Wone, B, MW Sears, M Labocha, E Donovan, JP Hayes. Genetic variances and covariances of metabolic traits in Mus musculus and a genetic test of the aerobic capacity model for the evolution of endothermy, in review.
Sears, MW. Evidence for episodic selection on body size in free-ranging sagebrush lizards, Sceloporus graciosus, in review
Niehaus, AC, MJ Angilletta, MW Sears, CE Franklin, RS Wilson. Predicting anuran phenotypes in complex thermal environments, in review
Sears, MW, JP Hayes, CS O'Connor, M Banta. 2009. Out in the cold: physiological capacity influences behavior in deer mice, Functional Ecology, in press.
Angilletta, MJ, MW Sears, R Pringle. 2009. The spatial dynamics of nesting behavior: lizards shift microhabitats to construct nests with beneficial thermal properties. Ecology, in press.
Sears, M, J Diffendorfer, K Lips, J Mendelson. 2008. Amphibian declines and issues of inference: response to Parmesan and Singer. Public Library of Science Biology 14 Apr 2008. Online response here
Lips, KR, J Diffendorfer, JR Mendelson, MW Sears. 2008. Riding the wave: Reconciling the roles of disease and climate change in amphibian declines. Public Library of Science Biology 6:441-454. PDF
Angilletta, MJ, RS Wilson, AC Niehaus, PL Ribeiro, MW Sears, & CA Navas. 2007. Urban physiology: city ants possess high heat tolerance. Public Library of Science ONE 2:e258. PDF.
Tull, JC & MW Sears. 2007. Moist seeds increase rodent trap success. Western North American Naturalist, in press.
Sears, MW, JP Hayes, CS O'Connor, K Geluso, and JS Sedinger. 2006. Individual variation in thermogenic capacity affects above-ground activity of high altitude deer mice. Functional Ecology, 20: 97-104. PDF
Sears, MW. 2005. Geographic variation in the life history of the sagebrush lizard: the role of thermal constraints on activity. Oecologia 143: 25 - 36. PDF
Sears, MW. 2005. Resting metabolic expenditure as a potential source of variation in growth rates of the sagebrush lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 140: 171-177. PDF
Sears, MW and MJ Angilletta. 2004. Body size clines in Sceloporus lizards: proximate mechanisms and demographic constraints. Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly American Zoologist) 44: 433-442. PDF
Angilletta MJ, MW Sears, TD Steury. 2004. Temperature, growth rate, and body size in ectotherms: fitting pieces of a life history puzzle. Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly American Zoologist) 44: 498-509. PDF
Angilletta, MJ, MW Sears. 2004. Evolution of thermal reaction norms for growth rate and body size in ectotherms: an introduction to the symposium. Integrative and Comparative Biology (formerly the American Zoologist) 44: 401-402. PDF
Angilletta, MJ, CE Oufiero, MW Sears. 2004. Thermal adaptation of maternal and embryonic phenotypes in a geographically widespread ectotherm. Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, International Congress Series 1275: 258-266. PDF
Sears, MW and MJ Angilletta. 2003. Life history variation in the sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus graciosus): phenotypic plasticity or local adaptation? Ecology 84: 1624-1634. PDF
Angilletta, MJ and MW Sears. 2003. Parental care as a selective factor for the evolution of endothermy? American Naturalist 162: 821-825. PDF
Angilletta MJ, MW Sears, and RS Winters. 2001. Seasonal variation in reproductive effort and its consequences for offspring size in the lizard Sceloporus undulatus. Herpetologica 57: 365-75.
Angilletta, MJ and MW Sears. 2000. Metabolic cost of reproduction in an oviparous lizard. Functional Ecology 14: 39-45. PDF
Kesler, DH, T Moore, M Sears, J Scherer, R Pardiek, and R Reardon. 1994. Two larval odonate communities of the Edward J. Meeman Biological Station in western Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Sciences 69: 59-62.