Pullum, K., Hodinka, B., Ward, Z., Morrissette, G., Richter, M. M., Hunt, K. E., Ashley, N. T. 2024. Effect of melatonin supplementation upon parental care and nestling growth in arctic-breeding songbirds. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2863
Hasan Z.W., Nguyen V.T., Ashley N.T. 2024. Effect of glucocorticoid blockade on inflammatory responses to acute sleep fragmentation in male mice. PeerJ. Jun 28;12:e17539. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17539.
Nguyen, V.T., Fields, C. J.*, Ashley, N. T. 2023. Temporal dynamics of pro-inflammatory gene expression after acute sleep fragmentation in male mice. PLOS One 18(12):e0288889.
Mishra, I., Pullum, K.B., Eads, K. N., Strunjas, A. R., Ashley, N.T. 2022. Peripheral sympathectomy alters neuroinflammatory and microglial responses to sleep fragmentation in female mice. Neuroscience 505:111-124.
Ensminger, D. C., Wheeler†, N. D., Al Makki, R., Eads, K. N.*, Ashley, N. T. 2022. Contrasting effects of sleep fragmentation and angiotensin-II treatment upon pro-inflammatory responses of mice. Scientific Reports 12:14763.
Payette, W. I., Hodinka, B.L., Pullum, K.B., Richter, M.M., Ashley, N.T. 2021. An anti-narcolepsy drug reveals behavioral and fitness costs of extreme activity cycles in arctic-breeding songbirds. Journal of Experimental Biology 224, jeb237198. doi:10.1242/jeb.237198.
Wheeler, N. D., Ensminger, D. C., Rowe, M. M., Wriedt, Z. S., Ashley, N. T. 2021. Alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors regulate inflammatory responses to acute and chronic sleep fragmentation in mice. PeerJ 9:e11616.
Hodinka, B. L., Ashley, N. T. 2020. Effect of sleep loss on executive function and plasma corticosterone levels in an arctic-breeding songbird, the Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus). Hormones and Behavior 122:104764
Mishra, I., Pullum, K.B*., Thayer, D. C.*, Plummer, E. R.*, Conkright, B. W.*, Morris, A. J., O’Hara, B. F., Demas, G. E., Ashley, N. T. 2020. Chemical sympathectomy reduces peripheral inflammatory responses to acute and chronic sleep fragmentation. American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 318:R781-R789.
Mishra, I., Knerr, R.M., Stewart, A.A., Payette, W.I., Richter, M.M., Ashley, N. T. 2019. Light at night disrupts diel patterns of cytokine gene expression and endocrine profiles in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Scientific Reports 9(1):15833. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51791-9.
Scalf, C. S., Chariker, J. H., Rouchka, E. C., Ashley, N. T. 2019. Transcriptomic analysis of immune response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). BMC Genomics 20:647.
Cooper, L. N., Mishra, I., Ashley, N.T. 2019. Short-Term Sleep Loss Alters Cytokine Gene Expression in Brain and Peripheral Tissues and Increases Plasma Corticosterone of Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 92:80-91.
Villeneuve, D.L., Landesmann, B., Allovena, P., Ashley, N, Bal-Price, A., Corsini, E., Halappanavar, S., Hussell, T., Laskin, D., Lawrence, T., Nikolic-Patterson, D., Pallardy, M., Paini, A., Pieters, R., Roth, R., Tschudi-Monnet, F. 2018. Representing the Process of Inflammation as Key Events in Adverse Outcome Pathways. Toxicological Sciences 163:346-352.
Dumaine J.E., Ashley N.T. (2018) Acute sleep fragmentation does not alter pro-inflammatory cytokine gene expression in brain or peripheral tissues of leptin-deficient mice. PeerJ 6:e4423 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4423
Ashley, N. T. and G. E. Demas. 2017. Neuroendocrine-immune circuits, phenotypes, and interactions. Hormones and Behavior 87:25-34.
Ashley, N.T., Brown, A. C*., Sams, D.W.*, and J. E. Dumaine. 2016. Novel environment influences the effect of paradoxical sleep deprivation upon brain and peripheral cytokine gene expression. Neuroscience Letters 615:55-59.
Dumaine, J. E., and N. T. Ashley. 2015. Acute sleep fragmentation induces tissue-specific changes in cytokine gene expression and increases serum corticosterone concentration. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 308:R1602-9.
Ashley, N. T., Ubuka, T., Schwabl, I. Goymann, W., Salli, B.*, Bentley, G. E., and Buck, C. L. 2014. Revealing a circadian clock in captive arctic-breeding songbirds, Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus), under constant illumination. Journal of Biological Rhythms 29. Dec. issue.
Ashley, N. T., Walton, J. C., Haim, A., Zhang, N., Prince, L. A.*, Fruchey, A. M.,* Lieberman, R. A.,* Weil, Z. M., Magalang, U. J., Nelson, R. J. 2013. Sleep deprivation attenuates cytokine gene expression independent of photoperiod and circulating cortisol in endotoxin-challenged male Siberian hamsters. Journal of Experimental Biology 216:2581-6.
Ashley, N. T., Schwabl, I., Goymann, W., and Buck, C. L. 2013. Keeping time under the midnight sun: behavioral and melatonin profiles of free-living Lapland Longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) during the Arctic summer. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A. 319:10-12.
Ashley, N. T., Weil, Z. M., and Nelson, R. J. 2012. Inflammation: mechanisms, costs, and natural variation. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 43:385-406.
Ashley, N. T., Zhang, N., Weil, Z. M., Magalang, U., Nelson, R. J. 2012. Photoperiod alters the duration and intensity of non-REM sleep following immune challenge in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus). Chronobiology International. 29:683-692.
Ashley, N. T. and J. C. Wingfield. 2012. Sickness Behavior in Vertebrates: Allostasis, Life History Modulation, and Hormonal Regulation. In: G. E. Demas and R. J. Nelson, eds. EcoImmunology. Pp. 45-91. Oxford University Press.
Ashley, N.T., Barboza, P. S., Macbeth, B. J., Janz, D. M., Cattet, M. R. L., Booth, R. K., Wasser, S. K. 2011. Glucocorticosteroid concentrations in feces and hair of captive caribou and reindeer following adrenocorticotropic hormone challenge. General and Comparative Endocrinology 172:382-391.
Ashley, N.T., Hays, Q. R*., Bentley, G. E., and J. C. Wingfield. 2009. Testosterone treatment diminishes sickness behavior in male songbirds. Hormones and Behavior 56:169-176.
Owen-Ashley, N. T., D. Hasselquist, L. Raberg, and J. C. Wingfield. 2008. Latitudinal variation of immune defense and sickness behavior in the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophyrs). Brain Behavior and Immunity 22:614-625.
Owen-Ashley, N. T. and J. C. Wingfield. 2007. Acute phase responses of passerines: characterization and seasonal variation. Journal of Ornithology 148 (Suppl 2):S583-S591
Owen-Ashley, N. T. and J. C. Wingfield. 2006. Seasonal modulation of sickness behavior in free-living song sparrows (Melospiza melodia morphna). Journal of Experimental Biology 209:3062-3070.
Owen-Ashley, N. T., M. Turner*, T. P. Hahn, and J. C. Wingfield. 2006. Hormonal, behavioral, and thermoregulatory responses to bacterial lipopolysaccharide in captive and free-living Gambel’s White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii). Hormones and Behavior 49:15-29.
Owen-Ashley, N. T and L. K. Butler (Authors contributed equally). 2004. Androgens, interspecific competition and species replacement in hybridizing warblers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. 271:S498-S500.
Owen-Ashley, N. T., Hasselquist, D., and J. C. Wingfield. 2004. Androgens and the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: unraveling direct and indirect pathways of immunosuppression in song sparrows. American Naturalist 490-505.
Wingfield, J. C, N.T. Owen-Ashley, Z.M. Benowitz-Fredericks, S.E. Lynn, T. P. Hahn, H. Wada, C. Breuner, S. L. Meddle, and L.M Romero. 2004. Arctic spring: the arrival biology of migrant birds. Acta Zoologica Sinica 50:948-960.
Meddle, S. L., N. T. Owen-Ashley, M. I. Richardson, and J. C. Wingfield. 2003. Modulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the polygynandrous Smith’s Longspur (Calcarius pictus). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B 270:849-1856.
Breuner, C. W., M. Orchink, T. P. Hahn, S. L. Meddle, I. T. Moore, N. T. Owen-Ashley, T. S. Sperry, and J. C. Wingfield. 2003. Mechanisms for plasticity of the stress response in three subspecies of white-crowned sparrow. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology 285:R594-R600.
Owen-Ashley, N. T., S. J. Schoech, and R. L. Mumme. 2002. Context-specificresponse of Florida Scrub-Jay pairs to Northern Mockingbird vocal mimicry. Condor 104:858-865.
Owen-Ashley, N. T and Wilson, D. E. 1998. Micropteropus pusillus. Peter’s Dwarf Epauletted Fruit Bat. Mammalian Species. No. 577:1-5.