Prof. Dr. sylvia kaiser (apl.)

• 2026
• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2001
• 2000
• 1998
• 1997
• 1996

2026

• Quante, SM, Groneberg, E, Kaiser, S, und Richter, SH. 2026. „The sound of silence: sex and individual differences in rat ultrasonic vocalization.“ Behavioural Brain Research 496 115823. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2025.115823.

2025

• Bauhus, Marc B., Wander, Luise, Boy, David, Santacruz, Ana, Maldonado, Ernesto, Kurtz, Joachim, Kaiser, Sylvia, und Peuß, Robert. 2025. „Environmental dynamics influence scale cortisol levels in Mexican cavefish.“ Preprint. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2025.03.09.642216.
• Richter, SH, Caspers, B, Dammhahn, M, und Kaiser, S. 2025. „Animal research revisited - the case of behavioural studies.“ Trends in Ecology & Evolution 40 (2): 99–103. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.014.
• Bračić, M, Bierbaum, L, Peng, M, Nimalavachchlan, L, Siewert, V, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2025. „The behavioural ecology of optimism: judgement bias and foraging under predation risk in mice.“ Animal Behaviour 219 122991. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.10.005.
• Siewert, V, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2025. „Optimism and pessimism: a concept for behavioural ecology.“ Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 100: 1152–1162. doi: 10.1111/brv.13178.
• Groneberg, E, Richter, SH, und Kaiser, S. 2025. „Task complexity matters: investigating behavioural lateralization in rats.“ Animal Behaviour 123118. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123118.
• Quante, SM, Mundinger, C, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, und Richter, SH. 2025. „What it is like to be an optimist: temporal stability of cognitive bias in rats and its link to other individual traits.“ Animal Behaviour 224 123202. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123202.
• Groneberg, E, Richter, SH, und Kaiser, S. 2025. „Is Paw Preference in Rats Influenced by Environmental Novelty?“ Ethology 131: 77–93. doi: 10.1111/eth.13580.

2024

• Schulte, L, Oswald, P, Mühlenhaupt, M, Ossendorf, E, Kruse, S, Kaiser, S, und Caspers, BA. 2024. „Stress response of fire salamander larvae differs between habitat types.“ Royal Society Open Science 11 (4) 231304. doi: 10.1098/rsos.231304.
• Rystrom, TL, Wesseler, Y, Richter, SH, Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2024. „Shaped by you: The effect of social partner on cortisol and behavior during adolescence in a female rodent.“ Ethology 130 e13414. doi: 10.1111/eth.13414.
• Kaiser, M, Gadau, J, Kaiser, S, Müller, C, und Richter, SH. 2024. „Individualized social niches in animals: Theoretical clarifications and processes of niche change.“ BioScience 74: 146–158. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biad122.
• Rystrom, TL, Richter, SH, Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2024. „Social niche shapes social behavior and cortisol concentrations during adolescence in female guinea pigs.“ Hormones and Behavior 162 (105539). doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105539.
• Kaiser, M.I., Killin, A., Abendroth, A.-K., Back, M.D., Baune, B.T., Bilstein, N., Breitmoser, Y., Caspers, B.A., Gadau, J., Gossmann, T.I., Kaiser, S., Krüger, O., Kurtz, J.Lengersdorf, D., Malsch, A., K. FMüller, C., Rauthmann J.F., Reinhold, K., Richter, S.H., Stummer, C., Trappes, R., Voelcker-Rehage, C., und Wittmann, M.J. 2024. „Individualisation and individualised science across disciplinary perspectives.“ European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (41) 41. doi: 10.1007/s13194-024-00602-8.
• Kaiser, S, Krüger, C, und Sachser, N. 2024. „The guinea pig.“ In The UFAW handbook on the care and management of laboratory and other research animals, herausgegeben von H Golledge und C Richardson. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Sroka, MGU, Ambree, O, Dohmen, C, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, und Richter, SH. 2024. „Personality matters – The interplay between consistent individual differences and mouse welfare in female C57BL6/J mice.“ Frontiers in Animal Science 5 (14238). doi: 10.3389/fanim.2024.1423814.
• Göbel, M., Kaiser, S., Richter, S.H., Wagner, P., und Wehrenberg, G. 2024. „Specifically Unspecific – Simple Devices as Feasible and Effective Enrichment for Small Mammals.“ Animal Behavior and Cognition 11 (3): 305–329. doi: 10.26451/abc.11.03.05.2024.
• Pereira, H, Hoffman, JI, Krüger, O, Czirják, GA, Rinaud, T, Ottensmann, M, Gladow, K-P, . Caspers, BA, Maraci, Ö, Kaiser, S, und Chakarov, N. 2024. „The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis in a wild vertebrate: dynamic interactions and health impacts.“ Frontiers in Microbiology 15. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1413976.

2023

• Stieger, B, Wesseler, Y, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2023. „Behavioral lateralization of mice varying in serotonin transporter genotype.“ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 16 1095567. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.1095567.
• Kaiser, S, Korte, A, Wistuba, J, Baldy, M, Wissmann, A, Dubičanac, A, Richter, SH, und Sachser, N. 2023. „Effects of castration and sterilization on cortisol responsiveness – a case study in male guinea pigs.“ Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9 (1093157). doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.1093157.
• Quante, SM, Siewert, V, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und SH, Richter. 2023. „The power of a touch: Regular touchscreen training but not its termination affects hormones and behavior in mice.“ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 17. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1112780.
• Mutwill, AM, Schielzeth, H, Richter, SH, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2023. „Conditional on the social environment? Roots of repeatability in hormone concentrations of male guinea pigs.“ Hormones and Behavior 155 105423.
• Bohn, L, Bierbaum, L, Kästner, N, von Kortzfleisch, VT, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2023. „Structural enrichment for laboratory mice: exploring the effects of novelty and complexity.“ Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10 1207332. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1207332.

2022

• Lilie, ND, Riyahi, S, Kalinowski, A, Salazar, SM, Kaiser, S, Schmoll, T, und Korsten, P. 2022. „Male social niche conformance? Effects of manipulated opportunity for extra-pair mating on behavior and hormones of male zebra finches.“ Hormones and Behavior 146: 105243–105243. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105243.
• Kaiser, S, und Richter, SH. 2022. „Don’t worry, be happy? Ein verhaltensbiologischer Blick auf das Gefühlsleben der Tiere.“ In Das unterschätzte Tier, herausgegeben von N Sachser, N Kästner und T Zimmermann. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag.
• Stieger, B, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2022. „When left is right: The effects of paw preference training on behaviour in mice.“ Behavioural Brain Research 430 (113929).
• Von Kortzfleisch, VT, Ambrée, O, Karp, NA, Meyer, N, Novak, J, Palme, R, Rosso, M, Touma, C, Würbel, H, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2022. „Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies?“ PLoS Biology 20(3) (e3001564). doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001564.
• Rystrom, TL, Prawitt, RC, Richter, SH, Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2022. „Repeatability of endocrine traits and dominance rank in female guinea pigs.“ Frontiers in Zoology 19 (1): 4.. doi: 10.1186/s12983-021-00449-2.
• Feige-Diller, J, Herrera-Rivero, M, Witten, A, Stoll, M, Kaiser, S, Richter, SH, und Sachser, N. 2022. „The impact of varying food availability on gene expression in the liver: Testing the Match-Mismatch hypothesis.“ Frontiers in Nutrition 9 (910762).
• Bračić, M, Bohn, L, Siewert, V, von Kortzfleisch, V, Schielzeth, H, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2022. „Once an Optimist, Always an Optimist? Studying Cognitive Judgment Bias in Mice.“ Behavioral Ecology 33: 775–788.
• Nagel, R., Kaiser, S., Stainfield, C., Toscani, C., Fox-Clarke, C., Paijmans, A.J., Costa, Castro C., Vendrami, D.L.J., Forcada, J., und Hoffman, J.I. 2022. „Low heritability and high phenotypic plasticity of salivary cortisol in response to environmental heterogeneity in a wild pinniped.“ Ecology and Evolution 12 (3). doi: 10.1002/ece3.8757.
• Herrera-Rivero, M, Bohn, L, Witten, A, Jüngling, K, Kaiser, S, Richter, SH, Stoll, M, und Sachser, N. 2022. „Transcriptional profiles in the mouse amygdala after a cognitive judgment bias test largely depend on the genotype.“ Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 15 1025389. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.1025389.
• Kappeler, Peter M., Benhaiem, Sarah, Fichtel, Claudia, Fromhage, Lutz, Hoener, Oliver P., Jennions, Michael D., Kaiser, Sylvia, Krueger, Oliver, Schneider, Jutta M., Tuni, Cristina, van Schaik, Jaap, und Goymann, Wolfgang. 2022. „Sex roles and sex ratios in animals.“ Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 98 (2). doi: 10.1111/brv.12915.

2021

• Feige-Diller, J, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2021. „The impact of varying food availability on health and welfare in mice: Testing the Match-Mismatch hypothesis.“ Physiology and Behavior 228 (113193). doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113193.
• Mutwill, AM, Schielzeth, H, Zimmermann, TD, Richter, SH, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2021. „Individuality meets plasticity: Endocrine phenotypes across male dominance rank acquisition in guinea pigs living in a complex social environment.“ Hormones and Behavior 131 104967. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.104967.
• Stieger, B, Melotti, L, Quante, SM, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2021. „A step in the right direction: the effect of context, strain and sex on paw preference in mice.“ Animal Behaviour 174: 21–30. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.01.012.
• Krakenberg, V, Wewer, M, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2021. „Regular touchscreen training affects faecal corticosterone metabolites and anxiety-like behaviour in mice.“ Behavioural Brain Research 401: 113080. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.113080.
• Bodden, C, Wewer, M, Kästner, N, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2021. „Not all mice are alike: Mixed-strain housing alters social behaviour.“ Physiology and Behavior 228 (113220). doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113220.
• Melotti, L, Siestrup, S, Peng, M, Vitali, V, Dowling, D, von Kortzfleisch, VT, Bracic, M, Sachser, N, Kaiser, S, und Richter, SH. 2021. „Individuality, as well as genetic background, affects syntactical features of courtship songs in male mice.“ Animal Behaviour 180: 179–196.
• Lihoreau, Mathieu, Kaiser, Sylvia, Resende, Briseida, Rodel, Heiko G., und Chaline, Nicolas. 2021. „Editorial: Context-Dependent Plasticity in Social Species: Feedback Loops Between Individual and Social Environment.“ Frontiers in Psychology 12: 64519. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645191.

2020

• Feige-Diller, J, Krakenberg, V, Bierbaum, L, Seifert, L, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2020. „The effects of different feeding routines on welfare in laboratory mice.“ Frontiers in Veterinary Science 6: 479.
• Von Kortzfleisch, VT, Karp, NA, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2020. „Improving reproducibility in animal research by splitting the study population into several ‘mini-experiments’.“ Scientific Reports 10 (16579). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73503-4.
• Müller, C, Caspers, BA, Gadau, J, und Kaiser, S. 2020. „The Power of Infochemicals in Mediating Individualized Niches.“ Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35: 981–989. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.07.001.
• Mutwill, AM, Zimmermann, TD, Hennicke, A, Richter, SH, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2020. „Adaptive reshaping of the hormonal phenotype after social niche transition in adulthood.“ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287 20200667. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0667.
• Sachser, N, Zimmermann, TD, Hennessy, MB, und Kaiser, S. 2020. „Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior.“ Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 36: 63–70. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.07.014.
• Krakenberg, Viktoria, Siestrup, Sophie, Palme, Rupert, Kaiser, Sylvia, Sachser, Norbert, und Richter, Sophie Helene. 2020. „Effects of different social experiences on emotional state in mice.“ Scientific Reports 10 (15255). doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71994-9.

2019

• Mutwill, AM, Zimmermann, TD, Reuland, C, Fuchs, S, Kunert, J, Richter, SH, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2019. „High reproductive success despite queuing – Socio-sexual development of males in a complex social environment.“ Frontiers in Psychology 10 2810. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02810.
• Krakenberg, V, von Kortzfleisch, V, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2019. „Differential effects of serotonin transporter genotype on anxiety-like behavior and cognitive judgment bias in mice.“ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 13: 263.
• Bodden, C, von Kortzfleisch, V, Karwinkel, F, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2019. „Heterogenising study samples across testing time improves reproducibility of behavioural data.“ Scientific Reports 9: 8247..
• Von Kortzfleisch, V, Kästner, N, Prange, L, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2019. „Have I been here before? Effects of repeated testing and age on the results of behavioural tests.“ Behavioural Brain Research 367: 143–148.
• Melotti, L, Kästner, N, Eick, AK, Schnelle, AL, Palme, R, Sachser, N, Kaiser, S, und Richter, SH. 2019. „Can live with ‘em, can live without ‘em: pair housed male C57BL/6J mice show low aggression and increasing sociopositive interactions with age, but can adapt to single housing if separated.“ Applied Animal Behaviour Science 214: 79–88.
• Kästner, N, Richter, SH, Urbanik, S, Kunert, J, Waider, J, Lesch, K-P, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2019. „Brain serotonin deficiency affects female aggression.“ Scientific Reports 9 (1366).
• Krakenberg, V, Woigk, I, Garcia, Rodriguez L, Kästner, N, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2019. „Technology or ecology? New tools to assess cognitive judgement bias in mice.“ Behavioural Brain Research 362: 279–287. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.01.021.

2018

• Sangenstedt, S, Szardenings, C, Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2018. „Does the early social environment prepare individuals for the future? A match-mismatch experiment in female wild cavies.“ Frontiers in Zoology 15:13. doi: 10.1186/s12983-018-0261-1.
• Kästner, N, Richter, SH, Bodden, C, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2018. „Varying social experiences in adulthood do not differentially affect anxiety-like behavior but stress hormone levels.“ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12: 72..
• Sachser, N, Hennessy, MB, und Kaiser, S. 2018. „The adaptive shaping of social behavioural phenotypes during adolescence.“ Biology Letters 14. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0536.
• Sachser, N, Richter, SH, und Kaiser, S. 2018. „Artgerecht/tiergerecht.“ In Handbuch Tierethik, herausgegeben von JS Ach und D Borchers. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
• Richter, SH, Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2018. „Emotionen.“ In Handbuch Tierethik, herausgegeben von JS Ach und D Borchers. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
• Bodden, C, Siestrup, S, Palme, R, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2018. „Evidence-based severity assessment: Impact of repeated versus single open-field testing on welfare in C57BL/6J mice.“ Behavioural Brain Research 336: 261–268.

2017

• Meyer, N, Jenikejew, J, Richter, SH, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2017. „Social experiences during adolescence affect anxiety-like behavior but not aggressiveness in male mice.“ Behavioural Brain Research 326: 147–153. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.017.
• Siegeler, K, Lewejohann, L, Failing, K., Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2017. „Start early! Does social instability during the pre- and early postnatal development prepare male wild cavies for social challenge later in life?“ Frontiers in Zoology 14:2.
• Zimmermann, TD, Kaiser, S, Hennessy, MB, und Sachser, N. 2017. „Adaptive shaping of the behavioural and neuroendocrine phenotype during adolescence.“ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1849). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2784.
• Kästner, N, Richter, SH, Gamer, M, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2017. „What a difference a day makes - female behaviour is less predictable near ovulation.“ Royal Society Open Science 4. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160998.
• Sangenstedt, S., Jaljuli, I., Sachser, N., und Kaiser, S. 2017. „Stress responsiveness and anxiety-like behavior: The early social environment differentially shapes stability over time in a small rodent.“ Hormones and Behavior 90 (null): 90–97. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.02.010.
• Zimmermann, TD, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2017. „The adaptiveness of a queuing strategy shaped by social experiences during adolescence.“ Physiology and Behavior 181: 29–37. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.08.025.

2016

• Graulich, DM, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, und Richter, SH. 2016. „Looking on the bright side of bias - validation of an affective bias test for laboratory mice.“ Applied Animal Behaviour Science 181: 173–181.
• Meyer, N, Richter, SH, Schreiber, RS, Kloke, V, Kaiser, S, Lesch, KP, und Sachser, N. 2016. „The Unexpected Effects of Beneficial and Adverse Social Experiences during Adolescence on Anxiety and Aggression and Their Modulation by Genotype.“ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 10 (97). doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00097.
• SH, Richter, Kästner, N, Loddenkemper, DH, Kaiser, S, Sachser, und N. 2016. „A time to wean? Impact of weaning age on anxiety-like behaviour and stability of behavioural traits in full adulthood.“ PloS one 11(12): e0167652.. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167652.
• Richter, SH, Kästner, N, Kriwet, M, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2016. „Play matters - the surprising relationship between juvenile playfulness and anxiety in later life.“ Animal Behaviour 114: 261–271. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.003.

2015

• Kaiser, S, Hennessy, MB, und Sachser, N. 2015. „Domestication affects the structure, development and stability of biobehavioural profiles.“ Frontiers in Zoology 12 (Suppl1): 19.
• Kaiser, S, Siegeler, K, Schwerdt, B, und N, Sachser. 2015. „Social instability during pregnancy and lactation alters female wild cavy offsprings endocrine status and behaviour later in life.“ Behaviour 152 (7-8): 837–859.
• Bodden, C, Richter, SH, Schreiber, RS, Kloke, V, Gerss, J, Palme, R, Lesch, KP, Lewejohann, L, Kaiser, S, und Sacher, N. 2015. „Benefits of adversity?! How life history affects the behavioral profile of mice varying in serotonin transporter genotype.“ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 9 (47). doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00047.
• Kästner, N., Richter, S.H., Lesch, K.P., Schreiber, R.S., Kaiser, S., und Sachser, N. 2015. „Benefits of a "vulnerability gene"? A study in serotonin transporter knockout mice.“ Behavioural Brain Research 283. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.01.031.
• Hennessy, MB, Kaiser, S, Tiedtke, T, und Sachser, N. 2015. „Stability and change: Stress responses and the shaping of behavioral phenotypes over the life span.“ Frontiers in Zoology 12 (Suppl 1): 18.. doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-12-S1_S18.

2014

• Guenther, A, Palme, R, Dersen, M, Kaiser, S, und Trillmich, F. 2014. „Photoperiodic effects on reproductive development in male cavies (Cavia aperea).“ Physiology and Behaviour 123: 142–147.
• Kloke, V., Schreiber, R., Bodden, C., Möllers, J., Ruhmann, H., Kaiser, S., Lesch, K., Sachser, N., und Lewejohann, L. 2014. „Hope for the best or prepare for the worst? Towards a spatial cognitive bias test for mice.“ PloS one 9 (8). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105431.
• Zipser, B, Schleking, A, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2014. „Effects of domestication on biobehavioural profiles: a comparison of domestic guinea pigs and wild cavies from early to late adolescence.“ Frontiers in Zoology 11.

2013

• Sachser, N, Kaiser, S, und Hennessy, MB. 2013. „Behavioural profiles are shaped by social experience: when, how and why.“ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368 (1618): 20120344.. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0344.
• Siegeler, K, Wistuba, J, Damm, OS, von Engelhardt, N, Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2013. „Early social instability affects plasma testosterone during adolescence but does not alter reproductive capacity or measures of stress later in life.“ Physiology and Behavior 120C: 143–149. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2013.08.008.
• Kloke, V, Heiming, RS, Bölting, S, Kaiser, S, Lewejohann, L, Lesch, KP, und Sachser, N. 2013. „Unexpected effects of early-life adversity and social enrichment on the anxiety profile of mice varying in serotonin transporter genotype.“ Behavioural Brain Research 247C: 248–258. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.03.039.
• Karabeg, MM, Grauthoff, S, Kollert, SY, Weidner, M, Heiming, RS, Jansen, F, Popp, S, Kaiser, S, Lesch, KP, Sachser, N, Schmitt, AG, und Lewejohann, L. 2013. „5-HTT Deficiency Affects Neuroplasticity and Increases Stress Sensitivity Resulting in Altered Spatial Learning Performance in the Morris Water Maze but Not in the Barnes Maze.“ PloS one 8 (10): e78238..
• Hohoff, C, Gorji, A, Kaiser, S, Willscher, E, Korsching, E, Ambree, O, Arolt, V, Lesch, KP, Sachser, N, Deckert, J, und Lewejohann, L. 2013. „Effect of acute stressor and serotonin transporter genotype on amygdala first wave transcriptome in mice.“ PloS one 8 (3): e58880..
• Zipser, B, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2013. „Dimensions of Animal Personalities in Guinea Pigs.“ Ethology 119 (11): 970–982.

2012

• Stock, C, und Kaiser, S. 2012. „Humanbiologische Grundlagen der Gesundheitswissenschaften.“ In Handbuch Gesundheitswissenschaften., herausgegeben von K Hurrelmann und O Razum. Weinheim, München: Beltz Juventa.
• Albert, FW, Somel, M, Carneiro, M, Aximu-Petri, A, Halbwax, M, Thalmann, O, Blanco-Aguiar, JA, Plyusnina, IZ, Trut, L, Villafuerte, R, Ferrand, N, Kaiser, S, Jensen, P, und Pääbo, S. 2012. „A Comparison of Brain Gene Expression Levels in Domesticated and Wild Animals.“ PLOS Genetics 8(9): e1002962..

2011

• S, Lürzel, S, Kaiser, Krüger, C., und N, Sachser. 2011. „Inhibiting influence of testosterone on stress responsiveness during adolescence.“ Hormones and Behavior 60 (5): 691–698.
• Lürzel, S, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2011. „Social interaction decreases stress responsiveness during adolescence.“ Psychoneuroendocrinology 36 (9): 1370–7. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.03.010.
• Jansen, F, Heiming, RS, Kloke, V, Kaiser, S, Palme, R, Lesch, KP, und Sachser, N. 2011. „Away game or home match: The influence of venue and serotonin transporter genotype on the display of offensive aggression.“ Behavioural Brain Research 219 (2): 291–301. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.01.029.
• Sachser, N, Hennessy, MB, und Kaiser, S. 2011. „Adaptive Modulation of Behavioural Profiles by Social Stress During Early Phase of Life and Adolescence.“ Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 35 (7): 1518–1533. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.09.002.
• Heiming, RS, Bodden, C, Jansen, F, Lewejohann, L, Kaiser, S, Lesch, KP, Palme, R, und Sachser, N. 2011. „Living in a dangerous world decreases maternal care: A study in serotonin transporter knockout mice.“ Hormones and Behavior Volume 60 (4): 397–407.. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.07.006.
• Siegeler, K, Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 2011. „The social environment during pregnancy and lactation shapes the behavioural and hormonal profile of male offspring in wild cavies.“ Developmental Psychobiology 53: 575–584.

2010

• Lewejohann, L, Kloke, V, Heiming, RS, Jansen, F, Kaiser, S, Schmitt, A, Lesch, KP, und Sachser, N. 2010. „Social Status and Day-to-Day Behaviour of Male Serotonin Transporter Knockout Mice.“ Behavioural Brain Research 211 (2): 220–228. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.035.
• Lurzel, S, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2010. „Social Interaction, Testosterone, and Stress Responsiveness During Adolescence.“ Physiology and Behavior 99 (1): 40–46. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.10.005.
• Kaiser, S, Krüger, C, und Sachser, N. 2010. „The guinea pig.“ In The care and management of laboratory and other research animals, herausgegeben von R Hubrecht und J. Kirkwood. Chichester UK: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444318777.ch27.
• Sachser, N., und Kaiser, S. 2010. „The social modulation of behavioural development.“ In Animal Behaviour: Evolution and Mechanisms, herausgegeben von P. Kappeler. Springer VDI Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02624-9_17.
• Kaiser, S., und Sachser, N. 2010. „Sex-Specific Effects of Early Social Stress in Mammals: A Study in Guinea Pigs.“ In Encyclopedia of Stress, Bd. null , herausgegeben von G Fink. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-012373947-6.00478-5.
• Lewejohann, L., Pickel, T., Sachser, N., und Kaiser, S. 2010. „Wild genius - domestic fool? Spatial learning abilities of wild and domestic guinea pigs.“ Frontiers in Zoology 7 (null). doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-7-9.

2009

• Kemme, K, Kaiser, S, von Engelhardt, N, Wewers, D, Groothuis, T, und Sachser, N. 2009. „An Unstable Social Environment Affects Sex Ratio in Guinea Pigs: An Adaptive Maternal Effect?“ Behaviour 146 (11): 1513–1529. doi: 10.1163/156853909X445579.
• Hennessy, MB, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2009. „Social Buffering of the Stress Response: Diversity, Mechanisms, and Functions.“ Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 30 (4): 470–482. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2009.06.001.
• Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2009. „Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development: Pathology or Adaptation?“ Current Directions in Psychological Science 18 (2): 118–121. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01620.x.
• Heiming, RS, Jansen, F, Lewejohann, L, Kaiser, S, Schmitt, A, und Lesch, KPand Sachser N. 2009. „Living in a dangerous world: the shaping of behavioral profile by early environment and 5-HTT genotype.“ Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 3 (26). doi: 10.3389/neuro.08.026.2009.
• Trillmich, F, Mueller, B, Kaiser, S, und Krause, J. 2009. „Puberty in female cavies (Cavia aperea) is affected by photoperiod and social conditions.“ Physiology and Behavior 96 (3): 476–480. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.11.014.

2008

• Adrian, O, Kaiser, S, Sachser, N, Jandewerth, P, Lottker, P, Epplen, JT, und Hennessy, MB. 2008. „Female Influences on Pair Formation, Reproduction and Male Stress Responses in a Monogamous Cavy (Galea Monasteriensis).“ Hormones and Behavior 53 (3): 403–412. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.11.009.
• Kemme, K, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2008. „Prenatal Stress Does Not Impair Coping with Challenge Later in Life.“ Physiology and Behavior 93 (1-2): 68–75. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.07.013.
• Kaiser, S, Touma, C, Galert, T, und Würbel, H. 2008. „Animal Suffering - Fact or Fiction?“ In Theology meets biology. Anthropological perspectives on animals and human beings, herausgegeben von K Müller und N. Sachser. Regensburg: Verlag Anton Pustet.

2007

• Kemme, K, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2007. „Prenatal Maternal Programming Determines Testosterone Response During Social Challenge.“ Hormones and Behavior 51 (3): 387–394. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.12.009.
• Kaiser, S, Harderthauer, S, Sachser, N, und Hennessy, MB. 2007. „Social Housing Conditions Around Puberty Determine Later Changes in Plasma Cortisol Levels and Behavior.“ Physiology and Behavior 90 (2-3): 405–411. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.10.002.

2006

• Hennessy, MB, Hornschuh, G, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2006. „Cortisol Responses and Social Buffering: A Study Throughout the Life Span.“ Hormones and Behavior 49 (3): 383–390. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.08.006.
• Hennessy, MB, Bullinger, KL, Neisen, G, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2006. „Social Organization Predicts Nature of Infant-Adult Interactions in Two Species of Wild Guinea Pigs (Cavia aperea and Galea Monasteriensis).“ Journal of Comparative Psychology 120 (1): 12–18. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.120.1.12.

2005

• Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2005. „The Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Behaviour: Mechanisms and Function.“ Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 29 (2): 283–294. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.09.015.
• Wewers, D, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2005. „Application of an Antiandrogen During Pregnancy Infantilizes the Male Offsprings' Behaviour.“ Behavioural Brain Research 158 (1): 89–95. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.08.009.

2004

• Sachser, N, Künzl, C, und Kaiser, S. 2004. „The welfare of laboratory guinea pigs.“ In The welfare of laboratory animals, herausgegeben von E Kalista. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic.

2003

• Kaiser, S, Nübold, T, Rohlmann, I, und Sachser, N. 2003. „Pregnant female guinea pigs adapt easily to a new social environment irrespective of their rearing conditions.“ Physiology and Behavior 80 (1): 147–53. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9384(03)00228-2.
• Kaiser, S, Kruijver, FPM, Swaab, DF, und Sachser, N. 2003. „Early Social Stress in Female Guinea Pigs Induces a Masculinization of Adult Behavior and Corresponding Changes in Brain and Neuroendocrine Function.“ Behavioural Brain Research 144 (1-2): 199–210. doi: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00077-9.
• Kaiser, S, Kruijver, FPM, Straub, RH, Sachser, N, und Swaab, DF. 2003. „Early Social Stress in Male Guinea-Pigs Changes Social Behaviour, and Autonomic and Neuroendocrine Functions.“ Journal of Neuroendocrinology 15 (8): 761–769. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.2003.01055.x.
• Kaiser, S, Kirtzeck, M, Hornschuh, G, und Sachser, N. 2003. „Sex-Specific Difference in Social Support - a Study in Female Guinea Pigs.“ Physiology and Behavior 79 (2): 297–303. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9384(03)00091-X.
• Wewers, D, Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2003. „Maternal Separation in Guinea-Pigs: A Study in Behavioural Endocrinology.“ Ethology 109 (5): 443–453. doi: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00888.x.
• Kunzl, C, Kaiser, S, Meier, E, und Sachser, N. 2003. „Is A Wild Mammal Kept and Reared in Captivity Still a Wild Animal?“ Hormones and Behavior 43 (1): 187–196. doi: 10.1016/S0018-506X(02)00017-X.
• Kaiser, S, Heemann, K, Straub, RH, und Sachser, N. 2003. „The Social Environment Affects Behaviour and Androgens, But Not Cortisol in Pregnant Female Guinea Pigs.“ Psychoneuroendocrinology 28 (1): 67–83. doi: 10.1016/S0306-4530(02)00010-0.

2001

• Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2001. „Social Stress During Pregnancy and Lactation Affects in Guinea Pigs the Male Offsprings' Endocrine Status and Infantilizes their Behaviour.“ Psychoneuroendocrinology 26 (5): 503–519. doi: 10.1016/S0306-4530(01)00009-9.
• Forkmann, B, Blokhuis, HJ, Broom, DM, Kaiser, S, Koolhaas, JM, Levine, S, Mendl, M, Plotsky, PM, und Schedlowski, M. 2001. „Key sources of variability in coping.“ In Coping with challenge: welfare in animals including humans, herausgegeben von Broom DM.. Berlin: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
• Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 2001. „Stress und Wohlergehen.“ Praxis der Naturwissenschaften: Biologie in der Schule 50 (5): 15–20.

2000

• Kaiser, S, Brendel, H, und Sachser, N. 2000. „Effects of ACTH Applications During Pregnancy on the Female Offsprings' Endocrine Status and Behavior in Guinea Pigs.“ Physiology and Behavior 70 (1-2): 157–162. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00248-1.

1998

• Kaiser, S, und Sachser, N. 1998. „The Social Environment During Pregnancy and Lactation Affects the Female Offsprings' Endocrine Status and Behaviour in Guinea Pigs.“ Physiology and Behavior 63 (3): 361–6. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00435-6.

1997

• Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 1997. „The Social Environment, Behaviour and Stress - a Case Study in Guinea Pigs.“ Acta physiologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 161: 83–87.

1996

• Sachser, N, und Kaiser, S. 1996. „Prenatal Social Stress Masculinizes the Females' Behaviour in Guinea Pigs.“ Physiology and Behavior 60 (2): 589–94. doi: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)80036-9.