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Peer-Reviewed Publications\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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30. Breit, A.M<\/strong>., T. Kleinhaus-Goldman Gedalyahou<\/strong>*, A.K. Ikhwan*, M. Isaac*, A.A. Tuen, and D.L. Levesque<\/strong>. 2023. Muted responses to heat in a nocturnal tropical rodent. Biotropica. <\/em>DOI: 10.1111\/btp.13267<\/a><\/p>\n

29.\u00a0Levesque, D. L.<\/strong>, Breit, A. M.<\/strong>*, Brown, E.<\/strong>*, Nowack, J., & S. Welman. 2023. Non-torpid heterothermy in mammals: Another point along the homeothermy-hibernation continuum. Integrative and Comparative Biology. <\/em>DOI: 10.1093\/icb\/icad094<\/a><\/p>\n

28. Nowack, J., C. Stawski, F. Geiser, D.L. Levesque.<\/strong> 2023. Rare and opportunistic use of torpor in mammals \u2013 an echo from the past? Integrative and Comparative Biology. <\/em>DOI: 10.1093\/icb\/icad067<\/a><\/p>\n

27. Shankar, A., K.C. Welch Jr., E.R. Eberts, F. Geiser, S. Halter, L. Keicher, D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, 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.<\/em> DOI: 10.1093\/icb\/icad095<\/a><\/p>\n

26. Christmas, M.J. [et al., including A.M. Breit* and D.L. Levesque<\/strong>] 2023. Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals. Science<\/em> 380:abn3943<\/a><\/p>\n

25. Fanter, C., C. Madelaire, D. P. Genereux, F. van Breukelen, D. L. Levesque<\/strong>, and A. Hindle. 2022. Epigenomics as a paradigm to understand the nuances of phenotypes. Journal of Experimental Biology<\/em> 225, jeb243411 DOI:10.1242\/jeb.243411<\/a><\/p>\n

24. Volk, M.R., C.B. Lubelczyk, J.C. Johnston, D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, and A.M. Gardner. 2022. Microclimate conditions alter Ixodes scapularis<\/em> (Acari: Ixodidae) overwintering survival across climate gradients in Maine. Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases<\/em>. 13:101872 DOI: 10.1016\/j.ttbdis.2021.101872<\/a><\/p>\n

23. Levesque, D.L<\/strong>., J. Nowack, and J.G. Boyles. 2021. Body temperature frequency distributions: a tool for assessing thermal performance in endotherms? Frontiers in Physiology<\/em>. 12:760797 DOI: 10.3389\/fphys.2021.760797<\/a><\/p>\n

22. McEntire, K.D., M. Gage, R. Gawne, M.G. Hadfield, C. Hulshof, M.A. Johnson, D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, J. Segura, N. Pinter-Wollman. 2021. Understanding drivers of variation and predicting variability across levels of biological organization. Integrative and Comparative Biology<\/em>. 2021, icab160 DOI: 10.1093\/icb\/icab160<\/a><\/p>\n

21. Levesque, D.L.<\/strong> and K.E. Marshall. 2021. Do endotherms have thermal performance curves Journal of Experimental Biology 224, jeb141309. DOI:10.1242\/jeb.141309 <\/a><\/p>\n

20. Levesque, D.L.<\/strong>, J. Boyles, C. Downs, A. Breit<\/strong>. 2021. High body temperature is not the cause of high viral load in bats. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 57:238\u2013241 DOI: 10.7589\/JWD-D-20-00079<\/a><\/p>\n

19. Dausmann, K.H, D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, 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<\/a><\/p>\n

18. Tattersall, G.J. R.M Danner, J. Chaves, D.L. Levesque<\/strong>. 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<\/a><\/p>\n

17. Nowack, J., D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, S. Reher and K. Dausmann. 2020. Variable climates lead to varying phenotypes: \u2018weird\u2019 mammalian torpor and lessons from non-Holarctic. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:60 DOI:10.3389\/fevo.2020.00060<\/a><\/p>\n

16. Thonis, A.*, R.M. Ceballos, A.A. Tuen, B.G. Lovegrove and D.L. Levesque<\/strong>. 2020. High upper limits and a large thermoneutral zone in a small tropical mammal. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology<\/em> 93:199-209 DOI:10.1086\/708467<\/a><\/p>\n

15. Boyles, J. G., Levesque, D. L.<\/strong>, 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\u00a0: 10.1002\/ece3.5721<\/a><\/p>\n

14.\u00a0Levesque, D.L.<\/strong>, 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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

13.\u00a0Levesque, D.L.<\/strong>, 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 <\/em>187:749-757\u00a0<\/em>DOI:10.1007\/s00360-017-1074-9<\/a><\/p>\n

12. Levesque, D.L.,<\/strong> J. Nowack and C. Stawski. 2016. Modelling mammalian energetics: the heterothermy problem. Climate Change Responses<\/em>. 3:7 DOI: 10.1186\/s40665-016-0022-3<\/a><\/p>\n

11. Sinclair, B, K. Marshall, M. Sewell, D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, C.Willett, S. Slotsbo, Y. Dong, C. Harley, D. Marshall, B. Helmuth, R. Huey.\u00a02016. Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? Ecology Letters<\/em>\u00a019:1372-1385. DOI:10.1111\/ele.12686<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

10.\u00a0Lovegrove, B.G., K.D. Lobban and\u00a0D.L. Levesque<\/strong>. 2014. Mammal survival at the Cretaceous\u2013Palaeogene boundary: metabolic homeostasis in prolonged tropical hibernation in tenrecs<\/a>. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1796): 20141304.\u00a0DOI:\u00a0<\/a>10.1098\/rspb.2014.1304<\/a><\/div>\n
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9.\u00a0Levesque, D.L.<\/strong>, 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<\/a>. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 184: 1041-1053.\u00a0DOI: 10.1007\/s00360-014-0858-4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Levesque, D.L.<\/strong>, D. and B.G. Lovegrove. 2014. Increased homeothermy during reproduction in a basal placental mammal<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 1535-1542\u00a0DOI:<\/span>\u00a0JEXBIO\/2013\/098848<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Lovegrove B.G., C.I. Canale,\u00a0D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, G. Fluch, M. \u0158eh\u00e1kov\u00e1-Petr\u016f and T. Ruf. 2014. Are tropical mammals physiologically vulnerable to Arrhenius effects and climate change?<\/a> Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87 (1): 30-45\u00a0DOI: 10.1086\/673313<\/a><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Levesque, D. L.<\/strong>, 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<\/em> (Tenrecidae: Afrosoricida). <\/a>Journal of Zoology 291 (3):205-212.\u00a0DOI:10.1111\/jzo.12063<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Canale, C.I.,\u00a0D.L<\/strong>\u00a0Levesque (joint first author)<\/strong>, and B.G. Lovegrove. 2012. Tropical heterothermy – does the exception prove the rule or force a re-definition?<\/a> In: Ruf T, Bieber C, Arnold W, Millesi E(eds) Living in A Seasonal World: Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations. Springer, Heidelberg. pp 29-40.\u00a0DOI: 10.1007\/978-3-642-28678-0_3<\/a><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Levesque, D.L.<\/strong>, 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<\/a>. Journal of Zoology 287(3): 161-168.\u00a0DOI 10.1111\/j.1469-7998.2012.00899.x<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Mares, R., A.J. Young,\u00a0D.L. Levesque<\/strong>, 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\u00a0DOI:10.1093\/beheco\/arr021<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Levesque, D.L.\u00a0<\/strong>and G.J. Tattersall.\u00a0<\/a>2010. Seasonal torpor and normothermic energy metabolism in the Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus<\/em>)<\/a><\/span>. Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology 180:279-292.\u00a0DOI 10.1007\/s00360-009-0405-x<\/a><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Levesque, D.L.\u00a0<\/strong>and G.J. Tattersall. 2009. Seasonal changes in thermoregulatory responses to hypoxia in normothermic Eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus<\/em>)<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology 212:1801-1810.\u00a0DOI:10.1242\/jeb.027094<\/a><\/p>\n

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Other Publicatio<\/span>ns\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
Levesque, D.L.<\/strong> 2015. Going torpid to pass through hard times.<\/a> Journal of Experimental Biology<\/em> 218:3348. DOI: 10.1242\/jeb.112672<\/span><\/div>\n
Levesque, D.L.<\/strong> 2015. Some hibernating bats like it hot.<\/a> Journal of Experimental Biology<\/em> 218: 1978. DOI: 10.1242\/jeb.112508<\/div>\n
Levesque, D.L.<\/strong> 2015. Taking the long way saves energy for high flying birds<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology<\/em> 218:1279. DOI: 10.1242\/jeb.112193<\/div>\n
Levesque, D.L.<\/strong> 2015. Lizard colour changes to a daily rhythm<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology<\/em> 218:331-332. DOI: 10.1242\/jeb.112060<\/div>\n
Levesque, D.L<\/strong>. 2014. Energy availability drives timing of moult in a songbird<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology<\/em> 217:3772 DOI:10.1242\/jeb.095117<\/div>\n
Levesque, D.L.<\/strong>\u00a02014\u00a0Hidden capacity for water preservation in mammals<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(15):2026. doi: 10.1242\/jeb.094995
\nLevesque, D.L.\u00a0<\/strong>2014\u00a0Low energy use fuels a slow existence<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(9) doi:10.1242\/jeb.094847
\nLevesque, D.L.\u00a0<\/strong>2014\u00a0Getting fatter to stay warm<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Biology 217(3):iv doi:10.1242\/jeb.094722<\/div>\n
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