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Peer-reviewed 

2025
Live birth in lizards: a process-based model for the roles of temperature, behavior, and life-history. 
Garcia-Costoya G, Dominguez-Guerrero SF, Fromhage L, Gifford ME, Riddell EA, Logan ML.
Evolution Letters: in press.
Higher parasite load is associated with lower heat tolerance in a tropical lizard. 
Bakewell L, Alfonso C, Alujevic A, Fontaine SS, Keller J, Lopez-Tacaoman YF, Ponce N, Vivas A, Williams CE, Wuthrich KL, McMillan WO, Logan ML, and Cox CL.
Journal of Experimental Biology: 228: jeb250580. PDF 
Using aerial thermography to map terrestrial thermal environments in unprecedented detail. 
Alujevic K, Garcia-Costoya G, Ratia N, Schmitz E, Godkin RD, Gopal AC, Bujan J, Logan ML. 
Methods in Ecology and Evolution: 16 (8): 1688-1702. PDF
Beating the heat: a lowland tropical lizard expresses heat shock protein networks in response to acute thermal stress. 
Wuthrich KL, Chung AK, Rosso A, McMillan WO, Logan ML, Cox CL.
Integrative and Comparative Biology: 65 (4): 1109-1120. PDF
The genetic basis of a colorful signal: The polymorphic dewlap of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus). 
Pirani RM, Arias CF, Curlis JD, Nicholson DJ, Stapley J, McMillan WO, Cox CL, Logan ML.
Heredity: 1-9. PDF
2024
Temperature dependence of regional heterothermy in a diminutive ectotherm. 
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.
Journal of Experimental Biology: 227 (21): jeb247759. PDF
Reply to von Schmalensee et al.
Garcia-Costoya G, Williams CE, Faske T, Moorman J, Logan ML.
Ecology Letters: 27: e14436. PDF
Plasticity of gene expression and thermal tolerance: implications for climate change vulnerability in a tropical forest lizard.
Rosso AA, Brianna C, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Folfas E, Gallegos MA, Neel LK, Nicholson DJ, Williams CE, McMillan WO,  Logan ML, Cox CL.
Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology: 97 (2). PDF
Personality depends on temperature and body size but is uncoupled from metabolism in an African lizard.
Alujevic K, Streicher JW, Garcia RA, Riesgo A, Taboada S, Logan ML, Clusella-Trullas S.
Animal Behaviour: 207: 209-221. PDF
3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments. 
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.
Journal of Thermal Biology: 119: 103762. PDF
A high-quality genome for the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus), an emerging model for field-studies of tropical ecology and evolution. 
Pirani RM, Arias CF, Charles K, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Nicholson DJ, Vargas M, Cox CL, McMillan WO, Logan ML.
G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics: jkad248. PDF
2023
Island colonisation leads to rapid behavioural and morphological divergence in Anolis lizards. 
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.
Evolutionary Ecology: 37: 779-795. PDF
Climate change is not just global warming: multidimensional impacts on animal gut microbiota. 
Williams CE, Williams CL, Logan ML.
Microbial Biotechnology: 2023;00: 1-9. PDF. Press: The Microbiologist
Temperature and the pace of life. 
Gopal AC, Alujevic K, Logan ML.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology: 2023: 77:59. PDF
Mismatches between phenotype and environment shape fitness at hyperlocal scales.
Alujevic K, Streicher JW, Garcia RA, Riesgo A, Taboada S, Logan ML, Clusella-Trullas S.
Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 290: 20230865. PDF
A diminutive snake species can maintain regional heterothermy in both homogenous and heterogenous environments. 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.
Journal of Experimental Biology:
226 (11): jeb245380. PDF.
​​Evolutionary constraints mediate extinction risk under climate change. 
Garcia-Costoya G, Williams CE, Faske T, Moorman J, Logan ML.
Ecology Letters: 2023: 1-11. PDF. Press: NewsWise
2022
Sustained drought, but not short-term warming, alters the gut microbiome of wild Anolis lizards.
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.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 88: 1-18. PDF. Press: Nevada Today
Climate anomalies and competition reduce establishment success during island colonization.
Nicholson DJ, Knell RJ, McCrea R, Neel LK, Curlis JD, Williams CE, Chung AK, McMillan WO, Garner TWJ, Cox CL, Logan ML. Ecology and Evolution: 12: 1-11. PDF
Species-specific expression of growth-regulatory genes in two anoles with divergent patterns of sexual size dimorphism.
Cox CL, Logan ML, Nicholson DJ, Chung AK, Rosso AA, McMillan WO, Cox RM.
Integrative Organismal Biology: 4: 1-13. PDF.
2021
Using integrative biology to infer adaptation from comparisons of two (or a few) species.
Cox CL, Logan ML.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: 94: 162-170. PDF 
Habitat structure mediates vulnerability to climate change through its effects on thermoregulatory behavior. 
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.
Biotropica: 2021: 1-13. *Authors contributed equally. PDF
Sex-specific microhabitat use is associated with sex-biased thermal physiology in Anolis lizards.
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.
Journal of Experimental Biology: 224: jeb235697. PDF
2020
Sex-biased parasitism and expression of a sexual signal. 
Rosso AA, Nicholson DJ, Logan ML, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Degon ZM, Knell R, Garner TWJ, McMillan WO, Cox CL.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society: 131: 785-800. PDF
Thermal ecology and physiology of an elongate and semi-fossorial arthropod, the bark centipede. 
Cox CL, Tribble HO, Richardson S, Chung AK, Curlis JD, Logan ML.
Journal of Thermal Biology: 94: 102755. PDF
Genetic constraints, transcriptome plasticity, and the evolutionary response to climate change.
Logan ML, Cox CL.
Frontiers in Genetics: 11: 538226. PDF 
Ectoparasite extinction in simplified lizard assemblages during experimental island invasion. 
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.
Biology Letters: 16: 20200474. PDF. Press:   FIU News   Science Daily   Phys.org   
AnoleAnnals 
The evolutionary potential of an insect invader under climate change. 
Logan ML*, Minnaar IA*, Keegan KM, Clusella-Trullas S.
Evolution: 74: 132-144. 
*Authors contributed equally. PDF​
2019
​The Bogert Effect and environmental heterogeneity. 
Logan ML, van Berkel J, Clusella-Trullas S.
Oecologia: 4: 817-827. PDF. ​
Did pathogens facilitate the rise of endothermy?
Logan ML. 
Ideas in Ecology and Evolution: 12: 1-8. PDF. Press:   Inverse.com    Irish Examiner    Laboratory Equipment Magazine   Phys.org    Science Daily    ​
Opportunities for behavioral rescue under rapid environmental change. 
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.​
Global Change Biology: 25: 3110-3120.  PDF  Press:    Phys.org    Environmental News Network​
2018 and earlier
Thermal physiology and thermoregulatory behaviour exhibit low heritability despite genetic divergence between lizard populations. 
Logan ML, Curlis JD, Gilbert AL, Miles DB, Chung AK, McGlothlin JW, Cox RM.
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​
Do ring-necked snakes choose retreat sites based upon thermal preferences?
Cox CL*, Logan ML *, Bryan O, et al.
Journal of Thermal Biology: 71: 232-236. *Authors contributed equally. PDF​​
Spatial variation in climate mediates gene flow across an island archipelago. 
Logan ML, Duryea MC, Molnar OR, Kessler BJ, and Calsbeek R.
Evolution: 70: 2395-2403.  PDF​​
Abiotic constraints on the activity of tropical lizards. 
Logan ML, Fernandez S, and Calsbeek R.
Functional Ecology: 29: 694-700.  PDF​   
Natural selection on thermal performance in a novel thermal environment. 
Logan ML, Cox RM, and Calsbeek R. 2014.
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​
The impact of climate change measured at relevant spatial scales: new hope for tropical lizards. 
Logan ML, Huynh R, Precious R, and Calsbeek R.
Global Change Biology: 19: 3093-3102.  
PDF. Press: Phys.org     Watts Up With That?    ScienceBlog    CO2 Science  Anole Annals    The Register   Environmental News Network  ​
Divergence in morphology, but not habitat use, despite low genetic differentiation among insular populations of the lizard Anolis lemurinus in Honduras. 
Logan ML, Montgomery CE, Boback SM, Reed RN, and Campbell JA.
Journal of Tropical Ecology: 28:  215-222.  PDF    ​
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Non-peer reviewed and popular science

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