List of works - Elizabeth A MacDougall-Shackleton

"Balancing" balancing selection? Assortative mating at the major histocompatibility complex despite molecular signatures of balancing selection

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Alternative reproductive strategies in white-throated sparrows are associated with differences in parasite load following experimental infection

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Birdsong signals individual diversity at the major histocompatibility complex.

scientific article published in November 2017

Chemical composition of preen wax reflects major histocompatibility complex similarity in songbirds.

scientific article published in November 2016

Developmental stress, condition, and birdsong: a case study in song sparrows

scientific article published on 20 June 2014

Developmental timing of signals affects information content: song complexity but not consistency reflects innate immune strategy in male song sparrows

scientific article published on 7 April 2014

Early-life stress affects the behavioural and neural response of female song sparrows to conspecific song

article by Kim L. Schmidt et al published April 2013 in Animal Behaviour

Early-life stress has sex-specific effects on immune function in adult song sparrows

scientific article published on 10 February 2015

Effects of day-length and food availability on food caching, mass and fat reserves in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Estradiol modulates brainstem catecholaminergic cell groups and projections to the auditory forebrain in a female songbird.

scientific article published on 27 July 2007

Exposing migratory sparrows to Plasmodium suggests costs of resistance, not necessarily of infection itself

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

HPA axis regulation, survival, and reproduction in free-living sparrows: Functional relationships or developmental correlations?

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Immune profiles vary seasonally, but are not significantly related to migration distance or natal dispersal, in a migratory songbird

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

Local song elements indicate local genotypes and predict physiological condition in song sparrows Melospiza melodia

scientific article published on June 2008

Long-term winter-site fidelity in Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia)

scientific article published in 2019

Many loci make light work: high individual diversity despite low population diversity and random mating at class I MHC in a Critically Endangered island songbird

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Parasite-mediated heterozygote advantage in an outbred songbird population

scientific article

Population Differences at MHC Do Not Explain Enhanced Resistance of Song Sparrows to Local Parasites

scientific article published on 11 December 2016

Purifying Selection in the Toll-Like Receptors of Song Sparrows Melospiza melodia

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Regulation of the HPA axis is related to song complexity and measures of phenotypic quality in song sparrows ⬇️

scientific article published on March 6, 2012

Social rank, neophobia and observational learning in black-capped chickadees

Song exposure during juvenile dispersal in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows

article by Winnie W. Ho et al published April 2014 in The Auk

Song repertoire size varies with HVC volume and is indicative of male quality in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia).

scientific article published in August 2007

Song sparrows Melospiza melodia have a home-field advantage in defending against sympatric malarial parasites