Birds

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A bird's eye view: top down intracellular analyses of auditory selectivity for learned vocalizations. 
  • A comparative study of crosslinked and noncrosslinked fibrin from the major classes of vertebrates. 
  • A refined model of the genomic basis for phenotypic variation in vertebrate hemostasis. 
  • A simple, efficient method for coupling DNA to cellulose. Development of the method and application to mRNA purification. 
  • Adaptive priorities in brain development: theoretical comment on Pravosudov et al. (2005). 
  • Adenylate cyclase coupled beta-adrenergic receptors: biochemical mechanisms of desensitization. 
  • Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining. 
  • Attention and temporal discrimination: Factors controlling responding under a cyclic-interval schedule 
  • Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution. 
  • Avian genomes. A flock of genomes. Introduction. 
  • Avian influenza and US tv news. 
  • Avianbase: a community resource for bird genomics. 
  • Batch-produced, GIS-informed range maps for birds based on provenanced, crowd-sourced data inform conservation assessments. 
  • Behavioral learning. The illuminated songbird. 
  • Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. 
  • Bilateral syringeal coupling during phonation of a songbird. 
  • Bilateral syringeal interaction in vocal production of an oscine bird sound. 
  • Bird communication: two voices are better than one. 
  • Bird extirpations and community dynamics in an Andean cloud forest over 100 years of land-use change. 
  • Bird song: of tone and tempo in the telencephalon. 
  • Bone-associated gene evolution and the origin of flight in birds. 
  • Brain development, song learning and mate choice in birds: a review and experimental test of the "nutritional stress hypothesis". 
  • Brain evolution by brain pathway duplication. 
  • Brain gene regulation by territorial singing behavior in freely ranging songbirds. 
  • Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging? 
  • China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda. 
  • Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis in the southeastern United States: an assessment of how clinicians reached the diagnosis. 
  • Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. 
  • Coalescent Theory of Migration Network Motifs. 
  • Commentary: Is Our Fate With the Birds? 
  • Comparative genomics based on massive parallel transcriptome sequencing reveals patterns of substitution and selection across 10 bird species. 
  • Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. 
  • Comparative stereology of the lizard and frog myocardium. 
  • Comparative stereology of the mouse and finch left ventricle. 
  • Comparing effectiveness of experimental and implemented bycatch reduction measures: the ideal and the real. 
  • Competition for hummingbird pollination shapes flower color variation in Andean solanaceae. 
  • Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa. 
  • Convergent differential regulation of SLIT-ROBO axon guidance genes in the brains of vocal learners. 
  • Convergent differential regulation of parvalbumin in the brains of vocal learners. 
  • Convergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and song-learning birds. 
  • De novo PacBio long-read and phased avian genome assemblies correct and add to reference genes generated with intermediate and short reads. 
  • Decrements in auditory responses to a repeated conspecific song are long-lasting and require two periods of protein synthesis in the songbird forebrain. 
  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Development of intrinsic and synaptic properties in a forebrain nucleus essential to avian song learning. 
  • Differential expression of glutamate receptors in avian neural pathways for learned vocalization. 
  • Dispersal of Amazonian birds in continuous and fragmented forest. 
  • Distributions of choline acetyltransferase and acetylcholinesterase activities in the retinal layers of the red-tailed hawk and road runner. 
  • Do animals living in larger groups experience greater parasitism? A meta-analysis. 
  • Dynamic evolution of base composition: causes and consequences in avian phylogenomics. 
  • Dynamic evolution of the alpha (α) and beta (β) keratins has accompanied integument diversification and the adaptation of birds into novel lifestyles. 
  • Dynamic habitat models: Using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch. 
  • Ecological meltdown in predator-free forest fragments. 
  • Effect of fasting on the VO2-fh relationship in king penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus. 
  • Effect of methylprednisolone on radiotherapy of F344 rats with avian sarcoma virus induced gliomas. 
  • Effects of future infrastructure development on threat status and occurrence of Amazonian birds. 
  • Effects of septal lesions on the courtship behavior of male ring doves (Streptopelia risoria). 
  • Elevational Ranges of Montane Birds and Deforestation in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures. 
  • Energetic cost of locomotion in animals. 
  • Ependymal/subependymal zone cells of postnatal and adult songbird brain generate both neurons and nonneuronal siblings in vitro and in vivo. 
  • Estimating extinction risk with metapopulation models of large-scale fragmentation. 
  • Evidence for GC-biased gene conversion as a driver of between-lineage differences in avian base composition. 
  • Evidence for a single loss of mineralized teeth in the common avian ancestor. 
  • Expiry dates. 
  • Feather development genes and associated regulatory innovation predate the origin of Dinosauria. 
  • FoxP2 expression in avian vocal learners and non-learners. 
  • Fruiting trees as dispersal foci in a semi-deciduous tropical forest. 
  • Gaps in coastal wetlands World Heritage list. 
  • Gaps present a trade-off between dispersal and establishment that nourishes species diversity. 
  • Gene loss, adaptive evolution and the co-evolution of plumage coloration genes with opsins in birds. 
  • Genetic variance in fitness indicates rapid contemporary adaptive evolution in wild animals. 
  • Genomic signatures of near-extinction and rebirth of the crested ibis and other endangered bird species. 
  • Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots. 
  • Global view of the functional molecular organization of the avian cerebrum: mirror images and functional columns. 
  • Habitat fragmentation and effects of herbivore (howler monkey) abundances on bird species richness. 
  • Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content. 
  • How to protect half of Earth to ensure it protects sufficient biodiversity. 
  • Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions. 
  • In vitro neurogenesis by neuronal precursor cells derived from the adult songbird brain. 
  • Incorporating explicit geospatial data shows more species at risk of extinction than the current Red List. 
  • Influence of pollen transport dynamics on sire profiles and multiple paternity in flowering plants. 
  • Insulin-like growth factor-1 is a radial cell-associated neurotrophin that promotes neuronal recruitment from the adult songbird edpendyma/subependyma. 
  • Inter-stride variability triggers gait transitions in mammals and birds. 
  • Is floral specialization an evolutionary dead-end? Pollination system transitions in Ruellia (Acanthaceae). 
  • Isolation of song-regulated genes in the brain of songbirds. 
  • Joint angular excursions during cyclical behaviors differ between tetrapod feeding and locomotor systems. 
  • Kinematics of birdsong: functional correlation of cranial movements and acoustic features in sparrows. 
  • Kinetic and structural investigation of acyl-binding sites on avian fatty acid synthase. 
  • Lamellar junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum. A specialization of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. 
  • Low frequency of paleoviral infiltration across the avian phylogeny. 
  • Metabolism during flight in the laughing gull, Larus atricilla. 
  • Minimizing wildlife impacts for offshore wind energy development: Winning tradeoffs for seabirds in space and cetaceans in time. 
  • Molecular mapping of movement-associated areas in the avian brain: a motor theory for vocal learning origin. 
  • Motor-driven gene expression. 
  • Multiscale gigapixel photography. 
  • Natural experiment demonstrates that bird loss leads to cessation of dispersal of native seeds from intact to degraded forests. 
  • Novel Insights into Chromosome Evolution in Birds, Archosaurs, and Reptiles. 
  • Of mice, birds, and men: the mouse ultrasonic song system has some features similar to humans and song-learning birds. 
  • Olfactory Receptor Subgenomes Linked with Broad Ecological Adaptations in Sauropsida. 
  • Parallel evolution at multiple levels in the origin of hummingbird pollinated flowers in Ipomoea. 
  • Patterns of respiration in diving penguins: is the last gasp an inspired tactic? 
  • Peripheral couplings in adult vertebrate skeletal muscle. Anatomical observations and functional implications. 
  • Perspectives from the Avian Phylogenomics Project: Questions that Can Be Answered with Sequencing All Genomes of a Vertebrate Class. 
  • Phylogenomic analyses data of the avian phylogenomics project. 
  • Polypeptides of endogenous avian C-type viruses: their detection in the plasma membrane of normal and infected cells. 
  • Quantifying shorebird habitat in managed wetlands by modeling shallow water depth dynamics. 
  • Quantitative analysis of forest fragmentation in the atlantic forest reveals more threatened bird species than the current red list. 
  • Radioactive in situ hybridization for detecting diverse gene expression patterns in tissue. 
  • Radioimmunoassay of plasma estradiol during the breeding cycle of ring doves (Streptopelia risoria). 
  • Range size and extinction risk in forest birds. 
  • Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments. 
  • Reinforcement as input: Cyclic variable-interval schedule 
  • Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia. 
  • Residential yard management and landscape cover affect urban bird community diversity across the continental USA. 
  • Respiration during flight in birds. 
  • Respiratory physiology of house sparrows in relation to high-altitude flight. 
  • Response to Comment on "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds". 
  • Review of contaminant levels and effects in shorebirds: Knowledge gaps and conservation priorities. 
  • Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei. 
  • Seed predation and climate impacts on reproductive variation in temperate forests of the southeastern USA. 
  • Selective expression of insulin-like growth factor II in the songbird brain. 
  • Selenium toxicity: cause and effects in aquatic birds. 
  • Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • Sex determination: An avian sexual revolution. 
  • Size-abundance relationships in an Amazonian bird community: implications for the energetic equivalence rule. 
  • Some properties of spaced responding in pigeons 
  • Specialized motor-driven dusp1 expression in the song systems of multiple lineages of vocal learning birds. 
  • Species, extinct before we know them? 
  • Sustaining the variety of life. 
  • Synaptic basis for developmental plasticity in a birdsong nucleus. 
  • Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests. 
  • Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution. 
  • Testosterone induction of song in photosensitive and photorefractory male sparrows. 
  • The Origin and Diversification of Birds. 
  • The checkered history of checkerboard distributions: comment. 
  • The core and accessory genomes of Burkholderia pseudomallei: implications for human melioidosis. 
  • The diversity of population responses to environmental change. 
  • The effects of nucleotide substitution model assumptions on estimates of nonparametric bootstrap support. 
  • The emergent interactions that govern biodiversity change. 
  • The energetics of bird flight. 
  • The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals. 
  • The neurobiology of innate, volitional and learned vocalizations in mammals and birds. 
  • The origin of helping: the role of variability in reproductive potential. 
  • Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs. 
  • To excite a heart: a bird's view. 
  • Top-down control of methane emission and nitrogen cycling by waterfowl. 
  • Toxicology of ingested lead shot in ringed turtle doves. 
  • Tree recruitment in an empty forest. 
  • Using metapopulation theory for practical conservation of mangrove endemic birds. 
  • Visual pathways to the telencephalon in reptiles and mammals. 
  • Vocal tract resonances in oscine bird sound production: evidence from birdsongs in a helium atmosphere. 
  • Waiting periods versus early innervation: the development of axonal connections in the zebra finch song system. 
  • West Nile virus in Mexico: evidence of widespread circulation since July 2002. 
  • Whole-Genome Identification, Phylogeny, and Evolution of the Cytochrome P450 Family 2 (CYP2) Subfamilies in Birds. 
  • Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Nowicki, Stephen, Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society