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Wendy Schelsky

Principal Research Scientist, Behavioral Ecology

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

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

Matthews, A. E., Boves, T. J., Percy, K. L., Schelsky, W. M., & Wijeratne, A. J. (2023). Population Genomics of Pooled Samples: Unveiling Symbiont Infrapopulation Diversity and Host–Symbiont Coevolution. Life, 13(10), Article 2054. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13102054

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