Publications

Kimball, M.G., A.R. Grant, K.R. Stanberry, A.D. Chrisler, and J.L. Malisch. 2024. An acute handling challenge mobilizes glucose and free fatty acids in mountain Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis oreganus). Avian Biology Research: 17581559241281207. https://doi.org/10.1177/17581559241281207

Krajcir, K.J., T.R. Kelly, M.G. Kimball, E.B. Cochran, K.R. Stansberry, B.A. Dusang, A. Patel, D.F. Masri, S.E. Lipshutz, and C.R. Lattin. 2024. Eurasian tree sparrows are more food neophobic and habituate to novel objects more slowly than house sparrows. Biological Invasions: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-024-03403-5

Kimball, M.G., D.F. Masri, E.B. Gautreaux, K.R. Stansberry, T.R. Kelly, and C.R. Lattin. 2024 Conspecific alarm calls prevent the attenuation of neophobia behavior in wild-caught house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Frontiers in Bird Science, 3: 1440063. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbirs.2024.1440063   

Kelly, T.R., A. Cannon, K.R. Stansberry, M.G. Kimball, and C.R. Lattin. 2024. Changes in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function, immunity, and glucose during acute Plasmodium relictum infection in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). General and Comparative Endocrinology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2023.114388  

Kimball, M.G., C.T. Harding, K.E. Couvillion, K.R. Stansberry, T.R. Kelly and C.R. Lattin. 2023. Effect of estradiol and predator cues on behavior and brain responses of captive female house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Frontiers in Avian Physiology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1172865

Kimball, M.G., and C.R. Lattin. 2023. Spatial neophobia is not correlated with object neophobia in wild-caught house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Behavioural Processes, 210: 104913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104913

Kimball, M.G., and C.R. Lattin. 2023. The "seven deadly sins" of neophobia experimental design. Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4511040

Kimball, M.G., E.B. Gautreaux, K.E. Couvillion, T.R. Kelly, K.R. Stansberry, and C.R. Lattin. 2022. Novel objects alter immediate early gene expression globally for ZENK and regionally for c-Fos in neophobic and non-neophobic house sparrows. Behavioural Brain Research, 113863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2022.113863

Kelly, T.R. K.I. Lynch, K.E. Couvillion, J.N. Gallagher, K.R. Stansberry, M.G. Kimball, and C.R. Lattin. 2022. A transient reduction in circulating corticosterone reduces object neophobia in male house sparrows. Hormones and Behavior, 137: 105094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.105094

Kelly, T. R., M. G. Kimball, K. R. Stansberry, and C. R. Lattin. 2020. No, you go first: phenotype and social context affect house sparrow neophobia. Biology Letters 16, 9: 20200286. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0286  

Grant, A. R., D. Baldan, M. G. Kimball, J. L. Malisch, and J. Q. Ouyang. 2020. Across time and space: Hormonal variation across temporal and spatial scales in relation to nest success. General and Comparative Endocrinology 292: 113462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113462