Researchers in Healthier Lives

Introduction

I am an ethologist, with a strong track record of theoretically motivated empirical research in the biology of behaviour. My research is focused on understanding how stressful lifetime experience alters behaviour, cognition and biomarkers of health and wellbeing in a range of species including starlings, rhesus macaques and humans. I am specifically interested in understanding the effects of food insecurity experienced both in early life and adulthood. I am interested in applying my findings to bring about improvements in animal welfare and human health and wellbeing. I am committed to improving openness and transparency in behavioural science.

Roles and Responsibilities

Workstream lead in measuring health for the Newcastle Centre for Healthier Lives

Qualifications

1993 DPhil in Animal Behaviour (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

1990: MA in Zoology with Biological Anthropology (University of Oxford, first class honours)

Previous Positions

2009-2012 Reader in Ethology (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University)

2007- 2009 University lecturer (Department of Psychology, Newcastle University)

1998-2007 Royal Society University Research Fellow (Newcastle University)

1995-1998 Wellcome Advanced Training Fellow (University of Oxford/ Duke University)

1993-1995 Postdoctoral RA, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Memberships

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

International Society for Comparative Cognition

Universities' Federation for Animal Welfare

Areas of expertise

Measuring the behaviour of human and non-human animals; telomere dynamics and other biomarkers of stress exposure; understanding the biological and psychological impacts of food insecurity; applications to antisocial behaviour, overeating and obesity and animal welfare.

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Introduction

I am an ethologist, with a strong track record of theoretically motivated empirical research in the biology of behaviour. My research is focused on understanding how stressful lifetime experience alters behaviour, cognition and biomarkers of health and wellbeing in a range of species including starlings, rhesus macaques and humans. I am specifically interested in understanding the effects of food insecurity experienced both in early life and adulthood. I am interested in applying my findings to bring about improvements in animal welfare and human health and wellbeing. I am committed to improving openness and transparency in behavioural science.

Undergraduate Teaching

• PSY2019 Research Assistance (supervisor)
• PSY3097/3096 Psychology empirical project supervisor
• PSY3049 Evolution of Brain and Behaviour (contributing lecturer)

Postgraduate Teaching (MRes)

• MMB8003: The Biological Study of Behaviour (module leader and primary lecturer)
• MMB8045: Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare (contributing lecturer)
• Research project supervisor.

• Articles

  • Stuart KC, Edwards RJ, Cheng Y, Warren WC, Burt DW, Sherwin WB, Hofmeister NR, Werner SJ, Ball GF, Bateson M, Brandley MC, Buchanan KL, Cassey P, Clayton DF, De Meyer T, Meddle SL, Rollins LA. Transcript- and annotation-guided genome assembly of the European starling. Molecular Ecology Resources 2022, 22(8), 3141-3160.
  • Morgan L, Birkler RID, Shaham-Niv S, Dong Y, Wachsman T, Carmi L, Yakobson B, Adler-Abramovich L, Cohen H, Zohar J, Bateson M, Gazit E. Saliva metabolome alterations after acute stress. Scientific Reports 2022, 12(1), 18470.
  • Stuart KC, Sherwin WB, Austin JJ, Bateson M, Eens M, Brandley MC, Rollins LA. Historical museum samples enable the examination of divergent and parallel evolution during invasion. Molecular Ecology 2022, 31(6), 1836-1852.
  • Shinwell J, Bateson M, Nettle D, Pepper GV. Food insecurity and patterns of dietary intake in a sample of UK adults. British Journal of Nutrition 2022, 128(4), 770-777.
  • Bateson M, Nolan R. A Refined Method for Studying Foraging Behaviour and Body Mass in Group-Housed European Starlings. Animals 2022, 12(9), 1159.
  • Iyasere OS, Bateson M, Beard AP, Guy JH. Which factor is more important: Intensity or duration of episodic heat stress on broiler chickens?. Journal of Thermal Biology 2021, 99, 102981.
  • Andrews C, Dunn J, Nettle D, Bateson M. Time perception and patience: individual differences in interval timing precision predict choice impulsivity in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Animal Cognition 2021, 24, 731-745.
  • Iyasere OS, Bateson M, Beard AP, Guy JH. Provision of Additional Cup Drinkers Mildly Alleviated Moderate Heat Stress Conditions in Broiler Chickens. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 2021, 24(2), 188-199.
  • Bateson M, Andrews C, Dunn J, Egger CBCM, Gray F, McHugh M, Nettle D. Food insecurity increases energetic efficiency, not food consumption: An exploratory study in European starlings. PeerJ 2021, 9.
  • Andrews C, Zuidersma E, Verhulst S, Nettle D, Bateson M. Exposure to food insecurity increases energy storage and reduces somatic maintenance in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Royal Society Open Science 2021, 8(9), 211099.
  • Poirier C, Bateson M, Gualtieri F, Armstrong EA, Laws GC, Boswell T, Smulders TV. Validation of hippocampal biomarkers of cumulative affective experience. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2019, 101, 113-121.
  • Bateson M, Aviv A, Bendix L, Benetos A, Ben-Shlomo Y, Bojesen SE, Cooper C, Cooper R, Deary IJ, Hagg S, Harris SE, Kark JD, Kronenberg F, Kuh D, Labat C, Martin-Ruiz CM, Meyer C, Nordestgaard BG, Penninx BWJH, Pepper GV, Revesz D, Said MA, Starr JM, Syddall H, Thomson WM, Van Der Harst P, Whooley M, Von Zglinicki T, Willeit P, Zhan Y, Nettle D. Smoking does not accelerate leucocyte telomere attrition: A meta-analysis of 18 longitudinal cohorts. Royal Society Open Science 2019, 6(6), 190420.
  • Poirier C, Oliver CJ, Castellano Bueno J, Flecknell P, Bateson M. Pacing behaviour in laboratory macaques is an unreliable indicator of acute stress. Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 7476.
  • Nettle D, Bateson M. Food-Insecure Women Eat a Less Diverse Diet in a More Temporally Variable Way: Evidence from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2013-4. Journal of Obesity 2019, 2019, 7174058.
  • Godsell S, Randle M, Bateson M, Nettle D. Food insecurity moderates the acute effect of subjective socioeconomic status on food consumption. Frontiers in Psychology 2019, 10, 1886.
  • Dunn J, Andrews C, Nettle D, Bateson M. Developmental history, energetic state and choice impulsivity in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Animal Cognition 2019, 22(3), 413-421.
  • Gott A, Andrews C, Bedford T, Nettle D, Bateson M. Developmental history and stress responsiveness are related to response inhibition, but not judgement bias, in a cohort of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Animal Cognition 2019, 22, 99-111.
  • Bateson M, Eisenberg DTA, Nettle D. Controlling for baseline telomere length biases estimates of the rate of telomere attrition. Royal Society Open Science 2019, 6(10), 190937.
  • Nettle D, Seeker L, Nussey D, Froy H, Bateson M. Consequences of measurement error in qPCR telomere data: A simulation study. PLoS ONE 2019, 14(5).
  • Bateson M, Poirier C. Can biomarkers of biological age be used to assess cumulative lifetime experience?. Animal Welfare 2019, 28(1), 41-56.
  • Bateson M, Nettle D. Why are there associations between telomere length and behaviour?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2018, 373, 20160438.
  • Pepper G, Bateson M, Nettle D. Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Royal Society Open Science 2018, 5(8), 180744.
  • Nettle D, Joly M, Broadbent E, Smith C, Tittle E, Bateson M. Opportunistic food consumption in relation to childhood and adult food insecurity: An exploratory correlational study. Appetite 2018, 132, 222-229.
  • Dunn J, Andrews C, Nettle D, Bateson M. Evaluating the cyclic ratio schedule as an assay of feeding behaviour in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris). PLOS One 2018, 13(10), e0206363.
  • Dunn J, Andrews C, Nettle D, Bateson M. Early-life begging effort reduces adult body mass but strengthens behavioural defence of the rate of energy intake in European starlings. Royal Society Open Science 2018, 5, 171918.
  • Gott A, Andrews C, Hormigos ML, Spencer K, Bateson M, Nettle D. Chronological age, biological age, and individual variation in the stress response in the European starling: A follow-up study. PeerJ 2018, 6, e5842.
  • van Berkel M, Bateson M, Nettle D, Dunn J. Can starlings use a reliable cue of future food deprivation to adaptively modify foraging and fat reserves?. Animal Behaviour 2018, 142, 147-155.
  • Andrews C, Nettle D, Reichert S, Bedford T, Monaghan P, Bateson M. A marker of biological ageing predicts adult risk preference in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Behavioral Ecology 2018, 29(3), 589-597.
  • Iyasere OS, Edwards SA, Bateson M, Mitchell M, Guy JH. Validation of an intramuscularly-implanted microchip and a surface infrared thermometer to estimate core body temperature in broiler chickens exposed to heat stress. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 2017, 133, 1-8.
  • Bateson M, Nettle D. The telomere lengthening conundrum – it could be biology. Aging Cell 2017, 16(2), 312-319.
  • Poirier C, Bateson M. Pacing stereotypies in laboratory rhesus macaques: Implications for animal welfare and the validity of neuroscientific findings. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2017, 83, 508-515.
  • Robertson BA, Rathbone L, Cirillo G, D'Eath RB, Bateson M, Boswell T, Wilson PW, Dunn IC, Smulders TV. Food restriction reduces neurogenesis in the avian hippocampal formation. PLoS ONE 2017, 12(12), e0189158.
  • Nettle D, Andrews C, Bateson M. Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2017, 40, e105.
  • Iyasere OS, Beard AP, Guy JH, Bateson M. Elevated levels of the stress hormone, corticosterone, cause ‘pessimistic’ judgment bias in broiler chickens. Scientific Reports 2017, 7, 6860.
  • Bedford T, Oliver CJ, Andrews C, Bateson M, Nettle D. Effects of early-life adversity and sex on dominance in European starlings. Animal Behaviour 2017, 128, 51-60.
  • Nettle D, Andrews C, Reichert S, Bedford T, Kolenda C, Parker C, Martin-Ruiz C, Monaghan P, Bateson M. Early-life adversity accelerates cellular ageing and affects adult inflammation: Experimental evidence from the European starling. Scientific Reports 2017, 7, 40794.
  • Henry S, Fureix C, Rowberry R, Bateson M, Hausberger M. Do horses with poor welfare show 'pessimistic' cognitive biases?. The Science of Nature 2017, 104(1-2), 8.
  • Neville V, Andrews C, Nettle D, Bateson M. Dissociating the effects of alternative early-life feeding schedules on the development of adult depression-like phenotypes. Scientific Reports 2017, 7, 14823.
  • Nettle D, Bateson M. Detecting telomere elongation in longitudinal datasets: Analysis of a proposal by Simons, Stulp and Nakagawa. PeerJ 2017, 2017(4), e3265.
  • Nettle D, Bateson M. Childhood and adult socioeconomic position interact to predict health in mid life in a cohort of British women. PeerJ 2017, 5, e3528.
  • Nettle D, Andrews C, Bateson M. Adaptive principles of weight regulation: Insufficient, but perhaps necessary, for understanding obesity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2017, 40, e131.
  • Andrews C, Nettle D, Larriva M, Gillespie R, Reichert S, Brilot BO, Bedford T, Monaghan P, Spencer KA, Bateson M. A marker of biological age explains individual variation in the strength of the adult stress response. Royal Society Open Science 2017, 4, 171208.
  • Bateson M. Cumulative stress in research animals: Telomere attrition as a biomarker in a welfare context?. BioEssays 2016, 38(2), 201-212.
  • Nettle D, Andrews C, Reichert S, Bedford T, Gott A, Parker C, Kolenda C, Martin-Ruiz C, Monaghan P, Bateson M. Brood size moderates associations between relative size, telomere length, and immune development in European starling nestlings. Ecology and Evolution 2016, 6(22), 8138-8148.
  • Lee C, Verbeek E, Doyle R, Bateson M. Attention bias to threat indicates anxiety differences in sheep. Biology Letters 2016, 12(6).
  • Bateson M, Robinson R, Abayomi-Cole T, Greenlees J, O'Connor A, Nettle D. Watching eyes on potential litter can reduce littering: evidence from two field experiments. PeerJ 2015, 3, e1443.
  • Bateson M, Emmerson M, Ergün G, Monaghan P, Nettle D. Opposite Effects of Early-Life Competition and Developmental Telomere Attrition on Cognitive Biases in Juvenile European Starlings. PLoS ONE 2015, 10(7), e0132602.
  • O'Hagan D, Andrews CP, Bedford T, Bateson M, Nettle D. Early life disadvantage strengthens flight performance trade-offs in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Animal Behaviour 2015, 102, 141-148.
  • Andrews C, Viviani J, Egan E, Bedford T, Brilot B, Nettle D, Bateson M. Early life adversity increases foraging and information gathering in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Animal Behaviour 2015, 109, 123-132.
  • Bateson M, Brilot BO, Gillespie R, Monaghan P, Nettle D. Developmental telomere attrition predicts impulsive decision-making in adult starlings. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2015, 282(1799), 20142140.
  • Nettle D, Andrews CP, Monaghan P, Brilot BO, Bedford T, Gillespie R, Bateson M. Developmental and familial predictors of adult cognitive traits in the European starling. Animal Behaviour 2015, 107, 239-248.
  • Bateson M, Nettle D. Development of a cognitive bias methodology for measuring low mood in chimpanzees. PEERJ 2015, 3, e998.
  • Nettle D, Monaghan P, Gillespie R, Brilot B, Bedford T, Bateson M. An experimental demonstration that early-life competitive disadvantage accelerates telomere loss. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2015, 282, 20141610.
  • Hunter JE, Butterworth J, Perkins ND, Bateson M, Richardson CA. Using body temperature, food and water consumption as biomarkers of disease progression in mice with Eμ-myc lymphoma. British Journal of Cancer 2014, 110, 928-934.
  • Bloxham L, Bateson M, Bedford T, Brilot B, Nettle D. The memory of hunger: developmental plasticity of dietary selectivity in the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris. Animal Behaviour 2014, 91, 33-40.
  • Dixon LM, Brocklehurst S, Sandilands V, Bateson M, Tolkamp BJ, D'Eath RB. Measuring Motivation for Appetitive Behaviour: Food-Restricted Broiler Breeder Chickens Cross a Water Barrier to Forage in an Area of Wood Shavings without Food. PLoS ONE 2014, 9(7), e102322.
  • Bateson M, Tovée MJ, George HR, Gouws A, Cornelissen PL. Humans are not fooled by size illusions in attractiveness judgements. Evolution & Human Behavior 2014, 35(2), 133-139.
  • Fathi M, Bateson M, Nettle D. Effects of Watching Eyes and Norm Cues on Charitable Giving in a Surreptitious Behavioral Experiment. Evolutionary Psychology 2014, 12(5), 878-887.
  • Barnett CA, Bateson M, Rowe C. Better the devil you know: Avian predators find variation in prey toxicity aversive. Biology Letters 2014, 10(11), 1-4.
  • Nettle D, Harper Z, Kidson A, Stone R, Penton-Voak IS, Bateson M. The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: it's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something. Evolution and Human Behavior 2013, 34(1), 35-40.
  • Nettle D, Cronin KA, Bateson M. Responses of chimpanzees to cues of conspecific observation. Animal Behaviour 2013, 86(3), 595-602.
  • Feenders G, Bateson M. Hand rearing affects emotional responses but not basic cognitive performance in European starlings. Animal Behaviour 2013, 86(1), 127-138.
  • Jayne K, Feenders G, Bateson M. Effects of developmental history on the behavioural responses of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) to laboratory husbandry. Animal Welfare 2013, 22(1), 67-78.
  • Bateson M, Callow L, Holmes JR, Roche MLR, Nettle D. Do Images of 'Watching Eyes' Induce Behaviour That Is More Pro-Social or More Normative? A Field Experiment on Littering. PLoS ONE 2013, 8(12), e82055.
  • Dixon LM, Sandilands V, Bateson M, Brocklehurst S, Tolkamp BJ, D'Eath RB. Conditioned place preference or aversion as animal welfare assessment tools: Limitations in their application. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2013, 148(1-2), 164-176.
  • Eens M, Jaspers VLB, Van den Steen E, Bateson M, Carere C, Clergeau P, Costantini D, Dolenec Z, Elliott JE, Flux J, Gwinner H, Halbrook RS, Heeb P, Mazgajski TD, Moksnes A, Polo V, Soler JJ, Sinclair R, Veiga JP, Williams TD, Covaci A, Pinxten R. Can starling eggs be useful as a biomonitoring tool to study organohalogenated contaminants on a worldwide scale?. Environment International 2013, 51, 141-149.
  • Nettle D, Monaghan P, Boner W, Gillespie R, Bateson M. Bottom of the Heap: Having Heavier Competitors Accelerates Early-Life Telomere Loss in the European Starling, Sturnus vulgaris. PLoS One 2013, 8(12), e83617.
  • Brilot BO, Nettle D, Whittingham MJ, Bateson M, Read JCA. When is general wariness favored in avoiding multiple predators?. The American Naturalist 2012, 179(6), E180-E195.
  • Brilot BO, Bateson M. Water bathing alters threat perception in starlings. Biology Letters 2012, 8(3), 379-381.
  • Feenders G, Bateson M. The development of stereotypic behavior in caged european starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Developmental Psychobiology 2012, 54(8), 773-784.
  • Douglas C, Bateson M, Walsh C, Bédué A, Edwards SA. Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive biases in pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2012, 139(1-2), 65-73.
  • Barnett CA, Skelhorn J, Bateson M, Rowe C. Educated predators make strategic decisions to eat defended prey according to their toxin content. Behavioral Ecology 2012, 23(2), 418-424.
  • Nettle D, Nott K, Bateson M. 'Cycle Thieves, We Are Watching You': Impact of a Simple Signage Intervention against Bicycle Theft. PLoS One 2012, 7(12), e51738.
  • Morgan KV, Hurly TA, Bateson M, Asher L, Healy SD. Context-dependent decisions among options varying in a single dimension. Behavioural Processes 2012, 89(2), 115-120.
  • Feenders G, Bateson M. Hand-Rearing Reduces Fear of Humans in European Starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(2), e17466.
  • Feenders G, Klaus K, Bateson M. Fear and Exploration in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris): A Comparison of Hand-Reared and Wild-Caught Birds. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(4), e19074.
  • Brydges NM, Leach M, Nicol K, Wright R, Bateson M. Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats. Animal Behaviour 2011, 81(1), 169-175.
  • Ernest-Jones M, Nettle D, Bateson M. Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment. Evolution and Human Behavior 2011, 32(3), 172-178.
  • Salmeto AL, Hymel KA, Carpenter EC, Brilot BO, Bateson M, Sufka KJ. Cognitive bias in the chick anxiety-depression model. Brain Research 2011, 1373, 124-130.
  • Bateson M, Desire S, Gartside SE, Wright GA. Agitated honeybees exhibit pessimistic cognitive biases. Current Biology 2011, 21(12), 1070-1073.
  • Bateson M, Feenders G. The Use of Passerine Bird Species in Laboratory Research: Implications of Basic Biology for Husbandry and Welfare. ILAR Journal 2010, 51(4), 394-408.
  • Brilot BO, Asher L, Bateson M. Stereotyping starlings are more 'pessimistic'. Animal Cognition 2010, 13(5), 721-731.
  • Brilot BO, Asher L, Bateson M. Water bathing alters the speed-accuracy trade-off of escape flights in European starlings. Animal Behaviour 2009, 78(4), 801-807.
  • Asher L, Davies TTO, Bertenshaw C, Cox MAA, Bateson M. The effects of cage volume and cage shape on the condition and behaviour of captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2009, 116(2-4), 286-294.
  • Brilot BO, Asher L, Feenders G, Bateson M. Quantification of abnormal repetitive behaviour in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Behavioural Processes 2009, 82(3), 256-264.
  • Cornelissen PL, Tovee MJ, Bateson M. Patterns of subcutaneous fat deposition and the relationship between body mass index and waist-to-hip ratio: Implications for models of physical attractiveness. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2009, 256(3), 343-350.
  • Brilot BO, Normandale CL, Parkin A, Bateson M. Can we use starlings' aversion to eyespots as the basis for a novel 'cognitive bias' task?. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2009, 118(3-4), 182-190.
  • Asher L, Kirkden RD, Bateson M. An empirical investigation of two assumptions of motivation testing in captive starlings (Sturnus vulgaris): Do animals have an energy budget to 'spend'? and does cost reduce demand?. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2009, 118(3-4), 152-160.
  • Matheson SM, Asher L, Bateson M. Larger, enriched cages are associated with 'optimistic' response biases in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Applied Animal Behaviour Science 2008, 109(2-4), 374-383.
  • Barnett CA, Bateson M, Rowe C. State-dependent decision making: educated predators strategically trade off the costs and benefits of consuming aposematic prey. Behavioral Ecology 2007, 18(4), 645-651.
  • Bateson M, Matheson S. Performance on a categorisation task suggests that removal of environmental enrichment induces 'pessimism' in captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Animal Welfare 2007, 16(supplement 1), 33-36.
  • Smith KL, Tovee MJ, Hancock PJB, Bateson M, Cox MAA, Cornelissen PL. An analysis of body shape attractiveness based on image statistics: Evidence for a dissociation between expressions of preference and shape discrimination. Visual Cognition 2007, 15(8), 927-953.
  • Henderson J, Hurly TA, Bateson M, Healy SD. Timing in free-living rufous hummingbirds, Selasphorus rufus. Current Biology 2006, 16(5), 512-515.
  • Matell MS, Bateson M, Meck WH. Single-trials analyses demonstrate that increases in clock speed contribute to the methamphetamine-induced horizontal shifts in peak-interval timing functions. Psychopharmacology 2006, 188(2), 201-212.
  • Bateson M, Nettle D, Roberts G. Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting. Biology Letters 2006, 2(3), 412-414.
  • Bateson M. Comparative evaluation in mate choice. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 2006, 37, xxx-xxx.
  • Bateson M. Mechanisms of decision-making and the interpretation of choice tests. Animal Welfare 2004, 13(supplement 1), S115-S120.
  • Bateson M, Healy SD, Hurly TA. Context-dependent foraging decisions in rufous hummingbirds. Proceedings of The Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 2003, 270(1521), 1271-1276.
  • Bateson M. Recent advances in our understanding of risk-sensitive foraging preferences. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2002, 61(4), 509-516.
  • Bateson M, Healy SD, Hurly TA. Irrational choices in hummingbird foraging behaviour. Animal Behaviour 2002, 63(3), 587-596.
  • Bateson M. Context-dependent foraging choices in risk-sensitive starlings. Animal Behaviour 2002, 64(2), 251-260.
  • Baragiotta A, James OFW, Craig W, Mitchison H, Burke D, Bateson M, Trewby P, Macklon A, Bassendine MF. Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH): Clinical spectrum of disease defined by revised international autoimmune hepatitis group (IAHG) scoring system. Journal of Hepatology 2002, 36(s1), 261 abstract no. 942.
  • Bean D, Mason GJ, Bateson M. Contrafreeloading in starlings: Testing the information hypothesis. Behaviour 1999, 136(10), 1267-1282.

• Authored Book

  • Bateson M, Martin P. Measuring Behaviour: An Introductory Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

• Book Chapters

  • Bateson M, Asher L. The European starling. In: Hubrecht, R & Kirkwood, J, ed. The UFAW Handbook on The Care and Management of Laboratory and Other Research Animals. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp.697-705.
  • Bateson M. Rational choice behaviour: definitions and evidence. In: Breed, MD; Moore, J, ed. Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour. Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2010, pp.13-19.
  • Bateson M, Cornelissen PL, Tovée MJ. Methodological issues in judgements of female body Attractiveness. In: Furnham, A; Swami, V, ed. The Body Beautiful: Evolutionary and Socio-cultural Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.46-62.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Baragiotta AM, Craig WL, James OFW, Mitchison HC, Burke DA, Bateson M, Trewby PN, Macklon AF, Bassendine MF, N England Autoimmune Liver Dis Grp. Validation of the revised International Autoimmune Hepatitis Group (IAHG) scoring system: Experience in the north of England. In: British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting. 2001, Glasgow, UK: BMJ Group.
  • Baragiotta M, Craig W, James O, Mitchison H, Burke D, Bateson M, Trewby P, Bassendine M. Is the revised international autoimmune hepatitis group (IAHG) scoring system useful?. In: Journal of Hepatology. 2001, Elsevier BV.
  • Baragiotta AM, Craig W, James O, Mitchison H, Burke D, Bateson M, Trewby P, Macklon A. Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), in men. In: Journal of Hepatology. 2001, Elsevier BV.

• Editorials

  • Bateson M. Melissa Bateson. Current Biology 2015, 25(14), R591-R593.
  • Bateson M. Of (stressed) mice and men. Nature Methods 2014, 11(6), 623-624.
  • Bateson M, Brilot B, Nettle D. Anxiety: An Evolutionary Approach. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2011, 56(12), 707-715.
  • Flecknell P, Leach M, Bateson M. Affective state and quality of life in mice. Pain 2011, 152(5), 963-964.
  • Bateson M, Healy SD. Comparative evaluation and its implications for mate choice. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2005, 20(12), 659-664.
  • Bateson P, Bateson M. Post-weaning feeding problems in young domestic cats - A new hypothesis. The Veterinary Journal 2002, 163(2), 113-114.

• Reviews

  • Bateson M. Optimistic and pessimistic biases: a primer for behavioural ecologists. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2016, 12, 115-121.
  • Hills TT, Todd PM, Lazer D, Redish AD, Couzin ID, Bateson M, Cools R, Dukas R, Giraldeau L-A, Macy MW, Page SE, Shiffrin RM, Stephens DW, Wolfe JW. Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2015, 19(1), 46-54.
  • Nettle D, Bateson M. Adaptive developmental plasticity: what is it, how can we recognize it and when can it evolve?. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 2015, 282(1812), 23-31.
  • Nettle D, Bateson M. The Evolutionary Origins of Mood and Its Disorders. Current Biology 2012, 22(17), R712-R721.
  • Asher L, Bateson M. Use and husbandry of captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in scientific research: A review of current practice. Laboratory Animals 2008, 42(2), 111-126.