Previously mentored: *undergraduate students, **graduate students • Arango, B.G.**, Ensminger, D.C., Moreno-Santillén, D.D., Arango, B. G., Harfush-Meléndez, M., López-Reyes, E. M., Marmolejo-Valencia, J. A., Merchant-Larios, D., Crocker, D.E. & Vázquez-Medina, J. P. (2022). Oxidative stress is a potential cost of synchronous nesting in olive ridley sea turtles. Antioxidants, 11(9), 1772.
• Ensminger, D. C., Wheeler, N. D.**, Al Makki, R.*, Eads, K. N.*, & Ashley, N. T. (2022). Contrasting effects of sleep fragmentation and angiotensin-II treatment upon pro-inflammatory responses of mice. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-11.
• Ensminger, D. C., Crocker, D. E., Lam, E. K.**, Allen, K. N.**, & Vazquez-Medina, J. P. (2021). Repeated stimulation of the HPA axis alters white blood cell counts without increasing oxidative stress or inflammatory cytokines in fasting elephant seal pups. Journal of Experimental Biology, doi: 10.1242/jeb.243198
• Zane, L. H.*, Ensminger, D. C., Vázquez-Medina, J. P. (2021). Short-term elevations in glucocorticoids do not alter telomere lengths: A systematic review and meta-analysis of non-primate vertebrate studies. PloS One, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257370
• MacLeod, K.J., Langkilde, T., Venable, C.P., Ensminger, D.C., Sheriff, M.J. (2021) A test of maternal glucocorticoids as ecological integrator of the predation environment in eastern fence lizards. Behavioral Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab099.
• Ensminger, D.C., Owen, D.A.S., Siegel, S.R., Sheriff, M.J., Langkilde, T. Maternal glucocorticoids decrease absolute telomere length of sons but not daughters of a wild lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 257, 110971.
• Wheeler, N.**, Ensminger, D.C., Rowe, M.*, Wriedt, Z.*, Ashley, N. Alpha- and beta- adrenergic receptors regulate inflammatory responses to acute and chronic sleep fragmentation. PeerJ, 9, e11616.
• Ensminger, D.C., Salvador-Pascual, A., Arango, B.G.**, Allen, K.N.**, Vázquez-Medina, J.P. (2021) Fasting ameliorates oxidative stress: A review of physiological strategies across life history events in wild vertebrates. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.110929
• Gingery, T.M.**, Diefenbach, D.R., Pritchard, C.E., Ensminger, D.C., Wallingford, B.D., Rosenberry, C.S. (2020). Survival is negatively associated with glucocorticoids in a wild ungulate neonate. Integrative Zoology. Volume 16(2): 214-225
• Ensminger, D.C., Pritchard, C., Langkilde, T., Gingery, T.**, Bamfield, J., Walter, W.D. (2020). The influence of hunting pressure and ecological factors on fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in wild elk. Wildlife Biology. No. 2.
• MacLeod, K. J., Sheriff, M. J., Ensminger, D. C., Owen, D. A. S., & Langkilde, T. (2018). Survival and reproductive costs of repeated acute glucocorticoid elevations in a captive, wild animal. General and Comparative Endocrinology. Volume 268: 1-6.
• Ensminger, D. C., Langkilde, T., Owen, D. A., MacLeod, K. J., & Sheriff, M. J. (2018). Maternal stress alters the phenotype of the mother, her eggs, and her offspring in a wild caught lizard. Journal of Animal Ecology. Volume 87(6): 1685-1697.
• Somo, D., Ensminger, D.C., Sharick, J., Kanatous, S., and Crocker, D. (2015). Development of Dive Capacity in Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris): Reduced body reserves at weaning are associated with elevated body oxygen stores during the postweaning fast. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. Volume 88: 471-482.
• Ensminger, D.C., Somo, D., Houser, D., and Crocker, D. (2014). Metabolic responses to adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) vary with life-history stage in adult male northern elephant seals. General and Comparative Endocrinology. Volume 204: 150-157.