Peer Review Journals
Fernández-Vargas, M., T. Riede & B. Pasch. Mechanisms and constraints underlying acoustic variation in rodents. Animal Behavior, Special Issue “Constraints on Animal Mating Displays and Implications for Signal Function and Evolution”. Accepted.
Ramírez-Fernández, J.D., F.J. Durán A. & M. Fernández-Vargas. 2020. First record of Tweedy’s Crab-eating Rat Ichthyomys tweedii Anthony, 1921 (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) for Costa Rica. CheckList 16:435-440. link
Fernández-Vargas, M. 2018b. Vocal signals of sexual motivation in male and female rodents. Invited review for Current Sexual Health Reports10:315-328. link
Fernández-Vargas, M. 2018a. Presence of a potential competitor and its individual identity modulate ultrasonic vocalizations in male hamsters. Animal Behaviour 145:11-27. link
Olson, C. R., Fernández-Vargas, M., Portfors, C. V., & Mello, C. V. 2018. Black Jacobin hummingbirds vocalize above the known hearing range of birds. Current Biology, 28(5), R204-R205. link. Popular press about the article include The New York Times and National Geographic.
Fernández-Vargas, M. 2017. Rapid effects of estrogens and androgens on temporal and spectral features in ultrasonic vocalizations, Hormones and Behavior 94: 69-83. link
Fernández-Vargas, M. & R.E. Johnston. 2015. Ultrasonic vocalizations in golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) reveal modest sex differences and nonlinear signals of sexual motivation. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0116789. link
Adkins-Regan, E., N.M. Baran, M. Fernandez-Vargas, E.M. Kelly & K.O. Smiley. 2014. Review of the book “Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior”. Edited by E. Choleris, D.W. Pfaff & M. Kavaliers: Cambridge University Press (2013). Animal Behaviour, 87, 240-241. link
Fernández-Vargas, M. Z. Tang-Martínez & S. Phelps. 2011. Singing, allomarking and allogrooming behavior during inter- and intra- sexual encounters in the Neotropical short-tailed singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina). Behaviour 148: 945-965. link
Fernández-Vargas, M., Z. Tang-Martínez & S. M. Phelps. 2007. Olfactory responses of male and female Neotropical singing mice (Scotinomys teguina) to odors of the mid-ventral sebaceous gland: Discrimination of conspecifics, gender and female reproductive condition. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34:429-437. link
Rodríguez-Herrera, B., D.E. Wilson, M. Fernández & W. Pineda. 2005. La Mastozoología en Costa Rica: historia, recolecta, localidades y composición de especies. Brenesia 63-64:89-112. link
Rodríguez-H, B, W. Pineda, M. Fernández & R.K. LaVal. 2003. First record of Lasiurus intermedius H. Allen (Vespertilionidae) from Costa Rica. Bat Research News. 44(3): 91.
Popular Press
Fernández-Vargas, M. 2018. ¿Se puede elegir ser homosexual? Semanario Universidad, Universidad de Costa Rica. Published online only link
Rodríguez-H, B, M. Fernández & W. Pineda. 2002. Educación Ambiental en torno a murciélagos. Rev. Ambientales (24):61-67. link