2025 |
Velotta, J.P., M. Stager, Z.A. Cheviron, and N.R. Senner. Incomplete genetic compensation and countergradient variation of blood-oxygen transport in deer mice. Evolution, qpaf186. link *Cover article
Puleo, L., F. Huang, M .Stager, and N.R. Senner. Flexibility in the face of climate change? Shifts in Hudsonian Godwit migration timing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292: 2025.0982. link Stager, M., L. Wilde, R. Ganley, and C.R. Elowe. Modifications to skeletal muscle morphology correlate with increased thermogenic capacity during cold-acclimation in Dark-eyed Juncos (Junco hyemalis). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 279: 111114. link Rogers, E.J., C.R. Elowe, M. Stager, and A.R. Gerson. Arduino-based tools for DIY rapid metabolic and behavioral phenotyping in birds. Journal of Experimental Biology 228: jeb249921. link Vaziri G.J., B. Caicedo, N. Dahrouge, W.G. Ryerson, J.M. Davenport, M. Stager, K.R. Jones, C. Frost, C.L. Seewagen, T.A.G. Rittenhouse, D.I. Bolnick. Gut microbiomes are largely unchanged when exposed to their amphibian host's latitudinally variable upper thermal limit. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 302: 111816. link Stager, M., D.K. Eddy, C.R. Elowe, Z.A. Cheviron and M.D. Carling. Haemosporidian infection does not alter aerobic performance in Junco hyemalis (Dark-eyed Junco). Ornithology 142: ukae065. link |
2024 |
Bathrick, R. E., J.A. Johnson, D.R. Ruthrauff, R. Snyder, M. Stager, and N.R. Senner. Migratory strategies across an ecological barrier: is the answer blowing in the wind? Movement Ecology 12: 70. link
Stager M., J.P. Velotta, Z.A. Cheviron, and N.R. Senner. Assessing the evidence for treating developmental plasticity and phenotypic flexibility as different phenomena. Functional Ecology 39: 2949-2961. link Elowe, C.R. and M. Stager. SERCA uncoupling may facilitate cold acclimation in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis) without regulation by sarcolipin or phospholamban. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icae022. link A.R. Gerson, Elowe, C.R., and M. Stager. Recent advances in the mechanistic understanding of avian responses to environmental challenges. Integrative and Comparative Biology, icae147. Elowe, C.R., M. Stager, and A.R. Gerson. Sarcolipin relates to fattening, but not sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase uncoupling, in captive migratory Gray Catbirds. Journal of Experimental Biology: 246897. link (blog) |
2023 |
Swanson, D.L., M. Stager, F. Vézina, J.-S. Liu, A.E. McKechnie, and R. Goljani. Evidence for a maintenance cost for birds maintaining highly flexible basal, but not summit, metabolic rates. Scientific Reports 13: 8968. pdf
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2020 |
Stager, M. and Z.A. Cheviron. Is there a role for sarcolipin in avian facultative thermogenesis in extreme cold? Biology Letters 16: 20200078. pdf
Stager, M., N.R. Senner, B.W. Tobalske, and Z.A. Cheviron. Body temperature maintenance acclimates in a winter-tenacious songbird. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb221853. pdf Stager, M. The phenotypic flexibility of thermogenic capacity: from physiological mechanism to evolutionary implications. Dissertation, University of Montana. link Winkler, D.W., K.K. Hallinger, T.M. Pegan, C.C. Taff, M.A. Verhoeven, D. Chang van Oordt, M. Stager, J.J. Uehling, M.N. Vitousek, M.J. Andersen, D.R. Ardia, A. Belmaker, V. Ferretti, A.M. Forsman, J.R. Gaul, P.E. Llambías, S.C. Orzechowski, J.R. Shipley, M. Wilson, and H.S. Yoon. Full lifetime perspectives on the costs and benefits of lay date variation in tree swallows. Ecology 109: e03109. link |
2019 |
Wilde, L.R., C.J. Wolf, S. Poerter, M. Stager, Z.A. Cheviron, and N.R. Senner. Botfly infections impair the aerobic performance and survival of montane populations of deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus. Functional Ecology 33: 608-618. *Cover article pdf
Senner, N.R., M.A. Verhoeven, J.M. Abad-Gómez, J.A. Alves, J.C.E.W. Hooijmeijer, R.A. Howison, R. Kentie, A.H.J. Loonstra, J.A. Masero, A. Rocha, M. Stager, and T. Piersma. High migratory survival and highly variable migratory behaviour in black-tailed godwits. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00096. pdf |
2018 |
Senner, N.R., M. Stager, M.A. Verhoeven, Z.A. Cheviron, T. Piersma, and W. Bouten. High-altitude shorebird migration in the absence of topographical barriers: avoiding high air temperatures and searching for profitable winds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20180569. pdf
Senner, N.R., M. Stager, and Z.A. Cheviron. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in climate change limits species’ dispersal capabilities and adaptive potential. Ecography 41: 1428-1440. *Runner-up 2016 Ecography Award for Excellence in Ecology & Evolution (E4 Award) pdf |
2017 |
J.D. Brawn, T.J. Benson, M. Stager, N.D. Sly, and C.E. Tarwater. Impacts of changing rainfall regime on the demography of tropical birds. Nature Climate Change 7: 133-136. *Cover article pdf
Senner, N.R., M. Stager, and B.K. Sandercock. Ecological mismatches are moderated by local conditions for two populations of a long-distance migratory bird. Oikos 126: 61-72. pdf |
2016 |
Stager, M.*, H.P. Pollock*, P.M. Benham, N.D. Sly, J.D. Brawn, and Z.A. Cheviron. Disentangling environmental drivers of metabolic flexibility in birds: the importance of temperature extremes vs. temperature variability. Ecography 39: 787-795. *These authors contributed equally to this work. pdf
E.M. Tuttle, A.O. Bergland, M.L. Korody, M.S. Brewer, D.J. Newhouse, P. Minx, M. Stager, A. Betuel, Z.A. Cheviron, W.C. Warren, R.A. Gonser, and C.N. Balakrishnan. Divergence and functional degradation of a sex chromosome-like supergene. Current Biology 26: 344-350. pdf |
2015 |
Stager, M., D.L. Swanson, and Z.A. Cheviron. Regulatory mechanisms of seasonal metabolic flexibility in the Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis). Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 767-777. pdf
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2014 |
Stager, M. Molecular mechanisms underlying avian metabolic variation: a genomic approach. Master's Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. link
Stager, M., D. Cerasale, R. Dor, D.W. Winkler, and Z.A. Cheviron. Signatures of natural selection in the mitochondrial genomes of Tachycineta swallows and their implications for latitudinal patterns of the ‘pace of life.’ Gene 546: 104-111. pdf Winkler, D., K. Ringelman, P. Dunn, L. Whittingham, D. Hussell, R. Clark, R. Dawson, L. Johnson, A. Rose, S. Austin, W.D. Robinson, M. Lombardo, P. Thorpe, D. Shutler, R. Robertson, M. Stager, M. Leonard, A. Horn, J. Dickinson, V. Ferretti, V. Massoni, F. Bulit, J. Reboreda, M. Liljesthrom, M. Quiroga, E. Rakhimberdiev, & D. Ardia. Latitudinal variation in clutch-size laydate regression in Tachycineta swallows: effects of food supply or demography? Ecography 37: 670-678. pdf |
2012 |
Stager, M., E. Lopresti, F. Angulo, D.R. Ardia, D. Caceres, C.B. Cooper, E.E. Iñigo-Elias, J. Molina, N. Taylor, & D.W. Winkler. Reproductive biology of a narrowly endemic Tachycineta swallow in dry, seasonal forest in coastal Peru. Ornitología Neotropical 23: 95-112. pdf
Taylor, N. & M. Stager. Tumbes Swallow (Tachycineta stolzmanni).Birds of the World Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. link |