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T.T. Burkhard, M. Matz, S.M. Phelps. 2023. Patterns of repeatability and heritability in the songs of wild Alston's singing mice, Scotinomys teguina. Animal Behaviour 200, 91-103.
T.T. Burkhard, E.R. Sachs, S.M. Phelps. 2023. Female preferences for high vocal effort in singing mice. Behaviour 160 (3-4), 275-297.
M.L. Gustison, R. Muñoz-Castañeda, P. Osten, S.M. Phelps. 2023. Sexual coordination in a whole-brain map of prairie-vole pair-bonding. bioRxiv, 2023.07. 26.550685.
D.J. Zheng, D.E. Okobi Jr, R. Shu, R. Agrawal, S.K. Smith, M.A. Long, S.M. Phelps. 2022. Mapping the vocal circuitry of Alston's singing mouse with pseudorabies virus. Journal of Comparative Neurology 530 (12), 2075-2099.
G. Wallace, M. Elden, R. Boucher, S.M. Phelps. 2022. An automated radiotelemetry system (ARTS) for monitoring small mammals. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13 (5), 976-986.
M.L. Gustison, S.M. Phelps. 2022. Individual differences in social attachment: A multi‐disciplinary perspective. Genes, Brain and Behavior 21 (3), e12792.
J.A. Tripp, A. Berrio, L.A. McGraw, M.V. Matz, J.K. Davis, K. Inoue, J.W. Thomas, L.J. Young, S.M. Phelps. 2021. Comparative neurotranscriptomics reveal widespread species differences associated with bonding. BMC genomics 22 (1), 1-22.
D.J. Zheng, A. Singh, S.M. Phelps. 2021. Conservation and dimorphism in androgen receptor distribution in Alston's singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina). Journal of Comparative Neurology 529 (10), 2539-2557.
S.K. Smith, T.T. Burkhard, S.M. Phelps. 2021. A comparative characterization of laryngeal anatomy in the singing mouse. Journal of Anatomy 238 (2), 308-320.
E.M Giglio, SM Phelps. 2020. Leptin regulates song effort in Neotropical singing mice (Scotinomys teguina). Animal Behaviour 167, 209-219.
T.T. Burkhard, M. Matz, S.M. Phelps. 2020. Genomic heritability of song and condition in wild singing mice. bioRxiv.
S.M. Phelps and M.L. Gustison. 2020. The transient joys of others: Neural ensembles encode social approach in bonded voles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(23):12510-12512.
A Banerjee, SM Phelps, MA Long. 2019. Quick guide: Singing mice. Current Biology 29:R190-191.
DE Okobi, A Banerjee, AMM Matheson, SM Phelps, MA Long. 2019. Cortical control of vocal interaction in Neotropical singing mice. Science 363:983-988.
RL Young, MH Ferkin, NF Ockendon, VN Orr, SM Phelps, A Pogany, CL Richards-Zawacki, K Summers, T Szekely, BC Trainor, AO Urrutia, G Zachar, L O’Connell, HA Hofmann. 2019. Conserved transcriptomic profiles underpin monogamy across vertebrates. PNAS 116:1331-1336.
J Ratcliffe and SM Phelps. 2019. Twenty-five years of cognitive ecology. Animal Behaviour.
TT Burkhard, RR Westwick and SM Phelps. 2018. Adiposity signals predict vocal effort in Alston’s singing mice. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0090
SE Bengston, RA Dahan, Z Donaldson, SM Phelps, A Sih, K van Oers, AM Bell. 2018. Genomic tools for behavioural ecologists to understand repeatable individual differences in behaviour. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0411-4
A Berrio, R Guerrero, M Okhovat, M Matz, SM Phelps. 2018. Complex selection on a regulator of social cognition: Evidence of balancing selection, regulatory interactions and population differentiation in the prairie vole. Molecular Ecology 27:419-431.
SM Phelps, M Okhovat, A Berrio. 2017. Individual differences in social behavior and cortical vasopressin receptor: Genetics, epigenetics and evolution. Frontiers in Neuroscience 11, 537. doi:10.3389/fnins.2017.00537
M Okhovat, I Chen, DJ Zheng, H Momoh, J Ikpatt, SM Phelps. 2017. Genetic variation in the developmental regulation of cortical avpr1a among prairie voles. Genes, Brain and Behavior 17:36-48. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12396
SM Phelps. 2017. News and Views: How to build a better dad. Nature 544:418-419.
M Okhovat, S Maguire, SM Phelps. 2017. Methylation of avpr1a in the cortex of wild prairie voles: Effects of CpG position and polymorphism. Royal Society Open Science 4:160646.
B. Pasch, R. Sanford and S.M. Phelps. 2016. Agonistic character displacement in the social cognition of advertisement signals. Animal Cognition:1-7.
D.V. Blondel and S.M. Phelps. 2016. Corticosterone-facilitated social preference in the prairie vole: pair-bond or stress-coping? Journal of Comparative Psychology B 130: 400-406.
D.V. Blondel, G.N. Wallace, S. Calderone, M. Gorinshteyn, C. St. Mary and S.M. Phelps. 2016. Effects of population density on corticosterone levels of prairie voles in the field. General and Comparative Endocrinology 225:13-22.
M. Okhovat, A. Berrio, G. Wallace, A.G. Ophir and S.M. Phelps. 2015. Sexual fidelity trade-offs promote regulatory variation in the prairie vole brain. Science 350:1371-1374.
B. Pasch, B.M. Bolker and S.M. Phelps. 2013. Interspecific dominance via vocal interactions mediates altitudinal zonation in Neotropical singing mice. American Naturalist 182: e-article.
A.G. Ophir, A. Gessel, D. Zheng and S.M. Phelps. 2012. Oxytocin receptor density is associated with male mating tactics and social monogamy. Hormones & Behavior 61:445-463.
M. Fernandez-Vargas, Z. Tang-Martinez and S.M. Phelps. 2011. Singing, allogrooming, and allomarking behaviour during inter- and intra-sexual encounters in the Neotropical short-tailed singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina). Behavior 148:945-965.
B. Pasch, A.S. George, P. Campbell and S.M. Phelps. 2011. Androgen-dependent vocal performances influences female preference in Neotropical singing mice. Animal Behavior 82:177-183.
B. Pasch, A. George, H. Hamlin, L.G. Guillette and S.M. Phelps. 2011. Androgens mediate song effort and aggressive behavior in singing mice. Hormones and Behavior 59:90-97.
L.M. Turner, A.R. Young, H. Rompler, T. Schoneberg, S.M. Phelps and H.E. Hoekstra. 2010. Monogamy evolves through multiple mechanisms: Evidence from V1aR in deer mice. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:1269-1278.
O. Crino, I. Larkin and S.M. Phelps. 2010. Divergent stress coping styles and singing behavior in the short-tailed singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina). Hormones and Behavior 58:334-340.
P. Campbell, B. Pasch, J.L. Pino, M. Phillips and S.M. Phelps. 2010. Geographic variation in the songs of Neotropical singing mice: testing the relative importance of drift and local adaptation. Evolution 64:1955-1972.
S.M. Phelps and A.G. Ophir. 2009. Monogamous brains and alternative tactics: Neuronal V1aR, space use and sexual infidelity among male prairie voles. In Cognitive Ecology II, (Reuven Dukas and John Ratcliffe Eds.) University of Chicago Press, pp156-176.
P. Campbell, A.G. Ophir and S.M Phelps. 2009. Central vasopressin and oxytocin receptor distributions in two species of singing mice. Journal of Comparative Neurology 516:321-333.
D. Blondel, J. Pino and S.M Phelps. 2009. Space use and social structure of the long-tailed singing mouse (Scotinomys xerampelinus). Journal of Mammalogy 90:715-723.
P. Campbell, R. Reep, M. Stoll, A. Ophir and S.M Phelps. 2009. Conservation and diversity of Foxp2 expression in muroid rodents: Functional implications. Journal of Comparative Neurology 512:84-100.
A.G. Ophir, P. Campbell, K. Hannen and S.M. Phelps. 2008. Field tests of cis-regulatory variation at the prairie vole avpr1a locus: association with V1aR abundance but not social or sexual fidelity. Hormones and Behavior 54:694-702.
A.G. Ophir, J.O. Wolff and S.M. Phelps. 2008. Variation in neural V1aR predicts space use and sexual fidelity among male prairie voles in semi-natural settings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:1249-1254.
A.G. Ophir, A.B. Sorin, S.M. Phelps and J.O. Wolff. 2008. Social but not genetic monogamy is associated with higher breeding success in prairie voles. Animal Behaviour 75:1143-1154.
S.M. Phelps, A.S. Rand and M.J. Ryan. 2007. The mixed-species chorus as public information: male túngara frogs eavesdrop on a heterospecific. Behavioral Ecology 18:108-114.
S.M. Phelps. 2007. Sensory ecology and the evolution of perceptual allocation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 362:355-367.
S.M. Phelps, A.S. Rand and M.J. Ryan. 2006. The cognitive architecture of mate choice and species recognition. American Naturalist 167:28-42.
S.M. Phelps and L.J. Young. 2003. Extraordinary diversity in vasopressin (V1a) receptor expression in wild prairie voles: Patterns of variation and co-variation. Journal of Comparative Neurology 466:564-576.
S.M. Phelps, M.J. Ryan and A.S. Rand. 2001. Vestigial preferences in neural networks and túngara frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98:13161-13166.
M.J. Ryan, S.M. Phelps and A. S. Rand. 2001. How evolutionary history shapes recognition mechanisms. Trends in Cognitive Science 5:143-148.
S.M. Phelps and M.J. Ryan. 2000. History influences signal recognition: Neural network models of túngara frogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 267:1633-1639.