First Name: Rebecca JoLast Name: SafranPublications: YearPublication 1997"Fine-scale foraging site selection by nonbreeding white-faced ibis in managed wetlands of the northern San Joaquin Valley, California" in Theses and Projects 1997"Benthic invertebrates at foraging locations of nine waterbird species in managed wetlands of the northern San Joaquin Valley, California" in Wetlands 2000"Interspecific differences in habitat use of shorebirds and waterfowl foraging in managed wetlands of California's San Joaquin Valley" in Colonial Waterbirds 2000"Foraging Site Selection by Nonbreeding White-Faced Ibis" in The Condor 2002"Waterbird responses to experimental drawdown: implications for the multispecies management of wetland mosaics" in Journal of Applied Ecology 2004"You Can't Judge a Pigment by Its Color: Carotenoid and Melanin Content of Yellow and Brown Feathers in Swallows, Bluebirds, Penguins, and Domestic Chickens" in The Condor 2004"Plumage coloration, not length or symmetry of tail-streamers, is a sexually selected trait in North American barn swallows" in Behavioral Ecology 2004"Adaptive Site Selection Rules and Variation in Group Size of Barn Swallows: Individual Decisions Predict Population Patterns" in The American Naturalist 2005"Dynamic Paternity Allocation as a Function of Male Plumage Color in Barn Swallows" in Science 2005"How feather colour reflects its melanin content" in Functional Ecology 2006"Behavioural Ecology: Promiscuous Fathers Sire Young that Recognize True Family" in Current Biology 2007"Male Tail Streamer Length Does Not Predict Apparent or Genetic Reproductive Success in North American Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica Erythrogaster" in Journal of Avian Biology 2007"Evolutionary Biology: Variation Isn't Always Sexy" in Current Biology 2007"Settlement patterns of female barn swallows Hirundo rustica across different group sizes: access to colorful males or favored nests?" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2007"Integrating delayed dispersal into broader concepts of social group formation" in Behavioural Processes 2007"Group breeding in vertebrates: linking individual- and population-level approaches" in Evolutionary Ecology Research 2008"Are yolk androgens and carotenoids in barn swallow eggs related to parental quality?" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2008"Sexual signal exaggeration affects physiological state in male barn swallows" in Current Biology 2008"Evolutionary Biology: Arms Races in the Eye of the Beholder" in Current Biology 2009"Co-evolution of plumage characteristics and winter sociality in New and Old World sparrows" in Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2010"Morphological and genetic predictors of parental care in the North American barn swallow Hirundo rustica erythrogaster" in Journal of Avian Biology 2010"Positive Carotenoid Balance Correlates with Greater Reproductive Performance in a Wild Bird" in PLoS ONE 2010"Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function" in Trends in Genetics 2010"Phylogeny of the genus Hirundo and the Barn Swallow subspecies complex" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2010"Egg-yolk androgen and carotenoid deposition as a function of maternal social environment in barn swallows Hirundo rustica" in Journal of Avian Biology 2010"Sexual selection: a dynamic state of affairs: Response to the comments of Cornwallis and Uller in the article: Towards an evolutionary ecology of sexual traits" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2011"Pterin-based ornamental coloration predicts yolk antioxidant levels in female striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus)" in Journal of Animal Ecology 2011"Population Genetics of a Recent Transcontinental Colonization of South America by Breeding Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica)" in The Auk 2011"Age before beauty? Relationships between fertilization success and age-dependent ornaments in barn swallows" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2011"The sexual signals of the East-Mediterranean barn swallow: a different swallow tale" in Behavioral Ecology 2011"Low Variation in the Polymorphic Clock Gene Poly-Q Region Despite Population Genetic Structure across Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Populations" in PLoS ONE 2011"Rebecca Safran" in Current Biology 2012"Population Genetics and Morphological Comparisons of Migratory European (Hirundo rustica rustica) and Sedentary East-Mediterranean (Hirundo rustica transitiva) Barn Swallows" in Journal of Heredity 2012"Sexual Signaling: Climatic Carry-Over" in Current Biology 2012"A robust new metric of phenotypic distance to estimate and compare multiple trait differences among populations" in Current Zoology 2013"Evolutionary divergence in acoustic signals: causes and consequences" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2013"Signaling stress? An analysis of phaeomelanin-based plumage color and individual corticosterone levels at two temporal scales in North American barn swallows, Hirundo rustica erythrogaster" in Hormones and Behavior 2013"Variation in the temporal and spatial use of signals and its implications for multimodal communication" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2013"Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2013"Multiple Sexual Signals and Behavioral Reproductive Isolation in a Diverging Population" in The American Naturalist 2013"Female plumage colour influences seasonal oxidative damage and testosterone profiles in a songbird" in Biology Letters 2013"Contributions of natural and sexual selection to the evolution of premating reproductive isolation: a research agenda" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2014"Geographic variation in sexual selection and implications for speciation in the Barn Swallow" in Avian Research 2014"The Role of Ecology in Speciation by Sexual Selection: A Systematic Empirical Review" in Journal of Heredity 2014"Environmental harshness is positively correlated with intraspecific divergence in mammals and birds" in Molecular Ecology 2014"Impact of pre-lab learning activities, a post-lab written report, and content reduction on evolution-based learning in an undergraduate plant biodiversity lab" in Evolution: Education and Outreach 2014"An experimental analysis of the heritability of variation in glucocorticoid concentrations in a wild avian population" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2014"Stress and success: Individual differences in the glucocorticoid stress response predict behavior and reproductive success under high predation risk" in Hormones and Behavior 2014"Ecological and evolutionary connections between morphology, physiology, and behavior" in Current Zoology 2014"An integrative view of the signaling phenotype: Dynamic links between signals, physiology, behavior and social context" in Current Zoology 2014"Patterns and ecological predictors of age-related performance in female North American barn swallows, Hirundo rustica erythrogaster" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2015"Quantitative color variation within and across morphs of the polymorphic White-throated Sparrow" in The Auk 2015"How acoustic signals scale with individual body size: common trends across diverse taxa" in Behavioral Ecology 2015"Expression of Multiple Sexual Signals by Fathers and Sons in the East-Mediterranean Barn Swallow: Are Advertising Strategies Heritable?" in PLoS ONE 2015"Quantitative genetics of plumage color: lifetime effects of early nest environment on a colorful sexual signal" in Ecology and Evolution 2015"Performance of Encounternet Tags: Field Tests of Miniaturized Proximity Loggers for Use on Small Birds" in PLoS ONE 2015"Multimodal signalling in the North American barn swallow: a phenotype network approach" in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2015"Parents respond in sex-specific and dynamic ways to nestling ectoparasites" in Animal Behaviour 2016"Genomic approaches to understanding population divergence and speciation in birds" in The Auk 2016"Signal Traits and Oxidative Stress: A Comparative Study across Populations with Divergent Signals" in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2016"Stress response, gut microbial diversity and sexual signals correlate with social interactions" in Biology Letters 2016"The maintenance of phenotypic divergence through sexual selection: An experimental study in barn swallows Hirundo rustica" in Evolution 2016"Cognitive Phenotypes and the Evolution of Animal Decisions" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2016"Evolutionary Genetics: Small Genomic Regions Make a Big Impact" in Current Biology 2017"Setting a gold standard for integrative evolutionary biology" in Evolution 2017"The importance of cross-validation, accuracy, and precision for measuring plumage color: A comment on Vaquero-Alba et al. (2016)" in The Auk 2017"Comparative analysis reveals migratory swallows (Hirundinidae) have less pointed wings than residents" in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2017"Disruptive selection on plumage coloration across genetically determined morphs" in Animal Behaviour 2017"Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation" in Nature Ecology & Evolution 2017"An experimental test of the effect of brood size on glucocorticoid responses, parental investment, and offspring phenotype" in General and Comparative Endocrinology 2017"Effects of assortative mate choice on the genomic and morphological structure of a hybrid zone between two bird subspecies" in Molecular Ecology 2018"Mechanisms of Assortative Mating in Speciation with Gene Flow: Connecting Theory and Empirical Research" in The American Naturalist 2018"The Role of Seasonal Migration in Population Divergence and Reproductive Isolation" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2018"The rate of telomere loss is related to maximum lifespan in birds" in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2018"Global song divergence in barn swallows (Hirundo rustica): exploring the roles of genetic, geographical and climatic distance in sympatry and allopatry" in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2018"Predictors and consequences of nest-switching behavior in Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster)" in The Auk 2018"Transitions from Single- to Multi-Locus Processes during Speciation with Gene Flow" in Genes 2018"Theory Meets Empiry: A Citation Network Analysis" in BioScience 2018"Experimental manipulation of a signal trait reveals complex phenotype-behaviour coordination" in Scientific Reports 2018"Microclimate and host body condition influence mite population growth in a wild bird-ectoparasite system" in International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 2019"Endless forms of sexual selection" in PeerJ 2019"Using Networks to Connect Individual-Level Reproductive Behavior to Population Patterns" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2019"Selection on multiple sexual signals in two Central and Eastern European populations of the barn swallow" in Ecology and Evolution 2019"Unifying Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Genomic Differentiation" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2020"Migratory divides coincide with reproductive barriers across replicated avian hybrid zones above the Tibetan Plateau" in Ecology Letters 2020"Complete mitochondrial genomes provide current refined phylogenomic hypotheses for relationships among ten Hirundo species" in Mitochondrial DNA Part B 2020"Analysis of female song provides insight into the evolution of sex differences in a widely studied songbird" in Animal Behaviour 2020"Divergent sexual signals reflect costs of local parasites" in Evolution 2020"Analysing phenotypic variation in barn swallows (Hirundo rustica) across China to assess subspecies status" in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2021"The impact of urbanization on body size of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis" in Ecology and Evolution 2021"A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference" in Proceedinsg of the Royal Society B 2021"Different underlying mechanisms drive associations between multiple parasites and the same sexual signal" in Animal Behaviour 2021"Rapid speciation via the evolution of pre-mating isolation in the Iberá Seedeater" in Science 2021"Sex-linked genetic diversity and differentiation in a globally distributed avian species complex" in Molecular Ecology 2021"Lack of subspecies-recognition in breeding Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica transitiva)" in Behavioural Processes 2021"Belonging in STEM: an interactive, iterative approach to create and maintain a diverse learning community" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2021"Sensitive periods during the development and expression of vertebrate sexual signals: A systematic review" in Ecology and Evolution 2021"Speciation by sexual selection: 20 years of progress" in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2022"Visitation rate, but not foraging range, responds to brood size manipulation in an aerial insectivore" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2022"The effect of urbanization and exposure to multiple environmental factors on life-history traits and breeding success of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) across China" in Avian Research 2022"A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence" in Evolution 2022"The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong" in Evolution 2023"A multidimensional framework to quantify the effects of urbanization on avian breeding fitness" in Ecology and Evolution 2023"Females with Increased Costs Maintain Reproductive Output: A Field Experiment in a Common Songbird" in Integrative and Comparative Biology 2023"Estimating phylogenies from genomes: A beginners review of commonly used genomic data in vertebrate phylogenomics" in Journal of Heredity 2023"Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks" in Integrative Organismal Biology 2024"Correction to: Visitation rate, but not foraging range, responds to brood size manipulation in an aerial insectivore" in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2024"Colonial breeding impacts potentially fitness-relevant cognitive processes in barn swallows" in Animal Cognition 2024"Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the swallow family (Hirundinidae) inferred from comparisons of thousands of UCE loci" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution