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  1. Impact of naturalistic enclosures on the welfare of bearded dragon lizards

    Article • PLOS One, June 2025, PLOS

    Melanie Denomme, Glenn Tattersall

  2. Behavioural evidence of a humidistat: a temperature-compensating mechanism of hydroregulation in spotted salamanders

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, May 2025, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  3. Sub-zero temperatures during early spring migration in blue-spotted salamanders (Ambystoma laterale)

    Article • April 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  4. Influence of enclosure design on the behaviour and welfare ofPogona vitticeps

    Article • April 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  5. Revisiting concepts of thermal physiology: understanding negative feedback and set‐point in mammals, birds, and lizards

    Article • Biological Reviews, February 2025, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  6. Investigating the motivations of repetitive barrier interactions in Pogona vitticeps

    Article • Applied Animal Behaviour Science, February 2025, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  7. Behavioural evidence of a humidistat: a temperature-compensating mechanism of hydroregulation

    Article • January 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  8. Seasonal plasticity in the thermal sensitivity of metabolism but not water loss in a fossorial ectotherm

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  9. Frequency of adult amphibian abnormalities and consequences for fitness-related traits in an uncontaminated environment

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, January 2025, Canadian Science Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  10. Costs and benefits of maternal nest choice: Trade‐offs between brood survival and thermal stress in bees

    Article • Ecology, January 2025, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  11. Shorebirds Are Shrinking and Shape‐Shifting: Declining Body Size and Lengthening Bills in the Past Half‐Century

    Article • Ecology Letters, December 2024, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  12. Ups and downs of fossorial life: migration restlessness and geotaxis may explain overwintering emergence in the spotted salamander

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, October 2024, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  13. Oxytocin neurons signal state-dependent transitions to thermogenesis and behavioral arousal in social and non-social settings

    Article • October 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  14. Long‐ and short‐term responses to climate change in body and appendage size of diverse Australian birds

    Article • Global Change Biology, October 2024, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  15. Seasonal variation of behavioural thermoregulation in a fossorial salamander ( Ambystoma maculatum )

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, September 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  16. Measuring avian bill size: comparing and evaluating 3D surface scanning with traditional size estimates in Australian birds

    Article • Journal of Avian Biology, July 2024, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  17. Seasonal variation of behavioural thermoregulation in the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)

    Article • March 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  18. Birds are better at regulating heat loss through their legs than their bills: implications for body shape evolution in response to climate

    Article • Biology Letters, November 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  19. Pervasive morphological responses to climate change in bird body and appendage size

    Article • October 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  20. Putting the energetic-savings hypothesis underground: fossoriality does not affect metabolic rates in amphibians

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  21. Hot crabs with bold choices: Temperature has little impact on behavioural repeatability in Caribbean hermit crabs

    Article • Behavioural Processes, August 2023, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  22. Energetic costs of bill heat exchange demonstrate contributions to thermoregulation at high temperatures in toco toucans (Ramphastos toco)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, March 2023, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  23. Thermoconforming rays of the star-nosed mole

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2023, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  24. Free-living Allen’s hummingbirds (Selasphorus sasin) rarely use torpor while nesting

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, February 2023, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  25. Toe-biting in captive Pogona vitticeps

    Article • In&Vertebrates, January 2023, In&Sight

    Glenn Tattersall

  26. Costs and benefits of maternal nest choice: tradeoffs between brood survival and thermal stress for small carpenter bees

    Article • December 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  27. Thermoconforming rays of the star-nosed mole

    Article • November 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  28. Energetic costs of bill heat exchange demonstrate contributions to thermoregulation at high temperatures in toco toucans (Ramphastos toco)

    Article • November 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  29. Regulation of Exposure to Ultraviolet Light in Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps) in Relation to Temperature and Scalation Phenotype

    Article • Ichthyology & Herpetology, August 2022, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)

    Glenn Tattersall

  30. Thermal adaptation best explains Bergmann’s and Allen’s Rules across ecologically diverse shorebirds

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  31. Vocalization-associated respiration patterns: thermography-based monitoring and detection of preparation for calling

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, March 2022, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  32. Editorial: Advances in thermal imaging

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  33. Naked mole-rat brown fat thermogenesis is diminished during hypoxia through a rapid decrease in UCP1

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  34. Shape-shifting: changing animal morphologies as a response to climatic warming

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, November 2021, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  35. Staying warm is not always the norm: behavioural differences in thermoregulation of two snake species

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, November 2021, Canadian Science Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  36. Climate‐associated decline of body condition in a fossorial salamander

    Article • Global Change Biology, September 2021, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  37. Bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) with reduced scalation lose water faster but do not have substantially different thermal preferences

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2021, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  38. Spot size, distance and emissivity errors in field applications of infrared thermography

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, February 2021, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  39. Hot and covered: how dragons face the heat and thermoregulate

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  40. Thermoregulation

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  41. Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, November 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  42. Effect of nest microclimate temperatures on metabolic rates of small carpenter bees, Ceratina calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Article • The Canadian Entomologist, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  43. Activity analysis of thermal imaging videos using a difference imaging approach

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, July 2020, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  44. A Long-Term Study on Massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus) Inhabiting a Partially Mined Peatland: A Standardized Method to Characterize Snake Overwintering Habitat

    Article • Journal of Herpetology, May 2020, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

    Glenn Tattersall

  45. Thermal Imaging and Physiological Analysis of Cold-Climate Caribou-Skin Clothing

    Article • ARCTIC, March 2020, The Arctic Institute of North America

    Glenn Tattersall

  46. Hydrogen sulfide exposure reduces thermal set point in zebrafish

    Article • February 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  47. An oversimplification of physiological principles leads to flawed macroecological analyses

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2019, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  48. Evaporative cooling and vasodilation mediate thermoregulation in naked mole-rats during normoxia but not hypoxia

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, August 2019, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  49. Development of homeothermic endothermy is delayed in high-altitude native deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus)

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  50. Cassowary casques act as thermal windows

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  51. Behavioral Thermoregulation in Lizards

    Article • February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Glenn Tattersall

  52. Tortoises develop and overcome position biases in a reversal learning task

    Article • Animal Cognition, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  53. Identification of a lipid-rich depot in the orbital cavity of the 13-lined ground squirrel

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2019, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  54. Trematode Parasite Infection Affects Temperature Selection in Aquatic Host Snails

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, January 2019, University of Chicago Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  55. Social cues can push amphibious fish to their thermal limits

    Article • Biology Letters, October 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  56. Disruption of TRPV3 Impairs Heat-Evoked Vasodilation and Thermoregulation: A Critical Role of CGRP

    Article • Journal of Investigative Dermatology, March 2018, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  57. Xenopus and the art of oxygen maintenance

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  58. Thermoregulatory windows in Darwin's finches

    Article • Functional Ecology, October 2017, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  59. Thermoregulatory behavior and orientation preference in bearded dragons

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  60. Doping for sex: Bad for mitochondrial performances? Case of testosterone supplemented Hyla arborea during the courtship period

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, July 2017, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  61. Drosophila development, physiology, behavior, and lifespan are influenced by altered dietary composition

    Article • Fly, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Jens Coorssen, Glenn Tattersall

  62. Infrared thermography: A non-invasive window into thermal physiology

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  63. The evolution of the avian bill as a thermoregulatory organ

    Article • Biological Reviews, October 2016, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  64. Reptile thermogenesis and the origins of endothermy

    Article • Zoology, October 2016, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  65. Novel energy-saving strategies to multiple stressors in birds: the ultradian regulation of body temperature

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Glenn Tattersall, Glenn Tattersall

  66. Seasonal reproductive endothermy in tegu lizards

    Article • Science Advances, January 2016, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Glenn Tattersall, Glenn Tattersall

  67. Characterizing the physiological and behavioral roles of proctolin inDrosophila melanogaster

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, January 2016, American Physiological Society

    Glenn Tattersall

  68. Out of the frying pan into the air—emersion behaviour and evaporative heat loss in an amphibious mangrove fish ( Kryptolebias marmoratus )

    Article • Biology Letters, October 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  69. The relationship between body temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, and rate of oxygen consumption, in the tegu lizard (Tupinambis merianae) at various levels of activity

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  70. Daily and annual cycles in thermoregulatory behaviour and cardio-respiratory physiology of black and white tegu lizards

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  71. Thermoregulatory consequences of salt loading in the lizard, Pogona vitticeps

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2015, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  72. Body temperature regulation during acclimation to cold and hypoxia in rats

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  73. Fluctuations in oxygen influence facultative endothermy in bumblebees

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  74. Potential sources of intra-population variation in painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) hatchling overwintering strategy

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  75. Evaporative respiratory cooling augments pit organ thermal detection in rattlesnakes

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  76. Post-hatch heat warms adult beaks: irreversible physiological plasticity in Japanese quail

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Glenn Tattersall, Glenn Tattersall

  77. Pulmonary and cutaneous O2gas exchange: a student laboratory exercise in the frog

    Article • AJP Advances in Physiology Education, March 2013, American Physiological Society

    Glenn Tattersall

  78. Acid Water Interferes with Salamander–Green Algae Symbiosis during Early Embryonic Development

    Article • Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, September 2012, University of Chicago Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  79. Heat Loss May Explain Bill Size Differences between Birds Occupying Different Habitats

    Article • PLOS One, July 2012, PLOS

    Glenn Tattersall

  80. Coping with Thermal Challenges: Physiological Adaptations to Environmental Temperatures

    Article • July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Frank Seebacher, Glenn Tattersall

  81. Thermal games in crayfish depend on establishment of social hierarchies

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  82. Temperature Preference During Forelimb Regeneration in the Red‐Spotted Newt Notophthalmus Viridescens

    Article • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological Genetics and Physiology, April 2012, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  83. Climate limitations on the distribution and phenology of a large carpenter bee,Xylocopa virginica(Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, September 2011, Canadian Science Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  84. Responses of Drosophila melanogaster to atypical oxygen atmospheres

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  85. Rapid upregulation of heart antioxidant enzymes during arousal from estivation in the Giant African snail (Achatina fulica)

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, November 2010, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  86. Insights into animal temperature adaptations revealed through thermal imaging

    Article • The Imaging Science Journal, October 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Glenn Tattersall

  87. Internal vascularity of the dermal plates of Stegosaurus (Ornithischia, Thyreophora)

    Article • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  88. Geographical Variation in Bill Size across Bird Species Provides Evidence for Allen’s Rule

    Article • The American Naturalist, August 2010, University of Chicago Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  89. Thermoregulation and aggregation in neonatal bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps)

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, May 2010, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  90. Seasonal torpor and normothermic energy metabolism in the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus)

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  91. Heat Exchange from the Toucan Bill Reveals a Controllable Vascular Thermal Radiator

    Article • Science, July 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Glenn Tattersall

  92. Seasonal changes in thermoregulatory responses to hypoxia in the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, June 2009, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  93. Body Size and Shape of the Large Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica (L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Article • Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, January 2009, Kansas Entomological Society

    Glenn Tattersall

  94. Embryonic motility and hatching success of Ambystoma maculatum are influenced by a symbiotic alga

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, November 2008, Canadian Science Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  95. Physiological Ecology of Aquatic Overwintering in Ranid Frogs

    Article • Biological Reviews, April 2008, Wiley

    Glenn Tattersall

  96. Body temperature depression and peripheral heat loss accompany the metabolic and ventilatory responses to hypoxia in low and high altitude birds

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, April 2008, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  97. Defects in Breathing and Thermoregulation in Mice with Near-Complete Absence of Central Serotonin Neurons

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2008, Society for Neuroscience

    Glenn Tattersall

  98. Skin Breathing in Amphibians

    Article • September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Glenn Tattersall

  99. Tribute to R. G. Boutilier: Skin colour and body temperature changes in baskingBokermannohyla alvarengai(Bokermann 1956)

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, April 2006, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  100. Regulation of ventilation in the caiman (Caiman latirostris): effects of inspired CO2 on pulmonary and upper airway chemoreceptors

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology B, November 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Glenn Tattersall

  101. Evolutionary trends in airway CO2/H+ chemoreception

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, December 2004, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  102. The thermogenesis of digestion in rattlesnakes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2004, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  103. Hypothermia-induced respiratory arrest and recovery in neonatal rats

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, August 2003, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  104. Transient peripheral warming accompanies the hypoxic metabolic response in the golden-mantled ground squirrel

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2003, The Company of Biologists

    Glenn Tattersall

  105. Constant set points for pH and PCO2 in cold-submerged skin-breathing frogs

    Article • Respiration Physiology, October 1999, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall

  106. Behavioural oxy-regulation by cold-submerged frogs in heterogeneous oxygen environments

    Article • Canadian Journal of Zoology, January 1999, Canadian Science Publishing

    Glenn Tattersall

  107. The effects of ambient pH on nitrogen excretion in early life stages of the American toad (Bufo americanus)

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Physiology, April 1996, Elsevier

    Glenn Tattersall