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The Benowitz-Fredericks Research Lab

Avian endocrinology at Bucknell University

Selected Publications

† = Bucknell undergraduate co-author # = Bucknell graduate student co-author

S. E. Lynn & Z. M. Benowitz-Fredericks. 2024. “Chapter 5 – Glucocorticoids, environmental challenges, and reproduction in birds” pg 139-173 In: Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates (Second Edition), Volume 4: Birds. Editor(s): David O. Norris, Kristin H. Lopez. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-16024-0.00008-3

# DeSana, A. N.,  Benowitz-Fredericks, Z. M,  Amano, A., &  R. P. Gazes. 2024.  “Salivary cortisol captures endocrine response to an acute stressor in captive female tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)“. American Journal of Primatology, e23677. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23677

# 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” In Press: General and Comparative Endocrinology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2024.114545

†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

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.

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