G=Sewall lab graduate student, P=Sewall lab postdoc, U=Sewall lab undergraduate
2024
VanDiest IG, KR Jones, TE FossettG, SJ LaneG, KB Sewall (2024) Differences in urban arthropod communities may not limit the nestling diet of a generalist songbird. Science of the Total Environment
Lane SJG, B Vernasco, TE Fossett G, I VanDiestG, HE Watts, KB Sewall (2024) Are urbanization and brood parasitism associated with differences in telomere lengths in song sparrows? Journal of Avian Biology
2023
ML BeckP, Sewall KB, Akçay CP (2023) Experimental manipulation of chest spotting alters territorial aggression but not hormone concentrations in an urban songbird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Lane SJG, I VanDiestG , V BrewerU, CR LinkousU, TE Fossett G, CG GoodchildP, KB Sewall (2023) Indirect effects of urbanization: Consequences of increased aggression in an urban male songbird for mates and offspring. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
KB Sewall, ML BeckP , SJ LaneG, S DaviesP (2023) Urban and rural male song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) differ in territorial aggression and activation of vasotocin neurons in response to song challenge. Hormones and Behavior. 156:105438
2022
Lane SJG and KB Sewall (2022) What about Females? Urban Female Song Sparrows Elevate Aggressive Signaling Compared to Rural. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 62: 487-495
Townsend A, KB Sewall, AS Leonard, D Hawley (2022) Infectious disease and cognition in wild populations. TREE. 37: 899-910.
Goodchild CGP, I VanDiestG, SJ LaneG, ML BeckP, H Ewbank, KB Sewall (2022) Variation in hematological indices, oxidative stress, and immune function among male song sparrows from rural and low-density urban habitats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
2021
Goodchild CGP, ML BeckP, I VanDiest, F Czesak, SJ Lane, KB Sewall (2021) Male zebra finches exposed to lead during development have reduced volume of song nuclei, altered sexual traits, and received less attention from females as adults. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety. 201: 111850
Lane SJ, MG EmmersonP, IJ VanDiest, ML BeckP, S DaviesP, ER Gilbert, KB Sewall (2021) Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis regulation and organization in urban and rural song sparrows. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 300: 113809
Vernasco B, MG EmmersonP, ER Gilbert, KB Sewall, HE Watts (2021) Migratory state and patterns of steroid hormone regulation in the pectoralis muscle of a nomadic migrant, the pine siskin (Spinus pinus). General and Comparative Endocrinology. 309: 113787
2020
Brewer VU, Lane SJG, Sewall KB, and KE Mabry (2020) Effects of low-density urbanization on genetic structure in the song sparrow. PLOS One. 15:6
Akҫay CP, Beck MLP, and KB Sewall (2020) Are signals of aggressive intent less honest in urban habitats? Behavioral Ecology. 31: 213-221.
2019
Watts HE, Rittenhouse JL, Sewall KB, and M Bowers (2019) Migratory state is not associated with differences in neural glucocorticoid or mineralocorticoid receptor expression in pine siskins. Animal Migration. 6:1-9.
Lambert C, Sewall KB, and L Guillette (2019) Questioning the developmental effects of group size on cognitive abilities: A commentary on Ashton et al. 2018. Learning and Behavior 47: 280-283
2018
Kerman KG, Miller LU, and KB Sewall. (2018). The effect of social context on measures of boldness: zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata) are bolder when housed individually. Behavioral Processes 157:18-23
Beck MLP, Davies SP, and KB Sewall (2018) Urbanization alters the relationship between melanin-based coloration and territorial aggression, but not endocrine profiles, in male song sparrows. Animal Behaviour 142: 119-128
Sewall KB, RC Anderson, J Soha, S Peters, and S Nowicki. (2018). Early life conditions that impact song learning in male zebra finches also impact neural and behavioral responses to song in females. Developmental Neurobiology. doi-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/10.1002/dneu.22600
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.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.11.010
2017
Campbell SAG, Beck MLP, Sewall KB (2017) Hatching asynchrony impacts cognition in male zebra finches. Journal of Experimental Zoology A. 327: 89-97 Doi:10.1002/jez.2074
Sewall, KB and Davies SP (2017) Two neural measures differ between urban and rural song sparrows after conspecific playback. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5:46 (Invited submission) doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00046
2016
Sewall KB, Young A, Wright TF (2016) Social calls provide novel insights into the evolution of vocal
learning. Animal Behaviour 120: 163-172. Doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.07.031
Beck MLP, Davies SP, Moore IT, Schoenle LA, Kerman KG, 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, SP and KB Sewall (2016) Agonistic urban birds: elevated territorial aggression in urban song sparrows is individually consistent within a breeding period. Biology Letters. 12:20160315 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0315.
2015
Sewall KB (2015) Social complexity as a diver of communication and cognition, Integrative and Comparative Biology. 55: 384-395 doi.org/10.1093/icb/icv064
KB Sewall (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. doi-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/10.1111/1365-2435.12498
2014
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. 5:206-212. Doi.10.1111/jofo. 12061
MacLean, and 56 co-authors including KB Sewall (2014) The Evolution of self-control. Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences. 111 (20), E2140-E2148. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323533111
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
2013 and prior
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. doi.10.1098/rsbl.2013.0344
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, KB, T. R. Kelsey, and T. P. Hahn. (2004) Discrete variants of evening grosbeak flight calls. Condor. 106: 161-165. DOI: 10.1650/7394