† = Bucknell undergraduate co-author # = Bucknell graduate student co-author
# Z M. Benowitz-Fredericks, A. P. Will, S. N. Pete, S. Whelan, A. S. Kitaysky. 2024. “Corticosterone release in very young siblicidal seabird chicks (Rissa tridactyla) is sensitive to environmental variability and responds rapidly and robustly to external challenges” Preprint (BioRxiv) DOI:_https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.25.581949
†M. Sozzoni, J. Ferrer Obiol, G. Forment, C. Boccia, A. Tigano, ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, K. A. Field, E. Seyoum, J.R. Paris, M.C. Gatt, D-J Léandri-Breton, S. Whelan, S.A. Hatch, K.A. Elliot, A. Shoji, J. G. Cecere, E. D. Jarvis, A. Pilastro, V. Friesen, D. Rubolini. 2023. “A chromosome-level reference genome for the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a marine top predator” Genome Biology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad153
S. Whelan, ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, S.A. Hatch, C. Parenteau, O. Chastel and K. Elliott. 2023. “Sex-specific responses to GnRH challenge, but not food supply, in kittiwakes: Evidence for the “sensitivity to information” hypothesis” Hormones and Behavior, 154 (105389). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2023.105389
† Benowitz-Fredericks, Z. M, Lacey, L.M., Whelan, S., Will, A.P. Hatch, S.A. and Kitaysky, A.S. 2022. “Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge” Proceeding of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 289 2022 0139 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0139
S. Whelan, S.A. Hatch, ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, C. Parenteau, O. Chastel and K. Elliott. 2021. “The effects of food supply on timing of reproduction in an income-breeding seabird” Hormones and Behavior, 127 (104874). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X20302002?dgcid=coauthor
† Simkins, J. W., Bonier, F., & Benowitz-Fredericks, Z. M. 2020. Prenatal aromatase inhibition alters postnatal immune function in domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 294 (113497).
Morales, B. Frei, C. Leung, R. Titman, S. Whelan, ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, K. Elliott. 2020. “Point-of-care blood analyzers measure the nutritional state of eighteen free-living bird species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A.
Benowitz-Fredericks, Z M., J. Schulter and A.S. Kitaysky. 2015. Effects of prenatal environment on phenotype are revealed by postnatal challenges: Embryonic hormone exposure, adrenocortical function and food in seabird chicks. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 88(6); 607-623
† Treidel, L. B., B. Whitley, Z M. Benowitz-Fredericks, and M. F. Haussmann. 2013. Prenatal exposure to testosterone impairs oxidative damage repair efficiency in the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus). Biology Letters 9 (3). 20130684.
† Benowitz-Fredericks, Z M. and M. Hodge. 2013. Yolk androstenedione in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus): Uptake and sex-dependent alteration of growth and behavior. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 193. 48-55.
Benowitz-Fredericks, Z M., A.S. Kitaysky, J. Welcker, and S.A. Hatch. 2013. Effects of food availability on yolk androgen deposition in the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a seabird with facultative brood reduction. PLoS ONE 8(5): e62949. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062949
Dorresteijn, I. ,A.S. Kitaysky, C. Barger, Z M. Benowitz-Fredericks, G.V. Byrd, M.T. Shultz and R. Young. 2012. Climate variability affects food availability to planktivorous least auklets, Aethia pusilla, through physical processes in the southeastern Bering Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 454, 207-220.
Kitaysky, A.S., J. F. Piatt, S.A. Hatch, E.V. Kitaiskaia, ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, M.T. Shultz, and J.C. Wingfield, 2010. Food availability and population processes: severity of nutritional stress during reproduction predicts survival of long-lived seabirds. Functional Ecology, 24 (3) 625–637
Addison, B. A., ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, J. M. Hipfner and A. S. Kitaysky, 2008. Are yolk androgens adjusted to environmental conditions? A test in two seabirds that lay single-egg clutches. General and Comparative Endocrinology,158 (1). 5-9.
Benowitz-Fredericks, ZM., M. Shultz and A. Kitaysky, 2008. Stress hormones suggest opposite trends of food availability in planktivorous and piscivorous seabirds in two years. Deep Sea Research II 55. 1868-1876.
Benowitz-Fredericks, ZM. A.S. Kitaysky and A. M. Springer, 2006. Book chapter: Survival strategies in seabirds, in: R. Spies (Ed.), Ecosystem change in the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Elsevier.
Benowitz-Fredericks, ZM., A. S. Kitaysky, and C.W. Thompson, 2006. Growth and resource allocation by common murre (Uria aalge) chicks in response to experimentally restricted diets. Auk 123. 722-734.
Benowitz-Fredericks, ZM. and A.S. Kitaysky, 2005. Costs and benefits of rapid growth in common murre Uria aalge chicks. Journal of Avian Biology 36. 287-294.
Benowitz-Fredericks, ZM., A. S. Kitaysky and J. C. Wingfield. 2005. Steroids in allantoic waste: An integrated measure of steroids in ovo. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 1046. 204-209.
Sperry, T.S., I. T. Moore, S. L. Meddle, Z M. Benowitz-Fredericks, and J. C. Wingfield, 2005. Increased sensitivity of the serotonergic system during the breeding season in free-living American tree sparrow. Behavioral Brain Research, 157 (1). 119-126.
Wingfield, J.C., N. Owen-Ashley, ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, S. Lynn, T. P. Hahn, H. Wada, C. Breuner, S. Meddle, and L. M. Romero. 2004. Arctic spring: The arrival biology of migrant birds. Acta Zoologica Sinica 50 (6), 948-960.
Lynn, S.E., L. Hayward, ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks, and J.C. Wingfield. 2002. Behavioral insensitivity to supplementary testosterone during the parental phase in the Chestnut-collared longspur, (Calcarius ornatus). Animal Behaviour 63: 795-803.
Irwin, D. E., P. Alström, U. Olsson and ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks. 2001. Cryptic species in the genus Phylloscopus (Old World leaf warblers). Ibis 143.
Cicero, C. and ZM. Benowitz-Fredericks. 2000. Song type and variation in insular populations of Lincoln’s Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii), and comparisons with other Melospiza. Auk 117: 52-64.