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Recipients of 2006 AOU Research Awards

MARK D. BENSON, Western Illinois University
Female cooperation and the evolution of conspecific brood parasitism

JENNIFER BOLLMER, University of Missouri-St. Louis
MHC variation in the endangered Galapagos penguin: the effects of repeated bottlenecks, gene flow, and parasitism

ISABEL CABALLERO, University of Illinois-Chicago
Assessment of genetic variablity on extirpated and reestablished Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) in the midwestern United States

MATTHEW D. CARLING, Louisiana State University
A genomic approach to testing introgression hypotheses in Passerina buntings

DAVID CERASALE, Cornell University
A putative role in the regulation of avian migratory behaviour

ZACHARY A. CHEVIRON, Louisiana State University
Climatological correlates of population genomic structure in the Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis)

LAUREN M. COSTA, Princeton University
Seasonal influences on sleep dynamics in the House Sparrow, Passer domesticus

CAROLINE DINGLE, University of Cambridge
Evolution and function of duets in Henicorhina Wood-wrens

NATALIE DOERR, University of California-Santa Barbara
The effects of decoration supplementation on destructive events at bowers of Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis)

ROU DOR, Tel Aviv University
Genetic heritability of nestling begging and parental response in the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)

JENNIFER FOOTE, Queen's University
Is the dawn chorus of Black-capped Chickadees an interactive communication network?

NEIL GOODENOUGH, University of Western Ontario
Does raising a cowbird nestling exhaust a Song Sparrow parent?

EMMA GREIG, University of Chicago
Honest signaling with apredator-induced call: a study of vocal communication in Splendid Fairy-wrens (Malurus splendens)

ALEX JAHN, University of Florida
Testing proximate hypotheses of bird migration in a forgotten migratory system

VINAY (JULIAN) ANDREW KAPOOR, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Does urban noise promote reproductive isolation in songbirds?

MARI KIMURA, Cornell University
Local coadaptation between avian malaria parasites and mosquito vectors: an experimental approach

ALBERTO MACIAS-DUARTE, University of Arizona
Change in migratory behavior as a possible explanation for population declines of Burrowing Owls in northern latitudes

J. DYLAN MADDOX, University of Illinois
Maternal effects on brood reduction in Common Grackles

MELISSA G. MEADOWS, Arizona State University
Iridescent structural coloration as a status signal in Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna)

MARIA G. PALACIOS, Iowa State University
Effects of age on parental allocation decisions in Tree Swallows

ALEXANDRA ROSE, University of California-Santa Cruz
What generates the latitudinal gradient in clutch size? A comparative study of the importance of day length in breeding populations of Tree Swallows

KIMBERLY ROSVALL, Duke University
Flight ability may explain variation in female aggression: an experimental test using Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)

HEATHER SHULL, Boston University
Malaria resistance and MHC genotype of brood parasitic indigobirds

SARAH B. SMITH, Portland State University
An evaluation of the transmission of cloacal microbes during extra-pair mating in a socially monogramous songbird

MERIDETH SWETT, University of Texas at Austin
The role of prolactin in mediating morph-specific differences in parental effort in the White-throated Sparrow

CHRISTOPHER N. TEMPLETON, University of Washington
Spatial movement patterns and song learning in Song Sparrows

ANDREW VITZ, Ohio State University
Habitat selection and survivorship of post-breeding mature-forest birds

EMILY WHEELER, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Nest microbial ecology, egg defenses and avian reproductive success

STEFAN WOLTMANN, Tulane University
Dispersal of Myrmeciza exsul in a fragmented tropical landscape

Members of the 2006 AOU Research Awards Committee