Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
30. Breit, A.M., T. Kleinhaus-Goldman Gedalyahou*, A.K. Ikhwan*, M. Isaac*, A.A. Tuen, and D.L. Levesque. 2023. Muted responses to heat in a nocturnal tropical rodent. Biotropica. DOI: 10.1111/btp.13267
29. Levesque, D. L., Breit, A. M.*, Brown, E.*, Nowack, J., & S. Welman. 2023. Non-torpid heterothermy in mammals: Another point along the homeothermy-hibernation continuum. Integrative and Comparative Biology. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad094
28. Nowack, J., C. Stawski, F. Geiser, D.L. Levesque. 2023. Rare and opportunistic use of torpor in mammals – an echo from the past? Integrative and Comparative Biology. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad067
27. Shankar, A., K.C. Welch Jr., E.R. Eberts, F. Geiser, S. Halter, L. Keicher, D.L. Levesque, J. Nowack, B.O. Wolf, S.W. Wolfe. 2023. Daily torpor in birds and mammals: past, present, and future of the field. Integrative and Comparative Biology. DOI: 10.1093/icb/icad095
26. Christmas, M.J. [et al., including A.M. Breit* and D.L. Levesque] 2023. Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals. Science 380:abn3943
25. Fanter, C., C. Madelaire, D. P. Genereux, F. van Breukelen, D. L. Levesque, and A. Hindle. 2022. Epigenomics as a paradigm to understand the nuances of phenotypes. Journal of Experimental Biology 225, jeb243411 DOI:10.1242/jeb.243411
24. Volk, M.R., C.B. Lubelczyk, J.C. Johnston, D.L. Levesque, and A.M. Gardner. 2022. Microclimate conditions alter Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) overwintering survival across climate gradients in Maine. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. 13:101872 DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2021.101872
23. Levesque, D.L., J. Nowack, and J.G. Boyles. 2021. Body temperature frequency distributions: a tool for assessing thermal performance in endotherms? Frontiers in Physiology. 12:760797 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.760797
22. McEntire, K.D., M. Gage, R. Gawne, M.G. Hadfield, C. Hulshof, M.A. Johnson, D.L. Levesque, J. Segura, N. Pinter-Wollman. 2021. Understanding drivers of variation and predicting variability across levels of biological organization. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2021, icab160 DOI: 10.1093/icb/icab160
21. Levesque, D.L. and K.E. Marshall. 2021. Do endotherms have thermal performance curves Journal of Experimental Biology 224, jeb141309. DOI:10.1242/jeb.141309
20. Levesque, D.L., J. Boyles, C. Downs, A. Breit. 2021. High body temperature is not the cause of high viral load in bats. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 57:238–241 DOI: 10.7589/JWD-D-20-00079
19. Dausmann, K.H, D.L. Levesque, J. Wein, J. Nowack. 2020. Ambient temperature cycles affect daily torpor and hibernation patterns in Malagasy tenrecs. Frontiers in Physiology 11:522 DOI:10.3389/fphys.2020.00522
18. Tattersall, G.J. R.M Danner, J. Chaves, D.L. Levesque. 2020. Activity analysis of thermal imaging videos using a difference imaging approach. Journal of Thermal Biology 91:102611 DOI: 10.1016/j.therbio.2020.102611
17. Nowack, J., D.L. Levesque, S. Reher and K. Dausmann. 2020. Variable climates lead to varying phenotypes: ‘weird’ mammalian torpor and lessons from non-Holarctic. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:60 DOI:10.3389/fevo.2020.00060
16. Thonis, A.*, R.M. Ceballos, A.A. Tuen, B.G. Lovegrove and D.L. Levesque. 2020. High upper limits and a large thermoneutral zone in a small tropical mammal. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 93:199-209 DOI:10.1086/708467
15. Boyles, J. G., Levesque, D. L., Nowack, J., Wojciechowski, M. S., Stawski, C., Fuller, A., Smit, B. and Tattersall, G. J. 2019. An oversimplification of physiological principles leads to flawed macroecological analyses. Ecology and Evolution 9:12020-12025 DOI : 10.1002/ece3.5721
14. Levesque, D.L., A.A. Tuen, B.G. Lovegrove. 2018. Staying hot to fight the heat- high body temperatures accompany a diurnal endothermic lifestyle in the tropics. Journal of Comparative Physiology B DOI : 10.1007/s00360-018-1160-7
13. Levesque, D.L., A. Menzies, G. Larocque, M. Landry-Cuerrier, M.M. Humphries. 2017. Embracing heterothermic diversity: non-stationary waveform analysis of temperature variation in endotherms. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 187:749-757 DOI:10.1007/s00360-017-1074-9
12. Levesque, D.L., J. Nowack and C. Stawski. 2016. Modelling mammalian energetics: the heterothermy problem. Climate Change Responses. 3:7 DOI: 10.1186/s40665-016-0022-3
11. Sinclair, B, K. Marshall, M. Sewell, D.L. Levesque, C.Willett, S. Slotsbo, Y. Dong, C. Harley, D. Marshall, B. Helmuth, R. Huey. 2016. Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? Ecology Letters 19:1372-1385. DOI:10.1111/ele.12686
9. Levesque, D.L., K.D. Lobban and B.G. Lovegrove. 2014. Effects of reproductive status and high ambient temperatures on the body temperature of a free-ranging basoendotherm. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 184: 1041-1053. DOI: 10.1007/s00360-014-0858-4
8. Levesque, D.L., D. and B.G. Lovegrove. 2014. Increased homeothermy during reproduction in a basal placental mammal. Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 1535-1542 DOI: JEXBIO/2013/098848
7. Lovegrove B.G., C.I. Canale, D.L. Levesque, G. Fluch, M. Řeháková-Petrů and T. Ruf. 2014. Are tropical mammals physiologically vulnerable to Arrhenius effects and climate change? Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87 (1): 30-45 DOI: 10.1086/673313
6. Levesque, D. L., O. M. A. Lovasoa, S. N. Rakotoharimalala & B. G. Lovegrove. 2013. High mortality and annual fecundity in a free-ranging basal placental mammal, Setifer setosus (Tenrecidae: Afrosoricida). Journal of Zoology 291 (3):205-212. DOI:10.1111/jzo.12063
5. Canale, C.I., D.L Levesque (joint first author), and B.G. Lovegrove. 2012. Tropical heterothermy – does the exception prove the rule or force a re-definition? In: Ruf T, Bieber C, Arnold W, Millesi E(eds) Living in A Seasonal World: Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations. Springer, Heidelberg. pp 29-40. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28678-0_3
4. Levesque, D.L., D. Rakotondravony, D. and B.G. Lovegrove. 2012. Home range and shelter site selection in the greater hedgehog tenrec in the dry deciduous forest of Western Madagascar. Journal of Zoology 287(3): 161-168. DOI 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00899.x
3. Mares, R., A.J. Young, D.L. Levesque, N. Harrison and T.H. Clutton-Brock. 2011. Responses to intruder scents in the cooperatively breeding meerkat: sex and social status differences and temporal variation. Behavioral Ecology 22(3):594-600 DOI:10.1093/beheco/arr021
2. Levesque, D.L. and G.J. Tattersall. 2010. Seasonal torpor and normothermic energy metabolism in the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus). Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology 180:279-292. DOI 10.1007/s00360-009-0405-x
1. Levesque, D.L. and G.J. Tattersall. 2009. Seasonal changes in thermoregulatory responses to hypoxia in normothermic Eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus). Journal of Experimental Biology 212:1801-1810. DOI:10.1242/jeb.027094
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Other Publications
Levesque, D.L. 2014 Low energy use fuels a slow existence. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(9) doi:10.1242/jeb.094847
Levesque, D.L. 2014 Getting fatter to stay warm. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(3):iv doi:10.1242/jeb.094722