15. Fontaine, S.S., & Trevelline, B.K. (2025). Transcriptomics at the thermal limits of an urban introduced lizard. Journal of Thermal Biology. 134, 104305. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2025.104305
14. Bakewell, L., Alfonso, C., Alujević, K.A., Fontaine, S.S., Keller, J., López-Tacoaman, Y.F., Ponce-Chilan, N.E., Vivas, A., Williams, C.E., Wuthrich, K.L., McMillan, W.O., Logan, M.L., & Cox, C.L. (2025). Higher parasite load is associated with lower heat tolerance in a tropical lizard. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228 (18), jeb.250580. DOI: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250580
13. Fontaine, S.S., & Trevelline, B.K. (2025). An early-life perspective is needed to explain the impact of gut microbiota on wild vertebrate phenotypes. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228 (14), jeb.250130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250130
12. Fontaine, S.S., Kennedy-Gold, S.R., Regester, K.J., Sheridan, J.A., & Kohl, K.D. (2025). The impact of whole-animal fluid preservation on the observed gut microbiome of vertebrates: implications for the use of museum specimens in microbiome research. Molecular Ecology Resources, 0:e14127. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14127
11. Brannelly, L.A., Ohmer, M.E.B., Zimmerman, L., Wantman, T.M., Reuben, P.L, Zegar, J., Fontaine, S.S., Bletz, M.C., LaBumbard, B.C., Venesky, M.D., Cramp, R., Woodhams, D.C., & Richards-Zawacki, C.L. (2025). Post metamorphic growth partially compensates for the effects of density and hydroperiod during larval rearing on juvenile frog performance. Ecosphere, 16, e70177. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70177
10. Williams, C.E., & Fontaine, S.S. (2024). The microbial dependence continuum: Towards a comparative physiology approach to understand host reliance on microbes. Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 296, CBA111690. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111690
9. Fontaine, S.S., & Kohl, K.D. (2023). Ectotherm heat tolerance and the microbiome: current understanding, future directions and potential applications. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226 (12), jeb245761. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245761
8. Emerson, K.J., Fontaine, S.S., Kohl, K.D., & Woodley, S.K. (2023). Temperature and the microbial environment alter brain morphology in a larval amphibian. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb245333. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245333
7. Fontaine, S. S., & Kohl, K. D. (2023). The microbiome buffers tadpole hosts from heat stress: a hologenomic approach to understand host-microbe interactions under warming. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226 (1), jeb245191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245191
6. Fontaine, S. S., Mineo, P. M., & Kohl, K. D. (2021). Experimental manipulation of microbiota reduces host thermal tolerance and fitness under heat stress in a vertebrate ectotherm. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6, 405-417. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01686-2
5. Fontaine, S. S., Mineo, P. M., & Kohl, K. D. (2021). Changes in the gut microbial community of the eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) across its three distinct life stages. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 97 (3), fiab021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab021
4. Fontaine, S. S., & Kohl, K. D. (2020). Optimal integration between host physiology and functions of the gut microbiome. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375 (1808), 20190594. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0594
3. Fontaine, S. S., & Kohl, K. D. (2020). Gut microbiota of invasive bullfrog tadpoles responds more rapidly to temperature than a noninvasive congener. Molecular Ecology, 29 (13), 2449-2462. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15487
2. Trevelline, B. K.*, Fontaine, S. S.*, Hartup, B. K., & Kohl, K. D. (2019). Conservation biology needs a microbial renaissance: a call for the consideration of host-associated microbiota in wildlife management practices. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286 (1895), 20182448. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2448 *Authors contributed equally to this work
1. Fontaine, S. S., Novarro, A. J., & Kohl, K. D. (2018). Environmental temperature alters the digestive performance and gut microbiota of a terrestrial amphibian. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221 (20), jeb187559. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.187559