Zebrafinken
 

Group Leader

Nikolaus von Engelhardt

Maternal effects

Parent-offspring interactions

Social interactions

Phenotypic plasticity during  development

Behavioural endocrinology

Behavioural genetics

nvengelhardt
(at)gmx.de

PhD students

Tim Ruploh
Developmental shaping of behavioural phenotypes tim.ruploh
(at)uni-bielefeld.de

Master students

projects available

please contact us:

Potential projects:
- parent-offspring coadaptation

- maternal effects in relation to season and social context

- personalities in zebra finches

- behavioural genetics in zebra finches

 
Anjuli Barber

Effects of the photoperiod on reproduction in zebra finches

(currently interested in a PhD project)
 
Sarah Schmid
 

Effects of the photoperiod on sexual maturation in zebra finches

(now PhD student at Bayreuth University)
 

Bachelor students

projects available

please contact us:

Potential projects:
- parent-offspring coadaptation

- maternal effects in relation to season and social context

- personalities in zebra finches

- behavioural genetics in zebra finches

 
Ingo Catalano

Effects of the season of birth on personalities in zebra finches

 

Former Group Members

   
University of Cambridge
Rachel Wigmore  

Inheritance of sexual traits in zebra finches

(now working as a consultant)

 
Dave Hollinshead   Inheritance of sexual traits in zebra finches  

Andrea Turner


Food allocation by parents to nestling zebra finches: the influence of nestling behaviour and parental decisions  

Julia Riggs


Differential resource provisioning in zebra finches: the influence of nestling behaviour, hierarchy and parental sex on food allocation  
   
University of Groningen

Renske Hekman
  Parentage assignment using microsatellites in zebra finches  

Rie Henriksen


a) Effects of yolk testosterone on male zebra finches

b) Metabolism of steroid hormones in avian eggs and in faeces

(now PhD student at Groningen University)

 
Ellis Mulder
 

a) Effects of food quality on sex ratios in zebra finches

b) Determination of egg testosterone content by radioimmunoassy

(now technician at Groningen University)

 
Anja Jansen  

Influence of paternal leg-band colour on the development of mate preferences in zebra finches

(now PhD student at Twente University)

 

Erwin Hemmen


Effect of male ring colours on offspring primary and secondary sex ratios  
Rick Bruintjes
 

Effect of female preference on sex ratio and offspring development

(now Postdoc at the University of Bern)

 
Alessandra Rossi  

Effects of hormone treatment (17-beta-oestradiol) on the second reproductive performance and sex ratio of zebra finches)

(now at the ministry of the environment, Italy)

 

 
Grietje Zijlstra   The influence of a female hormone on reproduction of zebra finches  

 



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