Publications

2026

  • Morehouse, J, LA Cacula, and JT Hoverman. 2026. Resource availability modulates toxicity of fluorine free firefighting foams. Environmental Toxicology.
  • Royal, SM, SS Brown, NG Burgmeier, RN Williams, and JT Hoverman. 2026. Effects of density and food availability on the growth of captive-reared Eastern Hellbenders. Zoo Biology.
  • Soniak, KS, RN Williams, L Single, NG Burgmeier, JT Hoverman. 2026. Limited effects of temperature on captive Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) growth. Zoo Biology.
  • Relyea, RA, JT Hoverman, J Hua, DK Jones, ME Lech, B Mattes, C Schermerhorn, B Tuthill, I Tuthill. 2026. Salt in the wound: Assessing pathogen susceptibility in amphibian populations across a gradient of salt pollution. Ecology and Evolution. 16(5):e73598.
  • Flynn, RW, DL Haskins, M Hamilton, Y Choi, C de Perre, MS Sepúlveda, LS Lee, and JT Hoverman. 2026. Trophic magnification and distribution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in an AFFF-impacted aquatic food web. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 45:1408-1419
  • Hoverman, JT, DK Jones, ME Lech, DL Haskins, AE Johnson, JD Morehouse, AC Valachovic, MA Wigren, YJ Choi, MS Sepúlveda, and LS Lee. 2026. Examination of the reproductive effects of fluorine-free foam alternative exposure on fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 45:1018–1030.
  • Relyea, RA, CM Glaude, and JT Hoverman. 2026. Phenotypic plasticity across gradients of predation and competition in larval amphibians. Ecology and Evolution. 16(4):e73349.
  • Relyea, RA, CD Schlichting, and JT Hoverman. 2026. A response to “Quantifying phenotypic plasticity: A call for consistency”. Functional Ecology. 40:556-559.

2025

  • Vannatta, TK, JT Hoverman, and DJ Minchella. 2025. Shake it off: Behavior of a freshwater snail during and after parasite attack. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 103:1-7
  • Morehouse, J, D Jones, Y Choi, LS Lee, and JT Hoverman. 2025. Disparities in per‐ and poly fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) tolerance and life history traits in Simocephalus serrulatus Populations. CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water. 53:e70071.
  • Morehouse, J, D Jones, and JT Hoverman. 2025. The effects of multi-generational exposure to fluorine-free foam (F3) alternatives on Daphnia magna tolerance. Ecotoxicology. 34:1597-1605.
  • Hoverman, JT, DK Jones, ME Lech, GA Bianchi, DL Haskins, EG Hoffman, AE Johnson, JD Morehouse, SJ Pfisterer, KA Quinlin, AC Valachovic, MA Wigren, YJ Choi, MS Sepúlveda, and LS Lee. 2025. Limited effects of fluorine-free foam alternatives on gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor) larval development in laboratory and mesocosm studies. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 44:1975-1984.

2024

  • Fuller, N, JG Suski, S Lanasa, MK Chanov, DK Jones, DL Haskins, KA Quinlin, MA Wigren, JT Hoverman, YJ Choi, MS Sepulveda, LS Lee, GR Lotufo, A Kennedy, L May, A Harmon, T Biber, N Melby, DW Moore, PB Key, KW Chung, EF Wirth. 2024. Chronic toxicity of PFAS-free Aqueous Film-Forming Foams (AFFF) to aquatic organisms. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 43:2436-2454.
  • Jones, DK, DG DiGiacopo, BM Mattes, E Yates, J Hua, JT Hoverman, and RA Relyea. 2024. Naïve and induced tolerance of 15 amphibian populations to three commonly applied insecticides. Aquatic Toxicology. 272:106945.
  • Lech, ME, YJ Choi, LS Lee, MS Sepulveda, and JT Hoverman. 2024. Assessing the combined effects of host and parasite exposure to forever chemicals in an amphibian-echinostome system. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 43:1537-1546.
  • Hopkins, AP and JT Hoverman. 2024. Strobilurin Fungicide Increases the Susceptibility of Amphibian Larvae to Trematode Infections. Aquatic Toxicology. 269:106864.

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Flynn, RW, MF Chislock, ME Gannon, S. Bauer, BJ Tornabene, JT Hoverman, and MS Sepúlveda. 2019. Lethal and sublethal effects of perfluoroalkyl substance mixtures on larval American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). Chemosphere.
  • Sauer, EL, N Trejo, JT Hoverman, and JR Rohr. 2019. Behavioral fever reduces ranaviral infection in toads. Functional Ecology. 33:2172-2179.
  • DeBlieux, TS, and JT Hoverman. 2019. An experimental test of parasite-induced vulnerability to predation in larval anurans. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 135:241-250.
  • Gallagher, SJ, BJ Tornabene, TS DeBlieux, KM Pochini, MF Chislock, ZA Compton, LK Eiler, KM Verble, and JT Hoverman. 2019. Healthy but smaller herds: Predators reduce pathogen transmission in an amphibian assemblage. Journal of Animal Ecology. 88:1613-1624.
  • Hoverman, JT, MF Chislock, ZA Compton, and ME Gannon. 2019. Ranavirus reservoirs: Assemblage of American Bullfrog and Green Frog tadpoles maintains ranavirus infections across multiple seasons. Herpetological Review. 50(2): 275-278.
  • Hernández-Gómez, O, SJA Kimble, J Hua, VP Wuerthner, DK Jones, BM Mattes, RD Cothran, RA Relyea, and JT Hoverman. 2019. Local adaptation of the MHC class IIβ gene in populations of wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) correlates with proximity to agriculture. Infection, Genetics, and Evolution. 73:197-204.
  • Abercrombie, SA, C de Perre, YJ Choi, BJ Tornabene, MS Sepúlveda, LS Lee, and JT Hoverman. 2019. Larval amphibians rapidly bioaccumulate poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 178:137-145.
  • Rumschlag, SL, N Halstead, JT Hoverman, TR Raffel, HJ Carrick, P Hudson, and JR Rohr. 2019. Effects of pesticides on exposure and susceptibility to parasites can be generalized to pesticide class and type in aquatic communities. Ecology Letters. 22:962-972.

2018

  • Mihaljevic, JR, JT Hoverman, and PTJ Johnson. 2018. Co-exposure to multiple Ranavirus types enhances viral infectivity and replication in a larval amphibian system. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 132:23-35.
  • Tornabene, BJ, AR Blaustein, CJ Briggs, JR Rohr, PTJ Johnson and JT Hoverman. 2018. The influence of landscape and environmental factors on ranavirus epidemiology in a California amphibian assemblage. Freshwater Biology. 63:639-651.
  • Relyea, RA, PR Stephens, LN Barrow, AR Blaustein, PW Bradley, JC Buck, A Chang, JP Collins, B Crother, J Earl, SS Gervasi, JT Hoverman, O Hyman, E Moriarty Lemmon, TM Luhring, M Michelson, C Murray, S Price, RD Semlitsch, A Sih, AB Stoler, N VandenBroek, A Warwick, G Wengert, and JI Hammond. 2018. Phylogenetic patterns of trait and trait plasticity evolution: Insights from amphibian embryos. Evolution. 72:663-678.
  • Stutz, WE, AR Blaustein, CJ Briggs, JT Hoverman, JR Rohr, and PTJ Johnson. 2018. Using multi-response models to investigate pathogen coinfections across scales: insights from emerging diseases of amphibians. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9:1109-1120.
  • Tornabene, BJ and JT Hoverman. 2018. The salamander daisy: a novel captive rearing method for cannibalistic salamander larvae. Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 13:167-174.
  • Johnson, PTJ, DM Calhoun, A Stokes, T McDevitt-Gallesa, C Briggs, JT Hoverman, V Tkache, and J de Roode. 2018. Of poisons and parasites: The defensive role of tetrodotoxin against infections in adult newts. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87:1192-1204.
  • Blaustein, AR, J Urbina, PW Snyder, E Reynolds, T Dang, JT Hoverman, B Han, DH Olson, CL Searle and NM Hambalek. 2018. The effects of emerging infectious diseases on amphibians: A review of experimental studies. Diversity. 10:81 DOI:10.3390/d10030081.

2017

  • Hua, J, VP Wuerthner, DK Jones, B Mattes, RD Cothran, RA Relyea, and JT Hoverman. 2017. Evolved pesticide tolerance influences susceptibility to parasites in amphibians. Evolutionary Applications 10:802-812.
  • Hoover, GM, MF Chislock, BJ Tornabene, SC Guffey, YJ Choi, C De Perre, JT Hoverman, LS Lee, and MS Sepúlveda. 2017. Uptake and depuration of four per/ployfluoroalkyl substances (PFAAs) in northern leopard frog Rana pipiens tadpoles. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 4:399-403.
  • Hernández-Gómez, O, JT Hoverman, and RN Williams. 2017. Cutaneous microbial community variation across populations of Eastern Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis). Frontiers in Microbiology 8 (1379). doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01379.
  • Kimble, SJA, AJ Johnson, RN Williams, and JT Hoverman. 2017. A severe Ranavirus outbreak in captive, wild-caught box turtles. EcoHealth 14:810-815.
  • Miles, JC, J Hua, MS Sepulveda, CH Krupke, and JT Hoverman. 2017. Effects of clothianidin on aquatic communities: Evaluating the impacts of lethal and sublethal exposure to neonicotinoids. PLoS ONE 12(3):e0174171. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0174171.
  • Pochini, KM and JT Hoverman. 2017. Reciprocal effects of pesticides and pathogens on amphibian hosts: The importance of exposure order and timing. Environmental Pollution 221:359-366.
  • Pochini, KM and JT Hoverman. 2017. Immediate and lag effects of pesticide exposure on parasite resistance in larval amphibians. Parasitology 144:817-822.
  • Wuerthner, VP, J Hua, and JT Hoverman. 2017. The benefits of coinfection: Trematodes alter disease outcomes associated with virus infection. Journal of Animal Ecology 86:921-931.

2016

  • Hoverman, JT and CL Searle. 2016. Behavioural influences on disease risk: Implications for conservation and management. Animal Behaviour 120:263-271.
  • Hoverman, JT and RA Relyea. 2016. Prey responses to fine-scale variation in predation risk from combined predators. Oikos 125:254-261.
  • Hua, J, N Buss, J Kim, SA Orlofsky, and JT Hoverman. 2016. Population-specific toxicity of six insecticides to the trematode Echinoparyphium. Parasitology 143:542-550.

2015

  • Bourdeau, P, RK Butlin, C Brönmark, T Edgell, JT Hoverman, and J Hollander. 2015. What can aquatic gastropods tell us about the conditions favoring phenotypic plasticity? A review and meta-analysis. Heredity 115:312-321.
  • Brunner, J, A Storfer, MJ Gray, and JT Hoverman. 2015. Ranavirus ecology and evolution: From epidemiology to extinction. Pages 71-104 in M. Gray and G. Chinchar, editors. Ranaviruses: Lethal pathogens of ectothermic vertebrates. Springer, New York, USA.
  • Hua, J, DK Jones, BM Mattes, RD Cothran, RA Relyea, and JT Hoverman. 2015. The contribution of phenotypic plasticity to the evolution of insecticide tolerance in amphibian populations. Evolutionary Applications 8:586-596.
  • Hua, J, DK Jones, BM Mattes, RD Cothran, RA Relyea, and JT Hoverman. 2015. Evolved pesticide tolerance in amphibians: Predicting mechanisms based on mode of action and pesticide novelty. Environmental Pollution 206:56-63.
  • Kimble, SJA, RN Williams, and JT Hoverman. 2015. Ranavirus detected in Lithobates clamitans and L. catesbeianus in Indiana. Herpetological Review 46:532-534.
  • Kimble, SJA, AK Karna, AJ Johnson, JT Hoverman, and RN Williams. 2015. Mosquitoes as a potential vector of ranavirus transmission in terrestrial turtles. EcoHealth 12:334-338.
  • Sutton, WB, MJ Gray, JT Hoverman, RG Secrist, P Super, RH Hardman, JL Tucker, and DL Miller. 2015. Trends in ranavirus prevalence among plethodontid salamanders in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. EcoHealth 12:320-329.

2014

  • Hoverman, JT, RD Cothran, and RA Relyea. 2014. Generalist versus specialist strategies of plasticity: Snail responses to predators with different foraging modes. Freshwater Biology 59:1101-1112.
  • Orlofske, SA, RC Jadin, JT Hoverman, and PTJ Johnson. 2014. Predation and disease: understanding the effects of predators at multiple trophic levels on pathogen transmission. Freshwater Biology 59:1064-1075.
  • Johnson, PTJ, and JT Hoverman. 2014. Heterogeneous hosts: how variation in host size, behaviour, and immunity affect parasite aggregation in an experimental system. Journal of Animal Ecology 83:1103-1112.
  • Preston, DL, CE Boland, JT Hoverman, and PTJ Johnson. 2014. Natural enemy ecology: comparing the effects of predation risk, infection risk and disease on host behaviour. Functional Ecology 28:1472-1481.
  • Boone, MD, CA Bishop, LA Boswell, RD Brodman, J Burger, C Davidson, M Gochfeld, JT Hoverman, L Neuman-Lee, CR Propper, RA Relyea, JR Rohr, CL Rowe, C Salice, RD Semlitsch, D Sparling, S Weir. 2014. Pesticide regulation amid the influence of industry. BioScience 64:917-922.

2013

2012

  • Hoverman, JT, JR Mihaljevic, KLD Richgels, JL Kerby, and PTJ Johnson. 2012. Widespread co-occurrence of virulent pathogens within California amphibian communities. EcoHealth 9:288-292.
  • Hoverman, JT and RA Relyea. 2012. The long-term impacts of predators on prey: Inducible defenses, population dynamics, and indirect effects. Oikos 121:1219-1230.
  • Hoverman, JT, MJ Gray, DL Miller, and NA Haislip. 2012. Widespread occurrence of ranavirus in pond-breeding amphibian populations. EcoHealth 9:36-48.
  • Johnson, PTJ and JT Hoverman. 2012. Parasite diversity and coinfection determine pathogen infection success and host fitness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:9006-9011.
  • Johnson, PTJ, DL Preston, JT Hoverman, JS Henderson, SH Paull, M Redmond, and KL Dosch. 2012. Species diversity reduces parasite transmission through cross-generational effects on host abundance. Ecology 93:56-64.
  • Johnson PTJ, JR Rohr, JT Hoverman, E Kellermanns, J Bowerman, and KB Lunde. 2012. Living fast and dying of infection: host life history explains interspecific variation in disease risk. Ecology Letters 15:235-242.
  • Haislip, NA, JT Hoverman, MJ Gray, and DL Miller. 2012. Natural stressors and disease risk: Does the threat of predation increase amphibian susceptibility to ranavirus? Canadian Journal of Zoology 90:893-902.
  • Gray, MJ, DL Miller, and JT Hoverman. 2012. Reliability of non-lethal surveillance methods for detecting ranavirus infection. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 99:1-6.
  • Blaustein, AR, SS Gervasi, PTJ Johnson, JT Hoverman, LK Belden, PW Bradley, and GY Xie. 2012. Ecophysiology meets conservation: understanding the role of disease in amphibian population declines. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367:1688-1707.

2011

  • Hoverman, JT, MJ Gray, NA Haislip, and DL Miller. 2011. Phylogeny, life history, and ecology contribute to differences in amphibian susceptibility to ranaviruses. EcoHealth 8:301-319.
  • Hoverman, JT, CJ Davis, EE Werner, DK Skelly, RA Relyea, and KL Yurewicz. 2011. Environmental gradients and the structure of freshwater snail communities. Ecography 34:1049-1058.
  • Haislip, NA, MJ Gray, JT Hoverman, and DL Miller. 2011. Development and disease: How susceptibility to an emerging pathogen changes through anuran development. PLoS ONE 6(7):e22307. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022307.
  • Redmond, M, RB Hartson, JT Hoverman, CN De Jesús-Villanueva and PTJ Johnson. 2011. Experimental exposure of Helisoma trivolvis and Biomphalaria glabrata (Gastropoda) to Ribeiroia ondatrae (Trematoda). Journal of Parasitology 97:1055-1061.

2010

  • Hoverman, JT, MJ Gray, and DL Miller. 2010. Anuran susceptibilities to ranaviruses: the role of species identity, exposure route, and a novel virus isolate. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 89:97-107.
  • Raffel, TR, JT Hoverman, NT Halstead, PJ Michel, JR Rohr. 2010. Parasitism in a community context: Trait-mediated interactions with competition and predation. Ecology 91:1900-1907.

2009

  • Hoverman, JT and RA Relyea. 2009. Survival trade-offs associated with inducible defences in snails: the roles of multiple predators and developmental plasticity. Functional Ecology 23:1179-1188.
  • Gray, MJ, DL Miller, and JT Hoverman. 2009. Ecology and pathology of amphibian ranaviruses. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 87:243-266.
  • Gray, MJ, DL Miller, and JT Hoverman. 2009. First report of Ranavirus infecting lungless salamanders. Herpetological Review 40:316-319.

2008

  • Hoverman, JT and RA Relyea. 2008. Temporal variation in predation risk: a mechanism underlying priority effects. Oikos 117:23-32.
  • Rohr, JR, AM Schoetthofer, TR Raffel, HJ Carrick, N Halstead, JT Hoverman, CM Johnson, LB Johnson, C Lieske, MD Piwoni, PK Schoff, and VR Beasley. 2008. Agrochemicals increase trematode infections in a declining amphibian species. Nature 455:1235-1239.
  • Relyea, RA and JT Hoverman. 2008. Interactive effects of predators and a pesticide on aquatic communities. Oikos 117:1647-1658.
  • Wiens, JJ and JT Hoverman. 2008. Digit reduction, body size, and paedomorphosis in salamanders. Evolution and Development 10:449–463.

2003-2007

  • Hoverman, JT and RA Relyea. 2007. The rules of engagement: how to defend against combinations of predators. Oecologia 154:551-560.
  • Hoverman, JT and RA Relyea. 2007. How flexible is phenotypic plasticity? Developmental windows for trait induction and reversal. Ecology 88:693-705.
  • Relyea, RA and JT Hoverman. 2006. Assessing the ecology in ecotoxicology: a review and synthesis in freshwater systems. Ecology Letters 9:1157-1171.
  • Hoverman, JT, JR Auld, and RA Relyea. 2005. Putting prey back together again: integrating predator-induced behavior, morphology, and life history. Oecologia 144:481-491.
  • Relyea, RA, NM Schoeppner, and JT Hoverman. 2005. Pesticides and amphibians: the importance of community context. Ecological Applications 15:1125-1134.
  • Relyea, RA and JT Hoverman. 2003. The impact of larval predators and competitors on the morphology and fitness of juvenile treefrogs. Oecologia 134:596-604.