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Payton, T.G., A.M. Metzger, M.J. Childress. 2024. Marine debris harbor unique, yet functionally similar cryptofauna communities. Integrative and Comparative Biology icae113, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae113 Payton, T.G., R.J. Sims, and M.J. Childress. 2024. Abundance, patterns, and taxa associations of anthropogenic marine debris on reefs in the middle Florida Keys. Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1412858. http://doi.2010.3389/fmars.2024.1412858 
Childress, M.J., C. Holt, and R.D. Bertelsen. 2024. Displaced juvenile and subadult Caribbean spiny lobsters show strong orientation toward home dens. Fisheries Research 279: 107132 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2024.107132
Childress, M.J., K.A. Heldt and S.D. Miller. 2015. Are juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) becoming less social? ICES Journal of Marine Science 72 (suppl 1): i164-i169 DOI:10.1093/icesjms/fsv045 Heldt, K.M., W.C. Bridges, Jr. and M.J.Childress. 2015. Behavioral responses to habitat loss in juvenile lobsters. Marine Ecology Progress Series 521:117-128. DOI: 10.3354/meps11125 Childress, M.J. 2007. Comparative sociobiology of spiny lobsters. Pages 271-293 in: Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms. E. Duffy and M. Thiel, Editors. Oxford University Press, Oxford. |
Smith, K.M., L. Chamberlain, S. Whitaker, A. Kimbrel and M.J. Childress. 2023. Factors influencing stoplight parrotfish territoriality and social structure in the middle Florida Keys. Environmental Biology of Fishes https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-023-01394-1
Smith, K.M., T.G. Payton, R.J. Sims, C.S. Stroud, R.C. Jeanes, T.B. Hyatt, and M.J. Childress. 2019. Impacts of consecutive bleaching events on transplanted coral colonies in the Florida Keys. Coral Reefs. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-019-01823-7 Smith, K.M., B.E. Quirk-Royal, K. Drake-Lavelle and M.J. Childress. 2018. Influence of ontogenetic phase and resource availability on parrotfish foraging preferences in the Florida Keys (USA). Marine Ecology Progress Series Vol. 603: 175–187. DOI: 10.3354/meps12718 
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Tallapragada, M., R.J. Sims, T.G. Payton, K.R. Noonan, K.E. Bridgeford, K.M. Smith, M. Fuentes, K.L. Prosser, M.J. Childress. 2023. Something Very Fishy (SVF): A STEAM approach to communicating climate and ocean Literacy. Pages 295-310 in: Teaching Communication Across Disciplines. J. Burchfield and A. Kendrowicz, Editors. Lexington Books.
Sims, R.J., M. Tallapragada, T.G. Payton, K.R. Noonan, K.L. Prosser, and M.J. Childress. 2021. University experiences of marine science research and outreach beyond the classroom. Integrative and Comparative Biology https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab104 Tallapragada, M., K.L. Prosser, K.F. Braffitt, K.E. Bridgeford, E.C. Gleaton, M.G. Saverance, K.R. Noonan, T.G. Payton, R.J. Sims, K.M. Smith, and M.J. Childress. 2021. Something Very Fishy: An informal STEAM project making a case for ocean conservation and climate change. Environmental Communication DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2021.1913208 |
Butterflyfish feeding on SCTLD Video
Titus, K., L. O’Connell, K. Matthee and M.J. Childress. 2022. The influence of foureye butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and Symbiodiniaceae on the transmission of stony coral tissue loss disease. Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 800423. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.800423 Noonan, K., T. Fair, K. Matthee, K. Sox, K. Smith, and M.J. Childress. 2021. Reef fish associations with natural and artificial structures in the Florida Keys. Oceans 2(3), 634-648 www.mdpi.com/2673-1924/2/3/36 Noonan, K.R. and M.J. Childress. 2020. Association of butterflyfishes and stony coral tissue loss disease in the Florida Keys. Coral Reefs. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-020-01986-8 
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Moody, K.N., J.L.K. Wren, D.R. Kobayashi, M.J. Blum, M.B. Ptacek, R.W. Blob, R.J. Toonen, H.L. Schoenfuss and M.J. Childress. 2019. Evidence of local adaptation in a waterfall climbing Hawaiian goby fish derived from coupled biophysical modeling of larval dispersal and post-settlement selection. BMC Evolutionary Biology DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1413-4
Moody, K.N., S.N. Hunter, M.J. Childress, R.W. Blob, H.L. Schoenfuss, M.J. Blum and M.B. Ptacek. 2015. Local adaptation despite high gene flow in the waterfall-climbing Hawaiian goby, Sicypoterus stimpsoni. Molecular Ecology 24:545-563. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13016 |
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Childress, M.J. 2014. Going with the flow: forecasting the impact of climate change on South Carolina blue crabs. Proceedings of the 2014 South Carolina Water Resources Conference, Columbia, SC.
Parmenter, K.J., P.A. Vigueira, C.K. Morlok, J.A. Micklewright, K.M. Smith, K.S. Paul and M.J. Childress. 2013. Seasonal prevalence of Hematodinium sp. infections of blue crabs in three South Carolina (USA) rivers. Estuaries and Coasts 36:174–191. Childress, M.J. and K.J. Parmenter. 2012. Dying of thirst: impact of reduced freshwater inflow on South Carolina blue crabs. Proceedings of the 2012 South Carolina Water Resources Conference, Columbia, SC. |
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PUBLICATIONS (REFEERED JOURNALS)
Baeza, J.A., A. Baker, M.J. Childress, and S. Piro. 2024. Nuclear and mitochondrial genome datasets for spiny lobsters genus Panulirus (Decapoda: Achelata: Palinuridae). Data in Brief Volume 55, August 2024, 110588 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110588
Baeza, J.A., M.J. Childress and L.J. Ambrosio 2018. Chemical sensing of microhabitat by pueruli of the reef-dwelling Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus: testing the importance of red algae, juveniles, and their interactive effect. Bulletin of Marine Science 94(3): 603-618. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2017.1132
Baeza, J.A., L. Simpson, L.J. Ambrosio, N. Mora, R. Guéron, and M.J. Childress. 2016. Active parental care, reproductive performance, and a novel egg predator affecting reproductive investment in the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus. BMC Zoology DOI: 10.1186/s40850-016-0006-6
Seda, J.B., M.B. Ptacek and M.J. Childress. 2012. Individual variation in male size and behavioral repertoire in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna. Ethology 118(4):411–421.
Ptacek, M.B., M.J. Childress, J.A. Petersen and A.O. Tomasso. 2011. Phylogenetic evidence for the gain and loss of a sexually selected trait in sailfin mollies. ISRN Zoology doi:10.5402/2011/251925
Zito-Livingston, A.N. and M.J. Childress. 2009. Does conspecific density influence the settlement of Caribbean spiny lobster postlarvae? New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43:313-325.
Silbiger, N.J. and M.J. Childress. 2008. Interspecific variation in anemone shrimp distribution and host selection in the Florida Keys (USA): implications for marine conservation. Bulletin of Marine Science 82:329-345.
Roelke, C.A. and M.J. Childress. 2007. Comments on the defensive and thermoreceptive responses of true vipers (Viperidae: Viperinae), pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae), azemiops (Viperidae: Azemiopinae), and colubrids (Colubridae: Natricinae, Colubrinae). Journal of Zoology 273:421-425.
Lung, M.A. and M.J. Childress. 2007. The influence of conspecific and predation risk on the vigilance of elk (Cervus elaphus) in Yellowstone National Park. Behavioral Ecology 18:12-20.
Hankison, S.J., M.J. Childress, J.J. Schmitter-Soto and M.B. Ptacek. 2006. Morphological divergence in the Mexican sailfin mollies, Poecilia velifera and Poecilia petenensis. Journal of Fish Biology 68:1610-1630.
Ptacek, M.B., M.J. Childress and M.M. Kittell. 2005. Characterizing the mating behaviors of the Tamesi molly: a sailfin with shortfin morphology. Animal Behaviour 70: 1339-1348.
Childress, M.J. and M.A. Lung. 2003. Predation risk, gender and the group size effect: Does elk vigilance depend upon the behavior of conspecifics? Animal Behaviour 66:389-398.
Ptacek, M.B., S.K. Sarver, M.J. Childress and W.F. Herrnkind. 2001. Molecular phylogeny of the spiny lobster genus, Panulirus (Decapoda: Palinuridae). Marine and Freshwater Research. 52:1037-1047.
Herrnkind, W.F., M.J. Childress and K.L. Lavalli. 2001. Cooperative defense and other benefits among exposed spiny lobsters: inferences from group size and behaviour. Marine and Freshwater Research. 52:113-1124.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 2001. The influence of conspecifics on the ontogenetic habitat shift of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters. Marine and Freshwater Research. 52:1077-1084.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 2001. The guide effect influence on the gregariousness in juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters. Animal Behaviour 62:465-472.
Herrnkind, W.F., M.J. Butler IV, J.H. Hunt and M.J. Childress. 1997. The role of physical refugia: implications from a mass sponge die-off in a lobster nursery. Marine and Freshwater Research. 48:759-769.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 1997. Den sharing by juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) in nursery habitat: cooperation or coincidence? Marine and Freshwater Research. 48:751-758.
Childress, M.J. 1997. Marine reserves and their effects on lobster populations: report from a workshop. Marine and Freshwater Research. 48:1111-1114.
Mesterton-Gibbons, M. and M.J. Childress. 1996. Constraints on reciprocity for non-sessile organisms. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 58:861-875.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 1996. The ontogeny of social behaviour among Caribbean spiny lobsters. Animal Behaviour 51:675-687.
Butler, M.J. IV., J.H. Hunt, W.F. Herrnkind, M.J. Childress, T. Matthews, R. Bertelsen, W. Sharp, J.M. Field and H.G. Marshall. 1995. Cascading disturbances in Florida Bay, FL (USA): Cyanobacteria blooms, sponge mortality, and their impact on juvenile spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus). Marine Ecology Progress Series 129:119-125.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 1994. The behavior of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters in Florida Bay: seasonality, ontogeny and sociality. Bulletin of Marine Science 54:819-827.
Snell, T.W., M.J. Childress and B.C. Winkler. 1988. Characteristics of the mate recognition factor in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 89A: 481-485.
Snell, T.W., M.J. Childress, E.M. Boyer and F.H. Hoff. 1987. Assessing the status of rotifer mass cultures. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 18(4): 270-277.
Snell, T.W. and M.J. Childress. 1987. Aging and loss of fertility in male and female Brachionus plicatilis. International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 12:103-110.
PUBLICATIONS (BOOK CHAPTERS)
Childress, M.J. 2007. Comparative sociobiology of spiny lobsters. Pages 271-293 in: Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms. E. Duffy and M. Thiel, Editors. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Childress, M.J. and S.H. Jury. 2006. Behaviour. Pages 78-112 in: Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries. B.F. Phillips, Editor. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Jameson, S.C., L.B. Trott, M. Marshall and M.J. Childress. 2000. Nicaragua: Caribbean Coast. Pages 517-530 in: C.R.C. Sheppard, Ed. Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Evaluation. Elsevier Science.
Caldwell, R.L. and M.J. Childress. 1990. Prey selection and processing in a stomatopod crustacean. Pages, 143-164 in: Behavioral Mechanisms of Food Selection. R.N. Hughes, Editor. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Baeza, J.A., A. Baker, M.J. Childress, and S. Piro. 2024. Nuclear and mitochondrial genome datasets for spiny lobsters genus Panulirus (Decapoda: Achelata: Palinuridae). Data in Brief Volume 55, August 2024, 110588 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110588
Baeza, J.A., M.J. Childress and L.J. Ambrosio 2018. Chemical sensing of microhabitat by pueruli of the reef-dwelling Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus: testing the importance of red algae, juveniles, and their interactive effect. Bulletin of Marine Science 94(3): 603-618. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2017.1132
Baeza, J.A., L. Simpson, L.J. Ambrosio, N. Mora, R. Guéron, and M.J. Childress. 2016. Active parental care, reproductive performance, and a novel egg predator affecting reproductive investment in the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus. BMC Zoology DOI: 10.1186/s40850-016-0006-6
Seda, J.B., M.B. Ptacek and M.J. Childress. 2012. Individual variation in male size and behavioral repertoire in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna. Ethology 118(4):411–421.
Ptacek, M.B., M.J. Childress, J.A. Petersen and A.O. Tomasso. 2011. Phylogenetic evidence for the gain and loss of a sexually selected trait in sailfin mollies. ISRN Zoology doi:10.5402/2011/251925
Zito-Livingston, A.N. and M.J. Childress. 2009. Does conspecific density influence the settlement of Caribbean spiny lobster postlarvae? New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 43:313-325.
Silbiger, N.J. and M.J. Childress. 2008. Interspecific variation in anemone shrimp distribution and host selection in the Florida Keys (USA): implications for marine conservation. Bulletin of Marine Science 82:329-345.
Roelke, C.A. and M.J. Childress. 2007. Comments on the defensive and thermoreceptive responses of true vipers (Viperidae: Viperinae), pitvipers (Viperidae: Crotalinae), azemiops (Viperidae: Azemiopinae), and colubrids (Colubridae: Natricinae, Colubrinae). Journal of Zoology 273:421-425.
Lung, M.A. and M.J. Childress. 2007. The influence of conspecific and predation risk on the vigilance of elk (Cervus elaphus) in Yellowstone National Park. Behavioral Ecology 18:12-20.
Hankison, S.J., M.J. Childress, J.J. Schmitter-Soto and M.B. Ptacek. 2006. Morphological divergence in the Mexican sailfin mollies, Poecilia velifera and Poecilia petenensis. Journal of Fish Biology 68:1610-1630.
Ptacek, M.B., M.J. Childress and M.M. Kittell. 2005. Characterizing the mating behaviors of the Tamesi molly: a sailfin with shortfin morphology. Animal Behaviour 70: 1339-1348.
Childress, M.J. and M.A. Lung. 2003. Predation risk, gender and the group size effect: Does elk vigilance depend upon the behavior of conspecifics? Animal Behaviour 66:389-398.
Ptacek, M.B., S.K. Sarver, M.J. Childress and W.F. Herrnkind. 2001. Molecular phylogeny of the spiny lobster genus, Panulirus (Decapoda: Palinuridae). Marine and Freshwater Research. 52:1037-1047.
Herrnkind, W.F., M.J. Childress and K.L. Lavalli. 2001. Cooperative defense and other benefits among exposed spiny lobsters: inferences from group size and behaviour. Marine and Freshwater Research. 52:113-1124.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 2001. The influence of conspecifics on the ontogenetic habitat shift of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters. Marine and Freshwater Research. 52:1077-1084.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 2001. The guide effect influence on the gregariousness in juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters. Animal Behaviour 62:465-472.
Herrnkind, W.F., M.J. Butler IV, J.H. Hunt and M.J. Childress. 1997. The role of physical refugia: implications from a mass sponge die-off in a lobster nursery. Marine and Freshwater Research. 48:759-769.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 1997. Den sharing by juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) in nursery habitat: cooperation or coincidence? Marine and Freshwater Research. 48:751-758.
Childress, M.J. 1997. Marine reserves and their effects on lobster populations: report from a workshop. Marine and Freshwater Research. 48:1111-1114.
Mesterton-Gibbons, M. and M.J. Childress. 1996. Constraints on reciprocity for non-sessile organisms. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 58:861-875.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 1996. The ontogeny of social behaviour among Caribbean spiny lobsters. Animal Behaviour 51:675-687.
Butler, M.J. IV., J.H. Hunt, W.F. Herrnkind, M.J. Childress, T. Matthews, R. Bertelsen, W. Sharp, J.M. Field and H.G. Marshall. 1995. Cascading disturbances in Florida Bay, FL (USA): Cyanobacteria blooms, sponge mortality, and their impact on juvenile spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus). Marine Ecology Progress Series 129:119-125.
Childress, M.J. and W.F. Herrnkind. 1994. The behavior of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters in Florida Bay: seasonality, ontogeny and sociality. Bulletin of Marine Science 54:819-827.
Snell, T.W., M.J. Childress and B.C. Winkler. 1988. Characteristics of the mate recognition factor in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 89A: 481-485.
Snell, T.W., M.J. Childress, E.M. Boyer and F.H. Hoff. 1987. Assessing the status of rotifer mass cultures. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 18(4): 270-277.
Snell, T.W. and M.J. Childress. 1987. Aging and loss of fertility in male and female Brachionus plicatilis. International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 12:103-110.
PUBLICATIONS (BOOK CHAPTERS)
Childress, M.J. 2007. Comparative sociobiology of spiny lobsters. Pages 271-293 in: Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems: Crustaceans as Model Organisms. E. Duffy and M. Thiel, Editors. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Childress, M.J. and S.H. Jury. 2006. Behaviour. Pages 78-112 in: Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries. B.F. Phillips, Editor. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Jameson, S.C., L.B. Trott, M. Marshall and M.J. Childress. 2000. Nicaragua: Caribbean Coast. Pages 517-530 in: C.R.C. Sheppard, Ed. Seas at the Millennium: An Environmental Evaluation. Elsevier Science.
Caldwell, R.L. and M.J. Childress. 1990. Prey selection and processing in a stomatopod crustacean. Pages, 143-164 in: Behavioral Mechanisms of Food Selection. R.N. Hughes, Editor. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Dr. Michael Childress
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0314
864.985.2384