Publications

•DeNardo, D. F. (2008) Anesthesia in Reptiles. In Reptile Biodiversity Methods. (M. Foster, ed.). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, In Press.

•Stahlschmidt, Z. R., Hoffman, T. C. M., and DeNardo, D. F. (2008) Postural shifts during egg-brooding and their impact on egg water balance in Children’s pythons (Antaresia childreni). Ethology. 114:1113–1121.

•Davis, J. R., and DeNardo, D. F. (2008) Water storage compromises endurance in an active forager: evidence of a trade-off between osmoregulation and locomotor performance. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 194:713–718.

•Davis, J. R., Taylor, E. N., and DeNardo, D. F. (2008) An automated temperature-based option for estimating surface activity and refuge use patterns in free-ranging animals. Journal of Arid Environments. 72: 1414-1422.

•Stahlschmidt, Z. R., and DeNardo D. F. (2008) Alternating egg brooding behaviors create and modulate a hypoxic developmental micro-environment in Children’s pythons (Antaresia childreni). Journal of Experimental Biology. 211:1535-1540.

•Lourdais, O., Heulin, B., and DeNardo, D. F. (2008) Thermoregulation during gravidity in the Children’s python (Antaresia childreni): a test of the pre-adaptation hypothesis for maternal thermophily in snakes. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society. 93:499-508.

•French, S. S., DeNardo, D. F., and Moore, M. C. (2007) Trade-offs between the reproductive and immune systems: facultative responses to resources or obligate responses to sex steroid hormones? American Naturalist. 170:79-89.

•Christel, C. M., Secor, S. M., and DeNardo, D. F. (2007) Metabolic and digestive response to food ingestion in a binge-feeding lizard, the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum). Journal of Experimental Biology 210:3430-3439.

•Lourdais, O., Hoffman, T. and DeNardo, D. F. (2007) Maternal brooding in the Children's python (Antaresia childreni) promotes egg water balance. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 177: 569-577.

•Davis, J. R., and DeNardo, D. F. (2007) The urinary bladder as a physiological reservoir that moderates dehydration in a large desert lizard, the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum). Journal of Experimental Biology. 210:1472-1480.

•Hoffman, T. C. M., Walsberg, G. E., and DeNardo, D. F. (2007) Cloacal evaporation: an important and previously undescribed mechanism for avian thermoregulation. Journal of Experimental Biology. 210:741-749.

•DeNardo, D. F. (2007) Tribute to Icons of the American Southwest. Conservation Biology. 21:564-565.

•Christel, C. M, and DeNardo, D. F. (2007) Absence of exendin-4 effects on postprandial glucose and lipids in the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum. Journal of Comparative Physiology B . 177:129:134.

•Schuett, G. W., Repp, R. A., Taylor, E. N., DeNardo, D. F., Earley, R. L., Van Kirk, E. A., and Murdoch, W.J. (2006). Winter profile of plasma sex steroid levels in free-living male western diamond-backed rattlesnakes, Crotalus atrox (Serpentes: Viperidae). General and Comparative Endocrinology 149:72-80.

•Christel, C. M, and DeNardo, D. F. (2006) Release of exendin-4 is controlled by mechanical action in Gila Monsters, Heloderma suspectum. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology 143:85-88.

•DeNardo, D. F. (2006) Stress in captive reptiles. In Reptile Medicine and Surgery, 2nd Ed. (D. R. Mader, ed.) Saunders Elsevier, pp. 119-123.

•DeNardo, D. F. (2006) Reproductive biology. In Reptile Medicine and Surgery, 2nd Ed. (D. R. Mader, ed.) Saunders Elsevier, pp. 376-390.

•DeNardo, D. F. (2006) Dystocia. In Reptile Medicine and Surgery, 2nd Ed. (D. R. Mader, ed.) Saunders Elsevier, pp. 787-792.

•Taylor, E. N., and DeNardo, D. F. (2005) Sexual size dimorphism and growth plasticity in snakes: an experiment on the Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox). Journal of Experimental Zoology 303A:598-607.

•Taylor, E. N., Malawy, M. A., Browning, D. M., Lemar, S. V., and DeNardo, D. F. (2005) Effects of food supplementation on the physiological ecology of female western diamond-backed rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox). Oecologia 144:206-213.

•Taylor, E. N., and DeNardo, D. F. (2005) Reproductive ecology of Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes (Crotalus atrox) in the Sonoran Desert. Copeia 2005:152-158.

•DeNardo, D. F., Zubal T. E., and Hoffman, T. C. M. (2004) Cloacal evaporative cooling: a previously undescribed means of increasing evaporative water loss at higher temperatures in a desert ectotherm, the Gila Monster, Heloderma suspectum. Journal of Experimental Biology 207:945-953.

•Lourdais, O., Brischoux, F., DeNardo, D. F., and Shine, R. (2004) Protein catabolism in pregnant snakes (Epicrates cenchria maurus, Boidae) compromises musculature and performance after reproduction. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 174:383-391.

•Taylor, E. N., D. F. DeNardo, and D. H. Jennings. 2004. Seasonal steroid hormone levels and their relation to reproduction in the Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox (Serpentes: Viperidae). General and Comparative Endocrinology 136:328-337.

•Taylor, E. N., D. F. DeNardo, and M. A. Malawy. 2004. A comparison between point- and semi-continuous sampling for assessing body temperature in a free-ranging ectotherm. Journal of Thermal Biology 29:91-96.

•Taylor, E. N. and G. W. Schuett. 2004. Effects of temperature and storage duration on the stability of steroid hormones in blood samples from Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnakes. Herpetological Review 35:14-17.

•Lourdais, O., Bonnet, X., DeNardo D. F., and Naulleau, G. (2002) Do sex divergences in reproductive ecophysiology population translate into dimorphic demographic patterns? Population Ecology 44:241-249.

•DeNardo, D. F., Luna, J. V., and Hwang, M. (2002) Ambient temperature and activity of horned adders, Bitis caudalis: how cold is too cold? Journal of Herpetology 36(4):688-691.

•Lourdais, O., Bonnet, X., Shine, R., DeNardo, D., Naulleau, G., and Guillon, M. (2002) Capital breeding and reproductive effort in a variable environment: a long-term study of the aspic viper. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:470-479.

•DeNardo, D. F., and Helminski, G. (2001) The use of hormone antagonists to inhibit reproduction in the lizard Eublepharis macularius. Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery 11(3):4-7.

•DeNardo, D. F., and Autumn, K. (2001) The effect of male presence on reproductive activity in captive female blood pythons, Python curtus. Copeia 2001(4):1138-1141.

•Eisen, R. J., and DeNardo, D. F. (2000) Life history of a malaria parasite (Plasmodium mexicanum) in its host, the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis): host testosterone as a seasonal cue? Journal of Parasitology 86(5):1041-1045.

•Reiserer, R.S., and DeNardo, D. F. (2000). Natural history observations on Bitis peringueyi (Reptilia: Viperidae). Cimbebasia 16:195-198.

•Sinervo, B., Miles, D. B., Frankino, A., Klukowski, M., and DeNardo, D. F. (2000) Testosterone, endurance, and Darwinian fitness: natural and sexual selection on the physiological bases of alternative male behaviors in side-blotched lizards. Hormones and Behavior 38:222-233.

•Wozniak, E. J., and DeNardo, D. F. (2000) The biology, clinical significance, and control of the common snake mite, Ophionyssus natricis, in captive reptiles. Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery 10(3-4):4-10.

•Wozniak, E., DeNardo, D. F., Brewer, A., Wong, V., and Tarara, R. P. (2000) Identification of adenovirus- and dependovirus-like agents in an outbreak of fatal gastroenteritis in captive born California mountain kingsnakes (Lampropeltis zonata multicincta). Journal of Herpetological Medicine and Surgery 10(2):4-7.

•Wozniak, E., McBride, J., Tarara, R., Wong, V., and DeNardo, D. F. (2000) Isolation and characterization on an antigenically distinct 68-kilodalton protein from non-viral intracytoplasmic inclusions in boa constrictors chronically infected with the inclusion body disease virus (IBDV: Retroviridae). Journal of Veterinary Pathology 37(5):449-459.

•Autumn, K., Jindrich, D., DeNardo, D., and Mueller, R. (1999) Locomotor performance at low temperature and the evolution of nocturnality in geckos. Evolution 53(2):580-599.

•Rodriguez-Robles, J. A., DeNardo, D. F., and Staub, R. E. (1999) Phylogeography of the California mountain kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae). Molecular Ecology 8(11):1923-1934.

•Wozniak, E. J., Telford, S. R. Jr., DeNardo, D., McLaughlin, G. L., and Butler, J. F. (1998) Granulomatous hepatitis associated with Hepatozoon sp. meronts in a southern water snake (Nerodia fasciata piciventris). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 29(1):68-71.

•Colberg, M. E., DeNardo, D. F., Rojek, N. A., and Miller, J. W. (1997) Surgical procedure for radiotransmitter implantation into aquatic, larval salamanders. Herpetological Review 28(2):77-78.

•Wozniak, E. J., and DeNardo, D. F. (1997) Understanding the snake mite and current therapies for control. Proceedings of the American Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians 137-147.

•Sinervo, B., and DeNardo, D.F. (1996) Cost of reproduction in the wild: path analysis of natural selection and experimental tests of causation. Evolution 50(3):1299-1313.

•Wozniak, E. J., Telford, S. R., DeNardo, D. (1996) The biology of reptilian Hepatozoon species and their potential influence on the health status of captive reptiles. Bulletin of the American Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians 6: 8-12.

•DeNardo, D. F. (1996) Reproductive biology. In Reptile Medicine and Surgery (D. R. Mader, ed.) W. B. Saunders Co., pp. 212-223.

•DeNardo, D. F. (1996) Dystocia. In Reptile Medicine and Surgery (D. R. Mader, ed.) W.B. Saunders Co., pp. 370-373.

•DeNardo, D. F. (1996) Amphibian husbandry and medicine. 11th Annual Avian/Exotic Animal Medicine Symposium, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, pp. 115-132.

•Autumn, K., and DeNardo, D. F. (1995) Behavioral thermoregulation increases growth rate in a nocturnal lizard. Journal of Herpetology 29(2):157-162.

•DeNardo, D. (1995) Amphibians as Laboratory Animals. ILAR Journal, 37(4):173-181.

•DeNardo, D. F., and Sinervo, B. (1994) Effects of steroid hormone interaction on activity and home-range size of male lizards. Hormones and Behavior 28:273-287.

•DeNardo, D. F., and Sinervo, B. (1994) Effects of corticosterone on activity and home-range size of free-ranging male lizards. Hormones and Behavior 28:53-65.

•DeNardo, D. F., and Licht, P. (1993) Effects of corticosterone on social behavior of male lizards. Hormones and Behavior 27:184-199.

•DeNardo, D. F. (1992) The effects of stress on reproduction in lizards and its application to captive management. In Proceedings of the International Herpetological Society's 19th Conference.