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List of works by Wolfgang Goymann

A gentler method to raise melatonin levels in birds

scientific article published in June 2008

A tropical bird can use the equatorial change in sunrise and sunset times to synchronize its circannual clock

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

Acute peaks of testosterone suppress paternal care: evidence from individual hormonal reaction norms

scientific article published in June 2017

Androgens and the role of female "hyperaggressiveness" in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).

scientific article

Associated and disassociated patterns in hormones, song, behavior and brain receptor expression between life-cycle stages in male black redstarts, Phoenicurus ochruros.

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels across birds and reptiles do not reflect urbanization levels

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Between-litter siblicide in captive Indian false vampire bats (Megaderma lyra)

Body fat influences departure from stopover sites in migratory birds: evidence from whole-island telemetry

scientific article published on 17 February 2010

Certainty of paternity in two coucal species with divergent sex roles: the devil takes the hindmost

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Competing Females and Caring Males. Polyandry and Sex-Role Reversal in African Black Coucals, Centropus grillii

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Concepts derived from the Challenge Hypothesis

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Constitutive immune function responds more slowly to handling stress than corticosterone in a shorebird

scientific article published in September 2008

Correction: Testosterone Affects Song Modulation during Simulated Territorial Intrusions in Male Black Redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros)

scientific article (publication date: 28 December 2012)

Corticosterone Concentrations Reflect Parental Expenditure in Contrasting Mating Systems of Two Coucal Species

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Defense of females, but not social status, predicts plasma androgen levels in male spotted hyenas

scientific article

Distinguishing seasonal androgen responses from male-male androgen responsiveness-revisiting the Challenge Hypothesis

scientific article published on 27 January 2007

Diurnal variation in corticosterone release among wild tropical forest birds.

scientific article

Do Seasonal Glucocorticoid Changes Depend on Reproductive Investment? A Comparative Approach in Birds

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Does a short-term increase in testosterone affect the intensity or persistence of territorial aggression? - An approach using an individual's hormonal reactive scope to study hormonal effects on behavior

scientific article published on 27 June 2015

Does selection for behavioral and physiological performance traits alter glucocorticoid responsiveness in bank voles?

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Effects of body condition and food intake on stop-over decisions in Garden Warblers and European Robins during spring migration

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Embryo movement is more frequent in avian brood parasites than birds with parental reproductive strategies

scientific article published in 2021

Endocrine mechanisms, behavioral phenotypes and plasticity: known relationships and open questions

scientific article

Environmental cues and dietary antioxidants affect breeding behavior and testosterone of male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

scientific article published on 02 June 2018

Excremental androgen metabolite concentrations and gonad sizes in temperate zone vs. tropical Stonechats (Saxicola torquata ssp.).

scientific article published on November 2004

Experimental induction of social instability during early breeding does not alter testosterone levels in male black redstarts, a socially monogamous songbird

scientific article published on 24 August 2013

Females alter their song when challenged in a sex-role reversed bird species.

scientific article

Food availability but not melatonin affects nocturnal restlessness in a wild migrating passerine

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Ghrelin affects stopover decisions and food intake in a long-distance migrant

scientific article published on 06 February 2017

Green matters! Growing vegetation stimulates breeding under short-day conditions in wild canaries (Serinus canaria).

scientific article published in December 2007

Hormonal correlates of social status and courtship display in the cooperatively lekking lance-tailed manakin.

scientific article

Hormonal mechanisms of cooperative behaviour

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Hormonal responses to male-male social challenge in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus: single-broodedness as an explanatory variable.

scientific article published on 5 January 2007

HormoneBase, a population-level database of steroid hormone levels across vertebrates.

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

IUCN Conservation Status Does Not Predict Glucocorticoid Concentrations in Reptiles and Birds

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Ignoring the challenge? Male black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) do not increase testosterone levels during territorial conflicts but they do so in response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone.

scientific article

Impact of season and social challenge on testosterone and corticosterone levels in a year-round territorial bird

scientific article

Independence among physiological traits suggests flexibility in the face of ecological demands on phenotypes

scientific article published on 11 June 2012

Introduction to the European Science Foundation technical meeting: analysis of hormones in droppings and egg yolk of birds

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Keeping Time Under the Midnight Sun: Behavioral and Plasma Melatonin Profiles of Free-Living Lapland Longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) During the Arctic Summer

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Let's Talk About Sex - Not Gender

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Life-history and hormonal control of aggression in black redstarts: Blocking testosterone does not decrease territorial aggression, but changes the emphasis of vocal behaviours during simulated territorial intrusions

scientific article

Low ambient temperature increases food intake and dropping production, leading to incorrect estimates of hormone metabolite concentrations in European stonechats

scientific article published on 15 February 2006

Macroevolutionary Patterning in Glucocorticoids Suggests Different Selective Pressures Shape Baseline and Stress-Induced Levels

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Male-only care and cuckoldry in black coucals: does parenting hamper sex life?

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Males paving the road to polyandry? Parental compensation in a monogamous nesting cuckoo and a classical polyandrous relative

scientific article published in 2019

Mating systems, social behaviour and hormones

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Melatonin and corticosterone profiles under polar day in a seabird with sexually opposite activity-rhythms

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Melatonin reduces migratory restlessness in Sylvia warblers during autumnal migration

scientific article

Metabolic Scaling of Stress Hormones in Vertebrates

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Migrating songbirds on stopover prepare for, and recover from, oxidative challenges posed by long-distance flight

scientific article

Non-invasive methods to measure androgen metabolites in excrements of European stonechats, Saxicola torquata rubicola

scientific article published in November 2002

Noninvasive Fecal Monitoring of Glucocorticoids in Spotted Hyenas,Crocuta crocuta

scholarly article by Wolfgang Goymann et al published June 1999 in General and Comparative Endocrinology

Noninvasive monitoring of hormones in bird droppings: physiological validation, sampling, extraction, sex differences, and the influence of diet on hormone metabolite levels

scientific article

Not one hormone or another: Aggression differentially affects progesterone and testosterone in a South American ovenbird

scientific article published on 11 August 2018

On the natural history of duetting in White-browed Coucals: sex- and body-size-dependent differences in a collective vocal display

Parental care, loss of paternity and circulating levels of testosterone and corticosterone in a socially monogamous song bird

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Patterns of call communication between group-housed zebra finches change during the breeding cycle.

scientific article

Plasma steroid hormones in two Arctic-breeding shorebirds: monogamy versus polygyny

scientific article published on 7 February 2006

Progesterone modulates aggression in sex-role reversed female African black coucals

scientific article published in May 2008

Rearing conditions have long-term consequences for stress responsiveness in free-living great tits

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

Regulatory mechanisms of testosterone-stimulated song in the sensorimotor nucleus HVC of female songbirds.

scientific article

Reprint of "Concepts derived from the Challenge Hypothesis"

scientific article published on 13 June 2020

Revealing a circadian clock in captive arctic-breeding songbirds, lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus), under constant illumination.

scientific article published on 17 October 2014

Seasonal and diel variation of hormone metabolites in European stonechats: on the importance of high signal-to-noise ratios in noninvasive hormone studies

scientific article

Sex roles, parental care and offspring growth in two contrasting coucal species

scientific article

Sex-role reversal is reflected in the brain of African black coucals (Centropus grillii).

scientific article

Simulating winning in the wild--the behavioral and hormonal response of black redstarts to single and repeated territorial challenges of high and low intensity

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

Social modulation of androgens in male birds

scientific article published on 07 December 2008

Social monogamy vs. polyandry: ecological factors associated with sex roles in two closely related birds within the same habitat

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Social status does not predict corticosteroid levels in postdispersal male spotted hyenas

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Social, state-dependent and environmental modulation of faecal corticosteroid levels in free-ranging female spotted hyenas

scientific article published in December 2001

Species-Specific Means and Within-Species Variance in Glucocorticoid Hormones and Speciation Rates in Birds

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Stopover decision during migration: physiological conditions predict nocturnal restlessness in wild passerines.

scientific article

Stressful dieting: nutritional conditions but not compensatory growth elevate corticosterone levels in zebra finch nestlings and fledglings

scientific article

Territorial aggression does not feed back on testosterone in a multiple-brooded songbird species with breeding and non-breeding season territoriality, the European stonechat.

scientific article

Testosterone affects song modulation during simulated territorial intrusions in male black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros)

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Testosterone and corticosterone during the breeding cycle of equatorial and European stonechats (Saxicola torquata axillaris and S. t. rubicola).

scientific article published on 28 August 2006

Testosterone in tropical birds: effects of environmental and social factors

scientific article published on 26 July 2004

The decoy matters! Hormonal and behavioural differences in the reaction of territorial European robins towards stuffed and live decoys.

scientific article published on 11 August 2007

The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment

scientific article published in 2012

The effects of low levels of light at night upon the endocrine physiology of western scrub-jays (Aphelocoma californica).

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

The energy savings-oxidative cost trade-off for migratory birds during endurance flight

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

The evolution of reversed sex roles and classical polyandry: Insights from coucals and other animals

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

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.

scientific article published in May 2014

Towards more physiological manipulations of hormones in field studies: comparing the release dynamics of three kinds of testosterone implants, silastic tubing, time-release pellets and beeswax

scientific article published on 23 January 2015

Traffic noise exposure depresses plasma corticosterone and delays offspring growth in breeding zebra finches

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Tropical field endocrinology: ecology and evolution of testosterone concentrations in male birds

scientific article published on 27 May 2008

Urban-like night illumination reduces melatonin release in European blackbirds (Turdus merula): implications of city life for biological time-keeping of songbirds

scientific article

Use of ethanol for preserving steroid and indoleamine hormones in bird plasma

scientific article published on 13 November 2006

Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for the measurement of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).

scientific article

Variation in Circulating Testosterone during Mating Predicts Reproductive Success in a Wild Songbird

scientific article published in 2016

What the Corona (SARS-CoV 2) pandemic, climate change, and the biodiversity crisis teach us about human nature

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Who rises to the challenge? Testing the Challenge Hypothesis in fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals

scientific article published on 22 June 2019

Winning and losing in public: audiences direct future success in Japanese quail.

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Year-round territorial aggression is independent of plasma DHEA in the European nuthatch Sitta europaea

scientific article published on 9 October 2012