J. Mitchell Lockhart

Teaching Interests

• Anatomy and Physiology I and II

• Parasitology

• Wildlife Biology

• Wildlife Diseases

• Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

• Vertebrate Histology

• Animal Behavior

• Directed Study

• Graduate Directed Study.

Research Interests

• Gopher Tortoise diseases, biology, and telemetry
• Diseases and toxicology of mesopredators of south Georgia and north Florida

Selected Publications

Lamb, B.D., C.D. Anderson, C.M. McDonough, J.M. Lockhart, and Z.P. Butler.  2023.  A Comparison of Vertebrate Associates of Gopher Tortoise and Nine-Banded Armadillo Burrows in South Georgia.  Chelonian Conservation and Biology 22(2): 184–196.

Hough, S., J. Lockhart, W. Loughry, and G. Bielmyer-Fraser.  2020.  Comparative metal analysis in a species assemblage of mammals from the southeastern United States.  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.  192:306.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08259-5

Hough, S., J.M. Lockhart, W.J. Loughry, and G.K. Bielmyer-Fraser.  2020.  Metal accumulation in wild-caught raccoons in Southeastern USA.  Southeastern Naturalist  in press.

Thomason, R.K., S. Siddiqui, J.M. Lockhart, W.J. Loughry, and G.K. Bielmyer-Fraser.  2016.  Metal accumulation in bobcats in the southeastern United States.  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.  188:565  DOI 10.1007/s10661-016-5587-6

Lockhart, J.M., S. Siddiqui, W.J. Loughry, and G.K. Bielmyer-Fraser.  2016.  Metal accumulation in wild-caught opossum.  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 188:317 DOI 10.1007/s10661-016-5327-y J

Sharma, R., P. Singh, W.J. Loughry, J.M. Lockhart, B. Inman, M. Duthie, M.T. Pena, L. Marcos, D.M. Scollard, S.T. Cole, R. Truman.  2015.  Emerging zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States.  Emerging Infectious Diseases.  21:2127-2134.

Ingram, D.R., D.L. Miller, J. Turco and J.M. Lockhart.  2015.  Serological survey of wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) and evidence of exposure to avian encephalomyelitis virus in Georgia and Florida, USA.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases.  doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7589/2013-07-169.  51(2):374-379.

Howell-Stephens, J.A., J.M. Lockhart, R.L. Santymire, and W.J. Loughry.  2015.  Circulating concentrations of gonadal and adrenocortical hormones in wild nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus).  Mammalia 79:147-158.