Bobby Fokidis, PhD

*Rodriguez-Martinez N, *A Kaza, & HB Fokidis. 2025. Can exosomes link the cellular and endocrine stress response? A test using the brown anole lizard (Anolis sagrei) as a model. Stress. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2025.2509912

*Tassent Y, & HB Fokidis. 2025. Pharmacology reveals neuropeptide Y as a novel differential regulator of adrenal steroids in the globally invasive red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2025.111882

Fokidis HB, *T Brock, C Newman, DW Macdonald, & CD Buesching. 2023. Assessing chronic stress in wild mammals using claw-derived cortisol: a validation using European badgers (Meles meles). Conservation Physiology 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coad024

Harten L, N Gonceer, M Handel, HB Fokidis & Y Yovel. 2021. Urban bat pups take after their mothers and are bolder and faster learners than rural pups. BMC Biology 19:190. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01131-z

Quintana L, C Jalabert, HB Fokidis, KK Soma, & L Zubizarreta. 2021. Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying non-breeding aggression: common strategies between birds and fish. Frontiers in Neural Circuits 15:716605. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2021.716605

*Himmelstein R, *A Spahija & HB Fokidis. 2021. Evidence for fasting induced extra-adrenal steroidogenesis in the male brown anole, Anolis sagrei. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 253:110544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpb.2020.110544

Fokidis HB & *T Brock. 2020. Hurricane Irma induces divergent behavioral and hormonal impacts on an urban and forest population of invasive Anolis lizards: evidence for an urban resilience hypothesis. Journal of Urban Ecology 6:juaa031. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juaa031

Brashears JA, HB Fokidis, & DF DeNardo. 2020. Fear-based aggression and its relationship to corticosterone responsiveness in three species of python. General and Comparative Endocrinology 289:113374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2019.113374

Fokidis HB, C Ma, *B Radin, N Prior, H Adomat, E Guns, K Soma. 2019. Neuropeptide Y and orexin immunoreactivity in the sparrow brain coincide with seasonal changes in energy balance and steroids. Journal of Comparative Neurology 527:347-361. https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.24535

*Mack Z, & HB Fokidis. 2017. A novel method for assessing chronic cortisol concentrations in dogs using the nail as a source. Domestic Animal Endocrinology 59:53-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.domaniend.2016.11.003

Fokidis HB. 2016. Sources of variation in plasma corticosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone in the male Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis): I. Seasonal patterns and effects of stress and adrenocorticotropic hormone. General and Comparative Endocrinology 235:192-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.05.024

*Wright SA, & HB Fokidis. 2016. Sources of variation in plasma corticosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone in the male Northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis): II. Effects of urbanization, food supplementation and social stress. General and Comparative Endocrinology 235:201-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.05.020

Butler MW, TJ Lutz, HB Fokidis, and ZR Stahlschmidt. 2016. Eating increases oxidative damage in a reptile. Journal of Experimental Biology 219:1969-1973. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.138875

Prior NH, KN Yap, HH Adomat, MC Mainwaring, HB Fokidis, ES Guns, KL Buchanan, SC Griffith, & KK Soma. 2016. Sex steroid profiles and pair-maintenance behavior of captive wild-caught zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 202:35-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-015-1050-3