Publications of Niels Christian Rattenborg

Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Avian sleep. Current Biology 24 (1), pp. R12 - R14 (2014)

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), pp. 2057 - 2068 (2014)

Voirin, B.; Scriba, M. F.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Wikelski, M.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Ecology and neurophysiology of sleep in two wild sloth species. Sleep 37 (4), pp. 753 - 761 (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), pp. 183 - 189 (2013)

Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Valcu, M.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Kuhn, S.; Kuemmeth, F.; Heidrich, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Adaptive sleep loss in polygynous pectoral sandpipers. Science 337 (6102), pp. 1654 - 1658 (2012)

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), pp. 633 - 644 (2012)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Lima, S. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Sleep locally, act globally. Neuroscientist 18 (5), pp. 533 - 546 (2012)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.: Developmental Neurobiology: Awakening the brain for the first time. Current Biology 22 (10), pp. R398 - R400 (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), pp. 2419 - 2428 (2011)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.: A bird-brain view of episodic memory. Behavioural Brain Research 222 (1), pp. 236 - 245 (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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 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), pp. 50 - 58 (2008)