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Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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Journal articles

Lesku JA, Roth TC, Rattenborg NC, Amlaner CJ and Lima SL: History and future of comparative analyses in sleep research. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 33, 1024-1036 (2009)

Rattenborg NC, Martinez-Gonzalez D, Lesku JA: Avian sleep homeostasis: convergent evolution of complex brains, cognition and sleep functions in mammals and birds. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 33: 253-270 (2009)

Rattenborg NC, Martinez-Gonzalez D, Lesku JA and Scriba M: A bird’s eye view of sleep. Science, 322: 527 (2008)

Lesku JA, Bark RJ, Martinez-Gonzalez D, Rattenborg NC, Amlaner CJ and Lima SL: Predator-induced plasticity in sleep architecture in wild-caught Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). Behavioural Brain Research 189, 298-305 (2008)

Martinez-Gonzalez D, Lesku JA and Rattenborg NC: Increased EEG spectral power density during sleep following short-term sleep deprivation in pigeons (Columba livia): evidence for avian sleep homeostasis. Journal of Sleep Research 17, 140-153 (2008)

Lesku JA, Roth TC, Rattenborg NC, Amlaner CJ and Lima SL: Phylogenetics and the correlates of mammalian sleep: a reappraisal. Sleep Medicine Reviews 12, 229-244 (2008)

Rattenborg NC, Lesku JA, Martinez-Gonzalez D and Lima SL: The non-trivial functions of sleep. Sleep Medicine Reviews 11, 405-409 (2007)

Roth TC, Lesku JA, Amlaner CJ and Lima SL: A phylogenetic analysis of the correlates of sleep in birds. Journal of Sleep Research 15, 395-402 (2006)

Lesku JA, Roth TC, Amlaner CJ and Lima SL: A phylogenetic analysis of sleep architecture in mammals: the integration of anatomy, physiology, and ecology. The American Naturalist 168, 441-453 (2006)

Mathews CG, Lesku JA, Lima SL and Amlaner CJ: Asynchronous eye closure as an anti-predator behavior in the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis). Ethology 112, 286-292 (2006)

Lima SL, Rattenborg NC, Lesku JA and Amlaner CJ: Sleeping under the risk of predation. Animal Behaviour 70, 723-736 (2005)



Book chapters

Rattenborg NC, Lesku JA and Martinez-Gonzalez D: Evolutionary perspectives on the function of REM sleep. In: Mallick BN, Pandi-Perumal SR, McCarley RW and Morrison AR (eds.), REM Sleep: Regulation and Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press (2010)

Lesku JA, Martinez-Gonzalez D and Rattenborg NC: Phylogeny and ontogeny of sleep. In: Stickgold R and Walker MP (eds.), The Neuroscience of Sleep. Oxford: Academic Press, 2009: 61-69

Amlaner CJ, Lesku JA and Rattenborg NC: The evolution of sleep. In: Amlaner CJ and Fuller PM (eds.), Basics of Sleep Guide, 2nd ed. Westchester: Sleep Research Society, 2009: 11-19

Lesku JA, Martinez-Gonzalez D and Rattenborg NC: Sleep and sleep states: phylogeny and ontogeny. In: Squire LR (ed.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Oxford: Academic Press, 2009: 963-971

Lesku JA, Rattenborg NC and Amlaner CJ: The evolution of sleep: a phylogenetic approach. In: Lee-Chiong TL (ed.), Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2006: 49-61



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