Publications

 

2023

 

 

Porwal, N., Gangothri, S., Agarwal, H., & Guenther, A. (2023) Does good food make male mice sexy? The influence of diet on male sexually selected traits. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1207480.

 

 

Delacoux, M. ⁺, & Guenther, A. (2023). Stressfulness of the design influences consistency of cognitive measures and their correlation with animal personality traits in wild mice (Mus musculus). Animal Cognition, 1-13.

 

 

Prabh, N., Linnenbrink, M., Jovicic, M., Guenther, A. (2023) Fast adjustment of pace-of-life and risk-taking to changes in food quality by altered gene expression. Ecology letters, 26(1), 99-110.

 

 

Guenther, A., Trillmich, F. (2023) Photoperiod influences the development and the expression of personality traits and social behaviour. Ethology, 129(1), 33-46.

 

2022

 

 

Küçüktaş, M. ⁺, Guenther, A. (2022) Does living in human-altered environments affect life-history and personality of wild mice?. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, Article 892752.

 

2021

 

Kahnau, P., Guenther, A., Boon, M.N., Terzenbach, J.D., Hanitzsch, E., Lewejohann, L., Brust, V. (2021) Lifetime observations of cognition and physiologcal parameters in male mice. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, 209.

 

Vrbanec, L., Matijevic, V., Guenther, A. (2021) Enhanced problem-solving ability as an adaptation to urban environments in house mice. Proceedings of the Roxal Society B, 288(1945), 20202504.

Mazza, V., Guenther, A. (2021) City mice and country mice: innovative problem-solving in rural and urban non-commensal rodents. Animal Behaviour, 172, 197-210.

Guenther, A., Eweleit, L., Trillmich, F. (2021) Fitness consequences of seasonally different life histories? A match-mismatch experiment. Behavioural Ecology, 32(3), 500-507.

2020

 

Hämäläinen, A., Guenther, A., Patrick, S. C., & Schuett, W. (2020). Environmental effects on the covariation among pace-of-life traits. Ethology, 127, 32-44.

Wahedi, A., Guenther, A., Weyrich, A., & Sondheimer, N. (2020). The mitochondrial genome of Cavia aperea. Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 5(3), 2147-2148.

Kniel, N., Guenther, A. Godin, J-G. (2020). Individual personality does not predict learning performance in a foraging context in female guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Animal Behaviour 167, 3-12.

Kraus, S., Krüger, O., Guenther, A. (2020). Zebra finches bi-directionally selected for personality differ in repeatability of corticosterone and testosterone. Hormones and Behavior, 122, 104747.

Trillmich, F., Guenther, A., Jäckel, M., Czirják, G.A. (2020). Reproduction affects immune defenses in the guinea pig even under ad libitum food. PlosOne 15(3): e0230081

Kraus, S., Trillmich, F., Guenther, A. (2020). Within-family environment and cross-fostering stress affect behavior and physiology in wild cavies (Cavia aperea). Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 178.

 

2019

 

Krebs, R., Linnenbrink, M., Guenther, A. (2019) Validating standardised personality tests under semi‐natural conditions in wild house mice (Mus musculus domesticus). Ethology.

Kowalski, G. J., Grimm, V., Herde, A., Guenther, A., Eccard, J. A. (2019) Does Animal Personality Affect Movement in Habitat Corridors? Experiments with Common Voles (Microtus arvalis) using Different Corridor Widths. Animals 9, 291.

Trillmich, F., Geißler, E., Guenther, A. (2019) Senescence and costs of reproduction in the life history of a small precocial species. Ecology and Evolution 9 (12), S. 7069 - 7079.

Wilson, V., Guenther, A., Øverli, Ø., Seltmann, M. W., Altschul, D. (2019) Future directions for personality research: contributing new insights to the understanding of animal behavior. Animals 9 (5), 203.

 

2018

 

Tarka*, M. Guenther*, A., Niemelä, P., Nakagawa, S., Noble, DWA. (2018) Sex differences in life-history, behavior and physiology along a slow-fast continuum: a meta-analysis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72: 132.

Guenther, A., Groothuis, A.G.G., Krüger, O., Goerlich-Jansson, V. (2018) Cortisol during adolescence organises personality traits and behavioural syndromes. Hormones and Behavior 103, 129-139.

Guenther, A., Trillmich, F., Czirják, G.A. (2018) Seasonal effects on behavior and immunity in a precocial rodent, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72, 115.

Hribal, R., Rübensam, K., Bernhardt, S., Jewgenow, K., Guenther, A. (2018). Effect of season on reproductive behaviors and fertilization success in cavies (Cavia aperea). Theriogenology 114, 185-190.

Guenther, A. (2018) Life history trade-offs: are they linked to personality in a precocial mammal? Biology Letters 14, 20180086.

 

2017

 

Guenther, A., Brust, V. (2017). Individual consistency in multiple cognitive performance: behavioural versus cognitive syndromes. Animal Behaviour 130, 119-131.

Brust, V., Guenther, A. (2017). Stability of the guinea pigs personality - cognition linkage over time. Behavioural Processes 134, 4-7. (invited contribution to Special Issue “Individual differences in cognition and personality”)

 

2016

 

Hribal, R., Guenther, A., Rübensam, K., Jewgenow, K. (2016). Blastocyst recovery and multifactorialgene expression analysis in the wild guinea pig (Cavia aperea). Theriogenology 86, 1299-1307.

Finkemeier, M.-A., Trillmich, F., Guenther, A. (2016). Match-Mismatch experiments using photoperiod expose developmental plasticity of personality traits. Ethology 122, 80-93.

 

2015

 

Trillmich, F., Guenther, A., Müller, C., Reinhold, K., Sachser, N. (2015). New perspectives in behavioural development: adaptive shaping of behaviour over a lifetime? Frontiers in Zoology 08/2015; 12(Suppl 1):S1

Von Engelhardt, N., Kowalski, G.J., Guenther, A. (2015). The maternal social environment shapes offspring growth, physiology and behavioural phenotype in guinea pigs. Frontiers in Zoology 08/2015; 12(Suppl 1):S13

Rübensam, K., Hribal, R., Jewgenow, K., Guenther, A. (2015). Seasonally reproductive investment ina medium sized rodent (Cavia aperea). Theriogenology 84, 639–644.

Brust, V. & Guenther, A. (2015). Domestication effects on behavioural traits and learningperformance: comparing wild cavies to guinea pigs. Animal Cognition 18, 99-109.

Guenther, A., Trillmich, F. (2015). Within-litter differences in personality and physiology relate to size differences among siblings in cavies. Physiology & Behavior 145, 22-28.

 

2014

 

Guenther, A., Kowalski, G.; Von Engelhardt, N. (2014). Prenatal social conditions shape offspring adult phenotype and reproductive success. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 68, 1661–1667.

Guenther, A., Palme, R., Dersen, M., Kaiser, S., & Trillmich, F. (2014). Photoperiodic effects on reproductive development in male cavies (Cavia aperea). Physiology & Behavior 123, 142–147.

Guenther, A., Finkemeier, M.-A., Trillmich, F. (2014). The ontogeny of personality in the wild guinea pig. Animal Behaviour 90, 131-139.

Guenther, A., Brust, V., Dersen, M., & Trillmich, F. (2014). Learning and Personality Types Are Related in Cavies (Cavia aperea). Journal of Comparative Psychology 128, 74-81.

Schumann, K., Guenther, A., Trillmich, F., Jewgenow, K. (2014). Animal housing and welfare:effects of housing conditions on body weight and cortisol in a medium sized rodent (Cavia aperea).Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 17, 111-124.

Schumann, K., Guenther, A., Göritz, F., Jewgenov, K. (2014). Characterisation of fetal growth byrepeated ultrasound measurements in the wild guinea pig (Cavia aperea). Theriogenology 82, 490-494.

 

2013

 

Jonker, R. M., Guenther, A., Engqvist, L., & Schmoll, T. (2013). Does systematic variation improve the reproducibility of animal experiments? Nature Methods 10, 373.

Guenther, A., & Trillmich, F. (2013). Photoperiod influences the behavioral and physiological phenotype during ontogeny. Behavioral Ecology 24, 402–411