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Gail L. Patricelli Publications
Uy, J. Albert C., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2000. Dynamic mate-searching tactic allows female satin bowerbirds to reduce searching. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B.267: 251-256. PDF
Uy, J. Albert C., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2001. Loss of preferred mates forces female satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) to increase mate searching. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B. 268: 633-638. PDF
Uy, J. Albert C., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2001. Complex Mate Searching in the Satin Bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. American Naturalist. 158: 530-542. PDF
Patricelli, Gail L. , J. Albert C. Uy, Gregory Walsh & Gerald Borgia. 2002. Sexual selection: Male displays adjusted to female’s response. Nature.415: 279-280. PDF
Patricelli, G. L. , J. Albert C. Uy & Gerald Borgia. 2003. Multiple male traits interact: attractive physical displays facilitate attractive behavioral displays in satin bowerbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Ser. B. 270: 2389–2395. PDF
Patricelli, Gail L. Marc S. Dantzker and Jack W. Bradbury. 2003. Measuring the Directionality of Vocalizations in the Field: A Study on Red-Winged Blackbirds. In Proc. of the First International Conference on Acoustic Communication in Animals, pp. 197-198. University of Maryland, College Park.
Seth W. Coleman, Gail L. Patricelli, Brian Coyle, Jennifer Siani and Gerald Borgia. 2003. Spectrographic cross-correlation reveals a possible role for vocal mimicry: In satin bowerbirds, the most attractive males are the best mimics. In Proc. of the First International Conference on Acoustic Communication in Animals, pp. 51-52. University of Maryland, College Park.
Patricelli, Gail L ., J. Albert C. Uy & Gerald Borgia. 2004. Female signals enhance the efficiency of mate assessment in satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus). Behavioral Ecology. 15: 297-304. PDF
Coleman, Seth W., Gail L. Patricelli & Gerald Borgia. 2004. Variable Female Preferences Drive Complex Male Displays. Nature. 428: 742-745. PDF News&Views
Borgia, Gerald, Marc Egeth, J. Albert C. Uy & Gail L. Patricelli. 2004. Juvenile infection and male display: testing the bright male hypothesis across individual life histories. Behavioral Ecology.15: 722-728. PDF
Patricelli, Gail L., Seth W. Coleman & Gerald Borgia. 2006. Male satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) adjust their display intensity in response to female startling: an experiment with robotic females. Animal Behaviour. 71:49-59. PDF
Patricelli Gail L., Jessica L. Blickley, 2006. Overview: Avian communication in urban noise: the causes and consequences of vocal adjustment. The Auk 123:639-649. PDF
Patricelli, Gail L., J. Albert C. Uy, Gerald Borgia. 2006. Interactive signaling during mate choice in the satin bowerbird: an experimental test using robotic females. Journal of Ornithology . 147 (5): 12-12 Suppl. 1.
Patricelli, Gail L. Marc S. Dantzker and Jack W. Bradbury. 2006. Directionality in acoustic communication in Red-winged Blackbirds. Journal of Ornithology . 147 (5): 225-226 Suppl. 1.
Patricelli, Gail L., Marc S. Dantzker and Jack W. Bradbury. 2007. Differences in acoustic directionality among vocalizations of the male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius pheoniceus) are related to function in communication. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61: 1099-1110. PDF
Sheila M. Reynolds, Katie Dryer, Jonathan Bollback, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Timothy Robson, Gerald Borgia and Michael J. Braun. 2007. Behavioral paternity predicts genetic paternity in satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus ), a species with a non-resource-based mating system. The Auk . 124 (3): 857–867. PDF
Coleman, Seth W., Gail L. Patricelli, Brian Coyle, Jennifer Siani and Gerald Borgia. 2007. Female preferences drive the evolution of mimetic accuracy in male sexual displays. Biology Letters. 3:463-466. PDF
Patricelli, G. L., Dantzker, M. S. & Bradbury, J. W. 2008. Acoustic directionality of red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) song relates to amplitude and singing behaviours. Animal Behaviour, 76, 1389-1401. PDF
Reynolds, Sheila M., Mary C. Christman, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Michael J. Braun and Gerald Borgia. In press. Kinship affects male display site location and bower destruction in satin bowerbirds. Behavioral Ecology.
Blickley, Jessica L. and Gail L. Patricelli. In Press. Impacts of Anthropogenic Noise on Wildlife: Research Priorities for the Development of Standards and Mitigation. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.
Lab Member Publications
Patricelli Gail L., Jessica L. Blickley, 2006. Overview: Avian communication in urban noise: the causes and consequences of vocal adjustment. The Auk 123:639-649. PDF
Blickley, Jessica L. and Gail L. Patricelli. In Press. Impacts of Anthropogenic Noise on Wildlife: Research Priorities for the Development of Standards and Mitigation. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.
McCowan, B., S. F. Hanser, and L. R. Doyle. 1999. Quantitative tools for comparing animal communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle repertoires. Animal Behaviour, 57: 409-419. PDF
McCowan, B., L. Doyle, and S. F. Hanser. 2002. Using information theory to assess the diversity, complexity, and development of communicative repertoires. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 116: 166-172. PDF
Hanser, S. F., L. Doyle, B. McCowan, and J. M. Jenkins. 2004. “Information Theory Applied to Animal Communication Systems and Its Possible Application to SETI.” in Bioastronomy 7: Life Among the Stars, IAU Symposium Vol. 213. R. P. Norris and F. H. Stootman (eds.) Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco. p.514-518. PDF
McCowan, B., L. R. Doyle, J. M. Jenkins, and S. F. Hanser. 2005. The appropriate use of Zipf’s law in animal communication studies. Animal Behaviour. 69: F1-F7. PDF
Doyle, L. R., B. McCowan, S. F. Hanser, C. Chyba, T. Bucci, and J. E. Blue. 2008. Applicability of information theory to the quantification of responses to anthropogenic noise by Southeast Alaskan humpback whales. Entropy, 10: 33-46. PDF
McCowan, B., L. Doyle, A. B. Kaufman, S. Hanser, and C. Burgess. 2008. “Detection and estimation of complexity and contextual flexibility in nonhuman animal communication.” in Evolution of Communicative Flexibility; Complexity, Creativity, and Adaptability in Human and Animal Communications. O. D. Kimbrough and G. Ulrike (eds.) MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. p.281-303.
Gulland, F. M. D., F. Nutter, K. Dixon, J. Calambokidis, G. Schorr, J. Barlow, T. Rowles, S. Wilkin, T. Spradlin, L. Gage, J. Mulsow, C. Reichmuth, M. Moore, J. Smith, P. Folkens, S. F. Hanser, S. Jang, S. Baker, and D. Steel. 2008. Health assessment, antibiotic treatment and behavioral responses to herding efforts of a cow-calf pair of humpback whales in the Sacramento River Delta, California. Aquatic Mammals, 34, 182-192.
Sih A., S. F. Hanser, and K. McHugh (in press). Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists. Behavioral Ecology and Social Biology.
Krakauer, A.H. & Krakauer, T.H. 1999. Foraging of Yellow-headed Caracaras in the fur of a three-toed sloth. Journal of Raptor Research 33: 270. PDF
Adkins-Regan, E. & Krakauer, A. 2000. Removal of adult males from the rearing environment increases preference for same sex partners in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Animal Behaviour, 60: 47-53. PDF
Krakauer, A.H. 2003. California Quail lays egg in Wild Turkey nest. Western Birds 34: 169-170. PDF
Krakauer, A.H. 2005. Kin selection and cooperative courtship in wild turkeys. Nature 434: 69-72. PDF
Krakauer, A. H. 2008. Sexual selection and the genetic mating system of Wild Turkeys. Condor, 110, 1-12. PDF
Kuchta, S. R., Krakauer, A. H. & Sinervo, B. 2008. Why does the Yellow-eyed ensatina have yellow eyes? Batesian mimicry of Pacific newts (genus Taricha) by the salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica. Evolution, 62, 984-990. PDF
Koenig, W. D., A. H. Krakauer, W. B. Monahan, J. Haydock, J. M. H. Knops, and W. J. Carmen. in press. Geographical Ecology of Western Scrub Jays. Ecography.
Krakauer, A.H. and R.T.Kimball. in press. Interspecific brood parasitism in galliform birds. Ibis.
Koenig, W.D., Shen, S-F., Krakauer, A.H., and Haydock, J. in press. Reproductive Skew in Cooperatively Breeding Birds. in (R. Hager, and C.B. Jones, eds) Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates: Proximate and Ultimate Causes, Cambridge University Press.
McGlothlin, J.W., Jawor, J.M., Greives, T.J., Casto, J.M., Phillips, J.L., and Ketterson, E.D. (2008). Hormones and honest signals: males with larger ornaments elevate testosterone more when challenged. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21, 39-48. PDF
Laidre, M. E. & Yorzinski, J. L. 2005. The silent bared-teeth face and the crest-raise of the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx): A contextual analysis of signal function. Ethology, 111, 143-157. PDF
Yorzinski, J. L., Vehrencamp, S. L., Clark, A. B. & McGowan, K. J. 2006. The inflected alarm caw of the American Crow: Differences in acoustic structure among individuals and sexes. Condor, 108, 518-529. PDFYorzinski, J.L. & Ziegler, T. 2007. 2007. Do naïve primates recognize the vocalizations of felid predators? Ethology 113(12): 1219–1227. PDF
Yorzinski, J. L. & Vehrencamp, S.L. 2008. Preliminary report: antipredator behaviors of mandrills. Primate Report 75:11-18. PDF
Laidre, M.E. & Yorzinski, J.L. 2008. Offspring protection by male mandrills, Mandrillus sphinx. Primate Report 76. PDF
Yorzinski, J.L. & Vehrencamp, S.L. In press. The effect of predator type and danger level on the mob calls of the American crow. Condor
