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Hilton, M, C Ceballos*, GL Heinrich, and JM Goessling. 2024. The social and spatial structure of male-female interactions of the gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus. Journal of Herpetology. 58: 251-260. Link to paper.
Lopez-Perez, JE, JM Goessling, and CM Murray. 2024. Testing androgen-induced immunosuppression: environmental androgens as a model system for steroid-immune interaction. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 341: 431-439. Link to paper.
Stiffler, W*, GL Heinrich, M Hilton, and JM Goessling. 2024. Relationships between spatial biology and physiological ecology in the gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus. Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. Link to paper.
Edwards, OM*, DD Edwards, SD Duncan, D Laurencio, and JM Goessling. 2023. Range expansion and dispersal traits of the green treefrog (Hyla cinerea). Journal of Herpetology. 57(2): 151-158. Link to paper.
Hawthorne, W*, and JM Goessling. A test of the tradeoff hypothesis between performance and immunity in hybrid water snakes (Nerodia clarkii X Nerodia fasciata). Copeia. PDF.
Goessling, JM, C Guyer, JC Godwin, SM Hermann, FC Sandmeier, LL Smith, and MT Mendonça. 2019. Upper respiratory tract disease and associated diagnostic tests of mycoplasmosis in Alabama populations of Gopher Tortoises, Gopherus polyphemus. PLoS One. PDF.
Goessling, JM and MT Mendonca. 2021. Physiological responses of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) to trapping. Conservation Physiology. 9: 1-9. Link to paper.
Goessling, JM, C Ward, and MT Mendonça. 2019. Rapid thermal immune acclimation in common musk turtles (Sternotherus odoratus). Journal of Experimental Zoology, A. 2019; 1 - 7. PDF.
Goessling, JM, MT Mendonça, and AG Appel. 2018. Assessment of Seasonal Metabolic Acclimation in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus): Does Dormancy Reduce Metabolic Rate? Copeia 106: 56-62. PDF.
Roberts, J, K Halanych, CR Arias, B Folt, and JM Goessling. 2017. Emendation and new species of Hapalorhynchus Stunkard, 1922 (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea) from musk turtles (Kinosternidae: Sternotherus) in Alabama and Florida rivers. Parasitology International. 66: 10.1016/j.parint.2017.09.001
Goessling, JM, K Rebois*, JC Godwin, R Birkhead, and CM Murray. 2017. Differences in fluctuating asymmetry among four populations of Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 12:548 - 555. PDF.
Goessling, JM, S Kohler*, B Overman*, C Guyer, EH Schwartz and MT Mendonça. 2017. An experimental evaluation of the seasonal lag hypothesis of constitutive innate and cell-mediated humoral immunity in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). Journal of Experimental Zoology, A. PDF.
Goessling, JM, C Guyer, and MT Mendonça. 2017. More than fever: Thermoregulatory responses to acute immunological stimulation and consequences of thermoregulatory strategy on innate immune function in Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives. PDF.
Goessling, JM, C Guyer and MT Mendonca. 2016. Seasonal acclimation of baseline immune function in Gopher Tortoises, Gopherus polyphemus. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives 89: 487 – 497. PDF.
Folt, B, D Laurencio, JM Goessling, RD Birkhead, J Stiles, S Stiles, S Belford, and AT Harris*. 2015. One hundred two new county records for amphibians and reptiles in Alabama. Herpetological Review. 46: 591 - 594. PDF.
Goessling, JM, H Kennedy*, MT Mendonca, and AE Wilson. 2015. A meta-analysis of plasma corticosterone and heterophil: lymphocyte ratios: Is there stability in biomarkers of environmental stress? Functional Ecology. 29: 1189-1196. PDF.
Goessling JM, WI Lutterschmidt, HK. Reinert, L Bushar, and RA Odum. 2015. Multi-year sampling reveals an increased population density of an endemic lizard following the establishment of an invasive snake on Aruba. Journal of Herpetology. 49(3): 358-363. PDF.
Folt, B, T Pierson*, SM Goetz, JM Goessling, D Laurencio, D Thompson*, and SP Graham. 2013. Amphibians and reptiles of Jasper County, Mississippi with comments on the potentially extinct Bay Springs Salamander (Plethodon ainsworthi). Herpetological Review. 44(2): 283-286. PDF.
Goessling, JM, WI Lutterschmidt, HK Reinert, and RA Odum. 2012. Leptodeira bakeri (Aruban Cat-eyed Snake): Predation. Herpetological Review. 43(2): 345.
Goessling, JM, JC Cureton II, TM Saxton, and WI Lutterschmidt. Terrapene carolina triunguis (Three-toed box turtle): Shell abnormality. 2010. Herpetological Review. 41(4): 488.