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Ellen D. Ketterson

Ellen D. Ketterson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
71
Citations
17268
World Ranking
1317
National Ranking
485

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ellen D. Ketterson is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with notable contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. The scientist's expertise extends into various subfields, including ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, parasitology, infectious diseases, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics covered in Ketterson's research encompass avian ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, bird parasitology and diseases, wildlife ecology and conservation, viral infections and vectors, mosquito-borne diseases and control, and plant and animal studies.

Frequent co-authors in Ketterson's research collaborations include:

  • Daniel J. Becker
  • Katherine M. Talbott
  • Alex E. Jahn
  • Devraj Singh
  • Tara M. Smiley

Publications featuring Ketterson's work have appeared repeatedly in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Molecular Ecology
  • General and Comparative Endocrinology

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Ketterson include:

  • "Animal Migration: An Overview of One of Nature's Great Spectacles" (2021), published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • "Urban birdsongs: higher minimum song frequency of an urban colonist persists in a common garden experiment" (2020), published in Animal Behaviour
  • "Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)" (2020), published in Birds of the World
  • "A high-quality genome assembly and annotation of the dark-eyed junco Junco hyemalis, a recently diversified songbird" (2022), published in G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • "Local adaptation from afar: migratory bird populations diverge in the initiation of reproductive timing while wintering in sympatry" (2020), published in Biology Letters

Ketterson has been recognized with several fellowships including Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009, and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Adaptation, Exaptation, and Constraint: A Hormonal Perspective.

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Hormones and life histories: an integrative approach.

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

    Shaohong Feng;Josefin Stiller;Yuan Deng;Joel Armstrong;Joel Armstrong

  • Immune function across generations: integrating mechanism and evolutionary process in maternal antibody transmission

    Jennifer L. Grindstaff;Edmund D. Brodie;Ellen D. Ketterson

  • Geographic Variation and Its Climatic Correlates in the Sex Ratio of Eastern-Wintering Dark-Eyed Juncos (Junco Hyemalis Hyemalis)

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • TESTOSTERONE AND AVIAN LIFE HISTORIES: EFFECTS OF EXPERIMENTALLY ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE ON BEHAVIOR AND CORRELATES OF FITNESS IN THE DARK-EYED JUNCO (JUNCO HYEMALIS)

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan;Licia Wolf;Charles Ziegenfus

  • Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation

    Jonathan W. Atwell;Gonçalo C. Cardoso;Danielle J. Whittaker;Danielle J. Whittaker;Samuel Campbell-Nelson

  • The evolution of differential bird migration

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Testosterone in Females: Mediator of Adaptive Traits, Constraint on Sexual Dimorphism, or Both?

    E D Ketterson;V Nolan;Maria Sandell

  • Hormone-mediated suites as adaptations and evolutionary constraints.

    Joel W McGlothlin;Ellen D Ketterson

  • Maternally derived yolk testosterone enhances the development of the hatching muscle in the red-winged blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus

    Joseph L. Lipar;Ellen D. Ketterson

  • Steroid hormones and immune function: experimental studies in wild and captive dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis).

    Joseph M. Casto;Val Nolan;Ellen D. Ketterson

  • Phenotypic integration and independence: Hormones, performance, and response to environmental change

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Jonathan W. Atwell;Joel W. McGlothlin

  • Natural variation in a testosterone-mediated trade-off between mating effort and parental effort.

    Joel W. McGlothlin;Jodie M. Jawor;Ellen D. Ketterson

  • Phenotypic engineering: using hormones to explore the mechanistic and functional bases of phenotypic variation in nature

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan;Michelle J. Cawthorn;Patricia G. Parker

  • Sex differences in the response to environmental cues regulating seasonal reproduction in birds

    Gregory F Ball;Ellen D Ketterson

  • Environmental control of kisspeptin: implications for seasonal reproduction.

    Timothy J. Greives;Alex O. Mason;Melissa-Ann L. Scotti;Jacob Levine

  • Male Parental Behavior in Birds

    Ellen D. Ketterson;Val Nolan

  • Testosterone and avian life histories: The effect of experimentally elevated testosterone on corticosterone and body mass in dark-eyed juncos

    Ellen D Ketterson;Val Nolan;Licia Wolf;Charles Ziegenfus;Charles Ziegenfus;Charles Ziegenfus

  • Physiological effects on demography: a long-term experimental study of testosterone's effects on fitness.

    W. L. Reed;M. E. Clark;P. G. Parker;S. A. Raouf

  • Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People

    Ellen D. Ketterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Val Nolan
Val Nolan Indiana University
Patricia G. Parker
Patricia G. Parker University of Missouri–St. Louis
Daniel J. Becker
Daniel J. Becker University of Oklahoma
Ethan D. Clotfelter
Ethan D. Clotfelter Amherst College
Milos V. Novotny
Milos V. Novotny Indiana University
Dale R. Sengelaub
Dale R. Sengelaub Indiana University
Trevor D. Price
Trevor D. Price University of Chicago
Thomas W. James
Thomas W. James Indiana University
Borja Milá
Borja Milá Spanish National Research Council
Julia R. Heiman
Julia R. Heiman Indiana University

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