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PUBLICATIONS
* = equal authorship, ** = undergraduate student researcher
(27) Weitzman, C. L., Z. Tinning, K. A. Day, S. T. Garnett, K. Christian, K. Gibb. 2024. Migratory shorebird gut microbes are not associated with bivalve prey in monsoon tropical Australia. Current Microbiology, DOI: 10.1007/s00284-024-03628-6
(26) Weitzman, C. L., D. M. Hawley, B. Rostama, M. May, L. K. Belden. 2024. Characterizing living ocular bacterial communities and effects from antibiotic perturbation in house finches. MicrobiologyOpen 13: e1398. DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.1398
(25) Christian, K., G. Bedford, C. L. Weitzman. 2023. Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change: Comment. Ecological Monographs 2023: e1595. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1595
(24) Sandmeier, F. C., J. Morales, M. Gomez, M. Kester, K. Gann-Archuleta, C. Crooker, J. M. Goessling, C. R. Tracy, C. L. Weitzman. 2023. Ecoimmunological differences among congeneric tortoises in the United States. Journal of Zoology 321: 237-248. DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13109
(23) Bauschlicher, S. N., C. L. Weitzman, V. Martinez, C. R. Tracy, D. Alvarez-Ponce, F. C. Sandmeier. 2023. Assessing spatial distribution, genetic variants, and virulence of pathogen Mycoplasma agassizii in threatened Mojave desert tortoises. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10173. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10173.
(22) Weitzman, C. L., M. Kaestli, A. Rose, C. M. Hudson, K. Gibb, G. P. Brown, R. Shine, K. Christian. 2023. Geographic variation in bacterial assemblages on cane toad skin is influenced more by local environments than by evolved changes in host traits. Biology Open 12: bio059641. DOI: 10.1242/bio.059641
(21) Alms, D.**, M. M. Langager, C. L. Weitzman, D. M. Hawley. 2023. Effects of Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection on preening behaviors and feather quality in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 59: 245-258 DOI: 10.7589/JWD-D-22-00063
(20) Sandmeier, F. C.*, K. L. Leonard*, C. L. Weitzman, C. R. Tracy. 2022. Potential facilitation between a commensal and a pathogenic microbe in a wildlife disease. EcoHealth 19(3):427-438. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-022-01603-w
(19) Weitzman, C. L., L. K. Belden, M. May, M. M. Langager, R. A. Dalloul, D. M. Hawley. 2022. Antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis does not alter host responses to ocular disease in songbirds. PeerJ 10:e13559 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13559
(18) Weitzman, C. L.*, G. Ceja*, A. E. Leon, D. M. Hawley. 2022. Protection generated by prior exposure to pathogens depends on both priming and challenge dose. Infection and Immunity 90(3):e00537-21. DOI: 10.1128/iai.00537-21
(17) Weitzman, C. L., B. Rostama, C. A. Thomason, M. May, L. K. Belden, D. M. Hawley. 2021. Experimental test of microbiome protection across pathogen doses reveals importance of resident microbiome composition. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 97:fiab141. DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiab141
(16) Weitzman, C. L.*, B. E. Hagerty*, F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2021. Desert tortoises in Zion National Park represent a natural extension of their range. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 20(1):91-96. DOI: 10.2744/CCB-1457.1
(15) Luzuriaga-Neira, A., F. C. Sandmeier, C. L. Weitzman, C. R. Tracy, S. N. Bauschlicher, R. L. Tillett, D. Alvarez-Ponce. 2021. Mycoplasma agassizii, an opportunistic pathogen of tortoises, shows very little genetic variation across the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts. PLoS ONE 16(2):e0245895. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245895
(14) Weitzman, C. L.*, C. Thomason*, E. Schuler*, A. Leon, S. R. Teemer, D. M. Hawley. 2020. House finches with high coccidia burdens experience more severe experimental Mycoplasma gallisepticum infections. Parasitology Research 119:3535-3539. DOI: 10.1007/s00436-020-06814-0
(13) Weitzman, C. L., M. Kaestli, K. Gibb, G. Brown, R. Shine, K. Christian. 2019. Disease exposure and anti-fungal bacteria on the skin of invasive cane toads in Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 25:1770-1771. DOI: 10.3201/eid2509.190386
(12) Weitzman, C. L., K. Gibb, K. Christian. 2018. Skin bacterial diversity is higher on lizards than sympatric frogs in tropical Australia. PeerJ 6:e5960. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5960
(11) Weitzman, C. L., F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2018. Host species, pathogens, and disease associated with divergent nasal microbial communities in tortoises. Royal Society Open Science 5:181068. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181068 (pdf)
(10) Christian, K., C. Weitzman, A. Rose, M. Kaestli, K. Gibb. 2018. Ecological patterns in the skin microbiome of frogs from tropical Australia. Ecology and Evolution 8(21):10510–10519. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4518 (pdf)
(9) Sandmeier, F. C., C. L. Weitzman, C. R. Tracy. 2018. An ecoimmunological approach to disease in tortoises reveals the importance of lymphocytes. Ecosphere 9(9):e02427. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2427 (pdf)
(8) Alvarez-Ponce, D., C. L. Weitzman, R. L. Tillett, F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2018. High quality draft genome sequences of Mycoplasma agassizii strains PS6T and 723 isolated from Gopherus tortoises with upper respiratory tract disease. Standards in Genomic Sciences 13:12. DOI: 10.1186/s40793-018-0315-1 (pdf)
(7) Weitzman, C. L., R. L. Tillett, F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy, D. Alvarez-Ponce. 2018. High quality draft genome sequence of Mycoplasma testudineum strain BH29T, isolated from the respiratory tract of a desert tortoise. Standards in Genomic Sciences 13:9. DOI: 10.1186/s40793-018-0309-z (pdf)
(6) Shaffer, H. B., E. McCartney-Melstad, P. L. Ralph, G. Bradburd, E. Lundgren, J. Vu, B. Hagerty, F. Sandmeier, C. Weitzman, C.R. Tracy. 2017. Desert tortoises in the genomic age: Population genetics and the landscape. bioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/195743 (full text)
(5) Weitzman, C. L., R. Gov**, F. C. Sandmeier, S. J. Snyder, C. R. Tracy. 2017. Co-infection does not predict disease signs in Gopherus tortoises. Royal Society Open Science 4:171003. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171003 (pdf)
(4) Weitzman, C. L., F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2017. Prevalence and diversity of the upper respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma agassizii in Mojave Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii). Herpetologica 73(2): 113-120. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-16-00079.1 (pdf)
(3) Sandmeier, F. C., C. L. Weitzman, N. K. Maloney, C. R. Tracy, N. Nieto, M. Teglas, K. Hunter, S. DuPre, C. M. Gienger, M. Tuma. 2017. Comparison of current methods for the detection of chronic mycoplasmal URTD in wild populations of the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 53:91-101. DOI: 10.7589/2015-09-253
(2) Jahner, J. P., D. Gibson, C. L. Weitzman, E. J. Blomberg, J. S. Sedinger, T. L. Parchman. 2016. Fine-scale genetic structure among greater sage-grouse leks in central Nevada. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:127. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0702-4 (pdf)
(1) Honarvar, S., D. B. Fitzgerald, C. L. Weitzman, E. M. Sinclair, J. M. Esara Echube, M. P. O’Connor, G. W. Hearn. 2016. Assessment of Important Marine Turtle Nesting Populations on the Southern Coast of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 15(1):79-89. DOI: 10.2744/CCB-1194.1
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW and IN REVISION
Weitzman, C. L., G. P. Brown, K. Day, C. M. Shilton, K. Gibb, K. Christian. Protection against anuran lungworm infection may be mediated by innate defenses rather than their microbiome. International Journal for Parasitology, in review.
Weitzman, C. L., G. P. Brown, K. Gibb, K. Christian. Cutaneous shedding in amphibians causes shifts in bacterial microbiomes. Integrative Zoology, in revision.
Gregory, C. L., S. R. Teemer, A. Perez-Umphrey, C. L. Weitzman, D. M. Hawley, L. K. Belden. The house finch ocular microbiome is altered by infection, but does not predict disease transmission. The Microbe, in review.
Day, K., C. L. Weitzman, K. Skelton, A. Rachmansah, K. Christian. Greater seasonal plasticity in evaporative water loss than preferred temperature in three geckos of the wet–dry tropics. Oecologia, in review.
Skelton, K., C. Moritz, K. Day, C. L. Weitzman, C. Schlesinger, S. M. Zozaya, K. Christian. Climatic variability shapes plasticity of hydric and thermal physiology in tropical geckos. Ecology, in review.
Skelton, K., K. Day, C. L. Weitzman, C. Schlesinger, C. Moritz, K. Christian. Gehyra geckos prioritise warm over humid environments. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A, in review.
Christian, K., K. A. Day, C. L. Weitzman. No evidence of evolution or developmental plasticity in evaporative water loss of Australian cane toads. Ecology and Evolution, in review.
PUBLICATIONS
* = equal authorship, ** = undergraduate student researcher
(27) Weitzman, C. L., Z. Tinning, K. A. Day, S. T. Garnett, K. Christian, K. Gibb. 2024. Migratory shorebird gut microbes are not associated with bivalve prey in monsoon tropical Australia. Current Microbiology, DOI: 10.1007/s00284-024-03628-6
(26) Weitzman, C. L., D. M. Hawley, B. Rostama, M. May, L. K. Belden. 2024. Characterizing living ocular bacterial communities and effects from antibiotic perturbation in house finches. MicrobiologyOpen 13: e1398. DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.1398
(25) Christian, K., G. Bedford, C. L. Weitzman. 2023. Higher metabolic plasticity in temperate compared to tropical lizards suggests increased resilience to climate change: Comment. Ecological Monographs 2023: e1595. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1595
(24) Sandmeier, F. C., J. Morales, M. Gomez, M. Kester, K. Gann-Archuleta, C. Crooker, J. M. Goessling, C. R. Tracy, C. L. Weitzman. 2023. Ecoimmunological differences among congeneric tortoises in the United States. Journal of Zoology 321: 237-248. DOI: 10.1111/jzo.13109
(23) Bauschlicher, S. N., C. L. Weitzman, V. Martinez, C. R. Tracy, D. Alvarez-Ponce, F. C. Sandmeier. 2023. Assessing spatial distribution, genetic variants, and virulence of pathogen Mycoplasma agassizii in threatened Mojave desert tortoises. Ecology and Evolution 13: e10173. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10173.
(22) Weitzman, C. L., M. Kaestli, A. Rose, C. M. Hudson, K. Gibb, G. P. Brown, R. Shine, K. Christian. 2023. Geographic variation in bacterial assemblages on cane toad skin is influenced more by local environments than by evolved changes in host traits. Biology Open 12: bio059641. DOI: 10.1242/bio.059641
(21) Alms, D.**, M. M. Langager, C. L. Weitzman, D. M. Hawley. 2023. Effects of Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection on preening behaviors and feather quality in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 59: 245-258 DOI: 10.7589/JWD-D-22-00063
(20) Sandmeier, F. C.*, K. L. Leonard*, C. L. Weitzman, C. R. Tracy. 2022. Potential facilitation between a commensal and a pathogenic microbe in a wildlife disease. EcoHealth 19(3):427-438. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-022-01603-w
(19) Weitzman, C. L., L. K. Belden, M. May, M. M. Langager, R. A. Dalloul, D. M. Hawley. 2022. Antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis does not alter host responses to ocular disease in songbirds. PeerJ 10:e13559 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13559
(18) Weitzman, C. L.*, G. Ceja*, A. E. Leon, D. M. Hawley. 2022. Protection generated by prior exposure to pathogens depends on both priming and challenge dose. Infection and Immunity 90(3):e00537-21. DOI: 10.1128/iai.00537-21
(17) Weitzman, C. L., B. Rostama, C. A. Thomason, M. May, L. K. Belden, D. M. Hawley. 2021. Experimental test of microbiome protection across pathogen doses reveals importance of resident microbiome composition. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 97:fiab141. DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiab141
(16) Weitzman, C. L.*, B. E. Hagerty*, F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2021. Desert tortoises in Zion National Park represent a natural extension of their range. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 20(1):91-96. DOI: 10.2744/CCB-1457.1
(15) Luzuriaga-Neira, A., F. C. Sandmeier, C. L. Weitzman, C. R. Tracy, S. N. Bauschlicher, R. L. Tillett, D. Alvarez-Ponce. 2021. Mycoplasma agassizii, an opportunistic pathogen of tortoises, shows very little genetic variation across the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts. PLoS ONE 16(2):e0245895. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245895
(14) Weitzman, C. L.*, C. Thomason*, E. Schuler*, A. Leon, S. R. Teemer, D. M. Hawley. 2020. House finches with high coccidia burdens experience more severe experimental Mycoplasma gallisepticum infections. Parasitology Research 119:3535-3539. DOI: 10.1007/s00436-020-06814-0
(13) Weitzman, C. L., M. Kaestli, K. Gibb, G. Brown, R. Shine, K. Christian. 2019. Disease exposure and anti-fungal bacteria on the skin of invasive cane toads in Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases 25:1770-1771. DOI: 10.3201/eid2509.190386
(12) Weitzman, C. L., K. Gibb, K. Christian. 2018. Skin bacterial diversity is higher on lizards than sympatric frogs in tropical Australia. PeerJ 6:e5960. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5960
(11) Weitzman, C. L., F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2018. Host species, pathogens, and disease associated with divergent nasal microbial communities in tortoises. Royal Society Open Science 5:181068. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181068 (pdf)
(10) Christian, K., C. Weitzman, A. Rose, M. Kaestli, K. Gibb. 2018. Ecological patterns in the skin microbiome of frogs from tropical Australia. Ecology and Evolution 8(21):10510–10519. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4518 (pdf)
(9) Sandmeier, F. C., C. L. Weitzman, C. R. Tracy. 2018. An ecoimmunological approach to disease in tortoises reveals the importance of lymphocytes. Ecosphere 9(9):e02427. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2427 (pdf)
(8) Alvarez-Ponce, D., C. L. Weitzman, R. L. Tillett, F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2018. High quality draft genome sequences of Mycoplasma agassizii strains PS6T and 723 isolated from Gopherus tortoises with upper respiratory tract disease. Standards in Genomic Sciences 13:12. DOI: 10.1186/s40793-018-0315-1 (pdf)
(7) Weitzman, C. L., R. L. Tillett, F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy, D. Alvarez-Ponce. 2018. High quality draft genome sequence of Mycoplasma testudineum strain BH29T, isolated from the respiratory tract of a desert tortoise. Standards in Genomic Sciences 13:9. DOI: 10.1186/s40793-018-0309-z (pdf)
(6) Shaffer, H. B., E. McCartney-Melstad, P. L. Ralph, G. Bradburd, E. Lundgren, J. Vu, B. Hagerty, F. Sandmeier, C. Weitzman, C.R. Tracy. 2017. Desert tortoises in the genomic age: Population genetics and the landscape. bioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/195743 (full text)
(5) Weitzman, C. L., R. Gov**, F. C. Sandmeier, S. J. Snyder, C. R. Tracy. 2017. Co-infection does not predict disease signs in Gopherus tortoises. Royal Society Open Science 4:171003. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171003 (pdf)
(4) Weitzman, C. L., F. C. Sandmeier, C. R. Tracy. 2017. Prevalence and diversity of the upper respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma agassizii in Mojave Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii). Herpetologica 73(2): 113-120. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-16-00079.1 (pdf)
(3) Sandmeier, F. C., C. L. Weitzman, N. K. Maloney, C. R. Tracy, N. Nieto, M. Teglas, K. Hunter, S. DuPre, C. M. Gienger, M. Tuma. 2017. Comparison of current methods for the detection of chronic mycoplasmal URTD in wild populations of the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 53:91-101. DOI: 10.7589/2015-09-253
(2) Jahner, J. P., D. Gibson, C. L. Weitzman, E. J. Blomberg, J. S. Sedinger, T. L. Parchman. 2016. Fine-scale genetic structure among greater sage-grouse leks in central Nevada. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:127. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0702-4 (pdf)
(1) Honarvar, S., D. B. Fitzgerald, C. L. Weitzman, E. M. Sinclair, J. M. Esara Echube, M. P. O’Connor, G. W. Hearn. 2016. Assessment of Important Marine Turtle Nesting Populations on the Southern Coast of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 15(1):79-89. DOI: 10.2744/CCB-1194.1
MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW and IN REVISION
Weitzman, C. L., G. P. Brown, K. Day, C. M. Shilton, K. Gibb, K. Christian. Protection against anuran lungworm infection may be mediated by innate defenses rather than their microbiome. International Journal for Parasitology, in review.
Weitzman, C. L., G. P. Brown, K. Gibb, K. Christian. Cutaneous shedding in amphibians causes shifts in bacterial microbiomes. Integrative Zoology, in revision.
Gregory, C. L., S. R. Teemer, A. Perez-Umphrey, C. L. Weitzman, D. M. Hawley, L. K. Belden. The house finch ocular microbiome is altered by infection, but does not predict disease transmission. The Microbe, in review.
Day, K., C. L. Weitzman, K. Skelton, A. Rachmansah, K. Christian. Greater seasonal plasticity in evaporative water loss than preferred temperature in three geckos of the wet–dry tropics. Oecologia, in review.
Skelton, K., C. Moritz, K. Day, C. L. Weitzman, C. Schlesinger, S. M. Zozaya, K. Christian. Climatic variability shapes plasticity of hydric and thermal physiology in tropical geckos. Ecology, in review.
Skelton, K., K. Day, C. L. Weitzman, C. Schlesinger, C. Moritz, K. Christian. Gehyra geckos prioritise warm over humid environments. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A, in review.
Christian, K., K. A. Day, C. L. Weitzman. No evidence of evolution or developmental plasticity in evaporative water loss of Australian cane toads. Ecology and Evolution, in review.