Publications:

2008

Safran, R.J., Adelman, J.S., McGraw, K.J. & Hau, M. Sexual signal exaggeration affects physiological state in a social vertebrate. Curr. Biol., in press.

Gill, S.A., Costa, L. & Hau, M. Males of a single-brooded tropical bird species do not show increases in testosterone during social challenges. Horm. Behav., in press.

Perfito, N., Kwong, J., Bentley, G.E. & Hau, M. Cue hierarchies and testicular development in an opportunistic breeder (Taeniopygia g. guttata): Is food a far more potent stimulus than photoperiod? Horm. Behav., in press.

Cohen, A., Hau, M. & Wikelski, M. Stress, metabolism and antioxidants in two wild bird species. Physiol. Biochem. Zool., in press.

Hau, M., Perfito, N. & Moore, I.T. Timing of breeding in tropical birds: mechanisms and evolutionary implications. Ornithol. Neotrop. 19 (Suppl.): 39–59.

Wikelski, M., Martin, L.B., Robinson, M.T., Robinson, N.D., Scheuerlein, A., Hau, M. & Gwinner, E. Avian circannual clocks: adaptive significance and possible proximate control by energy turnover. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 363:411-423.

2007

Gill, S.A., Alfson, E.A. & Hau, M. Context matters: aggression and testosterone in females of a year-round territorial tropical songbird (Thryothorus leucotis). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 274:2187-2194.

Perfito, N., Zann, R., Bentley, G. & Hau, M. Opportunism at work: habitat predictability affects reproductive strategy in free-living zebra finches. Funct. Ecol. 21:291–301.

Hau, M. Regulation of male traits by testosterone: implications for the evolution of vertebrate life histories. BioEssays 29:133–144.

Goymann, W., Schwabl, I., Trappschuh, M. & Hau, M. Use of ethanol for preserving steroids and indoleamine hormones in bird plasma. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 150:191-195.

Canoine, V., Fusani, L., Schlinger, B.A. & Hau, M. Low sex steroids, high steroid receptors: increasing the sensitivity of the non-reproductive brain. J. Neurobiol. 67:57-67.

Millet, S., Bennett, J., Lee, K.A., Hau, M. & Klasing, K.C. Quantifying constitutive immunity in birds. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 31(2):188-201.

2006

Spinney, L.H., Bentley, G.E. & Hau, M. Endocrine correlates of alternative phenotypes in the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis). Horm. Behav. 50:762-771.

Hau, M. Integrative endocrinology. Book review, J. Exp. Biol. 209:1787-1788.

Martin, L.B., Han, P., Kwong, J. & Hau, M. Cutaneous immune activity varies with physiological state in female house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 79(4):775-783.

Perfito, N., Bentley, G.E. & Hau, M. Tonic activation of brain GnRH immunoreactivity despite reduction of peripheral reproductive parameters in opportunistically breeding zebra finches. Brain Behav. Evol. 67:123-134.

2005

Beebe, K., Bentley, G.E. & Hau, M. A seasonally breeeding tropical bird lacks absolute photorefractoriness in the wild, despite high photosensitivity. Funct. Ecol. 19:505-512.

Fusani, L., Canoine, V., Goymann, W., Wikelski, M. & Hau, M. Difficulties and special issues associated with field research in behavioral neuroendocrinology. Horm. Behav. 48:484-491.

Greenman, C.G., Martin, L.B. & Hau, M. Reproductive state, but not testosterone, reduces immune function in male house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 78(1):60-68.

O'Brien, S. & Hau, M. Food cues and gonadal development in tropical spotted antbirds. J. Ornithol. 146:332-337.

Hau, M. Eberhard Gwinner (1938-2004). In: Functional Avian Endocrinology. Eds. A. Dawson & P.J. Sharp. Narosa Publishing House, New Dehli, India.

2004

Daan, S. & Hau, M. Eberhard Gwinner (1938-2004). J. Biol. Rhythms 19(6):463-464.

Hau, M., Dominguez, O.A. & Evrard, H.C. Testosterone reduces responsiveness to nociceptive stimuli in a wild bird. Horm. Behav. 46:165-170. (Also see commentary in Nature Science Update, 15 June 2004).

Soma, K.K., Alday, N.A., Hau, M. & Schlinger, B.A. DHEA metabolism by 3ß-HSD in adult zebra finch brain: sex difference and rapid effect of stress. Endocrinology 145:1668-1677.

Hau, M., Wikelski, M., Gwinner, H. & Gwinner, E. Timing of reproduction in a Darwin's finch: temporal opportunism under spatial constraints. OIKOS 106:489-500.

Hau, M., Stoddard, S.T. & Soma, K.K. Territorial aggression in a tropical bird: hormone-behavior interactions in the non-breeding season. Horm. Behav. 45:40-49.

2003

Tarlow, E.M., Hau, M., Anderson, D.J. & Wikelski, M. Diel changes in plasma melatonin and corticosterone concentrations in tropical Nazca boobies (Sula granti) in relation to moon phase and age. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 133:297-304.

Wikelski M., Hau, M., Robinson, D.W. & Wingfield, J.C. Seasonality in tropical rainforest habitats: seasonal changes in life-history parameters of 7 neotropical bird species. Condor 105:683-695.

2002

Bard, S., Hau, M., Wikelski, M. & Wingfield, J.C. Vocal distinctiveness and response to conspecific playback in the spotted antbird. Condor 104:387-394.

Hau, M., Romero, M.R., Brawn, J.D. & Van't Hof, T.J. Effect of polar day on plasma profiles of melatonin, testosterone and estradiol in high-arctic Lapland Longspurs. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 126:101-112.

2001

Hau, M. Timing of breeding in variable environments: Tropical birds as model systems. Horm. Behav. 40:281-290.

Hau, M. & Wikelski, M. Darwin's finches. In: Embryonic Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. London: Nature Publishing Group. (www.els.net)

Wingfield, J.C., Soma, K.K., Wikelski, M., Meddle, S.L. & Hau, M. Life cycles, behavioral traits and endocrine mechanisms. In (A. Dawson, C.M. Chaturvedi, Eds.), Avian Endocrinology, Narosa Publ. House, New Delhi, pp. 3-17.

2000

Gwinner, E. & Hau, M. Pineal gland, circadian rhythms and photoperiodism. In: Whittow, C.G. (Ed.) Sturkie's Avian Physiology, pp. 557-658.

Hau, M., Wikelski, M., Soma, K.K. & Wingfield, J.C. Testosterone and year-round territoriality in a tropical bird. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 117:20-33.

Hau, M., Wikelski, M. & Wingfield, J.C. Visual and nutritional food cues fine-tune timing of reproduction in a neotropical rainforest bird. J. Exp. Zool. 286:494-504.

Wikelski, M., Hau, M. & Wingfield, J.C. Seasonality of reproduction in a neotropical rain forest bird. Ecology 81:2458-2472.

1999

Wikelski, M., Hau, M. & Wingfield, J.C. Social instability increases testosterone year-round in a tropical bird. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 266:551-556.

Hau, M., Wikelski, M. & Wingfield, J.C. Environmental control of reproduction in neotropical rainforest birds. In: Adams, N. & Slotow, R. (Eds.), Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban, pp. 1720-1739, Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.

Wikelski, M., Hau, M. & Wingfield, J.C. Seasonal endocrinology of neotropical passerines: A comparative approach. In: Adams, N. & Slotow, R. (Eds.), Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban, pp. 1224-1241, Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.

1998

Hau, M., Wikelski, M. & Wingfield, J.C. A neotropical bird can measure changes in tropical photoperiod. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 265:89-95.

1992 - 1997

1997. Hau, M. & Gwinner, E. Adjustment of house sparrow circadian rhythms to a simultaneously applied light and food zeitgeber. Physiol. Behav. 62:973-981.

1997. Gwinner, E., Hau, M. & Heigl, S. Melatonin: Generation and modulation of avian circadian rhythms. Brain Res. Bull. 44:439-444.

1996. Hau, M. & Gwinner, E. Food as a circadian zeitgeber for house sparrows: the effect of different food access durations. J. Biol. Rhythms 11:196-207.

1995. Hau, M. & Gwinner, E. Continuous melatonin administration accelerates resynchronization following phase shifts of a light-dark cycle. Physiol. Behav. 58:89-95.

1995. Wikelski, M. & Hau, M. Is there an endogenous tidal foraging rhythm in marine iguanas? J. Biol. Rhythms 10:335-350.

1994. Hau, M. & Gwinner, E. Melatonin facilitates synchronization of sparrow circadian rhythms to light. J. Comp. Physiol. A 175:343-347.

1994. Gwinner, E., Hau, M. & Heigl, S. Phasic and tonic effects of melatonin on avian circadian systems. In: Hiroshige, T. & Honma, K.I. (Eds.) Circadian clocks and evolution. Sapporo, Hokkaido Univ. Press, pp. 127-137.

1992. Hau, M. & Gwinner, E. Circadian entrainment by feeding cycles in house sparrows, Passer domesticus. J. Comp. Physiol. A 170:403-409.

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