† = mentee for the project; * = equal contribution to first authorship
Miller, R.*, V. Šlipogor, K.R. Caspar, J. Lois-Milevicich, C. Soulsbury, S.A. Reber, C. Mettke-Hofmann, M. Lambert*,…, M.G. Kimball, et al. 2025. A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia. PLOS Biology, 23, e3003394. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003394 Contribution: Primary collaborator for data acquisition
Dusang, B.A. †,*, M.S. Henry*, M.G. Kimball, E.B. Cochran†, D.F. Masri†, M.B. Wilson, and C.R. Lattin. 2025. Spatial neophobia is still not correlated with object neophobia in wild-caught house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Royal Society Open Science, 12, 250220. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250220
Henry, M.S.*, M.G. Kimball*, E.B. Cochran†, B.A. Dusang†, W.J. Frazier†, K.R. Stansberry, T.R. Kelly, E.G. Stelling, and C.R. Lattin. 2025. A glucocorticoid receptor antagonist affects corticosterone but not neophobia in wild-caught house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 37, e70009. https://doi.org/10.1111/jne.70009
Stansberry, K.R., T.R. Kelly, K.E. Couvillion†, A.L. Cannon†, M.G. Kimball, H.B. Callegan†, K.J. Krajcir, J.D. Kittilson, B.J. Heidinger, and C.R. Lattin. 2024. Day Late, Dollar Short: Runts of asynchronously hatched songbird broods have reduced survival, body size, and persistent energy deficits. JEZ-A, 343, 319-331. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2892
Kimball, M.G., A.R. Grant, K.R. Stansberry, 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, 17, 75-83. 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, 26, 3677-3693. 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 malaria infection in house sparrows (Passer domesticus). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 345, 114388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2023.114388
Kimball, M.G., and C.R. Lattin. 2023. The “seven deadly sins” of neophobia experimental design. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 64, 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad127
Kimball, M.G., C.T. Harding†, K.E. Couvillion†, K.R. Stansberry, T.R. Kelly, and C.R. Lattin. 2023. The effect of estradiol and predator cues on behavior and brain responses of captive female house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Frontiers in Avian Physiology, 14, 1172865. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1172865
Kimball, M.G., and C.R. Lattin. 2023. Exploration of a novel environment 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., 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, 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