Publications
From my current life as a herpetologist
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. Short- and long-term effects of the abiotic egg environment on viability, development and vulnerability to predators of a Neotropical anuran. In Review, Functional Ecology.
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. 2009. Negative synergism of rainfall patterns and predators affects frog egg survival. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78(4):715–723. (email me for a pdf)
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. 2008. Reproductive mode plasticity: Aquatic and terrestrial oviposition in a treefrog. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105(21):7495-7499. pdf cover
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. 2008. Fish and dragonfly nymph predators induce opposite shifts in color and morphology of tadpoles. Oikos, 117(4):634-640. pdf
Gomez-Mestre, I., Touchon, J.C., and Warkentin K.M. 2008. Maternal effects and low heritability of pathogen-induced early hatching of toad embryos. The Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21(3):791-800. pdf
Touchon, J.C., Gomez-Mestre, I., and Warkentin, K.M. 2006. Hatching plasticity in two temperate anurans: responses to a pathogen and predation cues. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84:556-563. pdf
Gomez-Mestre, I., Touchon, J.C., and Warkentin K.M. 2006. Amphibian embryo and parental defenses and a larval predator reduce egg mortality from water mold. Ecology, 87:2570-2581. pdf
From my brief and former life as a Rat Vivisectionist
Touchon, J.C., Holmer, H.K., Moore, C., McKee, B.L., Frederickson, J., and Meshul, C.K. 2005. Apomorphine-induced alterations in striatal and substantia nigra glutamate following unilateral loss of striatal dopamine. Experimental Neurology, 193:131-140. pdf
Touchon, J.C., Moore, C., Frederickson, J., and Meshul, C.K. 2004. Lesion of subthalamic or motor thalamic nucleus in 6-hydroxydopamine treated rats: effects on striatal glutamate and apomorphine-induced contralateral rotations. Synapse, 51:2887-298. pdf
Robinson, S, Freeman, P., Moore, C., Touchon, J.C., Krentz, L. and Meshul, C.K. 2003. Acute and subchronic MPTP administration differentially affects striatal glutamate synaptic function. Experimental Neurology, 180:73-86. pdf
Presentations
Touchon, J.C. “Reproductive Mode Plasticity in the Treefrog Dendropsophus ebraccatus.” 2009 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Joint Meeting, Portland, OR, July, 2009.
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. “Morphological responses to abiotic and biotic factors: temperature effects on predator-induced phenotypes in a Neotropical treefrog tadpole.” Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January, 2009.
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. “Reproductive mode plasticity in the treefrog Dendropsophus ebraccatus.” 6th World Congress of Herpetology, Manaus, Brazil, August, 2008.
Touchon, J.C. “Plasticity and selection for reproductive mode: a treefrog that breeds in water and on land.” 2007 Animal Behavior Society Annual Meeting, Burlington, VT, July 21-25, 2007.
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. “Long-term effects of short-term variation: how egg environment changes tadpole phenotype and survival.” 2006 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Joint Meeting, New Orleans, LA, July 12-17, 2006.
Touchon, J.C. "Ecology and Development Meet Behavior: Environmental Effects on Development and Predator-Prey Interactions Across the Complex Life Cycle of a Neotropical Treefrog." Boston University Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Department Seminar, Boston, MA, March 13th, 2006.
Touchon, J.C. and Warkentin, K.M. “Interacting risks: rainfall reliability and egg predation in the Neotropical treefrog, Hyla ebraccata.” 2005 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Joint Meeting, Tampa, FL, July 6-11, 2005.
Touchon, J.C. “Developmental plasticity effects across a complex life-cycle in a neotropical treefrog.” Return speaker at Nerd Nite, The Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plains, MA, December 2004.
Touchon, J.C. “Developmental plasticity effects across a complex life-cycle in a neotropical treefrog: implications for conservation and evolution.” Invited speaker, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, October 28, 2004.
Touchon, J.C. “Plastic responses to physical environment affect predator-prey interactions.” 89th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR, August 1-6, 2004.
Touchon, J.C. “Fun Facts Featuring Frog Fatalities.” 1st ever Nerd Nite, The Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plains, MA, March 2004.
Touchon, J. C. “How eggs die: multiple causes of embryo mortality in the neotropical treefrog, Hyla ebraccata.” Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference, Storrs, CT, March 24-26, 2004.
Posters and Abstracts
Worley, J. and Touchon, J.C. “Reproductive mode plasticity under conflicting egg predation and desiccation risk.” 2009 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Joint Meeting, Portland, OR, July, 2009.
Touchon, J.C., and Warkentin, K.M. “Reproductive mode variation in a neotropical treefrog: the leaf-breeding Hyla ebraccata lays eggs in water.” 2006 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Joint Meeting, New Orleans, LA, July 12-17, 2006.
Touchon, J.C., Vonesh, J.R., and Warkentin, K.M. “Variation in larval predation risk across breeding sites of two hylid frogs.” 2005 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Joint Meeting, Tampa, FL, July 6-11, 2005.
Touchon, J.C. “How eggs die: multiple causes of embryo mortality in the neotropical treefrog, Hyla ebraccata.” American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Joint Meeting, Norman, OK, May 26-31, 2004.
Meshul., C.K., Robinson, S., Freeman, P., Moore, C., Touchon, J.C., Frederickson, J. and Krentz, L. 2003. Striatal Glutamate Synaptic Function is Differentially Affected Following Acute vs Subchronic MPTP: Implications for Animal Models of Parkinson's Disease. 10th International Conference on In Vivo Methods, Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience 209-211.
Touchon, J.C., Moore, C., and Meshul, C.K. 2002 Lesion of subthalamic or motor thalamic nucleus in 6-OHDA treated rats: effects on apomorphine-induced contralateral rotations and striatal glutamate levels. Soc. Neurosci. Absts. (#518.4).
Meshul, C.K. , Kamel, D., Freeman, P., Robinson, S., Moore, C, Krentz, L., and Touchon, J. 2001 Loss of Dopamine Affects Striatal Glutamatergic Function: Correlation of Microdialysis and Immunocytochemistry. 9th International Conference on In Vivo Methods, 297-299.