2026
Bockrath, R.E., Whimberly-Lehman, H.R., Dochtermann, N.A., Heidinger, B.J. 2026. Developmental plasticity in response to temperature aligns with Allen's but not Bergmann's Rule. Integ. Comp. Biol. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icag059
2025
Westneat, D.F., Kucera, A., Young, R.C., Heidinger, B.J. 2025. Repeated experimental challenges do not shorten adult telomeres in a songbird. Proc. Roy. Soc. B.
Heidinger, B.J. 2025. Identifying the physiological mechanisms that underlie phenotypic responses to rapid environmental change. Integr. Comp. Biol.
Names, G., Heidinger, B.J. 2025. Methods for artificial incubation of passerine eggs. Integr. Comp. Biol.
R.L. Davis, S.D., Mason, Wake, C., Fabozzi, G., Catalano, W.L. Schramm, C.A., Henry, A.R., Parker, C.L., Laboune, F., McLaughlin, C.L., Kittilson, J.D., Swaddle, J.P., Cristol, D.A., Heidinger, B.J., Douek, D.C. 2025. Chronic sublethal exposure to methylmercury lengthens telomeres in developing zebra finches. Envir. Poll.
Beattie, U.K., Kittilson, J., Heidinger, B.J., Fefferman, N., Romero, L.M. 2025. Chronic stress intensity does not affect corticosterone or DNA damage in adult and juvenile house sparrows. J. of Exp. Zool. Part A.
Szejner-Sigal, A., Heidinger, B.J. Kucera, A.C., Kittilson, J.D., Torson, A.S., Rinehart, J.P., Yocum, G.D., Bowsher, J.H., Greenlee, K.J. 2025. Hypoxia extends lifespan but does not alter telomere length or oxidative stress in a solitary bee (Megachile rotundata). J. Exp. Biol.
Ghimire, A, Young, R.C., Westneat, D.F., Heidinger, B.J. 2025. Repeated experimental cold exposure during early life affects several metrics of success but not telomeres in a common songbird. J. of Exp. Zool. Part A.
Stansberry, K.R., Kelly, T.R., Couvillion, K.E., Cannon, A.I., Kimball, M.G., Callegan, H.B., Krajcir, K.J., Kittilson, J.D., Heidinger, B.J., Lattin, C.R. 2025. Day late, dollar short: runts of asynchronously hatched songbird broods have reduced survival, body size, and persistent energy deficits. J. of Exp. Zool. Part A.
2024
Grula, C., Rinehart, J.D., Anacleto, A., Kittilson, J., Heidinger, B.J., Greenlee, K.J., Rinehart, J.P., Bowsher, J. H. 2024. Telomere length is longer following diapause in two solitary bee species. Sci. Rep.
Names, G., Grindstaff, J.L., Westneat, D.F., Heidinger, B.J. 2024. Climate change and its effects on body size and shape: the role of endocrine mechanisms. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0509
Siller Wilks, S., Heidinger, B.J., Westneat D.F., Solomon, J., Rubenstein, D. 2024. The impact of parental and developmental stress on DNA methylation in the avian hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Mol. Ecol. https://doi.org/10.111/mec.17291
2023
Westneat, D.F., Young, R.C., Cones, A., Kucera, A., Anacleto, A., Heidinger, B.J. 2023. Early life telomeres are influenced by environments acting at multiple temporal and spatial scales. Mol. Ecol.
Siller-Wilks, S.J., Westneat, D.F., Heidinger, B.J., Solomon, J., Rubenstein, D. 2023. Epigenetic modification of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis during development in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus). Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.
Sirman, A.E., Schmidt, J.E., Clark, M.E., Kittilson, J.D., Reed, W.L., Heidinger, B.J. 2023. Compensatory growth is accompanied by changes in insulin-like growth factor 1 but not markers of cellular aging in a long-lived seabird. Am. Nat. in press. https://doi.org/10.1086/724599
2022
Lynn. S.E., Kern, M.D., Serrurier, B., Sirman, A.E., Heidinger, B.J. 2022. Chill out: environmentally relevant cooling challenge does not increase telomere loss during early life. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.
Young, R.C., Westneat, D.F., Vangorder-Braid, J., Sirman, A.E., Siller, S.J., Kittilson, J., Ghimire, A., Heidinger, B.J. 2022. Stressors interact across generations to influence offspring telomeres and survival. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. https://dx.doi.org/10.101098/rspb.2022.0868
Beatty, A., Rubin, A.M., Wada, H., Heidinger, B.J., Hood, W.R., Schwartz, T.S., 2022. Postnatal expression of IGF2 is the norm in amniote vertebrates. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2278
Heidinger, B.J., Slowiniski, S.P., Sirman, A.E., Kitilson, J., Gerlach, N.M., Ketterson, E.D. 2022. Experimentally elevated testosterone shortens telomeres across years in a free-living songbird. Mol. Ecol. 20-1307. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15819
Slowinski, S., Geissler, A., Gerlach, D., Heidinger, B.J., Ketterson, E.D. 2022. The probability of being infected with haemosporidian parasites increases with host age but is not affected by experimental testosterone elevation in a wild songbird. J. of Avian Biol. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02819
Sepp, T., Meitern, R., Heidinger, B., Noreikiene, K., Rattiste, K., Horak, P., Saks, L., Kittilson, J., Janek, U., Giraudeau, M. 2022. Parental age does not influence offspring telomeres during early life in common gulls (Larus canus). Mol. Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15905
2021
Watson, H., Bolton, M., Heidinger, B.J., Monaghan, P. 2021. Effects of human disturbance on postnatal growth and baseline corticosterone in a long-lived bird. Conservation Phyisol. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coab052
Marasco, V., Boner, W., Griffiths, K., Heidinger, B.J., and Monaghan, P. 2021. Repeated exposure to challenging environmental conditions influences telomere dynamics across adult life as predicted by changes in mortality risk. FASEB. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202100556R
Heidinger, B. J., Kucera, A., Kittilson, J., Westneat, D. 2021. Longer telomeres during early life predict higher lifetime reproductive success in females but not males. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0560
Sauer, D. Heidinger, B. J., Kittilson, J.D., Lackmann, A. R., Clark, M.E. 2021. No evidence of physiological declines with age in an extremely long-lived fish. Sci. Rep. 11, 9065. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88626-5
Vangorder-Braid, J.T., Sirman, A.E., Kucera, A.C., Kittilson, J.D., Kibble, T.M., Heidinger, B.J. 2021. TA-65 does not increase telomere length during post-natal development in house sparrow chicks (Passer domesticus). J. of Exp. Zool. Part A: Ecol. Genet. And Physiol. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2449
2020
Heidinger, B.J. and Young, R.C. 2020. Cross-generational effects of parental age on offspring longevity: are telomeres an important underlying mechanism? BioEssays. 42 (9). https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201900227
2019
Marasco, V., Boner, W., Griffiths, K., Heidinger, B.J., and Monaghan, P. 2019. Intergenerational effects on offspring telomere length: interactions among maternal age, stress exposure, and offspring sex. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 286 (1912), 20191845. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1845
Heidinger, B.J., and Wada, H. 2019. Introduction to the symposium: stress phenotype: linking molecular, cellular, and physiological stress responses to fitness. Integr. Comp. Biol. 59 (2), 237-242. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz098
Wada, H. and Heidinger, B.J. 2019. Damage-Fitness Model: Evaluation and synthesis. Integr. Comp. Biol. 59 (2), 282-291. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz060
Giraudeau, M., Heidinger, B., Bonneaud, C., and Sepp T. 2019. Telomere shortening as a mechanism of long-term cost of infectious diseases in natural animal populations. Biol. Lett. 15 (5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0190
Graham, J.L., Bauer, C.M., Heidinger, B.J., Ketterson, E.D., Greives, T.J. 2019. Early breeding females experience greater telomere loss. Mol. Ecol. 28, 114-126. https://doi.org/10.111/mec.14952
2018
Dorado-Correa, A., Zollinger, S.A., Heidinger, B.J., Brumm, H. 2018. Timing matters: traffic noise accelerates telomere loss rate differently across developmental stages. Frontiers in Zool. 15 (1) 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0275-8
Bauer, C.M., Graham, J.L., Abolins-Abols, M., Heidinger, B.J., Ketterson, E.D., Greives, T.J. 2018. Chronological and biological age predict seasonal reproductive timing: An investigation of clutch initiation and telomeres in birds of known age. Am. Nat. 191 (6), 777-782. https://doi.org/10.1086/697224
Criscuolo, F., Smith, S., Zahn, S., Heidinger, B.J., Haussmann, M.F. 2018. Experimental manipulation of telomere length: does it reveal a corner-stone role of telomerase in the natural variability of individual fitness? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 373 (1741), 20160440. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0440
Kucera, A.C., Heidinger, B.J. 2018. Avian semen collection by cloacal massage and isolation of DNA from sperm. J. of Visualized Exp. https://doi.org/10.3791/55324
Marasco, V., Boner, W., Griffiths, K., Heidinger, B.J., Monaghan, P. 2018. Environmental conditions shape the temporal pattern of investment in reproduction and survival. Proc. R. Soc. B. 285 (1870), 20172442. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2442
2017
Henderson, L.J., Evans, N.P., Heidinger, B.J., Herborn, K.A., Arnold, K.E. 2017. Do glucocorticoids predict fitness? Linking environmental conditions, corticosterone, and reproductive success in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus. Royal Society Open Science 4 (10), 170875. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170875
Needham, K.B., Kucera, A.C., Heidinger, B.J., Greives, T.J. 2017. Repeated immune challenges affect testosterone but not sperm quality. J. of Exp. Zool. Part A. 327(6), 398-406. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2110
Marasco, V., Stier, A., Boner, W., Griffiths, K., Heidinger, B.J., Monaghan, P. 2017. Environmental conditions can modulate the links among oxidative stress, age, and longevity. Mechanisms of ageing and development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mad.2017.04.012
2016
Schmidt, J.E., Sirman, A.E., Kittlison, J.D., Clark, M.E., Reed, W.L., Heidinger, B.J. 2016. Telomere correlations during early life in a long-lived seabird. Exp. Gerontol. 85, 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2016.09.011
Watson, H., Bolton, M., Heidinger, B.J., Boner, W., Monaghan, P. 2016. Assessing the effects of repeated handling on the physiology and condition of semi-precocial nestlings. Ibis. 158 (4), 834-843. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12402
Bauer, C.M., Heidinger, B.J., Ketterson, E.D., Greives, T.J. 2016. A migratory lifestyle is associated with shorter telomeres in a songbird (Junco hyemalis). The Auk. 133 (4), 649-653. https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukz052
Heidinger, B.J., Herborn, K.A., Granroth-Wilding, H.M.V., Boner, W., Burthe, S., Newell, M., Wanless, S., Daunt, F., Monaghan, P. 2016. Parental age influences offspring telomere loss. Funct. Ecol. https://doi.org/10.111/1365-2435.12630
2015
Haussmann, M.F., Heidinger, B.J. 2015. Telomere dynamics may link stress exposure and ageing across generations. Biol. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0396
Herborn, K.A., Daunt, F.D., Heidinger, B.J., Granroth-Wilding, H., Burthe, S., Newell, M., Monaghan, P. 2015. Age, oxidative stress exposure, and fitness in a long-lived seabird. Funct. Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12578
Marasco, V., Boner, W., Heidinger, B.J., Griffiths, K., Monaghan, P. 2015. Repeated exposure to stressful conditions can have beneficial effects on survival. Experimental Gerontol. 69, 170-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2015.06.011
Nelson, B.F., Daunt, F., Monaghan, P., Waneless, S., Butler, A., Heidinger, B.J., Newell, M., Dawson, A. 2015. Protracted treatment with corticosterone reduces breeding success in a long-lived bird. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.10.003
2014
Henderson, L.J., Evans, N.P., Heidinger, B.J., Adams, A., Arnold, K.E. 2014. Maternal condition but not corticosterone is linked to offspring sex ratio in a passerine bird. PloS one. 9 (10). https://doi.org/1037/journal.pone.0110858
D’Alba, L., Hemert, C.V., Spencer, K.A., Heidinger, B.J., Gill, L., Evans, N., Monaghan, P., Handel, C.M., Shawkey, M.D. 2014. Melanin-based color of plumage: role of condition and of feathers’ microstructure. Integrative and Comparative Biol. 54 (4), 633-644. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu094
Herborn, K.A., Heidinger, B.J., Alexander, L., Arnold, K.E. 2014. Personality predicts behavioral flexibility in a fluctuating, natural environment. Behav. Ecol. aru 131. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru131
Herborn,K.A., Heidinger, B.J., Boner, W., Noguera, J.C., Adam, A., Daunt, F, Monaghan, P. 2014. Stress exposure in early post-natal life reduces telomere length: an experimental demonstration in a long-lived seabird. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 281 (1782). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3151
Before 2014
Henderson, L.J., Heidinger, B.J., Evans, N.P., Arnold, K.E. 2013. Ultraviolet crown coloration in female blue tits predicts reproductive success and baseline corticosterone. Behav. Ecol. 24 (6), 1299-1305. https://doi.org.10.1093/beheco/art066
Monaghan, P., Heidinger, B.J., D’alba, L.B., Evans, N.P., Spencer, K.A. 2012. For better or worse: reduced adult lifespan following early-life stress is transmitted to breeding partners. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 279 (1729), 709-714. https://doi.org.10.1098/rspb.2011.1291
Heidinger, B.J., Blount, J.D., Boner, W., Griffiths, K, Metcalfe, N.B., Monaghan, P. 2012. Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109 (5), 1743-1748. https://doi.org.10.1073/pnas.1113306109
Heidinger, B.J., Chastel, O Nisbet, I.C.T., and Ketterson, E. D. 2010. Mellowing with age: older parents are less responsive to a stressor in a long-lived seabird. Funct. Ecol. 24 (5), 1037-1044. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01733.x
Spencer, K.A., Heidinger, B.J., D’Alba, L.B., Evans, N.P., Monaghan, P. 2010. Then versus now:effect of developmental and current environmental conditions on incubation effort in birds. Behav. Ecol. 21(5), 999-1004. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arq090
Heidinger, B. J., Nisbet, I.C.T., and Ketterson, E. D. 2008. Changes in adrenal capacity contribute to a decline in the stress response with age in a long-lived seabird. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 156, 564-568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.02.014
Nisbet, I. C. T., Bridge, E. S., Szczys, P., and Heidinger, B. J. 2007. Sexual Dimorphism, Female-Female Pairs, and Test for Assortative Mating in Common Terns. Waterbirds 30, 169-179. https://doi.org/10.1675/1524-4695(2007)30[169:SDFPAT]2.0.CO;2
Heidinger, B. J., Nisbet, I.C.T., and Ketterson, E. D. 2006. Older parents are less responsive to a stressor in a long-lived seabird: mechanism for increased parental performance with age? Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. 273, 2227-2231. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3557
Breuner, C. W., Lynn, S. E., Julian, G. E., Cornelius, J. M., Heidinger, B. J., Love, O. P.,Sprague, R. S., Wada, H., and Whitman, B. A. 2006. Plasma binding globulins and the acute stress response. Hormones and Metabolic Research. 38(4): 260-268. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-2005-925347
Flory, S. L., Ingram, E. L., Heidinger, B. J., and Tintjer, T. 2005. Hands-on in the non-laboratory classroom. American Biology Teacher. 67 (9): 542-547. https://doi.org/0.1662/0002-7685(2005)067[0542:HITNC]2.0.CO;2
Martin, T. E., Martin, P. R., Olson, C. R., Heidinger, B. J., and Fontaine, J. J. 2000. Parental care and clutch sizes in North and South American birds. Science. 287: 1482-1485. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5457.1482