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• 1. Tevs*, DR, JA Mukhalian*, E Simpson*, CL Cox, AW Schrey, LD McBrayer. DNA methylation influences counter directional pigmentation change following immune challenge in a small ectotherm. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. Accepted.

  2. McBrayer, LD, D Haro, M Brennan, BG Falk, AA Yackel Adams. 2023. Capsaicin-treated bait is ineffective in deterring non-target mammals from trap disturbance during invasive lizard control. Neobiota 87: 103-120. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.87.102969

  3. Walker*, CA, LD McBrayer. 2023. Stop, then go! Rapid acceleration offsets the costs of intermittent locomotion when turning in Florida Scrub Lizards. Journal of Experimental Zoology, Part A. http://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2735

  4. Tevs* DR, E Simpson*, ME Lauer, D Ray, LD McBrayer, KG Ashton, ED McCoy, HR Mushinsky, and AW Schrey. 2023. Diverging epigenetic responses to wildfire history in two sympatric lizards. Journal of Herpetology. In press.

  5. Gripshover*, N, P Hennessey*, LD McBrayer, JM Meik, CM Watson, CL Cox. 2023. When food fights back: skull morphology and feeding behavior of centipede-eating snakes. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad047

  6. Miller* K, DR Tevs*, LD McBrayer, FP Loggins, E Simpson, KG Ashton, ED McCoy, HR Mushinsky AW Schrey. 2023. Genetic diversity of Florida Scrub Lizards (Sceloporus woodi) varies with wildfire history. Journal of Herpetology. 57(1): 116-124.

  7. Curlis* J.D., R. Scott,* E. Evans*, M. Cawthorn, C.R. Chandler, J. Roberts, L. McBrayer. 2022. Biodiversity between buildings: results of a two-year vertebrate survey on a university campus. Urban Naturalist. 9(53): 1-38. link

  8. Brennan*, M, L. McBrayer, J. Carroll, K. Krysko, and A. Yackel-Adams. 2022. New state and county records of introduced amphibians and reptiles of Georgia, USA. Herpetological Review. 53(2): 272.

  9. McElroy, E. J., and L. D. McBrayer 2021. Escape behaviour varies with distance from safe refuge. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134(4): 929-939. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blab127 

  10. Haro, D, LD McBrayer, JB Jensen, JM Gillis, LR Bonewell, MG Nafus, SE Greiman, RN Reed, AAY Adams. 2020. Evidence for an established population of tegu lizards (Salvator merianae) in southeastern Georgia, USA. Southeastern Naturalist.  link

  11. McBrayer, LD, RW Orton, CT Kinsey, LK Neel. 2020. Conservation and management strategies create opportunities for integrative organismal research. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 60(2): 509-521. doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa069 

  12. McElroy, EJ, D. Sustaita, LD McBrayer. 2020 Applied Functional Biology: Linking Ecological Morphology to Conservation and Management. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 60(2): 402-412. doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa076 

  13. Neel, LK*, JD Curlis*, CT Kinsey*, CL Cox, and LD McBrayer. 2020. Acclimation in physiological performance of an introduced ectotherm. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223: jeb201517 doi: 10.1242/jeb.201517.  

  14. Orton*, R, DB Tucker, JS Harrison, and LD McBrayer. 2020. Spatial and temporal patterns of genetic diversity in a fragmented and transient landscape. Evolutionary Ecology. doi.org/10.1007/s10682-019-10030-3.  

  15. Orton*, RW, CT Kinsey*, LD McBrayer. 2019. Mite load predicts the quality of sexual color and locomotor performance in a sexually dichromatic lizard. Ecology and Evolution. DOI:10.1002/ece3.5689.

  16. Wood, MJ, LD Huffling, LD McBrayer, and SP Vives. 2019. A new county record for Hemidactylus turcicus. Herpetological Review. 50(2).

  17. Orton*, RW, and LD McBrayer. 2019. Resolving tradeoffs among crypsis, escape behavior, and microhabitat use in sexually dichromatic species. Oecologia 189: 91-104. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4301-5. 

  18. Kinsey, CT* and LD McBrayer. 2018. Forelimb position affects facultative bipedal locomotion in lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221(24):jeb185975. doi: 10.1242/jeb.185975. Featured by Inside JEB

  19. McBrayer, LD and SE Parker*. 2018. Variation in habitat management alters risk aversion behavior in lizards. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 72: 149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-018-2567-6

  20. Neel, LK, and LD McBrayer. 2018. Habitat management alters thermal opportunity. Functional Ecology  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13123

  21. Orton, RW, EJ McElroy, and LD McBrayer. 2018. Predation and cryptic coloration in a managed landscape. Evolutionary Ecology 32(2): 141-157. DOI:10.1007/s10682-018-9931-x

  22. Parker* SE, and LD McBrayer. 2016. The effects of multiple obstacles on the locomotor behavior and performance of a terrestrial lizard (Sceloporus woodi). Journal of Experimental Biology. 219: 1004-1013.  doi: 10.1242/jeb.120451

  23. Kaunert*, MD and LD McBrayer. 2015. Population density of the Florida Scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi) in managed sand pine scrub and longleaf pine sandhill habitats. Herpetological Conservation & Biology. 10(3): 883-893.

  24. Stevenson, DJ, CL Jenkins, KM Stohlgren, JB Jensen, DL Bechler, I Deery, D Duff, SP Graham, R Herrington, P Higgins, RV Horan, C Kelehear, D Kelly, K Kincaid, LD McBrayer, M  Moore, C Muise, T Muise, A Muise, J Oguni, EM Schlimm, and W Vaigneur. 2015. Significant new records of amphibians and reptiles from Georgia, USA. Herpetological Review 46(4): 597-601.

  25. Wlliams* SC, and LD McBrayer. 2015. Behavioral and ecological differences of the Florida Scrub Lizard (Sceloporus woodi) in scrub and sandhill habitat. Florida Scientist. 78: 95-110.

  26. McLain, DK, J Logue, AE Pratt, and LD McBrayer. 2015. Claw-pinching force of sand fiddler crabs in relation to activity and the lunar cycle. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and  Ecology. 471: 190-197.

  27. Tucker DB*, LD McBrayer, and JS Harrison.  2014.  Population structure of the Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi) in an anthropogenically fragmented forest. Herpetologica. 70(3): 266- 278.

  28. Stiller RB* and LD McBrayer. 2013. The ontogeny of escape behavior, locomotor performance, and hind limb morphology in Sceloporus woodi. Zoology 116(3): 175-181.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2013.02.001

  29. Collins CE*, JD Self*, RA And­­­­­erson, and LD McBrayer. 2013. Rock-dwelling lizards exhibit less sensitivity of sprint speed to increases in substrate rugosity. Zoology 116(3): 151-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2013.01.001

  30. García-Bastida* M, D Lazcano, LD McBrayer , and R Mercado-Hernández. 2013.  Sexual dimorphism in the Alligator lizard Gerrhonotus infernalis (Sauria: Anguidae): implications for sexual selection. The Southwestern Naturalist 58(2): 202-208.

  31. Tucker DB* and LD McBrayer. 2012. Overcoming obstacles: the effect of obstacles on locomotor performance and behavior. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 107(4): 813-823.

  32. McElroy EJ, KL Archambeau†, LD McBrayer. 2012. The correlation between locomotor performance and hindlimb kinematics during burst locomotion in the Florida scrub lizard, Sceloporus woodi. The Journal of Experimental Biology 215(3): 442-453. Featured by Inside JEB and Science Now.

  33. Olberding* JP, LD McBrayer, TE Higham. 2012. Performance and three-dimensional kinematics of bipedal lizards during obstacle negotiation. Journal of Experimental Biology. 215: 247-255.

  34. McElroy EJ, LD McBrayer, SC Williams*, RA Anderson, SM Reilly. 2012. Sequential analyses of foraging behavior and attack speed in ambush and widely foraging lizards. Adaptive Behavior 20(1) 16-31.  doi:10.1177/1059712311426800. Invited submission.

  35. O’Connor* J, LD McBrayer, T Higham, J Husak, I Moore, and D Rostal. 2011. Effects of training and testosterone on muscle-fiber types and locomotor performance in male six-lined racerunners (Aspidoscelis sexlineata). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 84(4): 394-405.

  36. Williams* SC, and LD McBrayer. 2011. Attack based indices, not movement patterns, reveal intraspecific variation in foraging behavior. Behavioral Ecology. 22(5): 993-1002.     doi:10.1093/beheco/arr082.

  37. Higham TE, P Korchari*, LD McBrayer. 2011a. How muscles define maximum locomotor performance: An analysis using swing and stance phase muscles. Journal of Experimental Biology 214(10): 1685-1691.

  38. Higham TE, PG Korchari*, and LD McBrayer. 2011b. How to climb a tree:  Lizards accelerate faster, but pause more, when escaping on vertical surfaces.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 102: 83-90. Featured by the BBC Wildlife Magazine.

  39. Nasseri* NA, LD McBrayer, and BA. Schulte. 2011. The impact of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) on herpetofauna species richness and biodiversity in a savanna woodland of  northern Tanzania. 49(2): 133-140. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2010.01238.x  Featured by the BBC online.

  40. May DG†, and LD McBrayer. 2010. A new county record for Storeria occipitomaculata. Herpetological Review. 41(4).

  41. Hyers J†, A Shepard†, and LD McBrayer. 2010.  A new county record for Amphiuma means. Herpetogical Review. 41(2): 239.

  42. Gowan* T, D Rostal and LD McBrayer. 2010. Seasonal variation in testosterone and performance in non-territorial male lizards. Physiology & Behavior 100: 357–363.

  43. McElroy E, and LD McBrayer. 2010. Getting up to speed: The biomechanics of acceleration in the Florida Scrub Lizard, Sceloporus woodi. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 83(4):643-53.

  44. McLain DL, LD McBrayer, AE Pratt, and SM Moore†.  2010. Performance capacity of fiddler crab males with regenerated versus original claws and success by claw type in territorial contests.         Ethology, Ecology & Evolution. 22: 37-49.

  45. Schacht* MC, and LD McBrayer. 2009.  A method for constructing an adjustable platform to obtain lateral photographs of larval anurans. Herpetological Review. 40 (3): 303-304.

  46. McBrayer LD, and JE Wylie†. 2009. Concordance between locomotor morphology and foraging mode in lacertid lizards. Zoology 112: 370-378.

  47. Pierce*JB, RR Fleet, LD McBrayer, and DC Rudolph. 2008. Use of trees by the Texas Ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta) in eastern Texas. Southeastern Naturalist 7(2): 359-366.

  48. McBrayer, LD. 2008. Sex, size & gender roles: Evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism. Quarterly Review of Biology. 83: 99-100. Book review of Fairburn et al. 2007.

  49. Anderson RA, LD McBrayer and A Herrel. 2008. Bite force in vertebrates: opportunities and caveats for use of a nonpareil whole-animal performance measure. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93: 709-720.

  50. McBrayer LD and RA Anderson. 2007.  Sexual dimorphism in head shape and bite force in the Northern Alligator lizard, Elgaria coerulea. Journal of Herpetology 41(4): 554–559.

  51. Williams* S, and LD McBrayer. 2007. Selection of microhabitat by the introduced Mediterranean gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus: influence of ambient light and distance to refuge. The Southwestern Naturalist 52(4): 578-585.

  52. Reilly SM, McBrayer, LD, and DB Miles. 2007. Preface. In Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode. SM Reilly, LD McBrayer, and DB Miles, eds. Cambridge University Press. Editorial review only

  53. McBrayer LD and CE Corbin. 2007. Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: Morphological correlates of foraging mode. In Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode. SM Reilly, LD McBrayer, and DB Miles, eds. Cambridge University Press.

  54. Reilly SM and LD McBrayer. 2007. Prey capture and prey processing behavior and the evolution of lingual and sensory characteristics: divergences and convergences in lizard feeding biology. In Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode. SM Reilly, LD McBrayer, and DB Miles, eds. Cambridge University Press.

  55. McBrayer LD, DB Miles, and SM Reilly. 2007. The evolution of the foraging mode paradigm in lizard ecology. In Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode. SM Reilly, LD McBrayer, and DB Miles, eds. Cambridge University Press.  Editorial review only

  56. Herrel A., LD McBrayer and PM Larson. 2007. Functional basis for intersexual differences in bite force in the lizard Anolis carolinensis.  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 91: 111-119.

  57. Hitchcock* M, and LD McBrayer.  2006. Thermoregulation in nocturnal ecthotherms: seasonal and intraspecific variation in the Mediterranean gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus). Journal of Herpetology 40(2): 185-195.

  58. Johnson* BJ, LD McBrayer, and D Saenz.  2005. Allometry, sexual size dimorphism, and niche partitioning in the Mediterranean gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus). The Southwestern Naturalist 50: 435-439.

  59. McBrayer LD. 2004. The relationship between skull morphology, biting performance and foraging mode in Kalahari lacertid lizards. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140(3): 403-416.

  60. McBrayer LD and TD White. 2002. Bite force, behavior, and electromyography in the teiid lizard, Tupinambis teguixin. Copeia (2002): 111-119.

  61. McBrayer LD, and SM Reilly. 2002. Prey processing in lizards: Behavioural divergence in sit-and-wait and wide foraging taxa. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 882-892.

  62. McBrayer LD, and SM Reilly. 2002. Testing models of prey transport kinematics in lizards: a quantitative analysis of mouth opening patterns. Zoology 105: 71-81.

  63. Reilly SM, LD McBrayer, and TD White. 2001. Prey processing in amniotes: biomechanical and behavioral patterns of food reduction. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. 128: 397-415.

  64. Bedocs† PM, LD McBrayer, and JA Elias. 2000. An inexpensive method for creating cages for large reptiles. Herpetological Review 31(3): 164.

  65. Elias† JA, LD McBrayer, and SM Reilly. 2000. Prey transport kinematics in Tupinambis teguixin and Varanus exanthematicus: conservation of feeding behavior in ‘chemosensory tongued’  lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology 203(4): 791-801.