Publications of John A. Lesku

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Johnsson, R. D.; Lesku, J. A.: Light, sleep and performance in diurnal birds. Clocks and Sleep 3 (1), pp. 115 - 131 (2021)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Connelly, F.; Johnsson, R. D.; Jones, T. M.; Mulder, R. A.; Hall, M. L.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Lesku, J. A.: White and amber light at night disrupt sleep physiology in birds. Current Biology 30 (18), pp. 3657 - 3663 (2020)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Lesku, J. A.; Mulder, R. A.; Goymann, W.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Jones, T. M.: Streetlights disrupt night-time sleep in urban black swans. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8, 131 (2020)

Blumberg, M. S.; Lesku, J. A.; Libourel, P.-A.; Schmidt, M. H.; Rattenborg, N. C.: What is REM sleep? Current Biology 30 (1), pp. R38 - R49 (2020)

Connelly, F.; Johnsson, R. D.; Aulsebrook, A. E.; Mulder, R. A.; Hall, M. L.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Urban noise restricts, fragments, and lightens sleep in Australian magpies. Environmental Pollution 267, 115484 (2020)

Ungurean, G.; van der Meij, J.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Lesku, J. A.: Evolution and plasticity of sleep. Current Opinion in Physiology 15, pp. 111 - 119 (2020)

Allocca, G.; Ma, S.; Martelli, D.; Cerri, M.; Vecchio, F. D.; Bastianini, S.; Zoccoli, G.; Amici, R.; Morairty, S. R.; Aulsebrook, A. E. et al.; Blackburn, S.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Wams, E.; Porcheret, K.; Wulff, K.; Foster, R.; Chan, J. K. M.; Nicholas, C. L.; Freestone, D. R.; Johnston, L. A.; Gundlach, A. L.: Validation of ‘Somnivore’, a machine learning algorithm for automated scoring and analysis of polysomnography data. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13, 207 (2019)

Rattenborg, N. C.; van der Meij, J.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Local aspects of avian non-REM and REM sleep. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13, 567 (2019)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Jones, T. M.; Mulder, R. A.; Lesku, J. A.: Impacts of artificial light at night on sleep: A review and prospectus. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology 329 (8-9), pp. 409 - 418 (2018)

Jeronimo, S.; Khadraoui, M.; Wang, D.; Martin, K.; Lesku, J. A.; Robert, K. A.; Schlicht, E.; Forstmeier, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Plumage color manipulation has no effect on social dominance or fitness in zebra finches. Behavioral Ecology 29 (2), pp. 459 - 467 (2018)

Tisdale, R. K.; Lesku, J. A.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Bird-like propagating brain activity in anesthetized Nile crocodiles. Sleep 41 (8), zsy105 (2018)

Tisdale, R. K.; Lesku, J. A.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: The low-down on sleeping down low: Pigeons shift to lighter forms of sleep when sleeping near the ground. The Journal of Experimental Biology 221 (19), jeb182634 (2018)

Tisdale, R. K.; Tieri, L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Beckers, G. J. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Spectral properties of brain activity under two anesthetics and their potential for inducing natural sleep in birds. Frontiers in Neuroscience 12, 881 (2018)

Rattenborg, N. C.; de la Iglesia, H. O.; Kempenaers, B.; Lesku, J. A.; Meerlo, P.; Scriba, M. F.: Sleep research goes wild: New methods and approaches to investigate the ecology, evolution and functions of sleep. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 372 (1734), 20160251 (2017)

Tisdale, R. K.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Sleep-related electrophysiology and behavior of tinamous (Eudromia elegans): Tinamous do not sleep like ostriches. Brain, behavior and evolution: Official journal of the J. B. Johnston Club 89 (4), pp. 249 - 261 (2017)

Aulsebrook, A. E.; Jones, T. M.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Roth, T. C. I.; Lesku, J. A.: Sleep ecophysiology: Integrating neuroscience and ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31 (8), pp. 590 - 599 (2016)

Kelly, M. L.; Peters, R. A.; Tisdale, R. K.; Lesku, J. A.: Unihemispheric sleep in crocodilians? The Journal of Experimental Biology 218 (20), pp. 3175 - 3178 (2015)

Robert, K. A.; Lesku, J. A.; Partecke, J.; Chambers, B.: Artificial light at night desynchronizes strictly seasonal reproduction in a wild mammal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1816), 20151745 (2015)

Beckers, G. J. L.; van der Meij, J.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Plumes of neuronal activity propagate in three dimensions through the nuclear avian brain. BMC Biology 12, 16 (2014)

Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Avian sleep. Current Biology 24 (1), pp. R12 - R14 (2014)

Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Valcu, M.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Kuhn, S.; Kuemmeth, F.; Heidrich, W.; Kempenaers, B.: Adaptive sleep loss in polygynous pectoral sandpipers. Science 337 (6102), pp. 1654 - 1658 (2012)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Lima, S. L.; Lesku, J. A.: Sleep locally, act globally. Neuroscientist 18 (5), pp. 533 - 546 (2012)

Schuster, S.; Zollinger, S. A.; Lesku, J. A.; Brumm, H.: On the evolution of noise-dependent vocal plasticity in birds. Biology Letters 8 (6), pp. 913 - 916 (2012)

Lesku, J. A.; Meyer, L. C. R.; Fuller, A.; Maloney, S. K.; Dell’Omo, G.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Ostriches sleep like platypuses. PLoS One 6 (8), e23203 (2011)

Lesku, J. A.; Vyssotski, A. L.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Wilzeck, C.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Local sleep homeostasis in the avian brain: Convergence of sleep function in mammals and birds? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1717), pp. 2419 - 2428 (2011)

Lesku, J. A.; Roth, T. C. I.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: History and future of comparative analyses in sleep research. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 33 (7), pp. 1024 - 1036 (2009)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lesku, J. A.: Avian sleep homeostasis: Convergent evolution of complex brains, cognition and sleep functions in mammals and birds. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 33 (3), pp. 253 - 270 (2009)

Lesku, J. A.; Bark, R. J.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Predator-induced plasticity in sleep architecture in wild-caught Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus). Behavioural Brain Research 189 (2), pp. 298 - 305 (2008)

Lesku, J. A.; Roth, T. C. I.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.; Lima, S. L.: Phylogenetics and the correlates of mammalian sleep: A reappraisal. Sleep Medicine Reviews 12 (3), pp. 229 - 244 (2008)

Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Increased EEG spectral power density during sleep following short-term sleep deprivation in pigeons (Columba livia): Evidence for avian sleep homeostasis. Journal of sleep research 17 (2), pp. 140 - 153 (2008)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lesku, J. A.; Scriba, M. F.: A bird's eye view of sleep. Science 322 (5901), p. 527 - 527 (2008)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Lesku, J. A.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Lima, S. L.: The non-trivial functions of sleep. Sleep Medicine Reviews 11 (5), pp. 405 - 409 (2007)

Lima, S. L.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Lesku, J. A.; Amlaner, C. J.: Sleeping under the risk of predation. Animal Behaviour 70 (4), pp. 723 - 736 (2005)

Lesku, J. A.; Aulsebrook, A. E.; Kelly, M. L.; Tisdale, R. K.: Evolution of sleep and adaptive sleeplessness. In: Handbook of sleep research, Vol. 30, pp. 299 - 316 (Ed. Dringenberg, H. C.). Elsevier, Academic Press, London, San Diego, Cambridge, Oxford (2019)

Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Sleep in birds. In: Encyclopedia of sleep, pp. 51 - 56 (Ed. Kushida, C. A.). Academic Press, Oxford (2013)

Rattenborg, N. C.; Lesku, J. A.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.: Evolutionary perspectives on the function of REM sleep. In: Rapid eye movement sleep: Regulation and function, pp. 58 - 70 (Eds. Mallick, B. N.; Pandi-Perumal, S. R.; McCarley, R. W.; Morrison, A. R.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2011)

Amlaner, C. J.; Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.: The evolution of sleep. In: Basics of sleep guide, 2 Ed., pp. 11 - 19 (Eds. Amlaner, C. J.; Fuller, P. M.). Sleep Research Society, Westchester (2009)

Lesku, J. A.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Phylogeny and ontogeny of sleep. In: The neuroscience of sleep, pp. 61 - 69 (Eds. Stickgold, R.; Walker, M. P.). Academic Press, Oxford (2009)

Lesku, J. A.; Martinez-Gonzalez, M. D.; Rattenborg, N. C.: Sleep and sleep states: Phylogeny and ontogeny. In: Encyclopedia of neuroscience, pp. 963 - 971 (Ed. Squire, L. R.). Oxford Academic Press, Oxford (2009)

Lesku, J. A.; Rattenborg, N. C.; Amlaner, C. J.: The evolution of sleep: A phylogenetic approach. In: Sleep: A comprehensive handbook, pp. 49 - 61 (Ed. Lee-Chiong, T. L.). John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New Jersey (2006)