Dr. William J. Loughry
Contact Information:Office:
Bailey Science Center, Room 2087
Email: jloughry@valdosta.edu
Phone: (229) 333-5765
Personal Website: http://ww2.valdosta.edu/~jloughry/
Courses Taught | Other Links |
BIOL 2652 | Armadillos |
BIOL 4650 | Current Projects |
1. B.S. in Biology, University of Pittsburgh, 1976-1980
2. PhD in Animal Behavior, University of California, Davis, 1981-1987
Dissertation Title: Functional significance of variation in the antipredator behavior of black-tailed prairie dogs, Advisor: Don Owings
3. N.I.H. Post-Doctoral Trainee in Ethology, University of Tennessee, 1987-1989, Advisor: Gary McCracken
4. Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Southwestern University, 1989-1990
5. Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Austin College, 1990-1991
6. Assistant Professor of Biology, Valdosta State University, 1991-1995
7. Associate Professor of Biology, Valdosta State University, 1995-2001 (tenure awarded, May 1996)
CURRENT STATUS: Professor of Biology, Valdosta State University, 2001-present
II. RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1. Animal communication, particularly alarm calling and scent recognition
2. Behavioral development
3. Antipredator behavior, especially "mobbing" behavior
4. Ecology and behavior of nine-banded armadillos
5. Functional significance of individual differences in behavior
6. Potential for kin selection in animals (vertebrates) that reproduce clonally
III. PUBLICATIONS:
A. Books:
1. Vizcaíno, S. F. & Loughry, W. J. (Eds.). 2008. The Biology of the Xenarthra. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 370 pp.
2. Loughry, W. J. & McDonough, C. M. 2013. The Nine-Banded Armadillo: A Natural History. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 323 pp.
B. Recent journal articles:
Howell-Stephens, J. A., Lockhart, J. M., Santymire, R. M. & Loughry, W. J. 2015. Circulating concentrations of gonadal and adrenocortical hormones in wild nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus). Mammalia79:147-158. doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2014-0029
Superina, M. & Loughry, W. J. 2015. Why do xenarthrans matter? Journal of Mammalogy96:617-621. doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv099
Loughry, W. J., Superina, M., McDonough, C. M. & Abba, A. M. 2015. Research on armadillos: a review and prospectus. Journal of Mammalogy96:635-644. doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv005
Sharma, R., Singh, P., Loughry, W. J., Lockhart, J. M., Inman, B., Duthie, M., Pena, M. T., Marcos, L., Scollard, D. M., Cole, S. T. & Truman, R. W. 2015. Emerging zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases21:2127-2134. doi: 10.3201/eid2112.150501
Perez-Heydrich, C., Loughry, W. J., Anderson, C. D. & Oli, M. K. 2016. Patterns of Mycobacterium leprae exposure in wild nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Mississippi, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases52:524-532. doi.org/10.7589/2015-03-066
Lockhart, J. M., Siddiqui, S., Loughry, W. J. & Bielmyer-Fraser, G. K. 2016. Metal accumulation in wild-caught opossum. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment188:317. doi.org/10.1007/s10661-016-5327-y
Oliver, J. D., Jones, K. E., Hautier, L., Loughry, W. J. & Pierce, S. E. 2016. Vertebral bending mechanics and xenarthrous morphology in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus). Journal of Experimental Biology219:2991-3002. doi.org/10.1242/jeb.142331
Thomason, R. K., Lockhart, J. M., Loughry, W. J. & Bielmyer-Fraser, G. K. 2016. Metal accumulation in bobcats in the southeastern United States. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment188:565. doi.org/10.1007/s10661-016-5587-6
Oli, M. K., Loughry, W. J., Caswell, H., Perez-Heydrich, C., McDonough, C. M. & Truman, R. W. 2017. Dynamics of leprosy in nine-banded armadillos: net reproductive number and effects on host population dynamics. Ecological Modeling350:100-108. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.02.001
Mallon, J. C., Henderson, D. M., McDonough, C. M. & Loughry, W. J. 2018. A ‘bloat-and-float’ taphonomic model best explains the upside-down preservation of ankylosaurs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology497:117-127. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.010
Loughry, W. J., Oeser, M., Anderson, C. D. & Hoogland, J. L. 2019. The importance of individual variation in the alarm calls of Gunnison’s prairie dogs. Animal Behaviour150:59-68. doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.01.019
Santos, P. M., and 507 coauthors. 2019. Neotropical xenarthrans: a data set of occurrence of xenarthran species in the Neotropics. Ecology100:e02663. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2663
Loughry, W. J., Oeser, M. & Hoogland, J. L. 2019. Alarm calls of the same individual vary during a response to the same predator in Gunnison’s prairie dogs. Canadian Journal of Zoologyin press. doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2019-0064
Department of Biology
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