Articles published by year
* undergraduate author under my mentorship
2025
19) Shephard, A. M., & Ledón-Rettig, C. C. A novel carnivorous diet reduces brain telomere length. Biology Letters, 21(2), 20240593.
18) Shephard, A. M., *Jacobsen, S., & Ledón-Rettig, C. C. Diet-induced plasticity modifies relationships between larval growth rate and post-metamorphic behavior and physiology in spadefoot toads. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228(2), JEB249229.
17) Santiago-Rosario, L. Y., Shephard, A. M., Snell-Rood, E. C, Herrmann, A. D., & Harms K. E. Butterfly species vary in sex-specific sodium accumulation from larval diets. Ecological Entomology, 50(1), 228-234.
2024
16) Hund, A. K., Mitchell T. S., Ramírez, M. I., Zambre, A., Hagg, L., Stene, A., Porter, K., Carper, A., Agnew, L., Shephard, A. M., Kobiela, M. E., Oberhauser, K. S., Taylor, O. R., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2024). The potential of roadside verges as insect habitat: Road salt has few effects on monarch butterfly performance and migration. Conservation Science and Practice, 6(10), e13229.
15) Shephard, A. M., Lagon, S. R., *Jacobsen, S., Millar, K., & Ledón-Rettig, C. C. (2024). Corticosterone Contributes to Diet-Induced Reprogramming of Post-Metamorphic Behavior in Spadefoot Toads. Integrative Organismal Biology, obae012.
14) Shephard, A. M., Lagon, S. R., & Ledón-Rettig, C. C. (2024). Early life nutrient restriction affects hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal axis gene expression in a diet type-specific manner. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 114490.
2023
13) Shephard, A. M., Hund, A. K., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2023). Metabolic stress as a driver of life-history plasticity: flight promotes longevity and antioxidant production in monarch butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290(2008), 20231616.
12) Shephard, A. M., *Knudsen, K., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2023). Anthropogenic sodium influences butterfly responses to nitrogen-enriched resources: implications for the nitrogen limitation hypothesis. Oecologia, 201(4), 941-952.
2022
11) Shephard, A. M., *Brown, N. S., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2022). Anthropogenic zinc exposure increases mortality and antioxidant gene expression in monarch butterflies with low access to dietary macronutrients. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 41(5), 1286-1296.
10) Shephard, A. M., Agnew, L., Herdtle, A., Mitchell, T. S., Borer, E. T., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2023) Traffic patterns, more than landscape context, influence element content of roadside forbs for insect pollinators. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3(4), e12195.
2021
9) Shephard, A. M., Mitchell, T. S., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2021). Monarch caterpillars are robust to combined exposure to the roadside micronutrients sodium and zinc. Conservation Physiology, 9(1), coab061.
8) Shephard, A. M., Zambre, A. M., & Snell‐Rood, E. C. (2021). Evaluating costs of heavy metal tolerance in a widely distributed, invasive butterfly. Evolutionary Applications, 14(5), 1390-1402.
2020
7) Shephard, A. M., Mitchell, T. S., Henry, S. B., Oberhauser, K. S., Kobiela, M. E., & Snell‐Rood, E. C. (2020). Assessing zinc tolerance in two butterfly species: consequences for conservation in polluted environments. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 13(2), 201-210.
2019
6) Mitchell, T. S., Shephard, A. M., Kalinowski, C. R., Kobiela, M. E., & Snell-Rood, E. C. (2019). Butterflies do not alter oviposition or larval foraging in response to anthropogenic increases in sodium. Animal Behaviour, 154, 121-129.
2018
5) Snell-Rood, E. C., Kobiela, M. E., Sikkink, K. L., & Shephard, A. M. (2018). Mechanisms of plastic rescue in novel environments. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 49, 331-354.
4) Shephard, A. M., Aksenov, V., Tran, J., *Nelson, C. J., Boreham, D. R., & Rollo, C. D. (2018). Hormetic effects of early juvenile radiation exposure on adult reproduction and offspring performance in the cricket (Acheta domesticus). Dose-Response, 16(3), 1559325818797499.
3) Shephard, A. M., Aksenov, V., & Rollo, C. D. (2018). Conspecific mortality cues mediate associative learning in crickets, Acheta domesticus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 27(2), 187-192.
2016
2) Shephard, A. M., Bharwani, A., Durisko, Z., & Andrews, P. W. (2016). Reverse engineering the febrile system. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 91(4), 419-457.
2015
1) Blichowski, M., Shephard, A., Armstrong, J., Shen, L., Cortez, M. A., Eubanks, J. H., & Snead III, O. C. (2015). The GIRK 2 subunit is involved in IS‐like seizures induced by GABA B receptor agonists. Epilepsia, 56(7), 1081-1087.