Dr. Beth MacDougall-Shackleton
Behavioural ecology and population genetics of songbirds

Recent Publications

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22. Potvin DA & EA MacDougall-Shackleton. 2009. Parental investment amplifies effects of genetic complementarity on growth rates in song sparrows (Melospiza melodia). Animal Behaviour, in press (accepted 22 June).

21. MacDougall-Shackleton SA, L Dindia, AE Newman, DA Potvin, KA Stewart & EA MacDougall-Shackleton. 2009. Stress, song and survival in sparrows. Biology Letters, in press (accepted 17 June).

20. MacDougall-Shackleton EA, KA Stewart, DA Potvin & E Tennenhouse. 2009. The rich get richer: song complexity predicts song element sharing and song output in song sparrows Melospiza melodia. Animal Behaviour 78: 141-146.

19. Hernandez AM, JA Pfaff, EA MacDougall-Shackleton & SA MacDougall-Shackleton. 2009. The development of geographic song preferences in female song sparrows Melospiza melodia. Ethology 115: 513-521.

18. Stewart KA & EA MacDougall-Shackleton. 2008. Local song elements indicate local genotypes and predict physiological condition in song sparrows Melospiza melodia. Biology Letters 4: 240-242. (Featured in The Toronto Star)

17. Pfaff JA, L Zanette, SA MacDougall-Shackleton & EA MacDougall-Shackleton. 2007. Song repertoire size varies with HVC volume and is indicative of male quality in song sparrows ( Melospiza melodia). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 274: 2035-2040. (Featured in Science, The Guardian (UK) and other news outlets)

16. LeBlanc MM, CT Goode, EA MacDougall-Shackleton & DL Maney. 2007. Estradiol modulates catecholaminergic cell groups and projections to the auditory forebrain in a female songbird. Brain Research 1171: 93-103.

15. MacDougall-Shackleton EA, EP Derryberry, J Foufopoulos, AP Dobson & TP Hahn. 2005. Parasite-mediated heterozygote advantage in an outbred songbird population. Biology Letters 1: 105-107.

14. Zanette L, EA MacDougall-Shackleton, M Clinchy & JNM Smith. 2005. Brown-headed cowbirds skew host offspring sex ratios. Ecology 86: 815-820. (Featured in Science)

13. Karpouzos H, AM Hernandez, EA MacDougall-Shackleton & SA MacDougall-Shackleton. 2005. Effects of day-length and food availability on food caching, mass and fat reserves in black-capped chickadees ( Poecile atricapillus). Physiology & Behavior 84: 465-469.

12. Morton ML, ME Pereyra, JD Crandall, EA MacDougall-Shackleton & TP Hahn. 2004. Reproductive effort and return rates in the Mountain White-crowned Sparrow. Condor 106: 131-138.

11. MacDougall-Shackleton EA, L Blanchard, SA Igdoura & HL Gibbs. 2003. Melanistic plumage patterns in Old World leaf warblers do not correspond to sequence variation at the melanocortin-1 receptor ( MC1R) locus. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 1675-1681.

10. Maney DL, EA MacDougall-Shackleton, SA MacDougall-Shackleton, GF Ball & TP Hahn. 2003. Immediate early gene response to hearing song correlates with receptive behavior and depends on dialect in female mountain white-crowned sparrows. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 189: 667-674.

9. MacDougall-Shackleton EA, EP Derryberry & TP Hahn. 2002. Non-local male mountain white-crowned sparrows have lower paternity and higher parasite loads than males singing local dialect. Behavioral Ecology 13: 682-689.

8. MacDougall-Shackleton EA & SA MacDougall-Shackleton. 2001. Cultural and genetic evolution in mountain white-crowned sparrows: song dialects are associated with population structure. Evolution 55: 2568-2575.

7. MacDougall-Shackleton SA, EA MacDougall-Shackleton & TP Hahn. 2001. Physiological and behavioural responses of female mountain white-crowned sparrows to natal- and foreign-dialect songs. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 325-333.

6. MacDougall-Shackleton EA & RJ Robertson. 1998. Confidence of paternity and paternal care by eastern bluebirds. Behavioral Ecology 9: 201-205.

5. MacDougall-Shackleton EA & HE Harbison. 1998. Singing behavior of lekking green hermits. Condor 100: 149-152.

4. Soisson SM, B MacDougall-Shackleton, RF Schleif & CM Wolberger. 1997. The 1.6 Å crystal structure of the AraC sugar-binding and dimerization domain complexed with D-fucose. Journal of Molecular Biology 273: 226-237.

3. Soisson SM, B MacDougall-Shackleton, RF Schleif & CM Wolberger. 1997. Structural basis for ligand-regulated oligomerization of AraC. Science 276: 421-425.

2. MacDougall-Shackleton EA, RJ Robertson & PT Boag. 1996. Temporary male removal increases extra-pair paternity in eastern bluebirds. Animal Behaviour 52: 1177-1183.

1. MacDougall-Shackleton EA & RJ Robertson. 1995. Mate guarding tactics used by great-crested flycatchers. Wilson Bulletin 197: 757-761.

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