Karen Sweazea

Select Publications (from a total of 78):

(††Graduate student, †Undergraduate student)

1. McCluney KE*, Deviche P*, Sweazea KL*, Carlen EJ, Clark (Brown) JAG, Grade A, Haight JD, Niesner C, Trego S, Weiss KCB. (2026) An integrated social-ecological-evolutionary-phenotypic (SEEP) approach to understanding animal responses to urbanization. Biological Reviews. 101: 419-436. DOI: 10.1111/brv.70088
2. Lockett R††, Figueiredo de Sousa M†, Nicoluzakis KA, Cease A, Sweazea KL*. (2025) Urban substrates alter the nutritional composition of an emerging model insect, Tenebrio molitor. Journal of Insect Physiology. 166: 104892.
3. Domer A*, Misraje TR, Xing D, Arango BG, Selleghin-Veiga G, Corl A, Bowie RCK, McGuire JA, Sweazea KL, Vázquez-Medina JP, Dudley R (2025). Myo-inositol is a key regulator of avian metabolism: From mechanisms to seasonal behavior. Science Advances. 11(36): eadv2794. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv2794
4. Kapsetaki SE*, Basile AJ††, Compton Z, Rupp SM, Duke EG, Boddy AM, Harrison TM, Sweazea KL, Maley C. (2025) The relationship between diet, plasma glucose, and cancer prevalence across vertebrates. Nature Communications. 16(1): 2271. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57344-1
5. Figueiredo de Sousa M††, Ling J††, Sweazea KL*. (2025) Examination of a novel dietary fiber formulation on morphology and nutritional physiology of young male Sprague-Dawley rats fed a high fat diet. PeerJ. 13: e19029. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.19029
6. Basile A††, Noshirwani N†, Sweazea KL*. Eighty-five percent of menu items from the six highest-selling fast-food restaurants in the United States are ultra-processed. Public Health Nutrition. 30: 1-15. DOI: 10.1017/S1368980025000060
7. Basile AJ*††, Ruiz-Tejada A††, Mohr AE††, Morales C†, Hjelm E†, Brand-Miller JC, Atkinson FS, Sweazea KL*. Food processing according to the NOVA Classification is not associated with glycemix index and glycemic load: Results from an analysis of 1,995 food items. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 120(5): 1037-1042.
8. Basile AJ††, Kreisler A†, Hassen R†, Singh K†, Symes M†, Larson G†, Figueiredo de Sousa M††, Sweazea KL*. (2024) Acute metformin induces hyperglycemia in healthy adult mourning doves, Zenaida macroura. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. 291: 111594. DOI: 10.1016/jcbpa.2024.111594
9. Deviche P*, Sweazea KL*, Angelier F*. (2023) Past and future: Urbanization and the avian endocrine system. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 332:114159.
10. Brown J*, Basile A††, Bateman H, Lerman S, Warren P, Deviche P, Sweazea KL*. (2022) No fry zones: How restaurant distribution and abundance influence avian communities. PLOS ONE. 17(10): e0269334.
11. Mohr AE††*, Basile A††, Sweazea KL*. (2022) An urban diet differentially alters the gut microbiome and metabolomic profiles compared to a seed diet in mourning doves. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology. 323(4):R385-R396.
12. Basile A††, Singh K†, Watson D††, Sweazea KL*. (2022) Comparative Models in Biomedical Research special issue: Effect of macronutrient and micronutrient manipulation on avian blood glucose concentration: A systematic review. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. 272: 111279.
13. Sweazea KL*. (2022) Invited review for the Comparative Models in Biomedical Research special issue: Revisiting glucose regulation in birds – A negative model of diabetes complications. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B. 262: 110778.
14. Basile A††, Renner M†, Kayata L†, Deviche P, Sweazea KL*. (2021) A four-week urban diet impairs vasodilation but not nutritional physiology in wild-caught mourning doves (Zenaida macroura). Physiological Biochemical Zoology. 94(4): 241-252.
15. Basile A††, Kirkton S, Hedrick M, Carey H, Sweazea KL*. (2021) Defining comparative physiology: Results from a cross-sectional survey of physiologists and systematic review. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 320(6): R938-944.
16. Mohr AE††, Reiss RA, Beaudet M†, Sena J, Naik JS, Walker BR, Sweazea KL*. (2021) Short-term high fat diet alters genes associated with metabolic and vascular dysfunction during adolescence in rats: A pilot study. PeerJ. 9: e11714.
17. Crawford M††, Mohr AE††, Sweazea KL*. (2020) Novel organic mineral complex prevents high-fat diet-induced changes in the gut and liver of male Sprague-Dawley rats. Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism. 2020: Article ID: 8846401.
18. Anthony C††, Wilson A††, Sweazea KL*, Braun EJ. (2020) Fewer exposed lysine residues may explain relative resistance of chicken serum albumin to in vitro protein glycation in comparison to bovine serum albumin. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 88(8): 653-661, 2020.