Gregory Ball - Recent Papers

MacDougall-Shackleton, S.A., and G.F. Ball (1999) Comparative studies of sex differences in the song control system of songbirds. Trends in Neurosciences, 22: 432-436. [PDF]

Bentley, G.E., Van’t Hof, T., and G.F. Ball (1999) Seasonal neuroplasticity in the songbird telencephalon: A novel role for melatonin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96: 4674-4679

Ball, G.F. (1999) Neuroendocrine basis of seasonal changes in vocal behavior among songbirds. In: M. Hauser and M. Konishi (eds) The Design of Animal Communication, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, pages 213-253.

Gentner TQ, Hulse SH, Duffy D, Ball GF. (2001) Response biases in auditory forebrain regions of female songbirds following exposure to sexually relevant variation in male song. J Neurobiol. 46:48-58. [PDF]

Sockman, K.W., T.Q. Gentner and G.F. Ball (2002) Recent experience modulates forebrain gene-expression in response to mate-choice cues in European starlings. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. , 269: 2479-2485. [PDF]

Riters LV, Eens M, Pinxten R, Ball GF. (2002) Seasonal changes in the densities of alpha(2) noradrenergic receptors are inversely related to changes in testosterone and the volumes of song control nuclei in male European starlings. J Comp Neurol. 444:63-74. [PDF]

Duffy DL, Ball GF. (2002) Song predicts immunocompetence in male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 269:847-52. [PDF]

Ball, G.F., L.V. Riters and J. Balthazart (2002) Neuroendocrinology of song behavior and avian brain plasticity: Multiple sites of action of steroid hormones. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 23: 137-178 [PDF]

Balthazart, J., M. Baillien , T. D. Charlier and G.F. Ball (2003) Calcium- dependent phosphorylation processes control brain aromatase in quail. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 1591-1606 [PDF]

Ball, G.F. and J. Balthazart (2004) Hormonal regulation of brain circuits mediating male sexual behavior in birds, Physiology and Behavior, 83:329-346[PDF]

Sockman, K.W., T.Q. Gentner, and G.F. Ball (2005) Complementary systems for orchestrating mate choice European starlings. Journal of Neurobiology, 62:72-81 [PDF]

Charlier, T.D., G.F. Ball and J. Balthazart (2005) Inhibition of steroid receptor coactivator-1 blocks estrogen and androgen action on male sex behavior and associated brain plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience, 25: 906-913. [PDF]

Sartor, J.J., Balthazart, J., Ball, G.F., (2005)  Coordinated and dissaociated effects of testosterone on singing behavior and song control nuclei in canaries  (Serinus canaria), Hormones and Behavior, 47:467-476. [PDF]

Appeltants, D., T.G. Gentner, S.H. Hulse, G.F. Ball and J. Balthazart (2005)  The effect of auditory distractors on song discrimination in male canaries (Serinus canaria), Behavioral Processes, 69:331-341. [PDF]

Castelino, C. and G.F. Ball (2005)  A role for nonrepinephrine in the regulation of context dependent ZENK expression in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), European Journal of Neuroscience, 21:1962-1972.  [PDF]

Balthazart, J.M., Baillien and G.F. Ball (2006)  Rapid control of brain aromatase activity by glutamatergic inputs.  Endocrinology, 147: 359-366. [PDF]

Cornil, C.A., M. Taziaux, M. Baillien, G.F. Ball, Balthzart, J. (2006)  Rapid effects of aromatase inhibition on male reproductive behaviors in Japense quail.  Hormones and Behavior, 49:45-67. [PDF]

Balthazart, J. and G.F. Ball (2006) Is brain estradiol a hormone or a neurotransmitter? Trends in Neurosciences, 29:241-249. [LINK]

Castelino, C.B., B. Diekamp, and G.F. Ball (2007) Noradrenergic projections to the song control nucleus area X of the medial striatum in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), Journal of Comparative Neurology, 502: 544-562.  [PDF]

Carere, C., G.F. Ball, and J. Balthazart (2007) Sex differences in projections from preoptic area aromatase cells to the periaqeuductal gray in Japanese quail. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 500: 894-907. [PDF]