Research Interests:
Animal
behavior
Behavioral
neuroendocrinology
Comparative animal physiology
Herpetology
Maternal
effects
Professional Experience:
2003-Present: Assistant
Professor, Department of Zoology, Oklahoma
State
University.
2000-2003: Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Neuroscience Program, Michigan
State
University.
1994-2000: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of
Biology, Virginia Tech.
1993-1994: Research Assistant, Department of Zoology,
Duke University.
Professional Memberships:
American
Association for the Advancement of Science
American
Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Animal
Behavior Society
National
Center for Science Education
Oklahoma
Academy of Science
Sigma
Xi
Society
for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Society
for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Society
for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Peer-reviewed Publications:
Lovern,
M.B., and Adams, A.L. 2008. The effects of diet on plasma and yolk steroids
in lizards (Anolis carolinensis). Integrative and Comparative Biology.
doi: 10.1093/icb/icn058
Wack,
C. L., Fox, S. F., Hellgren, E. C., and Lovern, M. B. 2008. Effects of sex,
age, and season on plasma steroids in free-ranging Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma
cornutum). General and Comparative Endocrinology 155:589-596. doi:
10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.10.005
Warner,
D. A., Lovern, M. B., and Shine, R. 2007. Maternal nutrition affects reproductive
output and sex allocation in a lizard with environmental sex determination.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274:883-890. doi:
10.1098/rspb.2006.0105
Chang, J. L., Doughty, S.,
Wade, J., and Lovern, M. B. 2006. Sexual dimorphism in the second-to-fourth
digit length ratio in green anoles, Anolis carolinensis (Squamata:
Polychrotidae), from the southeastern United States. Canadian Journal of Zoology
84:1489-1494. PDF
Husak, J. F., Fox, S. F., Lovern,
M. B., and Van Den Bussche, R. A. 2006. Faster lizards sire more offspring:
sexual selection on whole-animal performance. Evolution 60:2122-2130. PDF
Lovern, M. B., Holmes, M. M.,
Fuller, C. O., and Wade, J. 2004.
Effects of testosterone on the development of neuromuscular systems
and their target tissues involved in courtship and copulation in green anoles
(Anolis carolinensis). Hormones
and Behavior 45:295-305. PDF
Lovern,
M. B., Holmes, M. M., and Wade, J. 2004.
The green anole, Anolis carolinensis: A reptilian model for
laboratory studies of reproductive morphology and behavior.
Journal of the Institute for Laboratory Animal
Research 45:54-64.
Lovern,
M. B., and Wade, J. 2003. Sex steroids in green anoles (Anolis carolinensis):
uncoupled maternal plasma and yolking follicle concentrations, potential embryonic
steroidogenesis, and evolutionary implications.
General and Comparative Endocrinology 134:109-115. PDF
Lovern, M. B., and Jenssen,
T. A. 2003. Form emergence and fixation of headbobbing displays
in the lizard, Anolis carolinensis: A reptilian model of signal ontogeny.
Journal of Comparative Psychology 117:133-141. PDF
Lovern,
M. B., and Wade, J. 2003. Yolk testosterone varies with sex in eggs of
the lizard, Anolis carolinensis. Journal of Experimental Zoology 295A:206-210.
PDF
Lovern, M. B., and Passek,
K. M. 2002. Sequential alternation of offspring sex from
successive eggs by female green anoles, Anolis carolinensis. Canadian
Journal of Zoology 80:77-82. PDF
Lovern, M. B., and Wade, J.
2001. Maternal plasma and egg
yolk testosterone concentrations during embryonic development in green anoles
(Anolis carolinensis). General
and Comparative Endocrinology 124:226-235. PDF
Lovern, M. B., and Jenssen,
T. A. 2001. The effects of context, sex, and body size on
staged social interactions in juvenile male and female green anoles (Anolis
carolinensis). Behaviour 138:1117-1135. PDF
Jenssen, T. A., Lovern, M.
B. and Congdon, J. D. 2001. Field-testing the protandry-based mating system
for the lizard, Anolis carolinensis:
Does the model organism have the right model? Behavioral
Ecology and Sociobiology 50:162-172. PDF
Lovern, M. B., McNabb, F. M.
A., and Jenssen, T. A. 2001. Developmental effects of testosterone on behavior
in male and female green anoles (Anolis carolinensis). Hormones
and Behavior 39:131-143. PDF
Lovern, M. B. 2000. Behavioral
ontogeny in free-ranging juvenile male and female green anoles, Anolis
carolinensis, in relation to sexual selection.
Journal of Herpetology 34:274-281.
Jenssen, T. A., Orrell, K.
S., and Lovern, M. B. 2000. Sexual dimorphisms in aggressive signal structure
and use by a polygynous lizard, Anolis
carolinensis. Copeia 2000:140-149. PDF
Lovern, M. B., Jenssen, T.
A., Orrell, K. S., and Tuchak, T. 1999.
Comparisons of temporal display structure across contexts and populations
in male Anolis carolinensis: Signal stability or lability? Herpetologica
55:222-234.
Other Publications:
Ligon, D. B.,
and Lovern, M. B. 2004. Meyer publication worse than just bad science (Correspondence
to Nature). Nature 432:949. PDF
Jenssen,
T. A., Lovern, M. B., Orrell, K. S., and Passek, K. M. 1999. Anolis carolinensis
unplugged: Investigations into the behavioral ecology of the green anole.
In: J. B. Losos and M. Leal (eds.), Anolis Newsletter V, pp. 44-54.