Sewall KB, RC Anderson, J Soha, S Peters, and S Nowicki. (in press). Early life conditions that impact song learning in male zebra finches also impact neural and behavioral responses to song in females. Developmental Neurobiology
Davies SP, Beck MLP, and Sewall KB. (2018). Territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows is correlated with corticosterone, but not testosterone. Hormones and Behavior 98:8-15. Doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.11.010
Campbell SA, Beck ML, Sewall KB (2017). Hatching asynchrony impacts cognition in male zebra finches. Journal of Experimental Zoology. 1:1-9. Doi:10.1002/jez.2074
Sewall, KB and Davies S. (2017). Two neural measures differ between urban and rural song sparrows after conspecific playback. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00046
Sewall KB, Young A, Wright TF (2016). Social dynamics as an evolutionary driver of vocal learning. Animal Behaviour. 120: 163-172. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.07.031
Beck ML, Davies S, Moore IT, Schoenle LA, Kerman K, Vernasco BJ, and Sewall KB. (2016). Beeswax corticosterone Implants Produce Long-Term Elevation of Plasma Corticosterone and Influence Condition.” General and Comparative Endocrinology 233: 109–14. doi:10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.05.021.
Davies, S and Sewall, KB (2106), Agonistic urban birds: elevated territorial aggression in urban song sparrows is individually consistent within a breeding period. Biology Letters. 12(6): doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0315.
Sewall KB, (2015) Social Complexity as a diver of communication and cognition, Integrative and Comparative Biology. 55: 384-395
Sewall KB, (2015) Androgen receptor expression could contribute to the honesty of a sexual signal and be the basis of species differences in courtship displays. Invited Commentary. Functional Ecology. 29: 1111-1113
Searcy WA, Sewall KB, Soha J, Nowicki S and Peters S. (2014) Song-type sharing in a population of Song Sparrows in the eastern United States. Journal of Field Ornithology. 5 (2), 206-212
MacLean, Hare, Nunn, Addessi, Amici, Anderson, Aureli, Baker, Bania, Barnard, Boogert, Brannon, Bray, Bray, Brent, Burkart, Call, Cantlon, Cheke, Clayton, Delgado, DiVincenti, Fujita, Herrmann, Hiramatsu, Jacobs, Jordan, Laude, Leimgruber, Messer, Moura, Ostojić, Picard, Platt, Plotnik, Range, Reader, Reddy, Sandel, Santos, Schumann, Seed, Sewall, Shaw, Slocombe, Su, Takimoto, Tan, Tao, van Schaik, Virányi, Visalberghi, Wade, Watanabe, Widness, Young, Zentall, Zhao. (2014) The Evolution of self-control. PNAS. 111 (20), E2140-E2148
Wada H, Sewall KB, (2014) Introduction to the symposium—Uniting evolutionary and physiological approaches to understanding phenotypic plasticity. Integrative and Comparative Biology. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icu097
*co-authors contributed equally to this publication
Sewall KB, Caro SP, Sockman KW. (2013) Song Competition Affects Monoamine Levels in Sensory and Motor Forebrain Regions of Male Lincoln’s Sparrows (Melospiza lincolnii). PLoS ONE. 8(3): e59857. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059857
Sewall KB, Soha J, Peters S, Nowicki S. (2013) Potential trade-off between vocal ornamentation and spatial ability in a songbird. Biology Letters. 9: 20130344
Sewall KB. (2012) Vocal matching in animals. American Scientist. 100:306-315. DOI: 10.1511/2012.97.306
Sewall KB. (2011) Early social learning of discrete call variants in red crossbills: implications for reliable signaling. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65:157-166. DOI: 10.s1007/s00265-010-1022
Caro SP, Sewall KB, Salvante KG, Sockman KW. (2010) Female Lincoln’s sparrows modulate their behavior in response to variation in male song quality. Behavioral Ecology. 21(3):562-569. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq022
Sewall KB, Dankoski EC, Sockman KW. (2010) Song environment affects singing effort and vasotocin immunoreactivity in the forebrain of male Lincoln’s sparrows. Hormones and Behavior. 58:544-553. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.04.002
Sewall KB, Hahn TP. (2009) Social experience modifies behavioral responsiveness to a preferred vocal signal in red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra). Animal Behaviour. 77:123-128. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.016
Sewall KB. (2009) Limited adult vocal learning maintains call dialects but permits pair distinctive calls in red crossbills. Animal Behaviour. 77: 1303-1311. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.033
Hahn TP, Corneluis JM, Sewall KB, Kelsey TR, and Hau M. (2008) Environmental regulation of annual schedules in opportunistically-breeding songbirds: Adaptive specializations or variation on a theme of white-crowned sparrow? General and Comparative Endocrinology 157: 217-226. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.05.007
Sockman, KW, KB Sewall, GF Ball, and TP Hahn. (2005) Economy of mate attraction in the Cassin’s finch. Biology Letters 1: 34-37. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0257
Sewall, K. B., T. R. Kelsey, and T. P. Hahn. (2004) Discrete variants of evening grosbeak flight calls. Condor. 106: 161-165. DOI: 10.1650/7394