Additional Campus Affiliations
Principal Research Scientist, Behavioral Ecology, Illinois Natural History Survey
Recent Publications
Antonson, N. D., Schelsky, W. M., Tolman, D., Kilner, R. M., & Hauber, M. E. (2025). Niche Construction Through an Optimal Host Brood Size Is Supported in Brown-Headed Cowbirds: A Response to M. Soler. Ethology, 131(2), Article e13530. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13530
Lipshutz, S. E., Hibbins, M. S., Bentz, A. B., Buechlein, A. M., Empson, T. A., George, E. M., Hauber, M. E., Rusch, D. B., Schelsky, W. M., Thomas, Q. K., Torneo, S. J., Turner, A. M., Wolf, S. E., Woodruff, M. J., Hahn, M. W., & Rosvall, K. A. (2025). Repeated behavioural evolution is associated with convergence of gene expression in cavity-nesting songbirds. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 9(5), 845-856. Article 2651. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02675-x
Rudzki, E. N., Antonson, N. D., Jones, T. M., Schelsky, W. M., Trevelline, B. K., Hauber, M. E., & Kohl, K. D. (2024). Host avian species and environmental conditions influence the microbial ecology of brood parasitic brown-headed cowbird nestlings: What rules the roost? Molecular ecology, 33(6), Article e17289. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17289
Scharf, H. M., Hauber, M. E., Blumentritt, E., & Schelsky, W. M. (2024). Sexual size dimorphism of brood-parasitic nestlings does not affect host chick survival, size or fledging phenology. Animal Behaviour, 217, 73-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.08.019
Matthews, A. E., Boves, T. J., Sweet, A. D., Ames, E. M., Bulluck, L. P., Johnson, E. I., Johnson, M., Lipshutz, S. E., Percy, K. L., Raybuck, D. W., Schelsky, W. M., Tonra, C. M., Viverette, C. B., & Wijeratne, A. J. (2023). Novel insights into symbiont population structure: Globe-trotting avian feather mites contradict the specialist–generalist variation hypothesis. Molecular ecology, 32(19), 5260-5275. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17115