Publications

(*Corresponding Author; Fresno State Student (underlined); other CSU student^)

Cortez, J.^, Slade, J.W.G., and Van Laar, T.A.* 2025. Reference genome of an irruptive migrant, the pine siskin (Spinus pinus). Journal of Heredity, esaf076. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf076

Her, X., and Slade, J.W.G.* 2025. The effect of urbanization and sampling date on blood immunophysiology and haemosporidian parasitemia in Cardueline finches. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(2): 216-228. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaf076

Doucette, S.A.N., Potvin, D.A., Slade, J.W.G., Watson, M.J. Niroshan M.J. and MacDougall-Shackleton E.A.* 2025. Assortative mating at the innate immune locus TLR3 in song sparrows: opposites do not attract. Animal Behaviour, 224: 123188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123188

Barber, C*., Slade, J., Hornsby, M., Wright, M., Burke, L., Reeve, C., and Howatt, K. 2025. Age and reproductive strategies in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Journal of Ornithology, 166(2): 371-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-024-02233-5

Biehler, L.G., Van Laar, T.A., and Slade, J.W.G.* 2025. Cardueline finches vary in constitutive innate immunity against a harmful strain of avian Salmonella. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 65(1): 119-126. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf005

Van Laar, T.A., Greenberg, J.M., Theis, K.R., Whittaker, D.J., and Slade, J.W.G.* 2024. 16S rRNA gene sequencing of microbiota from the preen oil and cloaca of chipping sparrows (Spizella passerina). Microbiology Resources Announcements, 13(10): e00576-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00576-24

Vinkler, M., Fiddaman, S., Těšický, M., O’Connor, E., Savage, A., Lenze, T., Kaufman, J., Bolnick, D., Davies, C., Dedić, N., Flies, A., Gómez Samblás, M. Henschen, A., Novák, K., Palomar, G., Raven, N., Samake, K., Slade, J., Veetile, N.K., Voukali, E., Höglund, J., Richardson, D., and Westerdahl, H*. 2023. Understanding the evolution of immune genes in jawed vertebrates. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36(6): 847-873. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.14181

Whittaker, D.J., Atyam, A., Burroughs, N.A., Greenberg, J.M., Hagey, T.J., Novotny, M.V., Soini, H.A., Theis, K.R., Van Laar, T.A., and Slade, J.W.G.* 2023. Effects of short-term experimental manipulation of captive social environment on uropygial gland microbiome and preen oil volatile composition. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1027399. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1027399

Van Laar, T.A., Biehler, L., and Slade, J.W.G.* 2022. Draft genome sequence of a multi-drug resistant strain of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolated from a pine siskin (Spinus pinus). Microbiology Resource Announcements, 11(11): e00982-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00982-22

Potvin, D.A.*, Strickland, K., MacDougall-Shackleton, E.A., Slade, J.W.G., and Frère, C.H. 2019. Applying network analysis to birdsong research. Animal Behaviour, 154: 95-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.012

Slade, J.W.G., Watson, M.J., MacDougall-Shackleton, E.A.* 2019. “Balancing” balancing selection? Assortative mating at the major histocompatibility complex despite molecular signatures of balancing selection. Ecology and Evolution, 9(9):5146-5157. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5087

Slade, J.W.G., Watson, M.J. and MacDougall-Shackleton, E.A.* 2017. Birdsong signals individual diversity at the major histocompatibility complex. Biology Letters, 13: 20170430. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0430

Slade, J.W.G., Sarquis-Adamson, Y., Gloor, G.B., Lachance, M-A., and MacDougall-Shackleton, E.A.* 2017. Population differences at MHC do not explain enhanced resistance of song sparrows to local parasites. Journal of Heredity, 108(2): 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esw082

Slade, J.W.G., Watson, M.J., Kelly, T.R., Gloor, G.B., Bernards, M.A., and MacDougall-Shackleton, E.A.* 2016. Chemical composition of preen wax reflects major histocompatibility complex similarity in songbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283(1842): 20161966. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1966