Student Publications
List of scientific publications orginated from IMPRS for Organismal Biology PhD theses
In press
Dominoni D, Helm B, Lehmann M, Dowse H, Partecke J. in press. Clocks for the city: circadian differences between forest and city songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
Dylla K, Galili DS, Szyszka P, Lüdke A. in press. Trace conditioning in insects - Keep the trace! Frontiers in Invertebrate Physiology. abstract
Fudickar AM, Schmidt A, Hau M, Quetting M, Partecke J. in press. Female-biased obligate strategies in a partially migratory population. Journal of Animal Ecology. abstract
Gehrold A, Köhler P. in press. Wing-moulting waterbirds maintain body condition under good environmental conditions: a case study of Gadwalls (Anas strepera). Journal of Ornithology. abstract
Helm B, Ben-Schlomo R, Sheriff MJ, Hut R, Foster R, Barnes B, Dominoni D. in press. Annual rhythms that underlie phenology: biological time-keeping meets environmental change. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
Kronfeld-Shor N, Dominoni D, de la Iglesia H, Levy O, Herzog H, Helfrich-Förster C. in press. Chronobiology by moonlight. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
Mutzel A, Araya-Ajoy YG, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B. in press. Parental provisioning behaviour plays a key role in linking personality with reproductive success. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
Mutzel A, Blom MPK, Spagopoulou F, Wright J, Dingemanse NJ, Kempenaers B. in press. Temporal trade-offs between nestling provisioning and defence against nest predators in blue tits. Animal Behaviour. abstract
Salvarina I, Yohannes E, Siemers BM, Koselj K. in press. Advantages of using fecal samples for stable isotope analysis in bats: evidence using a triple isotopic experiment. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.
Safi K, Kranstauber B, Weinzierl R, Griffin L, Rees E, Cabot D, Cruz S, Proaño C, Takekawa JY, Newman S, Waldenström J, Bengtsson D, Kays R, Wikelski M, Bohrer G. in press. Flying with the wind: modeling effects of wind support on bird migration. BMC Movement Ecology.
Stuber EF, Araya-Ajoy YG, Mathot KJ, Mutzel A, Nicolaus M, Wijmenga JJ, Mueller JC, Dingemanse NJ. in press. Slow explorers take less risk: a problem of sampling bias in ecological studies. Behavioral Ecology. abstract
2013
Amemiya CT, Alföldi J, Lee AP, Fan S, Philippe H, MacCallum I, Braasch I, Manousaki T, Schneider I, Rohner N, Organ C, Chalopin D, Smith JJ, Robinson M, Dorrington RA, Gerdol M, Aken B, Assunta Biscotti M, Barucca M, Baurain D, Berlin AM, Blatch GL, Buonocore F, Burmester T, Campbell MS, Canapa A, Cannon JP, Christoffels A, De Moro G, Edkins AL, Fan L, Fausto AM, Feiner N, Forconi M, Gamieldien J, Gnerre S, Gnirke A, Goldstone JV, Haerty W, Hahn ME, Hesse U, Hoffmann S, Johnson J, Karchner SI, Kuraku S, Lara M, Levin JZ, Litman GW, Mauceli E, Miyake T, Mueller MG, Nelson DR, Nitsche A, Olmo E, Ota T, Pallavicini A, Panji S, Picone B, Ponting CP, Prohaska SJ, Przybylski D, Saha NR, Ravi V, Ribeiro FJ, Sauka-Spengler T, Scapigliati G, Searle SMJ, Sharpe T, Simakov O, Stadler PF, Stegeman JJ, Sumiyama K, Tabbaa D, Tafer H, Turner-Maier J, van Heusden P, White S, Williams L, Yandell M, Brinkmann H, Volff JN, Tabin CJ, Shubin N, Schartl M, Jaffe DB, Postlethwait JH, Venkatesh B, Di Palma F, Lander ES, Meyer A, Lindblad-Toh K. 2013. The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution. Nature 496: 311-315. full text
Clarin TMA, Ruczyński I, Page RA, Siemers BM. 2013. Foraging ecology predicts learning performance in insectivorous bats. PLoS ONE 8: e64823. full-text
Cruz SM, Hooten M, Huyvaert KP, Proaño CB, Anderson DJ, Afanasyev V, Wikelski M. 2013. At–sea behavior varies with lunar phase in a nocturnal pelagic seabird, the Swallow-Tailed Gull. PLoS ONE 8: e56889. full text
Dominoni D, Quetting M, Partecke J. 2013. Artificial light at night advances avian reproductive physiology. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B 280: 20123017.abstract
Ihle M, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier W. 2013. Does hatching failure breed infidelity? Behavioral Ecology 24: 119-127. abstract
Kirkerud NH, Wehmann HN, Galizia CG, Gustav D. 2013. APIS - a novel approach for conditioning honey bees. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 7: 29. full text
Kranstauber B, Smolla M. 2013. move: Visualizing and analyzing animal track data. Free R-software package. download
Manousaki T, Hull PM, Kusche H, Machado-Schiaffino G, Franchini P, Harrod C, Elmer KR, Meyer A. 2013. Parsing parallel evolution: ecological divergence and differential gene expression in the adaptive radiations of thick-lipped Midas cichlid fishes from Nicaragua. Molecular Ecology 22: 650-669. abstract
Norbu N, Wikelski M, Wilcove DS, Partecke J, Ugyen, Tenzin U, Sherub, Tempa T. 2013. Partial Altitudinal Migration of a Himalayan Forest Pheasant. PLoS ONE 8: e60979. full text
Schlicht L, Girg A, Loës P, Valcu M, Kempenaers B. 2013. Male extra-pair nestlings fledge first. Animal Behaviour 83: 1335-1343. abstract
2012
Fudickar AM, Partecke J. 2012. The flight apparatus of migratory and sedentary individuals of a partially migratory songbird species. PLoS ONE 7: e51920. full text
Fudickar AM, Wikelski M and Partecke J. 2012. Tracking migratory songbirds: accuracy of light level loggers (Geolocators) in forest habitats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 47-52. abstract
Kautt AF, Elmer KR, Meyer A. 2012. Genomic signatures of divergent selection and speciation patterns in a 'natural experiment', the young parallel radiations of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes. Molecular Ecology 21:4770-4786.abstract
Knief U, Schielzeth H, Kempenaers B, Ellegren H, Forstmeier W. 2012. QTL and quantitative genetic analysis of beak morphology reveals patterns of standing genetic variation in an Estrildid finch. Molecular Ecology 21: 3704-3717. abstract
Kranstauber B, Kays R, LaPoint SD, Wikelski M, Safi K. 2012. A dynamic Brownian bridge movement model to estimate utilization distributions for heterogeneous animal movement. Journal of Animal Ecology 81: 738-746. abstract
Kusche H, Lee HJ, Meyer A. 2012. Mouth asymmetry in the textbook example of scale-eating cichlid fish is not a discrete dimorphism after all. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 4715-4723. abstract
Lee HJ*, Kusche H*, Meyer A. 2012. Handed Foraging Behavior in Scale-Eating Cichlid Fish: Its Potential Role in Shaping Morphological Asymmetry. PLoS ONE 7: e44670. full text *equal contribution
Lehmann M, Spoelstra K, Visser ME, Helm B. 2012. Effects of temperature on circadian clock and chronotype: an experimental study on a passerine bird. Chronobiology International 29:1062-1071.abstract
2011
Feiner N, Ericsson R, Meyer A, Kuraku S. 2011. Revisiting the origin of the vertebrate Hox14 by including its relict sarcopterygian members. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 316B:515-525. abstract
Kranstauber B, Cameron A, Weinzerl R, Fountain T, Tilak S, Wikelski M, Kays R. 2011. The Movebank data model for animal tracking. Environmental Modelling & Software 26: 834-835.abstract
Manousaki T, Feiner N, Begemann G, Meyer A, Kuraku S. 2011. Co-orthology of Pax4 and Pax6 to the fly eyeless gene: molecular phylogenetic, comparative genomic and embryological analyses. Evolution & Development 13: 448-459. abstract
van Schaik J, Bruyndonckx N, Kerth G, Christe P. 2011. Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci for two species of Spinturnicid bat wing mites (Spinturnix myoti and Spinturnix bechsteini). Acarologia 51: 127-131. full-text
2010
Elmer KR, Kusche H, Lehtonen TK, Meyer A. 2010. Local variation and parallel evolution: morphological and genetic diversity across a species complex of Neotropical crater lake cichlid fishes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. 365: 1763-1782.abstract
2009
Feiner N, Begemann G, Renz A, Meyer A, Kuraku S. 2009. The origin of bmp16, a novel Bmp2/4 relative, retained in teleost fish genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:277. full text
