Publications
All data and associated code for published works from the Muñoz Lab will be posted to the lab Github page in an effort to maintain scientific transparency
*Muñoz Lab graduate student | **Muñoz Lab undergraduate student | ‡ Muñoz Lab postdoctoral researcher
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2025
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Pintanel P, Tejedo M, Enriquez-Urzelai U, ‡Domínguez-Guerrero SF, Muñoz MM (2025). High thermal variation in maximum temperatures invert Brett’s heat-invariant rule at fine spatial scales. Ecology 106:e70124.
Brownstein CD, Harrington RC, ‡Alencar LRV, Bellwood DR, Choat JH, Rocha LA, Wainwright PC, Tavera J, Burress ED‡, Muñoz MM, Cowman PF, Near TJ (2025). Phylogenomics establishes an early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity. Science Advances 11:eadu6149. *Laterza Barbosa J, Rainha R, Flores-Guzman A, Kawana Ting A, Chen J, Ridell, EA, Muñoz MM, Navas CA (2025). Revisiting thermal gradient experiments: Effects of thermal heterogeneity on salamander behavior. Integrative organismal Biology 7:obaf015. **James E, Muñoz MM (2025). Thermal plasticity changes competitive ability across a woodland salamander hybrid system. Ethology 131:e13552. **Salazar JC, Londoño GA, Muñoz MM, Miles DB, Castañeda MR (2025). The Andes are a driver physiological diversity in Anolis lizards. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society 4:kzae040. |
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2024
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*Bodensteiner BL, ‡Burress ED, Muñoz MM (2024). Adaptive without independent stages of trait evolution in a group of Caribbean anole. Systematic Biology. 73(5):743--757.
Head A, Vaughn PL, Livingston EH, Colwell C, Muñoz MM, Gangloff EJ (2024). Include the females: morphology-performance relationships vary between sexes in lizards. Journal of Experimental Biology 227:jeb248014. *Camarillo H, ‡Burress ED, Muñoz MM (2024). Four-bar geometry is shared among ecologically divergent fish species. Integrative Organismal Biology 6:1—16. Riddell EA, Burger IJ, Muñoz MM, Weaver SJ, Womack MC (2024). Amphibians exhibit extremely high hydric costs of respiration. Integrative and Comparative Biology 64:366--376. *Alomar N, *Bodensteiner BL, *Hernández-Rodríguez I, Landestoy MA, ‡Domínguez-Guerrero SF, Muñoz MM (2024). Comparison of hydric and thermal physiology in an environmentally diverse clade of Caribbean anoles. Integrative and Comparative Biology 64:377--389. ‡Domínguez-Guerrero SF, Esquerré D, ‡Burress ED, Maciel-Mata CA, ‡Alencar LRV, Muñoz MM (2024). Viviparity imparts a macroevolutionary signature of ecological opportunity in the body size of female Liolaemus lizards. Nature Communications 15:4966. ‡Alencar LRV, Schwery O, ‡Gade MR, ‡Domínguez-Guerrero SF, Tarimo E, *Bodensteiner BL, Uyeda JC, Muñoz MM (2024). Opportunity begets opportunity to drive macroevolutionary dynamics of a diverse lizard radiation. Evolution Letters 6:qrae022. Burger IJ, Carter ET, Magner LM, Muñoz MM, Sears MW, Fitzpatrick BM, Riddell EA. (2024). Assessing hybrid vigor using the thermal sensitivity of physiological trade-offs in tiger salamanders. Functional Ecology 38:143--152. |
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2023
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Ridell EA, Burger IJ, Tyner-Swanson TL, Biggerstaff J, Muñoz MM, Levy O, Porter CK. (2023). Parameterizing mechanistic niche models in biophysical ecology: a review of empirical approaches. Journal of Experimental Biology 226 (22):245543.
‡Burress ED, Muñoz MM (2023). Functional trade-offs asymmetrically promote phenotypic evolution. Systematic Biology 72:150—160.
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‡Burress ED, Muñoz MM.(2023). Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes. Evolution 77:2365--2377.
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Muñoz MM, Frishkoff LO, Pruett J, Mahler DL. (2023). Evolution of model system: new insights from the study of Anolis lizards. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 54:475--503.
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Dellinger SB, De Vita R, Vlachos PP, Muñoz MM, Socha JJ (2023). Material properties of skin in the flying snake Chrysopelea ornata. Journal of Experimental Zoology A 339:269--283.
‡Friedman ST, Muñoz MM (2023). A latitudinal gradient of deep-sea invasions for marine fishes. Nature Communications 14:773.
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2022
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‡Friedman ST, Muñoz MM (2022). The effect of thermally robust ballistic mechanisms on climatic niche in salamanders. Integrative Organismal Biology.
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‡Domínguez-Guerrero SF, Méndez-de la Cruz FR, Manríquez-Morán NL, Olson ME, Galina-Tessaro P, Arenas-Moreno DM, Bautista-del Moral A, Benítez-Villaseñor A, Gadsden H, Lara-Reséndiz RA, Maciel-Mata CA, Muñoz-Nolasco FJ, Santos-Bibano R, Valdez-Villavicencio JH, Woolrich-Piña GA, Muñoz MM. (2022). Exceptional parallelisms characterize the evolutionary transition to live birth in phrynosomatid lizards. Nature Communications 13:2881.
Landis MJ, Quintero I, Muñoz MM, Zapata, F, Donoghue, MJ (2022). Phylogenetic inference of where species spread or split across barriers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119: e2116948119.
Press Release Muñoz MM, Feeley KJ, Martin PM, ‡Farallo, VR. (2022). The multidimensional (and contrasting) effects of environmental warming on a group of montane tropical lizards. Functional Ecology. 36:419--431.
Featured at: Outside JEB ‡Burress ED and Muñoz MM. (2022). Ecological Opportunity from Innovation, not Islands, Drove the Anole Lizard Adaptive Radiation. Systematic Biology. 71:93--104.
Muñoz, MM (2022). The Bogert effect, a factor in evolution. Evolution. 76-S1:49--66.
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2021
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*Bodensteiner BL, Gangloff EJ, Kouyoumdjian L, Muñoz MM, Aubret F. (2021). Thermal-metabolic phenotypes of the lizard Podarcis muralis differs across elevation, but converge in high elevation hypoxia. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224: jeb243660.
Bajić D, Rebolleda-Gómez M, Muñoz MM, Sánchez Á. (2021). The macroevolutionary consequences of niche construction in microbial metabolism. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12:718082
‡Burress ED, Muñoz MM. (2021). Ecological limits on the decoupling of prey capture and processing in fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61:773--782
*Bodensteiner BL, Agudelo-Cantero GA, Arietta AZA, Gunderson AR, Muñoz MM, Refsnider JM, Gangloff EJ. (2021). Thermal adaptation revisited: how conserved are thermal traits of reptiles and amphibians? Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 335:173--194.
‡Dominguez-Guerrero SF, *Bodensteiner BL, Pardo-Ramirez A, Aguillon-Gutierrez DR, Mendez-de la Cruz FR, Muñoz MM. (2021). Thermal physiology responds to interannual temperature shifts in a montane horned lizard, Phrynosoma orbiculare. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A - Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 335:136--145.
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2020
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*Camarillo H, Muñoz, MM. (2020). Weak relationships between swimming morphology and water depth in wrasses and parrotfish belie multiple selective demands on form-function evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 60(5):309--1319.
‡Farallo VR, Muñoz MM, Uyeda JC, and Miles DB. (2020). Scaling between macro‐to microscale climatic data reveals strong phylogenetic inertia in niche evolution in plethodontid salamanders. Evolution. 74(5): 979--991.
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2019
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Muñoz, MM, and Price, SA. (2019). The future is bright for evolutionary morphology and biomechanics in the era of big data. Integrative and comparative biology, 59:599--603.
Muñoz MM. (2019). The evolutionary dynamics of mechanically complex systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 59:705--715.
**Salazar JC, Castañeda MR, Londoño GA, *Bodensteiner BL, Muñoz MM. (2019). Physiological evolution during adaptive radiation: A test of the island effect in Anolis lizards. Evolution. 73:1241--1252. Cover Image
Kuo C-Y, Muñoz MM, Irschick DJ. (2019). Lizard foraging: A perspective integrating sensory ecology and life histories. pp. 87--106 in Behavior of Lizards: Evolutionary and Mechanistic Perspectives (V Bels & A Russell, Eds.) Taylor and Francis Publishing; Abingdon, UK.
Muñoz MM, *Bodensteiner BL. (2019). Janzen's Hypothesis meets the Bogert Effect: Connecting climate variation, thermoregulatory behavior, and rates of physiological evolution. Integrative Organismal Biology. 1:1--12. (Invited Contribution for Inaugural Issue)
Domínguez–Guerrero SF, Muñoz MM, Pasten–Téllez DJ, Arenas-Moreno DM, Rodríguez-Miranda LA, Manríquez–Morán NI, Méndez–de la Cruz FR. (2019). Interactions between thermoregulatory behavior and physiological acclimatization in a wild lizard population. Journal of Thermal Biology. 79:135--143.
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2018
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Muñoz MM, Hu Y, Anderson PSL, Patek SN. (2018). Strong biomechanical relationships bias the tempo and mode of morphological evolution. eLife 7:e37621.
Boronow KE, Shields IH, Muñoz MM. (2018). Parallel behavioral divergence with microhabitat in Anolis (Squamata: Dactyloidae) lizards from the Dominican Republic. Breviora. 561:1--17.
Muñoz MM, Losos JB. (2018). Thermoregulation simultaneously promotes and forestalls evolution in a tropical lizard. American Naturalist. 191: E15--E26.
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2017
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Muñoz MM, Anderson PSL, Patek SN. (2017). Mechanical sensitivity and the dynamics of evolutionary rate shifts in biomechanical systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 284:20162325.
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2016
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Muñoz MM, Langham GM, Brandley MC, Rosauer D, Williams SE, Moritz C. (2016). Basking behavior predicts the evolution of heat tolerance in Australian rainforest lizards. Evolution. 70:2537--2549.
Featured at Outside JEB Phillips BL, Muñoz MM, Hatcher A, Macdonald S, Llewelyn J, Lucy V, Moritz C. (2016). Heat hardening in a tropical lizard: Geographic variation explained by the predictability and variance in environmental temperatures. Functional Ecology. 30:1161--1168.
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2015
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Conover AE, Cook EG, Boronow KE, Muñoz MM. (2015). Effects of ectoparasitism on behavioral thermoregulation in the tropical lizards, Anolis cybotes (Squamata: Dactyloidae) and A. armouri (Squamata: Dactyloidae). Breviora. 545:1—13.
Muñoz MM, Crandell KE, Campbell-Staton S, Fenstermacher K, Kim-Frank H, Van Middlesworth P, Sasa M, Losos JB, Herrel A. (2015). Multiple paths to aquatic specialization in four species of Central American Anolis lizards. Journal of Natural History. 49:1717—1730.
Muñoz MM. (2015). The London Baedeker for the Darwin enthusiast. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 8:1
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Earlier Work
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Muñoz MM, Wegener JE, Algar AC. (2014). Untangling intra- and interspecific effects on body size clines reveals divergent processes structuring convergent patterns in Anolis lizards. American Naturalist. 184:636—646.
Muñoz MM, Stimola MA, Algar AC, Conover A, Rodriguez A, Landestoy MA, Bakken GS, Losos JB. (2014). Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 281:20132433.
Muñoz MM, Crawford NG, McGreevy TJ, Messana NJ, Tarvin RD, Revell LJ, Zandvliet RM, Hopwood JM, Mock E, Schneider AL, Schneider CJ. (2013). Divergence in coloration and ecological speciation in the Anoles marmoratus species complex. Molecular Ecology. 22:2668—2682.
Muñoz MM, Hewlett J. (2011). Ecological consequences of continual volcanic activity on the lizard, Anolis lividus, from Montserrat. Herpetological Review. 42:160—165.
Yamaguchi A, Muñoz MM, Bose TO, Oberlander JG, Smith, S. (2010). Sexually distinct development of vocal pathways in Xenopus laevis. Developmental Neurobiology. 70:862—874.
Crandall ED, Jones EM, Muñoz MM, Akinronbi B, Erdmann MV, Barber PH. (2008). Comparative phylogeography of two seastars and their ectosymbionts within the Coral Triangle. Molecular Ecology. 17:5276—5290.
Reitzel AM, Sullivan JC, Brown BK, Chin, DW, Cira EK, Edquist SK, Genco BM, Joseph OC, Kaufman CA, Kovitvongsa K, Muñoz MM, Negri TL, Taffel JR, Zuehike RT, Finnerty JR. (2007). Ecological and developmental dynamics of a host-parasite system involving a sea anemone and two ctenophores. Journal of Parasitology. 93:1392—1402.
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