Soldatini, C.; Rosas Hernandez, M. P.; Albores-Barajas, Y. V.; Catoni, C.; Ramos, A.; Dell'Omo, G.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Chimienti, M.: Individual variability in diving behavior of the Black-vented Shearwater in an ever-changing habitat. Science of the Total Environment 880, 163286 (2023)
Giambalvo, G.; de Albores-Barajas, Y. V.; Soldatini, C.; Rosas Hernandez, M. P.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Environmental drivers of sex-biased foraging behavior in Magnificent Frigatebird in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Avian Conservation and Ecology 17 (2), 25 (2022)
van Hasselt, S. J.; Verhulst, S.; Piersma, T.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Meerlo, P.: A comparison of continuous and intermittent EEG recordings in geese: How much data are needed to reliably estimate sleep-wake patterns? Journal of sleep research 31 (3), e13525 (2022)
Ungurean, G.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Massot, B.; Libourel, P.-A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Pupillary behavior during wakefulness, non-REM sleep, and REM sleep in birds is opposite that of mammals. Current Biology 31 (23), pp. 5370 - 5376.e4 (2021)
van Hasselt, S. J.; Hut, R. A.; Allocca, G.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Piersma, T.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Meerlo, P.: Cloud cover amplifies the sleep-suppressing effect of artificial light at night in geese. Environmental Pollution 273, 116444 (2021)
van Hasselt, S. J.; Mekenkamp, G.-J.; Komdeur, J.; Allocca, G.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Piersma, T.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Meerlo, P.: Seasonal variation in sleep homeostasis in migratory geese: A rebound of NREM sleep following sleep deprivation in summer but not in winter. Sleep 44 (4), zsaa244 (2021)
Ferretti, A.; McWilliams, S. R.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Maggini, I.; Cardinale, M.; Fusani, L.: Energy stores, oxidative balance, and sleep in migratory garden warblers (Sylvia borin) and whitethroats (Sylvia communis) at a spring stopover site. Integrative Organismal Biology 2 (1), obaa010 (2020)
Ungurean, G.; Barrillot, B.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Libourel, P.-A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Comparative perspectives that challenge brain warming as the primary function of REM sleep. iScience 23 (11), 101696 (2020)
van der Meij, J.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Beckers, G. J. L.: Divergent neuronal activity patterns in the avian hippocampus and nidopallium. European Journal of Neuroscience: European Neuroscience Association 52 (4), pp. 3124 - 3139 (2020)
van der Meij, J.; Ungurean, G.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Beckers, G. J. L.: Evolution of sleep in relation to memory – A birds’ brain view. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 33, pp. 78 - 85 (2020)
van Hasselt, S. J.; Rusche, M.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Verhulst, S.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Meerlo, P.: The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) shows signs of NREM sleep homeostasis but has very little REM sleep and no REM sleep homeostasis. Sleep 43 (6), zsz311 (2020)
van Hasselt, S. J.; Rusche, M.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Verhulst, S.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Meerlo, P.: Sleep time in the European starling is strongly affected by night length and moon phase. Current Biology 30 (9), pp. 1664 - 1671.e2 (2020)
Allocca, G.; Ma, S.; Martelli, D.; Cerri, M.; Vecchio, F. D.; Bastianini, S.; Zoccoli, G.; Amici, R.; Morairty, S. R.; Aulsebrook, A. E.et al.; Blackburn, S.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Wams, E.; Porcheret, K.; Wulff, K.; Foster, R.; Chan, J. K. M.; Nicholas, C. L.; Freestone, D. R.; Johnston, L. A.; Gundlach, A. L.: Validation of ‘Somnivore’, a machine learning algorithm for automated scoring and analysis of polysomnography data. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13, 207 (2019)
Ferretti, A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Ruf, T.; McWilliams, S. R.; Cardinale, M.; Fusani, L.: Sleeping unsafely tucked in to conserve energy in a nocturnal migratory songbird. Current Biology 29 (16), pp. 2766 - 2772.e4 (2019)
Massot, B.; Arthaud, S.; Barrillot, B.; Roux, J.; Ungurean, G.; Luppi, P.-H.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Libourel, P.-A.: ONEIROS, a new miniature standalone device for recording sleep electrophysiology, physiology, temperatures and behavior in the lab and field. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 316, pp. 103 - 116 (2019)
Tisdale, R. K.; Lesku, J. A.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: The low-down on sleeping down low: Pigeons shift to lighter forms of sleep when sleeping near the ground. The Journal of Experimental Biology 221 (19), jeb182634 (2018)
Tisdale, R. K.; Tieri, L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Spectral properties of brain activity under two anesthetics and their potential for inducing natural sleep in birds. Frontiers in Neuroscience 12, 881 (2018)
Rattenborg, N. C.; de la Iglesia, H. O.; Kempenaers, B.; Lesku, J. A.; Meerlo, P.; Scriba, M. F.: Sleep research goes wild: New methods and approaches to investigate the ecology, evolution and functions of sleep. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 372 (1734), 20160251 (2017)
Scriba, M. F.; Dreiss, A. N.; Henry, I.; Béziers, P.; Ruppli, C.; Ifrid, E.; Ducouret, P.; Da Silva, A.; Monstiers, B. d.; Vyssotski, A. L.et al.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roulin, A.: Nocturnal, diurnal and bimodal patterns of locomotion, sibling interactions and sleep in nestling Barn Owls. Journal of Ornithology 158 (4), pp. 1001 - 1012 (2017)
Scriba, M. F.; Gasparini, J.; Jacquin, L.; Mettke-Hofmann, C.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roulin, A.: The effect of food quality during growth on spatial memory consolidation in adult pigeons. The Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (4), pp. 573 - 581 (2017)
Scriba, M. F.; Henry, I.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Mueller, J. C.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roulin, A.: Ultradian rhythmicity in sleep-wakefulness is related to color in nestling barn owls. Journal of Biological Rhythms 32 (5), pp. 456 - 468 (2017)
Tisdale, R. K.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Sleep-related electrophysiology and behavior of tinamous (Eudromia elegans): Tinamous do not sleep like ostriches. Brain, behavior and evolution: Official journal of the J. B. Johnston Club 89 (4), pp. 249 - 261 (2017)
Aulsebrook, A. E.; Jones, T. M.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roth, T. C. I.; Lesku, J. A.: Sleep ecophysiology: Integrating neuroscience and ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31 (8), pp. 590 - 599 (2016)
Chan, A.; Li, S.; Lee, A. R.; Leung, J.; Yip, A.; Bird, J.; Godden, K. E.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Balaban, E.et al.; Pompeiano, M.: Activation of state-regulating neurochemical systems in newborn and embryonic chicks. Neuroscience 339, pp. 219 - 234 (2016)
Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.: Avian versus mammalian sleep: The fruits of comparing apples and oranges. Current Sleep Medicine Reports 1 (1), pp. 55 - 63 (2015)
Scriba, M. F.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Dreiss, A. N.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Roulin, A.: Sleep and vigilance linked to melanism in wild barn owls. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (10), pp. 2057 - 2068 (2014)
Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.: Episodic-like memory and divergent brain systems in mammals and birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (40), E3741 (2013)
Scriba, M. F.; Ducrest, A.-L.; Henry, I.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roulin, A.: Linking melanism to brain development: Expression of a melanism-related gene in barn owl feather follicles covaries with sleep ontogeny. Frontiers in Zoology 10, 42 (2013)
Scriba, M. F.; Harmening, W. M.; Mettke-Hofmann, C.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Roulin, A.; Wagner, H.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Evaluation of two minimally invasive techniques for electroencephalogram recording in wild or freely behaving animals. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology 199 (3), pp. 183 - 189 (2013)
Pennycuick, C. J.; Fast, P. L. F.; Ballerstaedt, N.; Rattenborg, N. C.: The effect of an external transmitter on the drag coefficient of a bird's body, and hence on migration range, and energy reserves after migration. Journal of Ornithology 153 (3), pp. 633 - 644 (2012)
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