Publications

Rose, G.J., Hanson, J., Leary, C.J., Graham, J.A., Aluri, R., Vasquez-Opazo, G. 2015. Species- specificity of temporal processing in the auditory midbrain of gray treefrogs: Interval-counting neurons. Journal of Comparative Physiology, A, in press.

Davis, A.G., Leary, C.J. 2015. Elevated stress hormone diminishes the strength of female preferences for acoustic signals in the green treefrog. Hormones and Behavior, 69:119-122.

Leary, C.J., Lippincott, J., Harris, S., Hawkins, D.L. 2015. A test of the Energetics-Hormone Vocalization model in the green treefrog. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 213:32-39.

Leary, C.J. 2014. Close-range vocal signals elicit a stress response in male green treefrogs: resolution of an androgen-based conflict. Animal Behaviour, 96:39-48. IV.

Leary, C.J., Knapp, R. 2014. The stress of elaborate male traits: integrating glucocorticoids with androgen-based models of sexual selection. Animal Behaviour 89:85-92.

Rose, G.J., Alluri, R.K., Vasquez-Opazo, G.A., Odom, S.E., Graham, J.A., Leary, C.J. 2013. Combining pharmacology and whole-cell recording from CNS neurons, in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 213:99-104.

Leary, C.J., Harris, S. 2013. Steroid hormone levels in calling males and males practicing alternative noncalling mating tactics in the green treefrog, Hyla cinerea. Hormones and Behavior 63:20-24.

Rose, G.J., Leary C.J., Edwards, C.J. 2011. Interval-counting neurons in the anuran auditory midbrain: factors underlying diversity of interval tuning. Journal of Comparative Physiology, A 197:97- 108.

Leary, C.J. 2009. Hormones and acoustic communication in anuran amphibians. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49:452-470. Invited contribution (Cover illustration).

Edwards, C.J., Leary, C.J., Rose, G.J. 2008. Mechanisms of long-interval selectivity in midbrain auditory neurons: roles of excitation, inhibition and plasticity. Journal of Neurophysiology 100:3407- 3416.

Leary, C.J., Garcia, A.M., Knapp, R. 2008. Density-dependent mating tactic expression is linked to stress hormone in Woodhouse's toad. Behavioral Ecology 19:1103-1110.

Leary, C.J., Dobie, J.L., Mann, T.M., Floyd, P.S., Nelson, D.H. 2008. Pseudemys alabamensis Baur 1893 – Alabama red-bellied cooter, Alabama red-bellied turtle. In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., and Iverson, J.B. (eds.). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 5, pp. 019.1-019.9. Invited contribution.

Leary, C.J., Garcia, A.M., Knapp, R., Hawkins, D.L. 2008. Relationships among steroid hormone levels, vocal effort and body condition in an explosive-breeding toad. Animal Behaviour 76:175-185.

Leary, C.J., Edwards, C.J., Rose, G.J. 2008. Midbrain auditory neurons integrate excitation and inhibition to generate duration selectivity: an in vivo whole-cell patch study in anurans. Journal of Neuroscience 28:5481-5493.

Edwards, C.J., Leary, C.J., Rose, G.J. 2007. Counting on inhibition and rate-dependent excitation in the auditory system. Journal of Neuroscience 27:13384-13392.

Leary, C.J., Garcia, A.M., Knapp, R. 2006. Stress hormone is implicated in satellite-caller associations and sexual selection in the Great Plains toad. The American Naturalist 168:431-440.

Leary C.J., Garcia, A.M., Knapp, R. 2006. Elevated corticosterone levels elicit non-calling mating tactics in male toads independently of changes in circulating androgens. Hormones and Behavior 49:425- 432.

Leary, C.J., Fox, D.J., Shepard, D.B., Garcia, A.M. 2005. Body size, age, growth, and alternative mating tactics in toads: satellite males are smaller but not younger than calling males. Animal Behaviour 70:663-671.

Leary, C.J., Jessop, T.S., Garcia, A.M., Knapp, R. 2004. Steroid hormone profiles and relative body condition of calling and satellite toads: implications for proximate regulation of behavior in anurans. Behavioral Ecology 15(2):313-320.

Leary, C.J., Dobie, J.L., Mann, T.M., Floyd, P.S. 2003. Morphological variation in the endangered Alabama red-bellied cooter (Pseudemys alabamensis) and taxonomic status of a population in Mississippi . Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4(3):635-641. (Cover Illustration)

Leary, C.J. 2001. Investigating opposing patterns of character displacement in release and advertisement vocalizations of Bufo americanus and B. fowleri (Anura; Bufonidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79:1577-1585.

Leary, C.J. 2001. Evidence of convergent character displacement in release vocalizations of Bufo fowleri and B. terrestris (Anura; Bufonidae). Animal Behaviour 61:431-438.

Leary, C.J. 1999. Comparison between release vocalizations emitted during artificial and conspecific amplexus in Bufo americanus. Copeia 1999(2):506-508.

Leary, C.J. and Razafindratsita, V.R. 1998. Attempted predation on a hylid frog, Phrynohyas venulosa, by an indigo snake, Drymarchon corais, and the response of conspecific frogs to distress calls. Amphibia-Reptilia 19(4):442-446.

Leary, C.J., and Packer, A. 1998. Egg deposition site characteristics of the red #yed leaf frog, Agalychnis callidryas Cope (Hylidae). Herpetological Natural History 6(1):55-59.

Leary, C.J. 1996. Bufo woodhousii and B. americanus (Woodhouse's toad and American toad) Absence of vocalizations. Herpetological Review 27(3):139.

Dobie, J.L., Leary, C.J., and Golden, J. 1996. Geographic range extension of the Florida softshell, Apalone ferox. Herpetological Review 27(2): 87.

Dobie, J.L., Leary, C.J., and Davis, A. 1996. Geographic range extension of the false map turtle, Graptemys ouachitensis ouachitensis. Herpetological Review 27(2): 87.

Dobie, J.L., Leary, C.J., and Holman, J.A. 1996. A Pleistocene indigo snake, Drymarchon corais, from the Bogue Chitto Creek, Dallas County, Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 67(1):1-5.