Publications

Perry, C, F Aubret, AS Chaine, ME Gifford, EH Livingston, M Moore, S Hankison, EJ Gangloff. in review. Feeding status impacts thermoregulation and patterns of among-individual variation across day and night in a diurnal lizard. Submitted, Behavioral Ecology.

M.M. Moore, E.G. Foster, A. Amer, L. Fraire., A. Head., A. Blanchette., S.J. Hankison; A.R. Gunderson, E.J. Gangloff. 2025. Urban wall lizards are resilient to high levels of blood lead. Environmental Research (accepted 26 Oct 2024). 264: 120248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.120248

S. Hankison, E. J. Gangloff, B. Fry, A. Arnold, A.J. Lashway, J.M. Betts, S.D. Otap, K. Walter, M.Y. Juergens, A. Crawford. 2022. Effects of reliance on stored sperm on reproduction in the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna. Journal of Fish Biology 101:1628-1633. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15228

S.J. Hankison & M.S. Palmer. 2016. Assays to detect UV-reflecting structures and determine their importance in mate preference using the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna. JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) e54453-e54453. doi: 10.3791/54453

T. Cannon, M. Heistermann, S. Hankison, M. McLennan, K. Hockings. 2016. Tailored Enrichment Strategies and Stereotypic Behavior in Captive Individually-housed Macaques (Macaca spp.). Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. 19 (2):171-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2015.1126786

M.S. Palmer & S.J. Hankison. 2015. Use of ultraviolet cues in female mate preference in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna. Acta Ethologica 18 (2) 153-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10211-014-0195-3

M.B. Ptacek & S.J. Hankison. 2012. Evolutionary diversification of mating signals in the Mexican sailfin mollies (Poeciliidae: Poecilia: Mollienesia). In: Viviparous Fishes II (M.C. Uribe and H. J. Grier, eds).  Homestead, Florida: New Life Publications, Inc.

S.J. Hankison & M.B. Ptacek. 2012. Geographic variation in genetic and morphological structure in the Mexican sailfin mollies, Poecilia velifera and P. petenensis. In: Viviparous Fishes II (M.C. Uribe and H. J. Grier, eds).  Homestead, Florida: New Life Publications, Inc.

Y.O. Sanogo, S.J. Hankison, D. Xie, M. Band, A. Obregon, A. Bell. 2011. Brain transcriptomic response of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to cues of a predator. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 77 (4):270-285. https://doi.org/10.1159/000328221

A.M. Bell, Dingemanse, N., Hankison, S.J., Langerhof, M., Rollins, K. 2011. Early exposure to non-lethal predation risk by size-selective predators increases somatic growth and decreases size at adulthood in threespined sticklebacks. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24(5): 943-953. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02247.x

A.M. Bell, S.J. Hankison, & K.L. Laskowski. 2009. The repeatability of behaviour: a meta-analysis.  Animal Behaviour 77:771-783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.022

M.B. Ptacek & S.J. Hankison. 2009. The pattern and process of speciation. In: Evolution: the first four billion years (M. Ruse & J. Travis, eds).  Harvard University Press.

S.J. Hankison & M.B. Ptacek. 2008. Geographic variation of genetic and phenotypic traits in the Mexican sailfin mollies, Poecilia velifera and P. petenensis. Molecular Ecology 17:2219-2233. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03736.x

S.J. Hankison & M.B. Ptacek. 2007. Within and between species variation in male mating behaviors in the Mexican sailfin mollies Poecilia velifera and P. petenensis. Ethology 113:802-812. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01388.x

S.J. Hankison, M.J. Childress, J.J. Schmitter-Soto, & M.B. Ptacek. 2006. Morphological divergence within and between the Mexican sailfin mollies, Poecilia velifera and P. petenensis.  Journal of Fish Biology 68:1610-1630. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-1112.2006.001051.x

S.J. Hankison & M.R. Morris. 2003. Avoiding a compromise between sexual selection and species recognition: female swordtail fish assess multiple species-specific cues.  Behavioral Ecology 14 (2):282-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/14.2.282

R.E. Lee, Jr. & S.J. Hankison. 2003. Acquisition of freezing tolerance in early autumn and seasonal changes in gall water content influence inoculative freezing of gall fly larvae, Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera, Tephritidae).  Journal of Insect Physiology 49:385-393. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1910(03)00023-4

S.J. Hankison & M.R. Morris. 2002. Sexual selection and species identification in the pygmy swordtail, Xiphophorus pygmaeus: conflicting preferences.  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51:140-145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-001-0425-3