Publications

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

27. Lopez L, Gil M, Crowley P, Trimmer P, Munson A, Ligocki IY, Michaelangeli M, Sih A. Integrating animal behaviour into multiple stressors research: a conceptual framework. Biological Reviews. Accepted.

26. Culbert BM, Barnett JB, Ligocki IY, Salena MG, Wong MYL, Hamilton IM, Balshine S. 2022. Colourful facial markings are associated with affiliative relationships in wild social groups of cichlid fish. Current Zoology. doi: 10.1093/cz/zoac100

25. Culbert BM, Ligocki IY, Salena MG, Wong MYL, Hamilton IM, Bernier NJ, Balshine S. 2022. Galanin expression varies with parental care and social status in a wild cooperatively breeding fish. Hormones & Behavior, 105275.

24. Culbert BM, Ligocki IY, Salena MG, Wong MYL, Hamilton IM, Aubin-Horth N, Bernier NJ, Balshine S. 2021. Rank- and sex-specific differences in the neuroendocrine regulation of glucocorticoids in a wild group living fish. Hormones & Behavior. 136: 105079.

23. Martin JM, Bertram MG, Blanchfield P, Brand JA, Brodin T, Brooks B, Cerveny D, Lagisz M, Ligocki IY, Michelangeli M, Nakagawa S, Olford JT, Sundin J, Tan H, Wong BBM, McCallum ES. 2021. Understanding the impacts of pharmaceuticals on aquatic wildlife behaviour: a systemic map of evidence protocol. Environmental Evidence, 10:26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-021-00241-z.

22. Culbert BM, Ligocki IY, Salena MG, Wong MYL, Bernier NJ, Hamilton IM, Balshine S. 2021. Glucocorticoids do not promote prosociality in a wild group-living fish. Hormones & Behavior, 104879.

21. Hansen MJ, Ligocki IY, Zillig KE, Steel AE, Todgham AE, Fangue NA. 2020. Risk-taking and locomotion in foraging three-spine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): the effect of nutritional stress is dependent on social context. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74:12.

20. Ligocki IY, Earley RL, Hamilton IM. 2019. How individual and relative size affect participation in territorial defense and cortisol levels in a social fish. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Part A. DOI: 10.1002/jez.2255

19. Ligocki IY, Munson A, Farrar V, Viernes R*, Sih A, Connon RE, Calisi RM. 2019. Environmentally relevant concentrations of bifenthrin affects the expression of estrogen and glucocorticoid receptors in brains of female western mosquitofish. Aquatic Toxicology. 209:121-131.

18. Maytin AK*, Ligocki IY. 2019. Dominance Hierarchy Establishment in the invasive Round Goby, Neogobius melanostomus. Behavioural Processes. 158:41-46.

17. Herrmann SH, Ligocki IY. 2019. Wetlands Ecology and Human Impacts Lab; Connecting Students with Their Local Environment. In: McMahon K, Editor. Tested studies for laboratory teaching. Volume 40. Proceedings of the 39^th Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE).

16. McCluskey EM, Matthews SN, Ligocki IY, Holding ML, Lipps GJ, Hetherington TE. 2018. The importance of historical land use in the maintenance of early successional habitat for a threatened rattlesnake. Global Ecology and Conservation. 3:e00370.

15. Sih A, Ligocki IY, Munson A, Sinn D. 2017. Evolutionary behavioral ecology approaches to integration in the study of animal personalities. Invited comment on Baumert et al. 2017. European Journal of Personality. 31:568-569.

14. Reddon AR, O’Connor CM, Nesjan E, Cameron J, Hellmann JK, Ligocki IY, Marsh-Rollo S, Hamilton IM, Wylie D, Hurd P, Balshine S. 2017. Isotocin neuronal phenotypes differ among social systems in cichlid fishes. Royal Society Open Science. 4(5):170350

13. Ridgway JS, Ligocki IY, Horn JD, Szeyller E, Breitenberger CA. 2017. TA and faculty perceptions of ongoing, personalized teaching assistant professional development: initial lessons and plans for the future. Journal of College Science Teaching. 46(5):73-83.

12. Hellmann JK, Sovic M, Gibbs HL, Reddon AR, O’Connor CM, Ligocki IY, Marsh-Rollo S, Balshine S, Hamilton IM. 2016. Within-group relatedness is correlated with colony-level social structure and reproductive sharing in a social fish. Molecular Ecology. 25: 4001-4013.

11. Reddon AR, O’Connor CM, Ligocki IY, Hellmann JK, Marsh-Rollo S, Hamilton IM, Balshine S. 2016. No evidence for larger brains in cooperatively breeding cichlid fishes. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 94:373-378.

10. Ligocki IY, Earley RL, Hellmann JK, Hamilton IM. 2015. Variation in glucocorticoid levels in relation to direct and third-party interactions in a social cichlid fish. Physiology and Behavior. 151:386-394.

9. Ligocki IY, Reddon AR, Hellmann JK, O’Connor CM, Marsh-Rollo SE, Balshine S, Hamilton IM. 2015. Social status influences responses to unfamiliar conspecifics in a cooperatively breeding fish. Behaviour. 152 1821-1839.

8. Hellmann JK, Ligocki IY, O’Connor CM, Reddon AR, Farmer TM, Marsh-Rollo S, Balshine S, Hamilton IM. 2015. The influence of status and the social environment on energy stores in a social fish. Journal of Fish Biology. 88:4 1321-1334.

7. O’Connor CM, Reddon AR, Ligocki IY, Hellmann JK, Garvy KA, Marsh-Rollo SE, Hamilton IM, Balshine S. 2015. Motivation but not body size influences the dynamics of territorial contests in a wild cichlid fish. Animal Behaviour. 107:19-29.

6. Hellmann JK, Ligocki IY, O’Connor CM, Reddon AR, Garvy KA, Marsh-Rollo SE, Gibbs HL, Balshine S, Hamilton IM. 2015. Reproductive sharing in relation to group and colony-level attributes in a cooperatively breeding fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 282:20150954

5. Hellmann JK, O’Connor CM, Ligocki IY, Farmer TM, Arnold TJ*, Reddon AR, Garvy KA, Marsh-Rollo SE, Balshine S, Hamilton IM. 2015. Evidence for alternative male morphs in a Tanganyikan cichlid fish. Journal of Zoology. 296:116-123.

4. Hellmann JK, Reddon AR, Ligocki IY, O’Connor CM, Garvy KA, Marsh-Rollo SE, Hamilton IM, Balshine S. 2015. Group response to social perturbation: Impacts of isotocin and the social landscape. Animal Behaviour.105:55-62

3. Garvy KA, Hellmann JK, Ligocki IY, Reddon AR, Marsh-Rollo SE, Hamilton IM, Balshine S, O’Connor CM. 2014. Sex and social status affect territorial defence in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish, Neolamprologus savoryi. Hydrobiologia. 748:1 75-85.

2. O’Connor CM, Reddon AR, Hellmann JK, Ligocki IY, Marsh-Rollo SE, Hamilton IM, Balshine S. 2014. A comparative study of an innate immune response in Lamprologine cichlid fishes. Naturwissenschaften. 101:839-849.

1. Hamilton IM, Ligocki IY. 2012. The extended personality: indirect effects of behavioural syndromes on the behaviour of others in a group-living cichlid. Animal Behaviour. 84:659-664.

*Indicates undergraduate coauthor.