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Rie Henriksen

Associate Professor

My research is aimed at understanding the origin of individual differences in behaviour and brain composition in order to answer questions about individual variation in stress resilience.

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I am a researcher within avian developmental and evolutionary biology with a strong background in avian mechanistic studies.

My research is mainly focused on explaining how differences in behaviour and brain composition between individuals of the same species can occur, and what underlying mechanisms enables this. I am especially interested in long-term effects of prenatal stress and the identification of stress sensitive genotypes.

My research can be used to answer fundamental questions about stress resilience and its link to behavioural complexity and brain composition and has direct implications for poultry welfare.

Publications

2025

Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna, Fabio Pertille, Zahra Moradinour, Rebecca Katajamaa, Maria Luisa Martin Cerezo, Rie Henriksen, Per Jensen, Dominic Wright (2025) Selection for Tameness in Red Junglefowl Recapitulates Genetic Loci Associated With Domestication-Related Brain Composition Molecular Ecology (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Kelsey J. Racicot, Jackson R. Ham, Jacqueline K. Augustine, Rie Henriksen, Dominic Wright, Andrew N. Iwaniuk (2024) A Comparison of Telencephalon Composition among Chickens, Junglefowl, and Wild Galliforms Brain, behavior, and evolution, Vol. 99, p. 13-24 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Andrey Hoglund, Rie Henriksen, Allison M. Churcher, Carlos M. Guerrero-Bosagna, Alvaro Martinez-Barrio, Martin Johnsson, Per Jensen, Dominic Wright (2024) The regulation of methylation on the Z chromosome and the identification of multiple novel Male Hyper-Methylated regions in the chicken PLOS Genetics, Vol. 20, Article e1010719 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
E. Gering, Martin Johnsson, Doortje Theunissen, Maria Luisa Martin Cerezo, A. Steep, T. Getty, Rie Henriksen, Dominic Wright (2024) Signals of selection and ancestry in independently feral Gallus gallus populations Molecular Ecology, Vol. 33, Article e17336 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Maria Luisa Martin Cerezo, Saioa Lopez, Lucy van Dorp, Garrett Hellenthal, Martin Johnsson, Eben Gering, Rie Henriksen, Dominic Wright (2023) Population structure and hybridisation in a population of Hawaiian feral chickens Heredity, Vol. 130, p. 154-162 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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