbirds. Behavioral Ecology 25 (5), pp. 1037 - 1047 (2014)

Dominoni, D. M.; Carmona-Wagner, E. O.; Hofmann, M.; Kranstauber, B.; Partecke, J.: Individual-based measurements of light intensity provide new insights into the effects of artificial light at night on daily rhythms of urban-dwelling songbirds. Journal of Animal Ecology 83 (3), pp. 681 - 692 (2014)

Elmer, K. R.; Fan, S.; Kusche, H.; Spreitzer, M. L.; Kautt, A.; Franchini, P.; Meyer, A.: Parallel evolution of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes via non-parallel routes. Nature Communications 5, 5168 (2014)

Feiner, N.; Meyer, A.; Kuraku, S.: Evolution of the vertebrate Pax4/6 class of genes with focus on its novel member, the Pax10 gene. Genome biology and evolution 6 (7), pp. 1635 - 1651 (2014)

Franchini, P.; Fruciano, C.; Spreitzer, M. L.; Jones, J. C.; Elmer, K. R.; Henning, F.; Meyer, A.: Genomic architecture of ecologically divergent body shape in a pair of sympatric crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology 23 (7), pp. 1828 - 1845 (2014)

Frassl, M. A.; Rothhaupt, K.-O.; Rinke, K.: Algal internal nutrient stores feedback on vertical phosphorus distribution in large lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 40 (Suppl. 3), pp. 162 - 172 (2014)

Galili, D. S.; Dylla, K. V.; Lüdke, A.; Friedrich, A. B.; Yamagata, N.; Wong, J. Y. H.; Ho, C. H.; Szyszka, P.; Tanimoto, H.: Converging circuits mediate temperature and shock aversive olfactory conditioning in Drosophila. Current Biology 24 (15), pp. 1712 - 1722 (2014)

Gehrold, A.: Species-specific habitat use of wing-moulting waterbirds in response to temporary flightlessness. Ibis 156 (4), pp. 850 - 863 (2014)

Gehrold, A.: Forschung am Ismaninger Speichersee mit Fischteichen: Ortstreue und Habitatwahl mausernder Schnatterenten. Der Falke 61 (7), pp. 24 - 26 (2014)

Gehrold, A.; Bauer, H.-G.; Fiedler, W.; Wikelski, M.: Great flexibility in autumn movement patterns of European gadwalls Anas strepera. Journal of Avian Biology 45 (2), pp. 131 - 139 (2014)

Girndt, A.; Knief, U.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Triploid ZZZ zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata exhibit abnormal sperm heads and poor reproductive performance. Ibis 156 (2), pp. 472 - 477 (2014)

Kranstauber, B.; Safi, K.; Bartumeus, F.: Bivariate Gaussian bridges: Directional factorization of diffusion in Brownian bridge models. BMC Movement Ecology 2, 5 (2014)

Kusche, H.; Meyer, A.: One cost of being gold: Selective predation and implications for the maintenance of the Midas cichlid colour polymorphism (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 111 (2), pp. 350 - 358 (2014)

Kusche, H.; Recknagel, H.; Elmer, K. R.; Meyer, A.: Crater lake cichlids individually specialize along the benthic- limnetic axis. Ecology and Evolution 4 (7), pp. 1127 - 1139 (2014)

Luo, J.; Clarin, B.-M.; Borissov, I. M.; Siemers, B. M.: Are torpid bats immune to anthropogenic noise? The Journal of Experimental Biology 217 (7), pp. 1072 - 1078 (2014)

Luo, J.; Koselj, K.; Zsebök, S.; Siemers, B. M.; Goerlitz, H. R.: Global warming alters sound transmission: Differential impact on the prey detection ability of echolocating bats. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society 11 (91), 20130961 (2014)

Mortega, K. G.; Flinks, H.; Helm, B.: Behavioural response of a migratory songbird to geographic variation of song and morphology. Frontiers in Zoology 11, 85 (2014)

Reynolds, C. S.; Elliott, J. A.; Frassl, M. A.: Predictive utility of trait-separated phytoplankton groups: A robust approach to modeling population dynamics. Journal of Great Lakes Research 40 (Suppl. 3), pp. 143 - 150 (2014)

Ruczynski, I.; Clarin, T. M. A.; Siemers, B. M.: Do greater mouse-eared bats experience a trade-off between energy conservation and learning? The Journal of Experimental Biology 217 (22), pp. 4043 - 4048 (2014)

Schlabing, D.; Frassl, M. A.; Eder, M. M.; Rinke, K.; Bárdossy, A.: Use of a weather generator for simulating climate change effects on ecosystems: A case study on Lake Constance. Environmental Modelling and Software 61, pp. 326 - 338 (2014)

Schlicht, L.; Valcu, M.; Kempenaers, B.: Thiessen polygons as a model for animal territory estimation. Ibis 156 (1), pp. 215 - 219 (2014)

Schlicht, L.; Valcu, M.; Loes, P.; Girg, A.; Kempenaers, B.: No relationship between female emergence time from the roosting place and extrapair paternity. Behavioral Ecology 25 (3), pp. 650 - 659 (2014)

Schmieder, D. A.; Zsebök, S.; Siemers, B. M.: The tail plays a major role in the differing manoeuvrability of two sibling species of mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis and Myotis blythii). Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne de Zoologie 92 (11), pp. 965 - 977 (2014)

Schneider, R. F.; Li, Y.; Meyer, A.; Gunter, H. M.: Regulatory gene networks that shape the development of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in a cichlid fish. Molecular Ecology 23 (18), pp. 4511 - 4526 (2014)

Steiner, K.; Hagenbuch, B.; Dietrich, D. R.: Molecular cloning and functional characterization of a rainbow trout liver Oatp. Toxicological and Applied Phamacology 280 (3), pp. 534 - 542 (2014)

Stuber, E. F.; Grobis, M. M.; Abbey-Lee, R. N.; Kempenaers, B.; Mueller, J. C.; Dingemanse, N. J.: Perceived predation risk affects sleep behaviour in free-living great tits, Parus major. Animal Behaviour 98, pp. 157 - 165 (2014)

Torres-Dowdall, J.; Machado-Schiaffino, G.; Kautt, A.; Kusche, H.; Meyer, A.: Differential predation on the two colour morphs of Nicaraguan Crater lake Midas cichlid fish: Implications for the maintenance of its gold-dark polymorphism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 112 (1), pp. 123 - 131 (2014)

van Schaik, J.; Kerth, G.; Bruyndonckx, N.; Christe, P.: The effect of host social system on parasite population genetic structure: Comparative population genetics of two ectoparasitic mites and their bat hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14, 18 (2014)

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)

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)