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Peer-reviewed 

2025
Pirani RM, Arias CF, Curlis JD, Nicholson DJ, Stapley J, McMillan WO, Cox CL, Logan ML. 2025. The genetic basis of a colorful signal: The polymorphic dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus). Heredity: 1-9. PDF
2024
Cox CL, Chung AK, Bindrim A, Davidson G, Dean S, Haines K, Heise A, Mauer E, Pfennig K, Sorrel E, Tepper D, van den Ord C, Logan ML. 2024. Temperature dependence of regional heterothermy in a diminutive ectotherm. Journal of Experimental Biology: 227 (21): jeb247759. PDF
Garcia-Costoya G, Williams CE, Faske T, Moorman J, Logan ML. 2024. Reply to von Schmalensee et al. Ecology Letters: 27: e14436. PDF
Rosso AA, Brianna C, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Folfas E, Gallegos MA, Neel LK, Nicholson DJ, Williams CE, McMillan WO,  Logan ML, Cox CL. 2024. Plasticity of gene expression and thermal tolerance: implications for climate change vulnerability in a tropical forest lizard. Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. 97 (2). PDF
Alujevic K, Streicher JW, Garcia RA, Riesgo A, Taboada S, Logan ML, Clusella-Trullas S. 2024. Personality depends on temperature and body size but is uncoupled from metabolism in an African lizard. Animal Behaviour: 207: 209-221. PDF
Alujevic K, Bakewell L, Clifton I, Cox CL, Frishkoff LO, Gangloff EJ, Gifford ME, Glenwinkel M, Gulati S, Head A, Miles M, Pettit C, Watson CM, Wuthrich K, Logan ML. 2024. 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments. Journal of Thermal Biology: 119: 103762. PDF
Pirani RM, Arias CF, Charles K, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Nicholson DJ, Vargas M, Cox CL, McMillan WO, Logan ML. 2024. A high-quality genome for the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus), an emerging model for field-studies of tropical ecology and evolution. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics: jkad248. PDF
2023
Nicholson DJ, Knell RJ, Folfas E, Neel LK, Degon Z, DuBois M, Ortiz-Ross X, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Thurman TJ, McMillan WO, Garner TWJ, Cox CL, Logan ML. 2023. Island colonisation leads to rapid behavioural and morphological divergence in Anolis lizards. Evolutionary Ecology: 37: 779-795. PDF
Williams CE, Williams CL, Logan ML. 2023. Climate change is not just global warming: multidimensional impacts on animal gut microbiota. Microbial Biotechnology: 2023;00: 1-9. PDF. Press: The Microbiologist
Gopal AC, Alujevic K, Logan ML. 2023. Temperature and the pace of life. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology: 2023: 77:59. PDF
Alujevic K, Streicher JW, Garcia RA, Riesgo A, Taboada S, Logan ML, Clusella-Trullas S. 2023. Mismatches between phenotype and environment shape fitness at hyperlocal scales. Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 290: 20230865. PDF
Cox CL, Chung AK, Davoll ME, DeHart SA, Gerardi ST, Ly TK, Moxley K, Nipper PT, Novak DR, Reeves PF, Williams BJ, and Logan ML. 2023. A diminutive snake species can maintain regional heterothermy in both homogenous and heterogenous environments. Journal of Experimental Biology: 226 (11): jeb245380. PDF.
​​Garcia-Costoya G, Williams CE, Faske T, Moorman J, Logan ML. 2023. Evolutionary constraints mediate extinction risk under climate change. Ecology Letters: 2023: 1-11. PDF
2022
Williams CE, Kueneman J, Nicholson DJ, Rosso AA, Folfas E, Casement B, Gallegos-Koyner M, Neel LK, Curlis JD, McMillan WO, Cox CL, Logan ML. 2022. Sustained drought, but not short-term warming, alters the gut microbiome of wild Anolis lizards. Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 88: 1-18. PDF. Press: Nevada Today
Nicholson DJ, Knell RJ, McCrea R, Neel LK, Curlis JD, Williams CE, Chung AK, McMillan WO, Garner TWJ, Cox CL, Logan ML. 2022. Climate anomalies and competition reduce establishment success during island colonization. Ecology and Evolution: 12: 1-11. PDF
Cox CL, Logan ML, Nicholson DJ, Chung AK, Rosso AA, McMillan WO, Cox RM. 2022. Species-specific expression of growth-regulatory genes in two anoles with divergent patterns of sexual size dimorphism. Integrative Organismal Biology: 4: 1-13. PDF.
2021
Cox CL, Logan ML. 2021. Using integrative biology to infer adaptation from comparisons of two (or a few) species. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: 94: 162-170. PDF 
Neel LK*, Logan ML*, Nicholson DJ, Miller C, Chung AK, Maayan I, Degon Z, DuBois M, Curlis JD, Taylor Q, Keegan KM, McMillan WO, Losos JB, Cox CL. 2021. Habitat structure mediates vulnerability to climate change through its effects on thermoregulatory behavior. Biotropica: 2021: 1-13. *Authors contributed equally PDF
Logan ML, Neel LK, Nicholson DJ, Stokes AJ, Miller CL, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Keegan KM, Rosso AA, Maayan I, Folfas E, Williams CE, Casement B, Koyner MAG, Perez DJP, Falvey CH, Alexander SM, Charles KL, Graham ZA, McMillan WO, Losos JB, Cox CL. 2021. Sex-specific microhabitat use is associated with sex-biased thermal physiology in Anolis lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology: 224: jeb235697. PDF
2020
Rosso AA, Nicholson DJ, Logan ML, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Degon ZM, Knell R, Garner TWJ, McMillan WO, Cox CL. 2020. Sex-biased parasitism and expression of a sexual signal. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: 131: 785-800. PDF
Cox CL, Tribble HO, Richardson S, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Logan ML. 2020. Thermal ecology and physiology of an elongate and semi-fossorial arthropod, the bark centipede. Journal of Thermal Biology: 94: 102755. PDF
Logan ML, Cox CL. 2020. Genetic constraints, transcriptome plasticity, and the evolutionary response to climate change. Frontiers in Genetics: 11: 538226. PDF 
Cox CL, Alexander S, Casement B, Chung AK, Curlis JDC, Degon Z, Dubois M, Falvey C, Graham Z, Folfas E, Gallegos Koyner MA, Neel LK, Nicholson DJ, Padilla Perez DJ, Ross XO, Rosso AA, Taylor Q, Thurman TJ, Williams CE, McMillan WO, Logan ML. 2020. Ectoparasite extinction in simplified lizard assemblages during experimental island invasion. Biology Letters: 16: 20200474. PDF. Press:   FIU News   Science Daily   Phys.org   AnoleAnnals 
Logan ML*, Minnaar IA*, Keegan KM, Clusella-Trullas S. 2020. The evolutionary potential of an insect invader under climate change. Evolution: 74: 132-144. *Authors contributed equally. PDF​
2019
​Logan ML, van Berkel J, Clusella-Trullas S. 2019. The Bogert Effect and environmental heterogeneity. Oecologia: 4: 817-827. PDF. ​
Logan ML. 2019. Did pathogens facilitate the rise of endothermy? Ideas in Ecology and Evolution: 12: 1-8. PDF.
Press:   Inverse.com    Irish Examiner    Laboratory Equipment Magazine   Phys.org    Science Daily    ​
Fey SB, Vasseur DA, Alujevic K, Kroekerd KJ, Logan ML, DeLong JP, O’Connor MI, Peacor S, Rudolf VHW, Selden RL, Sih A, Clusella-Trullas S.​ 2019. Opportunities for Behavioral Rescue Under Rapid Environmental Change. Global Change Biology: 25: 3110-3120.  PDF  Press:    Phys.org    Environmental News Network​
2018 and earlier
Logan ML, Curlis JD, Gilbert AL, Miles DB, Chung AK, McGlothlin JW, Cox RM. 2018. Thermal physiology and thermoregulatory behaviour exhibit low heritability despite genetic divergence between lizard populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 285: 20180697. ​PDF. Press: Popular Science Magazine    Nexus Media    Science Daily    Phys.org   EcoDiario  Earth.com    Science Newsline  Brinkwire​
Cox CL*, Logan ML *, Bryan O, et al. 2018. Do ring-necked snakes choose retreat sites based upon thermal preferences? Journal of Thermal Biology: 71: 232-236. *Authors contributed equally. PDF​​
Logan ML, Duryea MC, Molnar OR, Kessler BJ, and Calsbeek R. 2016. Spatial variation in climate mediates gene flow across an island archipelago. Evolution: 70: 2395-2403.  PDF​​
Logan ML, Fernandez S, and Calsbeek R. 2015. Abiotic constraints on the activity of tropical lizards. Functional Ecology: 29: 694-700.  PDF​   
Logan ML, Cox RM, and Calsbeek R. 2014. Natural selection on thermal performance in a novel thermal environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA: 39: 14165-14169. ​PDF. ​Press:
Scientific American    The Conversation   Cosmos Magazine    The Washington Post    Anole Annals   Nature World News  Phys.org    The Dodo   Science Daily​
Logan ML, Huynh R, Precious R, and Calsbeek R. 2013. The impact of climate change measured at relevant spatial scales: new hope for tropical lizards. Global Change Biology: 19: 3093-3102.  PDF. Press: Phys.org     Watts Up With That?    ScienceBlog    CO2 Science  Anole Annals    The Register   Environmental News Network  ​
Logan ML, Montgomery CE, Boback SM, Reed RN, and Campbell JA. 2012. Divergence in morphology, but not habitat use, despite low genetic differentiation among insular populations of the lizard Anolis lemurinus in Honduras. Journal of Tropical Ecology: 28:  215-222.  PDF    ​
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Non-peer reviewed and popular science

Logan ML. 2018. Using transplant experiments to understand adaptation and speciation in anoles. 7th Anolis Newsletter. PDF
Clusella-Trullas S, Logan ML, and Minnaar IA. 2015. In a warming world, can an invasive ladybird take the heat? QUEST Magazine: 11:2.  PDF    ​​
Logan ML. 2011. Can tropical forest lizards survive climate change? Biodiversity Science.
Michael L. Logan, PhD:  [email protected]
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