Mélanie Guigueno

Assistant Professor,
McGill University

Department of Biology
E-mail: melanie.guigueno@mcgill.ca
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Education

- BSc (2003-2007) Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba - MSc (2007-2010) Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba - PhD (2011-2015) Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario


Research

Combining field and laboratory approaches to examine natural behaviour in natural settings and to examine links between behaviour, cognition, and the brain.

QCBS students

Bryan Hughes

Ph.D.
Other (co-)supervisor: Kelly, Debbie, (University of Manitoba)
(Start: 2023)
Evaluating caching behaviour in corvid species along an increasing gradient of food-storing reliance

Anna Lippold

Ph.D.
Other (co-)supervisor: Jonathan Verreault, UQAM
(Start: 2020)
Neural correlates of spatial ability in relation to contaminant exposure in urbanized ring-billed gulls
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Elsa Mardiné

Ph.D.
(Start: 2021, End: 2025)
Cognitive ecology of the obligate brood parasite brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater): sexual selection and neuronal plasticity related to spatial memory
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Chiara Babinski

M.Sc.
Other (co-)supervisor: Jonathan Verreault, Université du Québec à Montréal
(Start: 2023)
Complexity of free-ranging movement and contaminant levels in relation to spatial learning and memory performance in urbanized ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis)

Anya Mueller

B.Sc.
(Start: 2022, End: 2023)
The spatial and temporal intraspecific and interspecific variation in two wild passerine eggshell microbiomes and their effects on host fitness

Relevant QCBS research themes

Examples of species studied

Taeniopygia guttata
Molothrus ater
Setophaga petechia
Molothrus aeneus
Turdus grayi


Publications

29- Place-cell coding in flying birds
Journal Note
Guigueno M F ,
2023 Learning and Behavior (Date Added: 2024-02-26)

28- Cognition and the brain of brood parasitic cowbirds
Journal Article
Sherry, DF, Guigueno, MF
2019 Integrative Zoology (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

27- Sex-specific responses in neuroanatomy of hatchling American kestrels in response to embryonic exposure to the flame retardants bis(2-ethylhexyl)-2,3,4,5-tetrabromophthalate and 2-ethylhexyl-2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoate
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Karouna-Renier, NK, Henry, PFP, Peters, LE, Palace, VP, Letcher, RJ, Fernie, KJ
2018 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

26- Female hatchling American kestrels have a larger hippocampus than males: A link with sexual size dimorphism?
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Karouna-Renier, NK, Henry, PFP, Head, JA, Peters, LE, Palace, VP, Letcher, RJ, Fernie, KJ
2018 Behavioural Brain Research (Date Added: 2018-10-10)

25- Are There Place Cells in the Avian Hippocampus?
Journal Article
Sherry, DF, Grella, SL, Guigueno, MF, White, DJ, Marrone, DF
2017 Brain, Behavior and Evolution (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

24- Assessment of neuroanatomical and behavioural effects of in ovo methylmercury exposure in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
Journal Article
Yu, MS, Eng, ML, Williams, TD, Guigueno, MF, Elliott, JE
2017 NeuroToxicology (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

23- Birds and flame retardants: A review of the toxic effects on birds of historical and novel flame retardants
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Fernie, KJ
2017 Environmental Research (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

22- Status of the three?wattled bellbird (procnias tricarunculatus) in the nicoya mountains, Costa Rica
Journal Article
Stein, AC, Elliott, K, Guigueno, MF, Kalinina, V
2017 Ornitologia Neotropical (Date Added: 2018-08-04)

21- Sex and seasonal differences in hippocampal volume and neurogenesis in brood-parasitic brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater)
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, MacDougall-Shackleton, SA, Sherry, DF
2016 Developmental Neurobiology (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

20- Sex and seasonal differences in neurogenesis and volume of the song-control system are associated with song in brood-parasitic and non-brood-parasitic icterid songbirds
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Sherry, DF, MacDougall-Shackleton, SA
2016 Developmental Neurobiology (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

19- Context-dependent Egr1 expression in the avian hippocampus
Journal Article
Grella, SL, Guigueno, MF, White, DJ, Sherry, DF, Marrone, DF
2016 PLoS ONE (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

18- Sex differences in spatial memory in brown-headed cowbirds: Males outperform females on a touchscreen task
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Macdougall-Shackleton, SA, Sherry, DF
2015 PLoS ONE (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

17- Antoine Joseph Lottinger's first book on the common cuckoo and its fosterers: A rare book with three different title-pages
Journal Article
Watt, D, Sealy, SG, Guigueno, MF
2015 Archives of Natural History (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

16- Brominated flame retardant trends in aquatic birds from the Salish Sea region of the west coast of North America, including a mini-review of recent trends in marine and estuarine birds
Journal Article
Miller, A, Elliott, JE, Elliott, KH, Guigueno, MF, Wilson, LK, Lee, S, Idrissi, A
2015 Science of the Total Environment (Date Added: 2015-01-23)

15- Spatial and temporal trends in brominated flame retardants in seabirds from the Pacific coast of Canada
Journal Article
Miller, A, Elliott, JE, Elliott, KH, Guigueno, MF, Wilson, LK, Lee, S, Idrissi, A
2014 Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

14- Rejection of parasitic eggs in passerine hosts: Size matters more for a non-ejecter
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Sealy, SG, Westphal, AM
2014 Auk (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

13- Female cowbirds have more accurate spatial memory than males
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Snow, DA, MacDougall-Shackleton, SA, Sherry, DF
2014 Biology Letters (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

11- Nest sanitation in passerine birds: Implications for egg rejection in hosts of brood parasites
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Sealy, SG
2012 Journal of Ornithology (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

10- Acceptance of simulated cowbird parasitism in a northern population of red-winged blackbirds
Journal Article
Capper, C-L, Guigueno, MF, Sealy, SG
2012 American Midland Naturalist (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

9- Infrequent ejection of artificial bronzed cowbird (Molothrus aeneus) eggs by the clay-colored thrush (Turdus grayi) in Costa Rica
Journal Article
Rasmussen, JL, Sealy, SG, Guigueno, MF, Elliott, KH
2012 Ornitologia Neotropical (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

8- Factors influencing legacy pollutant accumulation in alpine osprey: Biology, topography, or melting glaciers?
Journal Article
Elliott, JE, Levac, J, Guigueno, MF, Shaw, DP, Wayland, M, Morrissey, CA, Muir, DCG, Elliott, KH
2012 Environmental Science and Technology (Date Added: 2015-01-23)

7- Differential exposure of alpine ospreys to mercury: Melting glaciers, hydrology or deposition patterns?
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Elliott, KH, Levac, J, Wayland, M, Elliott, JE
2012 Environment International (Date Added: 2015-01-23)

6- Determining seabird body condition using nonlethal measures
Journal Article
Jacobs, SR, Elliott, K, Guigueno, MF, Gaston, AJ, Redman, P, Speakman, JR, Weber, J-M
2012 Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (Date Added: 2015-01-23)

5- Cuckoo chicks evicting their nest mates: Coincidental observations by Edward Jenner in England and Antoine Joseph Lottinger in France
Journal Article
Sealy, SG, Guigueno, MF
2011 Archives of Natural History (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

4- How small is too small? Incubation of large eggs by a small host
Journal Article
Stewart, RLM, Guigueno, MF, Sealy, SG
2011 Canadian Journal of Zoology (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

3- Aggression towards egg-removing cowbird elicits clutch abandonment in parasitized yellow warblers, Dendroica petechia
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Sealy, SG
2011 Animal Behaviour (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

2- Clutch abandonment by parasitized yellow warblers: Egg burial or nest desertion?
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Sealy, SG
2010 Condor (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

1- Nest sanitation plays a role in egg burial by yellow warblers
Journal Article
Guigueno, MF, Sealy, SG
2009 Ethology (Date Added: 2019-05-08)

In the media

$2.9 million from the Government of Canada for McGill Research
(Meaghan Thurston, Associate Director, Research Communications) 2022-04-05

$2.9 million from the Government of Canada for McGill Research
(Meaghan Thurston, Associate Director, Research Communications) 2022-04-05

44th SQEBC covers cognitive ecology and animal behaviour
(Julia Kossakowski) 2019-11-12