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Katherine L. Buchanan

Katherine L. Buchanan

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
10765
World Ranking
3459
National Ranking
268

Overview

Katherine L. Buchanan is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their work often focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The scientist's primary research topics include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Marine Animal Studies, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Frequent collaborators who have co-authored with Katherine L. Buchanan include:

  • Ondi L. Crino
  • Mylène M. Mariette
  • David F. Clayton
  • Lee A. Rollins
  • Eve Udino

Katherine L. Buchanan has published in a variety of scientific journals. Most common publication venues include Scientific Reports, Hormones and Behavior, General and Comparative Endocrinology, Emu - Austral Ornithology, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • Integrating Mitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism into Ecology and Evolution, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Ensuring tests of conservation interventions build on existing literature, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Acoustic developmental programming: a mechanistic and evolutionary framework, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Prenatal acoustic programming of mitochondrial function for high temperatures in an arid-adapted bird, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Vocal panting: a novel thermoregulatory mechanism for enhancing heat tolerance in a desert-adapted bird, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Testing the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: A review of the evidence

    M. L. Roberts;K. L. Buchanan;M. R. Evans

  • Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching

    Katherine Buchanan;T. Burt de Perera;C. Carere;T. Carter

  • Testosterone, dominance signalling and immunosuppression in the house sparrow, Passer domesticus

    K. L. Buchanan;K. L. Buchanan;M. R. Evans;A. R. Goldsmith

  • Song as an honest signal of past developmental stress in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

    Katherine Louise Buchanan;K. A. Spencer;A. R. Goldsmith;C. K. Catchpole

  • Song as an honest signal of developmental stress in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).

    K.A Spencer;K.L Buchanan;A.R Goldsmith;C.K Catchpole

  • Optimal immune responses: immunocompetence revisited

    Mark E. Viney;Eleanor M. Riley;Katherine L. Buchanan

  • Stress and the evolution of condition-dependent signals.

    Katherine L. Buchanan

  • Testosterone influences basal metabolic rate in male house sparrows: a new cost of dominance signalling?

    Katherine Louise Buchanan;Matthew R. Evans;Arthur R. Goldsmith;David M. Bryant

  • Female choice in the sedge warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus multiple cues from song and territory quality

    Katherine L. Buchanan;Clive K. Catchpole

  • Parasites affect song complexity and neural development in a songbird.

    Karen A Spencer;Katherine L Buchanan;Stefan Leitner;Arthur R Goldsmith

  • Developmental stress selectively affects the song control nucleus HVC in the zebra finch

    Katherine L. Buchanan;Stefan Leitner;Karen A. Spencer;Arthur R. Goldsmith

  • Heritability of corticosterone response and changes in life history traits during selection in the zebra finch

    Matthew R. Evans;Mark L. Roberts;Katherine L. Buchanan;Arthur R. Goldsmith

  • Song as an indicator of parasitism in the sedge warbler.

    Katherine L. Buchanan;C. K. Catchpole;J. W. Lewis;A. Lodge

  • Song as an indicator of male parental effort in the sedge warbler

    Katherine L. Buchanan;Clive K. Catchpole

  • Integrating Mitochondrial Aerobic Metabolism into Ecology and Evolution

    Rebecca E. Koch;Katherine L. Buchanan;Stefania Casagrande;Ondi Crino

  • Developmental stress affects the attractiveness of male song and female choice in the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia guttata )

    K. A. Spencer;J. H. Wimpenny;K. L. Buchanan;P. G. Lovell

  • Condition dependence, developmental plasticity, and cognition: implications for ecology and evolution.

    Katherine L. Buchanan;Jennifer L. Grindstaff;Vladimir V. Pravosudov

  • Prenatal acoustic communication programs offspring for high posthatching temperatures in a songbird

    Mylene M. Mariette;Katherine L. Buchanan

  • The Zebra Finch: the ultimate Australian supermodel

    Simon C. Griffith;Katherine L. Buchanan

  • Developmental stress, social rank and song complexity in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

    KA Spencer;Katherine Buchanan;AR Goldsmith;CK Catchpole

  • Effects of testosterone and corticosterone on immunocompetence in the zebra finch.

    Mark L. Roberts;Katherine L. Buchanan;Dennis Hasselquist;Matthew R. Evans

  • Noninvasive endocrine data for behavioural studies : the importance of validation

    Katherine L. Buchanan;Arthur R Goldsmith

  • Spatial ability is impaired and hippocampal mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA expression reduced in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) selected for acute high corticosterone response to stress

    Zoë G Hodgson;Simone L Meddle;Mark L Roberts;Mark L Roberts;Katherine L Buchanan

  • Pollutants increase song complexity and the volume of the brain area HVC in a songbird

    Shai Markman;Stefan Leitner;Stefan Leitner;Clive Catchpole;Sara Barnsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew T. D. Bennett
Andrew T. D. Bennett Deakin University
Clive K. Catchpole
Clive K. Catchpole Royal Holloway University of London
Simon C. Griffith
Simon C. Griffith Macquarie University
Mylene M. Mariette
Mylene M. Mariette Deakin University
Mark C. Mainwaring
Mark C. Mainwaring University of Montana
Leo Joseph
Leo Joseph Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Marcel Klaassen
Marcel Klaassen Deakin University
Jan Komdeur
Jan Komdeur University of Groningen
Paul Sunnucks
Paul Sunnucks Monash University
Petra Quillfeldt
Petra Quillfeldt University of Giessen

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