Birds

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparative study of crosslinked and noncrosslinked fibrin from the major classes of vertebrates. 
  • A national study of US bird banders for evidence of avian influenza virus infections. 
  • A refined model of the genomic basis for phenotypic variation in vertebrate hemostasis. 
  • Adaptive priorities in brain development: theoretical comment on Pravosudov et al. (2005). 
  • Avian brains and a new understanding of vertebrate brain evolution. 
  • Avian genomes. A flock of genomes. Introduction. 
  • Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus and mixed live poultry-animal markets in Guangdong province: a perfect storm in the making? 
  • Avianbase: a community resource for bird genomics. 
  • Behavioral learning. The illuminated songbird. 
  • Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. 
  • 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? 
  • Cases of swine influenza in humans: a review of the literature. 
  • China's endemic vertebrates sheltering under the protective umbrella of the giant panda. 
  • 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. 
  • Confined animal feeding operations as amplifiers of influenza. 
  • 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. 
  • Defining and evaluating the umbrella species concept for conserving and restoring landscape connectivity. 
  • Differential expression of glutamate receptors in avian neural pathways for learned vocalization. 
  • Direct and indirect behavioral pathways to the social transmission of food avoidance. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Evidence for avian influenza A infections among Iowa's agricultural workers. 
  • Evolutionary and developmental origins of the cardiac neural crest: building a divided outflow tract. 
  • FoxP2 expression in avian vocal learners and non-learners. 
  • Gene loss, adaptive evolution and the co-evolution of plumage coloration genes with opsins in birds. 
  • 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. 
  • In vitro neurogenesis by neuronal precursor cells derived from the adult songbird brain. 
  • Insulin-like growth factor-1 is a radial cell-associated neurotrophin that promotes neuronal recruitment from the adult songbird edpendyma/subependyma. 
  • Interactions of NO with hemoglobin: from microbes to man. 
  • Is floral specialization an evolutionary dead-end? Pollination system transitions in Ruellia (Acanthaceae). 
  • Isolation of song-regulated genes in the brain of songbirds. 
  • Kinetic and structural investigation of acyl-binding sites on avian fatty acid synthase. 
  • Little evidence of avian or equine influenza virus infection among a cohort of Mongolian adults with animal exposures, 2010-2011. 
  • Low frequency of paleoviral infiltration across the avian phylogeny. 
  • Mathematical model of an avian urine concentrating mechanism. 
  • Metabolism during flight in the laughing gull, Larus atricilla. 
  • 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. 
  • Ophthalmoscopy of pigeons using transillumination. 
  • Parallel evolution at multiple levels in the origin of hummingbird pollinated flowers in Ipomoea. 
  • 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. 
  • Prospective study of avian influenza virus infections among rural Thai villagers. 
  • 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. 
  • Remotely Sensed Data Informs Red List Evaluations and Conservation Priorities in Southeast Asia. 
  • 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". 
  • Revised nomenclature for avian telencephalon and some related brainstem nuclei. 
  • Risk Distribution of Human Infections with Avian Influenza H7N9 and H5N1 virus in China. 
  • 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. 
  • Setting practical conservation priorities for birds in the Western Andes of Colombia. 
  • Sparse evidence for equine or avian influenza virus infections among Mongolian adults with animal exposures. 
  • 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. 
  • Testing human sera for antibodies against avian influenza viruses: horse RBC hemagglutination inhibition vs. microneutralization assays. 
  • The Origin and Diversification of Birds. 
  • The checkered history of checkerboard distributions: comment. 
  • The effects of nucleotide substitution model assumptions on estimates of nonparametric bootstrap support. 
  • The energetics of bird flight. 
  • The origin of helping: the role of variability in reproductive potential. 
  • Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs. 
  • Through their eyes: selective attention in peahens during courtship. 
  • Toxicology of ingested lead shot in ringed turtle doves. 
  • 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, Biology
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society