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Publications

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  1. Tattersall, G.J., Currie, S, and LeBlanc, D. 2013. Pulmonary and cutaneous O2 gas exchange: a student laboratory exercise in the frog. Advances in Physiology Education 37: 97-105. Link here

  2. Bianchini, K, Tattersall, GJ, Sashaw, J, Porteus, CS, Wright, PA. 2012. Acid water interferes with salamander-green algae symbiosis during early embryonic development.  Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 85: 480-490.

  3. Greenberg, R, Cadena, V, Danner, RM, and Tattersall, GJ. 2012. Heat loss may explain bill size differences between birds occupying different habitats. PLoS One. 7: e40933. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040933 Link here PDF

  4. Tattersall, GJ, Sinclair, BJ, Withers, PC, Fields, PA, Seebacher, F, Cooper, CE, and Maloney, SK. 2012. Coping with Thermal Challenges: Physiological Adaptations to Environmental Temperatures. Comprehensive Physiology. 2: 2151-2202.  doi: 10.1002/cphy.c110055. Link here PDF

  5. Tattersall, GJ, JP Luebbert, OK LePine, KG Ormerod, and AJ Mercier, 2012. Thermal games in crayfish depend on establishment of social hierarchies. Journal of Experimental Biology, 215: 1892-1904. Link here PDF

  6. Tattersall, GJ, Tyson, TM, Lenchyshyn, J, and Carlone, RL. 2012. Temperature preference during
    forelimb regeneration in the red-spotted newt Notophthalmus viridescens
    . Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological Genetics and Physiology 317: 248-258. PDF

  7. Stuginski, DR, Fernandes, W, Tattersall, GJ, and Abe, AS. 2011. Postprandial thermogenesis in Bothrops moojeni (Serpentes: Viperidae). Journal of Venomous Animal Toxins including Tropical Diseases 17: 287-292. PDF

  8. Skandalis, DA, Richards, MH, Sformo, TS, and Tattersall, GJ. 2011. Climate limitations on the distribution and phenology of a large carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica. Can J Zool 89: 785-795.

  9. Skandalis, DA, Stuart JA, and Tattersall, GJ. 2011. Responses of Drosophila melanogaster to atypical oxygen atmospheres. Journal of Insect Physiology. 57: 444-451. PDF

  10. Tattersall GJ and Cadena, V. 2010. Insights into animal temperature adaptations revealed through thermal imaging. Imaging Science Journal. 58: 261-268. PDF

  11. Salway KD, Tattersall GJ, Stuart JA. 2010. Rapid upregulation of heart antioxidant enzymes during arousal from estivation in the Giant African snail (Achatina fulica). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A Molecular and Integrative Physiology. 157: 229-236. PDF

  12. Eterovick, PC, Oliveira, FFR, and Tattersall, GJ. 2010. Threatened tadpoles of Bokermannohyla alvarengai (Anura, Hylidae) choose backgrounds that enhance cryptic potential. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 101: 437-446. PDF

  13. Farlow, JO, Hayashi, S, and Tattersall, GJ. 2010. Internal vascularity of the dermal plates of Stegosaurus (Ornithischia, Thyreophora). Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 103: 173-185. PDF

  14. Symonds, M.R.E. and Tattersall, G. J. 2010. Geographic variation in bill size across bird species provides evidence for Allen's rule. American Naturalist. 176: 188-197. PDF
    DOI: 10.1086/653666: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/653666

  15. Khan, J.J, Richardson, J.M.L, and Tattersall, G.J. 2010. Thermoregulation and aggregation in neonatal bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps). Physiology & Behavior. 100: 180-186. PDF
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.02.019


  16. Levesque, D. L. and Tattersall, G. J. 2010. Seasonal torpor and normothermic energy metabolism in the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 180: 279-292. PDF

  17. Tattersall, G. J. and Milsom, W. K. 2009. Hypoxia reduces the hypothalamic thermogenic threshold and thermosensitivity. Journal Physiology-London. 587: 5259-5274. link

  18. Tattersall, G. J., Andrade, D.V., and Abe, A.S. 2009. Heat Exchange from the Toucan Bill Reveals a Controllable Vascular Thermal Radiator. Science. 325: 468-470. Science Link PDF
    Supporting Online Material, Movie S1, Movie S2.

  19. Levesque, D. L. and Tattersall, G. J. 2009. Seasonal changes in thermoregulatory responses to hypoxia in the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus). Journal of Experimental Biology. 212: 1801-1810. Link here. PDF

  20. Cadena, V., and Tattersall, G. J. 2009. Decreased precision contributes to the hypoxic thermoregulatory response in lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology. 212: 137-144. Link here PDF

  21. Skandalis, D., Tattersall, G.J., Prager, S., and Richards, M. 2009. Body size variation in the carpenter bee. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 82: 30-42. PDF

  22. Cadena, V., and Tattersall, G. J. 2009. The effect of thermal quality on the thermoregulatory behaviour of the bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps: influences of methodological assessment. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 82: 203-217. PDF

  23. Tattersall, GJ, and Spiegelaar, N. 2008. Embryonic motility and hatching of Ambystoma maculatum are influenced by the symbiotic algae. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86: 1289-1298. PDF

  24. Barraza de Velasco, J. and Tattersall, G.J. 2008. The influence of hypoxia on the thermal sensitivity of skin colouration in the bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 178: 867-865. PDF

  25. Scott, G.R., Cadena, V., Tattersall, G.J., and Milsom, W.K. . 2008. Body temperature depression and peripheral heat loss accompany the metabolic and ventilatory responses to hypoxia in low and high altitude birds. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211: 1326-1335. PDF

  26. Hodges, MR, Tattersall, GJ, Harris, MB, McEvoy, S, Richerson, DN, Chen, S-F, Deneris, ES, Johnson, RL, Richerson, GB. 2008. Severe defects in breathing and thermoregulation after genetic deletion of serotonin neurons.  Journal of Neuroscience, 28: 2495-2505.

  27. Tattersall, GJ and Ultsch, GR. 2008. Physiological ecology of overwintering in ranid frogs.  Biological Reviews.  83: 119-140. Proofs Only!

  28. Rollinson, N, Tattersall, GJ, and Brooks, RJ. 2008. Winter temperature selection in relation to dissolved oxygen concentrations in a natural population of Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta).  Journal of Herpetology, 42: 312-321. Proofs Only!

  29. Tattersall, G.J., Cadena, V., and Skinner, M. C. 2006. Respiratory Cooling and Thermoregulatory Coupling in Reptiles. Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology. 154: 302-318. Proofs Only!

  30. Tattersall, G.J., Eterovick, P.C., de Andrade, D.V. 2006. Skin colour and body temperature changes in basking Bokermannohyla alvarengai (Bokermann 1956). Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 1185-1196.

  31. Tattersall, G.J. Andrade, D. V., Brito, S.P., Abe, A. S., and Milsom, W. K. 2006. Regulation of ventilation in the caiman (Caiman latirostris): Effects of inspired CO2 on pulmonary and upper airway chemoreceptors. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 176: 125-138. Proofs Only!

  32. Tattersall, G. J. and Gerlach, R. M. 2005. Hypoxia progressively lowers thermal gaping thresholds in bearded dragons, Pogona vitticeps. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 3321-3330. Proofs Only!

  33. Milsom, W. K., Abe, A. S., Andrade, D. V., and Tattersall, G. J. 2004. Evolutionary trends in airway CO2/H+ chemoreception. Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology. 144: 191-202.

  34. Andrade, D. V., Tattersall, G. J., Brito, S. P., Soncini, R. Branco, L. G., Glass, M. L., Abe, A. S., and Milsom, W. K. 2004. The ventilatory response to environmental hypercarbia in the South American rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 174: 281-291.

  35. Tattersall, G. J., Milsom, W. K., Abe, A. S., Brito, S. P., Andrade, D. V. 2004. The thermogenesis of digestion in rattlesnakes. Journal of Experimental Biology. 207: 579-585.

  36. Tattersall, G. J. and Milsom, W. K. 2003. Hypothermia-induced respiratory arrest and recovery in neonatal rats. Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology. 137: 29-40.

  37. Tattersall, G. J. and Milsom, W. K. 2003. Transient peripheral warming accompanies the hypoxic metabolic response in the golden-mantled ground squirrel. Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 33-42.

  38. Tattersall, G. J., Blank, J. L and Wood, S. C. 2002. Hypoxic ventilatory and metabolic responses of the smallest simian primate, the pymgy marmoset. Journal of Applied Physiology 92: 202-210.

  39. Sheafor, E. A., Wood, S. C. and Tattersall, G. J. 2000. The effect of graded hypoxia on the metabolic rate and buccal activity of a lungless salamander Desmognathus fuscus). Journal of Experimental Biology. 203:3785-93.

  40. St-Pierre, J., Tattersall, G. J., and Boutilier, R. G. 2000. Metabolic depression and enhanced O2 affinity of mitochondria in hypoxic hypometabolism. American Journal of Physiology 279: R1205-R1214.

  41. Branco, L. G. S., Steiner, A. A., Tattersall, G. J., and Wood, S. C. 2000. Role of adenosine in the hypoxia-induced hypothermia in toads. American Journal of Physiology. 279: R196-R201.

  42. Boutilier, R. G., Tattersall, G. J. and Donohoe, P. H. 1999. Metabolic consequences of behavioural hypothermia and oxygen detection in submerged overwintering frogs. Zoology: Analysis of Complex Systems 102: 111-119.

  43. Tattersall, G. J. and Boutlier, R. G. 1999. Behavioural oxyregulation by cold-submerged frogs in heterogeneous oxygen environments. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77: 843-850.

  44. Tattersall, G. J. and Boutlier, R. G. 1999. Constant set points for pH and Pco2 in cold-submerged skin-breathing frogs. Respiration Physiology, 118: 49-59.

  45. Tattersall, G. J. and Boutilier, R. G. 1999. Does behavioural hypothermia promote exercise recovery in cold-submerged frogs? Journal of Experimental Biology, 202: 609-622.

  46. Tattersall, G. J. and Boutilier, R. G. 1997. Balancing hypoxia and hypothermia in cold-submerged frogs. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 1031-1038.

  47. Boutilier, R. G., Donohoe, P. H., Tattersall, G. J. and West, T. G. 1997. Hypometabolic homeostasis in over-wintering amphibians. Journal of Experimental Biology 200: 387-400.

  48. Tattersall, G. J. and Wright, P. A. 1996. The effects of ambient pH on nitrogen excretion in early life stages of the American toad (Bufo americanus). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 113A: 369-374.

Press Write-Ups

Post-Exercise Thermal Preference in Frogs: http://www.nature.com/nsu/990225/990225-1.html

Squirrels Choose to Cool by Warming (Inside the Journal of Experimental Biology)

A tongue-in-cheek article on the association between Mick Jagger and the American toad

Snakes get the hots for breakfast (Inside the Journal of Experimental Biology)



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