Jessica A. Cusick

Utah Valley University — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

8h-index159citations15works1.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Animal Behavior and Reproduction(4), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior(4), Avian ecology and behavior(3), Primate Behavior and Ecology(3), Gut microbiota and health(2)

Publications15 total

Getting Over It: Maternal Stress and Gut Microbiome Manipulations Do Not Affect Rates of Offspring Habituation During Long Bouts of Stress
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology·2026Open Access
Effects of Simulated Bear Attacks on Thatch Ant (<scp><i>Formica obscuripes</i></scp>) Defense of Honeydew‐Producing Aphids
Ethology·2025
Maternal Stress and Maternal Microbiome Manipulations Remodel Offspring Medial Prefrontal Cortex in a Sex‐Dependent Manner
Developmental Neurobiology·2025· 1 cited
Is it time to get over the X? Assessing the global impact and future of social media conferences in animal behaviour
Animal Behaviour·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Age, Growth, and Functional Gonochorism with a Twist of Diandric Protogyny in Goliath Grouper from the Atlantic Coast of Florida
Fishes·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
An inclusive venue to discuss behavioural biology research: the first global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference
Animal Behaviour·2022· 4 cited
Maternal stress and the maternal microbiome have sex-specific effects on offspring development and aggressive behavior in Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)
Hormones and Behavior·2022· 15 citedOpen Access
The ontogeny of personality: Repeatability of social and escape behaviors across developmental stages in Siberian hamsters (<i>Phodopus sungorus</i>)
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
The call of the wild: using non-model systems to investigate microbiome–behaviour relationships
Journal of Experimental Biology·2021· 34 citedOpen Access
Mercury offloading in gametes and potential adverse effects of high mercury concentrations in blood and tissues of Atlantic Goliath Grouper Epinephelus itajara in the southeastern United States
The Science of The Total Environment·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
Breeder aggression does not predict current or future cooperative group formation in a cooperatively breeding bird
Ethology·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
Manipulated sex ratios alter group structure and cooperation in the brown-headed nuthatch
Behavioral Ecology·2019· 20 citedOpen Access
How do helpers help? Helper contributions throughout the nesting cycle in the cooperatively breeding brown-headed nuthatch
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology·2018· 20 cited
The Dynamic of Aggression: How Individual and Group Factors Affect the Long‐Term Interspecific Aggression Between Two Sympatric Species of Dolphin
Ethology·2014· 23 cited
Does size really matter? How synchrony and size affect the dynamic of aggression between two sympatric species of dolphin in the Bahamas
· 3 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Cara L. Wellman(5), Gregory E. Demas(4), James A. Cox(3), Emily H. DuVal(3), Christopher C. Koenig(2), Felicia C. Coleman(2), Christopher R. Malinowski(2), Kirsty E. Graham(2), Cassandra L. Raby(2), Denise L. Herzing(1), Miguel de Villa(1), Debra J. Murie(1), Daryl C. Parkyn(1), Robert D. Ellis(1), Nicole I. Stacy(1), Carle M. Dugan(1), Natassjia K. Ragbeer(1), Justin R. Perrault(1), Ebi Antony George(1), E.V. Greenway(1)