Michael Angilletta

Thermoregulatory Behavior

• Angilletta, M. J., J. P. Youngblood, L. K. Neal, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. The neuroscience of adaptive thermoregulation. Neuroscience Letters 692: 127-136.

• Camacho Guerrero, A., J. M. VandenBrooks, A. Riley, R. S. Telemeco, and M. J. Angilletta. 2018. Oxygen supply did not affect how lizards perceived thermal stress. Integrative Zoology 13: 428-436.

• Rusch, T., M. W. Sears, and M. J. Angilletta. 2018. Lizards perceived abiotic and biotic stressors independently when competing for shade in terrestrial mesocosms. Hormones and Behavior 106: 44-51.

• Basson, C.H., O. Levy, M. J. Angilletta, and Susana Clusella-Trullas. 2017. Lizards paid a greater opportunity cost to thermoregulate in a less heterogeneous environment. Functional Ecology 31: 856-865.

• Rusch, T. and M. J. Angilletta. 2017. Competition for thermal resources between lizards alters thermoregulatory behavior and hormone levels. Functional Ecology 31: 1519-1528.   

• Rusch, T. W., M. W. Sears, and M. J. Angilletta. 2023. The structure of the thermal landscape determined behavioral and physiological responses to simulated predation risk. Functional Ecology 37: 2826-2839.

• Sears, M. W., M. J. Angilletta, M. S. Schuler, J. D. Borchert, K. F. Dilliplane, M. Stegman, T. W. Rusch, and W. A. Mitchell. 2016. Configuration of the thermal landscape determines thermoregulatory performance of ectotherms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. 113:10595–10600.

Thermal Adaptation

• Alton, L. A., C. Condon, C. R. White, and M. J. Angilletta. 2017. Colder environments did not select for a faster metabolism during experimental evolution of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 71: 145-152.

• Czarnoleski. M., E. Szlachcic, V. Privalova, A. M. Labecka, A. Sikorska, L. Sobczyk, J. M. VandenBrooks, and M. J. Angilletta. 2023. Oxygen and temperature affect cell sizes differently among tissues and between sexes of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 150: 104559.

• Le Vinh Thuy, J., J. M. VandenBrooks, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. Developmental plasticity evolved according to specialist-generalist tradeoffs in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Biology Letters 12: 20160379.

• Teague, C., J. Youngblood, K. Ragan, M. J. Angilletta, and J. M. VandenBrooks. 2017. A positive genetic correlation between heat tolerance and hypoxia tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. Biology Letters 13: 20170309.

• Vimmerstedt, J., D. Padilla, M. J. Angilletta, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Oxygen supply limits the heat tolerance of avian embryos. Biology Letters 15: 20190566.

• White, C. R., D. J. Marshall, L. A. Alton, P. A. Arnold, J. E. Beaman, C. L. Bywater, C. Condon, T. S. Crispin, A. Janetzki, H. S. Winwood Smith, M. J. Angilletta, S. F. Chenoweth, C. E. Franklin, L. G. Halsey, M. R. Kearney, S. J. Portugal, and D. Ortiz-Barrientos. 2019. The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 598–603.

• Youngblood, J. P., C. R. B. da Silva, M. J. Angilletta, and J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Oxygen limitation does not drive the decreasing heat tolerance of grasshoppers during development. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 92: 567-572.

Impacts of Climate Change

• Angilletta, M. J., M. W. Sears, J. M. VandenBrooks. 2019. Fundamental flaws with the fundamental niche. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59: 1038–1048.

• Buckley, L. B., J. C. Ehrenberger, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Thermoregulatory behavior limits local adaptation of thermal niches and confers sensitivity to climate change. Functional Ecology 29: 1038-1047.Telemeco, R., B. Fletcher, O. Levy, A. Riley, Y. Rodriguez-Sanchez, C. D. Smith, C. Teague, A. Waters, M. J. Angilletta, and L. B. Buckley. 2017. Lizards fail to plastically adjust nesting behavior or thermal tolerance as needed to buffer populations from climate change. Global Change Biology 23: 1075-1084.

• Levy, O., L. B. Buckley, T. H. Keitt, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. Ontogeny constrains phenology: opportunities for activity and reproduction interact to dictate potential phenologies in a changing climate. Ecology Letters  19: 620-628.  

• Levy, O., L. B. Buckley, T. H. Keitt, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. A dynamically downscaled projection of past and future microclimates. Ecology 97: 1888.  

• Levy, O., L. B. Buckley, T. H. Keitt, C. D. Smith, K. Boateng, D. Kumar, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Resolving the life cycle alters expected impacts of climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20150837.

• Smith, C. D., R. Telemeco, J. VandenBrooks, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Oxygen supply limits the heat tolerance of lizard embryos. Biology Letters 11: 20150113.

• Youngblood, J. P., A. J. Cease, S. Talal, F. Copa, H. E. Medina, J. E. Rojas, E. V. Trumper, M. J. Angilletta, and J. F. Harrison. 2023. Climate change expected to improve digestive performance and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts. Ecological Monographs 93: e1550.

Performance and Deception

• Angilletta, M. J., R. S. Wilson, and G. Kubitz. 2019. Self-deception in non-human animals: weak crayfish escalated aggression as if they were strong. Behavioral Ecology 30: 1469-1476.

• Graham, Z. A. and M. J. Angilletta. 2022. Distinguishing between unreliability and dishonesty: a comparative study of aggressive communication in crayfish. Functional Ecology 36: 73-82.

• Graham, Z. A., D. Padilla, and M. J. Angilletta. 2020. Virile crayfish escalate aggression according to body size instead of weapon size. Animal Behaviour 163: 9-15.

• Hunter, A. H., T. P. Pavlic, M. J. Angilletta, and R. S. Wilson. 2022. Identifying the best strategy for soccer penalty success: A predictive model for optimising behavioural and biomechanical trade-offs. Journal of Biomechanics 141: 111208.

• Hunter, A. H, M. J. Angilletta, and R. S. Wilson. 2018. Behaviours of shooter and goalkeeper interact to determine the outcome of soccer penalties. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports 28: 2751–2759.

• Hunter, A. H., S. Murphy, M. J. Angilletta, and R. S. Wilson. 2018. Anticipating the direction of soccer penalty shots depends on the speed and technique of the kicks. Sports 6: 73.

• Padilla, D., D. DeNardo, and M. J. Angilletta. 2022. The correlated evolution of foraging mode and reproductive output in lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289: 20220180.

• Wilson, R. S., G. David, S. C. Murphy, A. C. Niehaus, M. J. Angilletta, A. Hunter, and M. D. Smith. 2017. Skill not athleticism predicts individual variation in match performance of soccer players. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20170953.