Publications and Projects in the McBrayer Lab

Publications

J. B. Pierce *, R. R. Fleet, L. McBrayer, and D.C. Rudolph. 2008. Use of trees by the Texas Ratsnake (Elaphe obsoleta) in eastern Texas. Southeastern Naturalist 7(2): 359-366.

McBrayer, LD. 2008. Sex, size & gender roles: Evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism. Quarterly Review of Biology 83: 99-100. Book review of Fairburn et al. 2007.

Anderson, RA, LD McBrayer and A. Herrel. 2008. Bite force in vertebrates: opportunities and caveats for use of a nonpareil whole-animal performance measure. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93: 709-720.

McBrayer, LD and RA Anderson. 2007. Sexual dimorphism in head shape and bite force in the Northern Alligator lizard, Elgaria coerulea. Journal of Herpetology 41(4): 554–559.

Williams * , S, and LD McBrayer. 2007. Selection of microhabitat by the introduced Mediterranean gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus: influence of ambient light and distance to refuge. The Southwestern Naturalist 52(4): 578-585.

Reilly, SM, LD McBrayer, and DB Miles. 2007. Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 531 pp. More info

Authored chapters:

• Reilly, SM, LD McBrayer, and DB Miles. Preface.
• McBrayer, LD and CE Corbin. Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: Morphological correlates of foraging mode.
• Reilly, SM and LD McBrayer. Prey capture and prey processing behavior and the evolution of lingual and sensory characteristics: divergences and convergences in lizard feeding biology.
• McBrayer, LD, DB Miles, and SM Reilly. The evolution of the foraging mode paradigm in lizard ecology

Herrel, A., LD McBrayer and PM Larson. 2007. Functional basis for intersexual differences in bite force in the lizard Anolis carolinensis. Biological Journal Linnean Society 91: 111-119.

Hitchcock, M, and LD McBrayer. 2006. Thermoregulatory effectiveness in the Mediterranean gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus. Journal of Herpetology. 40:185-195.

Johnson, BJ, LD McBrayer, and D Saenz. 2005. Allometry, sexual size dimorphism, and niche partitioning in the Mediterranean gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) . Southwestern Naturalist 50: 435-439.

McBrayer, LD. 2004. The relationship between skull morphology, biting performance and foraging mode in Kalahari lacertid lizards. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 140(3): 403-416.

McBrayer, LD and TD White. 2002. Bite force, behavior, and electromyography in the teiid lizard, Tupinambis teguixin. Copeia (2002): 111-119.

McBrayer, LD, and SM Reilly. 2002. Prey processing in lizards: Behavioural divergence in sit-and-wait and wide foraging taxa. Can. J. Zool. 80: 882-892.

McBrayer, LD, and SM Reilly. 2002. Testing models of prey transport kinematics in lizards: a quantitative analysis of mouth opening patterns. Zoology 105: 71-81.

Reilly, SM, LD McBrayer, and TD White. 2001. Prey processing in amniotes: biomechanical and behavioral patterns of food reduction. Comp. Biochem. Phys. A. 128: 397-415.

Bedocs, PM, LD McBrayer, and JA Elias. 2000. An inexpensive method for creating cages for large reptiles. Herp. Rev. 31(3): 164.

Elias, JA, LD McBrayer, and SM Reilly. 2000. Prey transport kinematics in Tupinambis teguixin and Varanus exanthematicus: conservation of feeding behavior in ‘chemosensory tongued’ lizards. J. Exp. Biol. 203(4): 791-801.

Current Projects

McBrayer, LD and RA Anderson. Home range size of the desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) in relation to the distribution of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex spp.). In preparation.

Korenek, J and LD McBrayer. The relationship between home range size and habitat characteristics in longnose Leopard lizards (Gambelia wislizenii). In preparation.

Current projects with students

Gaskell, A. Herpetological communities on sandhills in southeast Georgia.

Schacht, M. The influence of canopy cover on amphibian development and morphology.

Gowan, T. Hormonal and seasonal influences on organismal performance.

Williams, S. Seasonal variation of movement patterns in lizards.

O'Conner, J. The effect of testosterone on biting and locomotor performance.

Waddell, J. The ontogeny of shell shape in gopher tortoises.