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.   

• 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.

• Sears, M. W. and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Costs and benefits of thermoregulation revisited: statistical and spatial distributions of temperature drive energetic costs. The American Naturalist 185: E94-E102.

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.  

• 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.

• Adrian, G.J., M. Czarnoleski, and M. J. Angilletta. 2016. Flies evolved small bodies and cells at high or fluctuating temperatures. Ecology and Evolution 6: 7791-7996.  

• 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.

• Condon, C., A. Acharya, G. J. Adrian, A. M. Hurliman, D. Malekooti, P. Nguyen, M. H. Zelic, and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Indirect selection of thermal tolerance during experimental evolution of Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology and Evolution 5: 1873-1880.

• Condon, C., B. C. Cooper, S. Yeaman, and M. J. Angilletta. 2014. Temporal variation favored the evolution of generalists in experimental populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 68: 720-728.

• 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.

• 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. 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.

• 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.  

• 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.

• 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. 2022. Climate change expected to improve digestive performance and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts. Ecological Monographs (in press).

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.

• Cloutier, S. A., M. J. Angilletta, J.-D. Mathias, and N. C. Onat. 2020. Informing the sustainable pursuit of happiness. Sustainability 12: 9491.

• 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., M. J. Angilletta, T. Pavlic, G. Lichtwarke, and R. S. Wilson. 2018. Modeling the two-dimensional accuracy of soccer kicks. Journal of Biomechanics 72: 159-166

• 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.

• 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.

• Murphy, S.C., W. von Hippel, S. L. Dubbs, M. J. Angilletta, R. S. Wilson, R. Trivers, and F. K. Barlow. 2015. The role of overconfidence in romantic desirability and competition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 41: 1036-1052.

• Wilson, R. S. and M. J. Angilletta. 2015. Dishonest signaling during aggressive encounters. Pp. 205-228 in Animal Signalling: A Functional Approach. (D. J. Irschick, M. Briffa, and J. Podos, eds.). Ralph Wiley Press.