Faculty Profiles

Irwin, K. B., Aspbury, A., Bonner, T. H., & Gabor, C. (2024). Habitat structural complexity predicts cognitive performance and behaviour in western mosquitofish. Biology Letters, 20(7), 20230394.

Barough, S. P. H., Suárez-Rodriguez, Monserrat, Aspbury, A., Zúñiga-Vega, José Jaime, & Gabor, C. (2024). Hormonal dynamics of matrotrophy vs. lecithotrophy in live-bearing fish reproduction. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular \& Integrative Physiology, 296, 111699.

Rylander, R. J., Aspbury, A., Simpson, T. R., Weckerly, F., Patten, M., & Fritts, S. R. (2024). Black-crested Titmice (Baeolophus atricristatus) initiate nesting earlier in urbanized landscapes but have variable nesting success depending on the level of urbanization. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1676/23-00007

Lopez, S. G., Aspbury, A., Fritts, S. R., Tidwell, T. L. R., & Bonner, T. H. (2023). Long-term patterns in inland fish kills associated with cold-shock and winter stress: a regional case study from Texas. Journal of Fish Biology, 103(3), 472–480. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15435

Zuniga-Vega, J. J., Aspbury, A., Johnson, J. B., & Pollux, Bart J. A. (2022). Editorial: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior of Viviparous Fishes. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.832216

Kolonin, A., Bokony, V., Bonner, T. H., Jaime Zuniga-Vega, J., Aspbury, A., Guzman, A., … Gabor, C. (2022). Coping With Urban Habitats Via Glucocorticoid Regulation: Physiology, Behavior, and Life History in Stream Fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62(1), 90–103. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac002

B\’okony, Veronika, Ujhegyi, N., Hamow, Kamir\’an \’A, Bosch, J., Thumsov\’a, Barbora, V\"or\"os, Judit, … Gabor, C. (2021). Stressed tadpoles mount more efficient glucocorticoid negative feedback in anthropogenic habitats due to phenotypic plasticity. Science of the Total Environment, 753, 141896.

Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. R. (Eds.). (2021). Organismal Biology Laboratory Exercises.

Muraco, James J., Jr., Monroe, D. J., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2021). Do Females in a Unisexual-Bisexual Species Complex Differ in Their Behavioral Syndromes and Cortisol Production? BIOLOGY-BASEL, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10030186

Perez, A., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2021). Urbanization affects individual behavior and cognition in Gambusa affinis. In Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Chester, S., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2021). Land use conversion affects life-history traits of western mosquitofish. In Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Miner, K. A.-M., Huertas Pau, M. del M., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2021). Artificial light at night alters the physiology and behavior of western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). Frontiers Ecology and Evolution.

Gabor, C., Aspbury, A., Ujhegy, N., & Bokony, V. (2020). Environmental Variation From Land Use Conversion Affects Stress in Tadpoles. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 60).

Molina, R., Kolonin, A., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2020). Western Mosquitofish Social Behavior Varies with Levels of Land Use Conversion. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 60).

Guzman, A. V., Kolonin, A., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2020). Land Use Conversion Affects Stress Physiology and Life-History of Western Mosquitofish. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 60).

Rylander, R., Fritts, S. R., & Aspbury, A. (2020). Limited dispersal by large juvenile males leads to kin-structured neighborhoods in the black-crested titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74.

Kim, Aspbury, A., Zúñiga-Vega, J. J., & Gabor, C. (2019). Smaller rival males do not affect male mate choice or cortisol but do affect 11-ketotestosterone in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex of fish. Behavioural Processes, 167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2019.103916

Aspbury, A., DeColo, S. L., Goff, C. B., & Gabor, C. (2019). Turbidity affects association behavior in the endangered fountain darter (Actinopterygii, Perciformes). Hydrobiologia, 838(1), 45–54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-03975-7

Gabor, C., Perkins, H. R., Heitmann, A. T., Forsburg, Z. R., & Aspbury, A. (2019). Roundup^TM with corticosterone functions as an infodisruptor to antipredator response in tadpoles. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7(APR). https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00114

Perkins, H., Heitmann, A., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2018). Synergistic effects of Roundup and corticosterone on antipredator responses of Incilius nebulifer tadpoles. In INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY (Vol. 58, pp. E395--E395).

Aspbury, A., Grayson, K., Fantaye, S., Nichols, I., Myers-Burton, M., Ortiz-Mangual, X., & Gabor, C. (2017). The association between male-biased sex ratio and indicators of stress in red-spotted newts. Physiology and Behavior, 173, 156–162.

Decolo, S., Aspbury, A., Ostrand, K., & Gabor, C. (2016). Male – male interactions and their influence on the mating behavior and success in the fountain darter Etheostoma fonticola. Acta Ethologica, 19, 15–20.

Reedy, A., Edwards, A., Pendlebury, C., Murdaugh, L., Avery, R., Aspbury, A., … Gabor, C. (2014). Male and female newts increase corticosterone during amplexus. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 208, 57–63.

Kim, D., Waller, J., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2014). Mating preferences of the gynogenetic Amazon molly differ between populations sympatric with different host species. Ethology, 120, 1–9.

Muraco, J., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2014). Does male behavioral type correlate with species recognition and stress hormones in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex? Behavioral Ecology, 25, 200–205.

Alberici da Barbiano, 5. L, Robinson, R., Tobler, M., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2014). Differences in resource assimilation between the unisexual Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa (Poeciliidae) and its sexual host (Poecilia latipinna). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 97, 875–880.

Reedy, A. M., Edwards, A., Pendlebury, C., Murdaugh, L., Avery, R., Seidenberg, J., … Gabor, C. (2014). An acute increase in the stress hormone corticosterone is associated with mating behavior in both male and female red-spotted newts, Notophthalmus viridescens. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 208, 57--63.

Alberici da Barbiano, L., Gompert, Z., Aspbury, A., Gabor, C., & Nice, C. (2013). Population genomics reveals a possible history of backcrossing and recombination in the gynogenetic fish Poecilia formosa. Proceedings National Academy of Science, 110, 13797–13802.

Gabor, C. R., Aspbury, A., & Rodríguez, R. L. (2013). Geographic variation in behaviour: An introduction. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 15, 601–604.

Gabor, C. R., Alberici da Barbiano, L., & Aspbury, A. (2013). Geographic variation in male mate choice in a gynogenetic species complex: evaluating long-term data across mating contexts. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 15(653–666).

Alberici da Barbiano, L., Rangel, L., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2012). Male permissiveness in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex promotes maintenance of a vertebrate unisexual sperm-dependent species. Behaviour, 149, 869–879.

Swanbrow, L., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. R. (2012). Body size dependent male sexual behavior in a natural population of sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna). American Midland Naturalist, 167, 366–372.

Gabor, C., Aspbury, A., Ma, J., & Nice, C. (2012). The role of androgens in species recognition and sperm production in Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana). Physiology & Behavior, 105(3), 885--892.

Alberici da Barbiano, L., Aspbury, A., Nice, C. C., & Gabor, C. R. (2011). The impact of social context on male mate preference in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex. Journal of Fish Biology, 79, 194–204.

Robinson, D. M., Konkin-Garcia, T., Espinedo, C. M., Gabor, C. R., & Aspbury, A. (2011). Seasonal effects on female fecundity and male sperm availability in a thermal stable temperate population of sailfin mollies (Poecilia latpinna). American Midland Naturalist, 166, 394–403.

Gabor, C. R., Parmley, M., & Aspbury, A. (2011). Repeatability of female preferences in a unisexual-bisexual mating system. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 13, 145–157.

Gabor, C. R., Gonzalez, R., Parmley, M., & Aspbury, A. (2010). Variation in male sailfin molly, preference for female size: Does sympatry with sexual parasites drive preference for smaller conspecifics? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64, 783–792.

Espinedo, C. M., Gabor, C. R., & Aspbury, A. (2010). Males, but not females, contribute to sexual isolation between two sympatric species of Gambusia. Evolutionary Ecology, 24, 865–878.

Aspbury, A., Espinedo, C. M., & Gabor, C. R. (2010). Lack of species recognition based on chemical cues by male sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna. Evolutionary Ecology, 24, 69–82.

Gabor, C., Coyle, J., & Aspbury, A. S. (2010). Effect of predation on male mating behaviour in a unisexual-bisexual mating system. Behaviour, 147(1), 53–63. https://doi.org/10.1163/000579509x12483520922160

Gabor, C. R., & Aspbury, A. (2008). Non-repeatable mate choice by male sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, in a unisexual-bisexual mating complex. Behavioral Ecology, 19, 871–878.

Robinson, D. M., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. R. (2008). Differential sperm transfer by male sailfin mollies in a unisexual-bisexual species complex: rapid spermiation during mating? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62, 705–711.

Robinson, D. M., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2008). Differential sperm expenditure by male sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, in a unisexual--bisexual species complex and the influence of spermiation during mating. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(5), 705--711.

Aspbury, A. (2007). Sperm competition effects on sperm production and expenditure in sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna. Behavioral Ecology, 18, 776–780.

Gumm, J. M., Gonzalez, R., Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. (2006). Do I know you? Species recognition operates within and between the sexes in a unisexual--bisexual species complex of mollies. Ethology, 112(5), 448--457.

Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. R. (2004). Discriminating males alter sperm production between species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 15970–15973.

Aspbury, A., & Gabor, C. R. (2004). Differential sperm priming by male sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna): Effects of female and male size. Ethology, 110, 193–202.

Aspbury, A., & Gibson, R. M. (2004). Long-range visibility of greater sage grouse leks: a GIS-based analysis. Animal Behaviour, 67, 1127–1132.

Gibson, R. M., Aspbury, A., & McDaniel, L. M. (2002). Active formation of mixed-species grouse leks: a role for predation in lek evolution? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269, 2503–2507.

Aspbury, A. (2002). Ecology of male dispersion in lek-breeding grouse.

Aspbury, A., & Basolo, A. (2002). Repeatable female preferences, mating order and mating success in the poeciliid fish, Heterandria formosa. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 51(3), 238–244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-001-0443-1

Aspbury, A., & Juliano, S. A. (1998). Negative effects of habitat drying and prior exploitation on the detritus resource in an ephemeral aquatic habitat. Oecologia, 115(1–2), 137--148.

Aspbury, A. (1996). Resource quality in ephemeral habitats: effects of drying and prior exploitation. Illinois State University.