Publications

2025

• Berdy BM*, Williams CE*, Sizova M, Jung D, Epstein S. Comparison of Microbial Cultivation Strategies in High Arctic Lake Sediment. *Authors contributed equally.  Accepted. Frontiers in Microbiomes.
  
  

• Bakewell L, Alfonso C, Alujevic KA, Fontaine SS, Keller J, Lopez Tacoaman YF, Ponce N, Vivas A, Williams CE, Wuthrich KL, McMillan WO, Logan ML, Cox CL. Lizards with more parasites have lower heat tolerance. Accepted.  Journal of Experimental Biology. 

2024

• Williams CE, Hammer TJ, Williams CL. Diversity patterns alone do not reliably indicate the healthiness of an animal microbiome (2024). ISME Journal. 18(1) wrae133.

• Williams CE, Fontaine SS. COMMENTARY: The microbial dependence continuum: Towards a comparative physiology approach to understand host reliance on microbes (2024). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. 111690.

• Garcia Costoya G, Williams CE, Faske T, Moorman JD, Logan ML. Response to Von Schmalansee et al (2024). Ecology Letters. e14436.

• Rosso, AA, Logan ML, Casement B, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Folfas E, Gallegos M, Neel LK, Nicholson DJ, Williams CE, McMillan WO, and Cox CL. Plasticity of gene expression and thermal tolerance: implications for climate change vulnerability in a tropical forest lizard (2024). Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. 97(2).
  
  

• Vivas A☨, Curlis JD, Alujevic K, Fontaine SS, Williams CE.* First observation of the Mexican White Lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis) Using a Bird Nest as a Daytime Refuge: Natural history notes. (2024). Herpetological Review: 55(1).  ☨Undergraduate mentee. *As supervising/senior author.  

2023

• Williams CE, Brown AE, Williams CL. The role of diet and host species in shaping the seasonal dynamics of the gut microbiome (2023). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 99(12):fiad156.

• Williams CE, Williams CL, Logan ML. Climate change is not just global warming: multidimensional impacts on animal gut microbiomes (2023). Microbial Biotechnology. 16(9):1736-1744. Press coverage. 

• Garcia Costoya G, Williams CE, Faske TM, Moorman JD, Logan ML. Evolutionary constraints 

mediate extinction risk under climate change (2023). Ecology Letters. doi:10.1111/ele.14173

2022

• Nicholson DJ, Knell RJ, McCrea R, Neel LK, Curlis JD, Williams CE, Chung AK, McMillan WO, Garner TWJ, Cox CL, Logan ML (2022). Climate anomalies and competition constrain establishment success during biological invasion. Ecology and Evolution. 12(10):e9402.

• Williams CE, Kueneman JG, Nicholson DJ, Rosso AA, Folfas E, Casement B, Gallegos-Koyner M, Neel LK, Curlis JD, McMillan WO, Cox CL, Logan ML (2022). Sustained drought, but not short-term warming, alters the gut microbiome of wild Anolis lizards. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1128/aem.00530-22. Press coverage. 

2021

• Gosztyla ML, Kwong L, Murray NA, Williams CE, Behnke N, Curry P, Corbett KD, DSouza KN, Gala de Pablo J, Gicobi J, Javidnia M, Lotay N, Prescott SM, Quinn JP, Rivera ZMG, Smith MA, Tang KTY, Venkat A, Yamoah M (2021). Responses to 10 common criticisms of anti-racism action in STEMM. PloS Computational Biology: e1009141.

2020

• Logan ML, Kneel LK, Nicholson DJ, Stokes A, Miller C, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Keegan KM, Rosso AA, Maayan I, Folfas E, Williams CE, Casement B, Gallegos-Koyner M, Padilla-Perez DJ, Falvey C, Alexander S, Charles K, Graham Z, McMillan WO, Losos JB, Cox CL (2020). Sex-specific microhabitat use is associated with sex-biased thermal physiology in Anolis lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology: 224: jeb235697.

• Cox CL, Alexander S, Casement B, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Degon Z, Dubois M, Falvey C, Graham Z, Folfas E, Gallegos-Koyner M, Neel LK, Nicholson DJ, Padilla-Perez DJP, Ortiz-Ross X, Rosso AA, Taylor Q, Thurman TJ, Williams CE, McMillan WO, and Logan ML (2020). Ectoparasite extinction in simplified lizard assemblages during experimental island invasion. Biology Letters: 16(8):20200474.

Publications in Revision/Review

• Fontaine SS, Wuthrich KL, Alfonso C, Alujevic K, Bakewell L, Keller J, Lopez-Tacoaman Y, Ponce N, Vivas A, Williams CE, McMillan WO, Cox CL, Logan ML. Gut microbiome composition and diversity are associated with heat tolerance plasticity in a tropical lizard. In review at Biology Letters.

• Williams CE, Gopal AK, Wang WW, Logan ML, Gunderson AR. Gut microbiome composition and temporal stability is correlated with thermal tolerance and its plasticity in Anolis lizards. In review at Journal of Experimental Biology. 

• Williams CL*, Williams CE*, King S, Diaz J, Reese A, Shier D. Captivity-induced changes in the Pacific pocket mouse (Perognathus longimembris pacificus) microbiome are sustained across multiple generations and correlate with fitness metrics. In revision at mBio. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.24.563854 *Authors contributed equally.