Peer Reviewed Publications and Book Chapters

2008

Earley RL & Hsu Y (2008). Reciprocity between endocrine state and contest behavior in the killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus). Hormones & Behavior (accepted for publication)

Smith CF, Schwenk K, Earley RL & Schuett GW (2008). Sexual dimorphism of the tongue in a North American pitviper. Journal of Zoology (accepted for publication; available online)
Reiserer RS, Earley RL & Schuett GW (2008). Dynamic aggregations of newborn sibling rattlesnakes exhibit stable thermoregulatory properties. Journal of Zoology (accepted for publication; available online)
Lorenzi V, Earley RL, Pepper DR & Grober MS (2008). Diurnal patterns and sex differences in cortisol, 11-ketotestosterone, testosterone, and 17beta-estradiol in the bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli). General and Comparative Endocrinology 155: 438-446
2007
Rodgers EW, Earley RL & Grober MS. (2007). Social status determines the expression of sexual phenotype in the bidirectional sex changing bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli). Journal of Fish Biology, 70: 1660-1668.
Bonnie KE & Earley RL (2007). Expanding the scope of social information use. Animal Behaviour 74: 171-181.
Attum O, Carranza S, Baha El Din S, Earley RL, Arnold EN & Kingsbury E. (2007). An evaluation of the taxonomic validity of Testudo werneri. Amphibia-Reptilia 28: 393-401.
2006
Earley RL & Dugatkin LA. (2006). Merging social hierarchies: effects on dominance rank in male green swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri). Behavioural Processes, 73: 290-298.
Schuett GW, Repp RA, Taylor EN, DeNardo DF, Earley RL, Van Kirk EA & Murdoch MJ. (2006). Winter profile of plasma sex steroid levels in wild male western diamond-backed rattlesnakes, Crotalus atrox (Serpentes, Viperidae). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 149: 72-80.
Earley RL, Edwards JT, Aseem O, Felton K, Blumer LS, Karom M & Grober MS (2006). Social interactions tune aggression and stress responsiveness in a territorial cichlid fish (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus). Physiology & Behavior, 88: 353-363.
Earley RL (2006). Xiphophorus: carving a niche towards a broader understanding of aggression and dominance. Zebrafish, 3: 287-298.
Hsu YY, Earley RL, Wolf LL (2006). Modulating aggression through experience. In: Fish Cognition and Behaviour (eds., C. Brown, K. Laland & J. Krause), Blackwell Publishing Ltd., pp. 96-113.
Rodgers EW, Earley RL & Grober MS (2006). Elevated 11-ketotestosterone during parental behavior in the bluebanded goby (Lythrypnus dalli). Hormones & Behavior, 49: 610-614
Lorenzi V, Earley RL & Grober MS. (2006). Preventing behavioral interactions with a male facilitates protogynous sex change in female bluebanded gobies (Lythrypnus dalli). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 59: 715-722.

Hsu YY, Earley RL & Wolf LL. (2006). Modulation of aggressive behavior by fighting experience: mechanisms and contest outcomes. Biological Reviews, 81: 33-74.


2005
Dzieweczynski T, Earley RL , Greene T & Rowland WJ. (2005). Audience effect is context-dependent in Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens. Behavioral Ecology 16: 1025-1030.

Schuett GW, Hardy Sr. DL , Earley RL & Greene HW. (2005). Does prey size induce head skeleton phenotypic plasticity during early ontogeny in the snake Boa constrictor? Journal of Zoology, London 267: 363-369.
Schuett GW, Hardy Sr. DL, Greene HW, Earley RL, Grober MS, Van Kirk EA & Murdoch WJ (2005). Sympatric rattlesnakes with contrasting mating systems show differences in seasonal patterns of plasma sex steroids. Animal Behaviour, 70: 257-266.

Earley RL, Druen M & Dugatkin LA (2005) Watching fights does not alter a bystander's response toward naïve conspecifics in male green swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri). Animal Behaviour 69: 1139-1145.
Earley RL & Dugatkin LA. (2005) Fighting, mating, and networking: pillars of poeciliid sociality. In: Animal Communication Networks. (ed., PK McGregor). Cambridge University Press, pp. 84-113.
2004
Dugatkin LA & Earley RL (2004). Individual recognition, dominance hierarchies, and winner and loser effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271: 1537-1540.

Earley RL, Blumer L & Grober MS (2004). The gall of subordination: changes in gallbladder function associated with social stress. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271: 7-13. See Medicina-Buenos Aires article by Juan Antonio Barcat featuring this work

Earley RL (2004). Instructor's Manual to accompany Principles of Animal Behavior by Lee Alan Dugatkin, W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN 0-393-92464-5.
2003
Brosnan SF, Earley RL & Dugatkin LA (2003). Observational learning and predator inspection in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Ethology, 109: 823-834.

Earley RL , Tinsley M & Dugatkin LA (2003). To see or not to see: does previewing a future opponent affect the contest behavior of green swordtail males (Xiphophorus helleri)? Naturwissenschaften 90: 226-230. Erratum
Dugatkin LA & Earley RL (2003). Group fusion: the impact of winner, loser, and bystander effects on hierarchy formation in large groups. Behavioral Ecology 14: 367-373.
2002
Earley RL, Attum O & Eason P. (2002). Varanid combat: perspectives from game theory. Amphibia-Reptilia 23: 469-485.
Earley RL & Dugatkin LA (2002).  Eavesdropping on visual cues in swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri) fights – a case for networking. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B,  269: 943 952. See New Scientist article featuring this work
2000
Earley RL, Hsu Y & Wolf LL (2000). The use of standard aggression testing methods to predict combat behaviour and contest outcome in Rivulus marmoratus dyads (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae). Ethology, 106: 743-761.


Attum O, Earley RL, Bayless M & Eason P (2000) The agonistic behavior of Bosc's monitors (Varanus exanthematicus, Bosc 1792) in captivity. Herpetological Bulletin 73: 22-26.
In Review
Wong S, Dykstra M, Campbell J & Earley RL. Measuring water-borne cortisol in convict cichlids (Cryptoheros nigrofasciatus): is the procedure a stressor? Submitted to Behaviour (special proceedings from Faro Workshop on Water-borne chemicals)

Book Reviews

 Earley RL (2006). Wee guppies pack an evolutionary punch. A review of Anne E. Magurran's Evolutionary Ecology: The Trinidadian Guppy (2005, Oxford University Press, New York, 206 p.). Ecology 87: 2682-2683.
Earley RL (2000). A book review of Christopher Boehm's Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (1999, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 292 p.). American Scientist (March-April Edition).