Publications of John A. Lesku

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Johnsson, R. D.; Lesku, J. A.: Light, sleep and performance in diurnal birds. Clocks and Sleep 3 (1), pp. 115 - 131 (2021)

Connelly, F.; Johnsson, R. D.; Aulsebrook, A. E.; Mulder, R. A.; Hall, M. L.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Urban noise restricts, fragments, and lightens sleep in Australian magpies. Environmental Pollution 267, 115484 (2020)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Connelly, F.; Johnsson, R. D.; Jones, T. M.; Mulder, R. A.; Hall, M. L.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Lesku, J. A.: White and amber light at night disrupt sleep physiology in birds. Current Biology 30 (18), pp. 3657 - 3663 (2020)

Ungurean, G.; van der Meij, J.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Lesku, J. A.: Evolution and plasticity of sleep. Current Opinion in Physiology 15, pp. 111 - 119 (2020)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Lesku, J. A.; Mulder, R. A.; Goymann, W.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Jones, T. M.: Streetlights disrupt night-time sleep in urban black swans. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8, 131 (2020)

Blumberg, M. S.; Lesku, J. A.; Libourel, P.-A.; Schmidt, M. H.; Rattenborg, N. C.: What is REM sleep? Current Biology 30 (1), pp. R38 - R49 (2020)

Rattenborg, N. C.; van der Meij, J.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Local aspects of avian non-REM and REM sleep. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13, 567 (2019)

Allocca, G.; Ma, S.; Martelli, D.; Cerri, M.; Vecchio, F. D.; Bastianini, S.; Zoccoli, G.; Amici, R.; Morairty, S. R.; Aulsebrook, A. E. et al.; Blackburn, S.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Wams, E.; Porcheret, K.; Wulff, K.; Foster, R.; Chan, J. K. M.; Nicholas, C. L.; Freestone, D. R.; Johnston, L. A.; Gundlach, A. L.: Validation of ‘Somnivore’, a machine learning algorithm for automated scoring and analysis of polysomnography data. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13, 207 (2019)

Tisdale, R. K.; Tieri, L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Spectral properties of brain activity under two anesthetics and their potential for inducing natural sleep in birds. Frontiers in Neuroscience 12, 881 (2018)

Tisdale, R. K.; Lesku, J. A.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: The low-down on sleeping down low: Pigeons shift to lighter forms of sleep when sleeping near the ground. The Journal of Experimental Biology 221 (19), jeb182634 (2018)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Jones, T. M.; Mulder, R. A.; Lesku, J. A.: Impacts of artificial light at night on sleep: A review and prospectus. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology 329 (8-9), pp. 409 - 418 (2018)

Tisdale, R. K.; Lesku, J. A.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Bird-like propagating brain activity in anesthetized Nile crocodiles. Sleep 41 (8), zsy105 (2018)

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)

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)

Tisdale, R. K.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Sleep-related electrophysiology and behavior of tinamous (Eudromia elegans): Tinamous do not sleep like ostriches. Brain, behavior and evolution: Official journal of the J. B. Johnston Club 89 (4), pp. 249 - 261 (2017)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Jones, T. M.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roth, T. C. I.; Lesku, J. A.: Sleep ecophysiology: Integrating neuroscience and ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31 (8), pp. 590 - 599 (2016)

Kelly, M. L.; Peters, R. A.; Tisdale, R. K.; Lesku, J. A.: Unihemispheric sleep in crocodilians? The Journal of Experimental Biology 218 (20), pp. 3175 - 3178 (2015)

Robert, K. A.; Lesku, J. A.; Partecke, J.; Chambers, B.: Artificial light at night desynchronizes strictly seasonal reproduction in a wild mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1816), 20151745 (2015)

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)

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