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List of works by Ellen D. Ketterson

2009 American Society of Naturalists awards Sewall Wright Award: Michael J. Wade

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A role for differential gene regulation in the rapid diversification of melanic plumage coloration in the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis)

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ANIMAL MIGRATION AS A MOVING TARGET FOR CONSERVATION: INTRA-SPECIES VARIATION AND RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, AS ILLUSTRATED IN A SOMETIMES MIGRATORY SONGBIRD.

scientific article published on January 2011

Acorn mast drives long-term dynamics of rodent and songbird populations

scientific article published on 9 October 2007

Adaptation, Exaptation, and Constraint: A Hormonal Perspective

scientific article published in July 1999

Adaptation, Exaptation, and Constraint: A Hormonal Perspective

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Amygdala response to negative images in postpartum vs nulliparous women and intranasal oxytocin

scientific article published on 05 September 2012

Artificial light at night amplifies seasonal relapse of haemosporidian parasites in a widespread songbird

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Behavioral and physiological responses to experimentally elevated testosterone in female dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis carolinensis).

scientific article published on 4 May 2006

Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation

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Breeding at higher latitude is associated with higher photoperiodic threshold and delayed reproductive development in a songbird

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Breeding synchrony and EPF rates: the key to a can of worms?

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

CORRELATIONAL SELECTION LEADS TO GENETIC INTEGRATION OF BODY SIZE AND AN ATTRACTIVE PLUMAGE TRAIT IN DARK-EYED JUNCOS

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Changes in adrenal capacity contribute to a decline in the stress response with age in a long-lived seabird

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Changes in processes downstream of the hypothalamus are associated with seasonal follicle development in a songbird, the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

Chasing the sun: When to migrate, when to breed

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Chemosignaling diversity in songbirds: chromatographic profiling of preen oil volatiles in different species

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

Chronological and Biological Age Predict Seasonal Reproductive Timing: An Investigation of Clutch Initiation and Telomeres in Birds of Known Age

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

Communication Value of Mistakes in Dark-Eyed Junco Song.

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Competitive females are successful females; phenotype, mechanism and selection in a common songbird

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Consequences of elevating plasma testosterone in females of a socially monogamous songbird: evidence of constraints on male evolution?

scientific article published in August 2004

Correlational selection leads to genetic integration of body size and an attractive plumage trait in dark-eyed juncos

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Costs and benefits of competitive traits in females: aggression, maternal care and reproductive success

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De novo transcriptome sequencing in a songbird, the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis): genomic tools for an ecological model system.

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Deciphering information encoded in birdsong: male songbirds with fertile mates respond most strongly to complex, low-amplitude songs used in courtship

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Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Density-dependent fitness, not dispersal movements, drives temporal variation in spatial genetic structure in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Differential gene expression in seasonal sympatry: mechanisms involved in diverging life histories.

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Differential gene regulation underlies variation in melanic plumage coloration in the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis )

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Divergence along the gonadal steroidogenic pathway: Implications for hormone-mediated phenotypic evolution

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Early spring sex differences in luteinizing hormone response to gonadotropin releasing hormone in co-occurring resident and migrant dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Early-breeding females experience greater telomere loss

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Effect of acute stressor on reproductive behavior differs between urban and rural birds

scientific article published on 20 August 2016

Effects of captivity and testosterone on the volumes of four brain regions in the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis).

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Effects of experimentally elevated testosterone on plasma corticosterone and corticosteroid-binding globulin in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Egg yolk layers vary in the concentration of steroid hormones in two avian species

scientific article published in August 1999

Elevated testosterone reduces choosiness in female dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis): evidence for a hormonal constraint on sexual selection?

scientific article published in July 2004

Environmental control of kisspeptin: implications for seasonal reproduction

scientific article published on 21 December 2006

Examining sources of variation in HPG axis function among individuals and populations of the dark-eyed junco

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Experimental elevation of testosterone lowers fitness in female dark-eyed juncos

scientific article published on 19 March 2013

Experimental evidence that symbiotic bacteria produce chemical cues in a songbird

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Experimentally-elevated testosterone, female parental care, and reproductive success in a songbird, the Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis).

scientific article published on 10 June 2008

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Female aggression predicts mode of paternity acquisition in a social lizard

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Reproductive competition promotes the evolution of female weaponry

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Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Second-to-fourth digit ratio predicts success among high-frequency financial traders

scholarly article published 13 March 2009

Faculty of 1000 evaluation for To breed or not to breed: physiological correlates of reproductive status in a facultatively biennial iguanid

article published in 2010

Females competing to reproduce: dominance matters but testosterone may not.

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Genomes to space stations: the need for the integrative study of migration for avian conservation

scientific article published in February 2018

Geographic Variation and Its Climatic Correlates in the Sex Ratio of Eastern-Wintering Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco Hyemalis Hyemalis)

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Gonads and the evolution of hormonal phenotypes

scientific article published in June 2016

High testosterone prior to song crystallization inhibits singing behavior in captive yearling dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Highly context-specific activation of the HPG axis in the dark-eyed junco and implications for the challenge hypothesis

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Hormonal, behavioral, and life-history traits exhibit correlated shifts in relation to population establishment in a novel environment

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Hormone-mediated suites as adaptations and evolutionary constraints

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Hormones and Life Histories: An Integrative Approach

scientific article published on 01 November 1992

Hormones and honest signals: males with larger ornaments elevate testosterone more when challenged

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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity is not elevated in a songbird (Junco hyemalis) preparing for migration.

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Immune function across generations: integrating mechanism and evolutionary process in maternal antibody transmission.

scientific article published in November 2003

Individual variation in testosterone and parental care in a female songbird; the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis)

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Influence of experimentally elevated testosterone on nest defence in dark-eyed juncos

scientific article published on 01 September 1998

Lipid signaling and fat storage in the dark-eyed junco

scientific article published in February 2017

Local adaptation from afar: migratory bird populations diverge in the initiation of reproductive timing while wintering in sympatry

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Lower sexual interest in postpartum women: relationship to amygdala activation and intranasal oxytocin

scientific article published on 18 October 2012

Maintenance of MHC Class IIB diversity in a recently established songbird population

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Male courtship preference during seasonal sympatry may maintain population divergence

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Maternally derived yolk testosterone enhances the development of the hatching muscle in the red-winged blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus.

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Mechanisms Associated with an Advance in the Timing of Seasonal Reproduction in an Urban Songbird

scientific article published in 2017

Migrant and resident female songbirds differ in gonadal response to upstream stimulation during seasonal sympatry

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

Natural selection on testosterone production in a wild songbird population

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Natural variation in a testosterone-mediated trade-off between mating effort and parental effort

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Neural Activation in Women in Response to Masculinized Male Faces: Mediation by Hormones and Psychosexual Factors

scientific article published on January 2009

Neural activation in the orbitofrontal cortex in response to male faces increases during the follicular phase

scientific article published on 20 March 2009

Neural sensitivity to sex steroids predicts individual differences in aggression: implications for behavioural evolution

scientific article published on 6 June 2012

Neural steroid sensitivity and aggression: comparing individuals of two songbird subspecies

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Older parents are less responsive to a stressor in a long-lived seabird: a mechanism for increased reproductive performance with age?

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Partner Status Influences Women's Interest in the Opposite Sex.

scientific article published on March 2009

Perspective

scientific article published on 01 April 2007

Phenotypic integration and independence: Hormones, performance, and response to environmental change

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Physiological effects on demography: a long-term experimental study of testosterone's effects on fitness

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Potential for sexual conflict assessed via testosterone-mediated transcriptional changes in liver and muscle of a songbird

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Promiscuous mating produces offspring with higher lifetime fitness

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Reactivation of latent infections with migration shapes population-level disease dynamics

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Reproductive Allochrony in Seasonally Sympatric Populations Maintained by Differential Response to Photoperiod: Implications for Population Divergence and Response to Climate Change.

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Robust behavioral effects of song playback in the absence of testosterone or corticosterone release.

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Role of testosterone in stimulating seasonal changes in a potential avian chemosignal.

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Seasonal and individual variation in response to GnRH challenge in male dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis).

scientific article published on 11 July 2006

Seasonal variation in volatile compound profiles of preen gland secretions of the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis).

scientific article published in January 2007

Seasonally sympatric but allochronic: differential expression of hypothalamic genes in a songbird during gonadal development

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Seasonally sympatric songbirds that differ in migratory strategy also differ in neuroendocrine measures

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Sedentary songbirds maintain higher prevalence of haemosporidian parasite infections than migratory conspecifics during seasonal sympatry

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Sex differences in the response to environmental cues regulating seasonal reproduction in birds

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Similarity in temporal variation in sex-biased dispersal over short and long distances in the dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis

scientific article published on November 2013

Social Environment Has a Primary Influence on the Microbial and Odor Profiles of a Chemically Signaling Songbird

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Song Frequency Does Not Reflect Differences in Body Size among Males in Two Oscine Species

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Songbird chemical signals reflect uropygial gland androgen sensitivity and predict aggression: implications for the role of the periphery in chemosignaling.

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Songbird chemosignals: volatile compounds in preen gland secretions vary among individuals, sexes, and populations

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Sources of variation in HPG axis reactivity and individually consistent elevation of sex steroids in a female songbird

scientific article published on October 2013

Steroid Hormones and Immune Function: Experimental Studies in Wild and Captive Dark‐Eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published in April 2001

Steroid hormones and immune function: experimental studies in wild and captive dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis).

scientific article published in April 2001

Suppression of kisspeptin expression and gonadotropic axis sensitivity following exposure to inhibitory day lengths in female Siberian hamsters

scientific article published on 21 July 2007

Testosterone Manipulation of Male Attractiveness has no Detectable Effect on Female Home-Range Size and Behavior During the Fertile Period

Testosterone affects neural gene expression differently in male and female juncos: a role for hormones in mediating sexual dimorphism and conflict

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Testosterone affects reproductive success by influencing extra-pair fertilizations in male dark-eyed juncos (Aves: Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published on 22 November 1997

Testosterone and Avian Life Histories: Effects of Experimentally Elevated Testosterone on Behavior and Correlates of Fitness in the Dark-Eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

scientific article published in December 1992

Testosterone and avian life histories: the effect of experimentally elevated testosterone on corticosterone and body mass in dark-eyed juncos

scientific article published in December 1991

Testosterone and prolactin in two songbirds that differ in paternal care: the Blue-headed Vireo and the Red-eyed Vireo

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Testosterone in females: mediator of adaptive traits, constraint on sexual dimorphism, or both?

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Testosterone increases activity but not daily energy expenditure in captive male dark-eyed juncos, Junco hyemalis

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Testosterone production, sexually dimorphic morphology, and digit ratio in the dark-eyed junco

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The Evolution of Differential Bird Migration

scientific article published in 1983

The effect of chronic and acute stressors, and their interaction, on testes function: an experimental test during testicular recrudescence

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

The effect of exogenous testosterone on parental behavior, plasma prolactin, and prolactin binding sites in dark-eyed juncos

scientific article published in August 1998

The effect of winter sex ratio on immune function and condition in a differential migrant

scientific article published on December 4, 2010

The role of the anterior cingulate cortex in women's sexual decision making

scientific article published on 30 October 2008

Two sides of the same coin? Consistency in aggression to conspecifics and predators in a female songbird.

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Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Variation in candidate genes CLOCK and ADCYAP1 does not consistently predict differences in migratory behavior in the songbird genus Junco.

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What Do Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Have in Common? The Organism in the Middle

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Winter fattening in the dark-eyed junco: plasticity and possible interaction with migration trade-offs

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