Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Tingle, J.L.. 2025. A conceptual framework for integrative work in organismal biology, bioinspired design, and beyond. Integrative and Comparative Biology 65(6): 1526-1535. [free-access link]

Tingle, J.L., K.L. Garner, and H.C. Astley. 2025. Fluoromicrometry reveals minimal influence of tendon elasticity during snake locomotion. Journal of Experimental Biology 228(5): 1-9. [free-access link]

Tingle, J.L., K.L. Garner, and H.C. Astley. 2024. Functional diversity of snake locomotor behaviors: A review of the biological literature for bioinspiration. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1533(1): 16-37. [free-access link]

Garner, K.L., J.M. Ryan, J.L. Tingle, C.A.M. Hickerson, C.D. Anthony. 2024. Covariation and repeatability of aggressive and risk-taking behaviors in a terrestrial salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Animal Behaviour 213: 1-10. [free-access link]

Tingle, J.L., B.M. Sherman, and T. Garland, Jr. 2023. Locomotor kinematics on sand versus vinyl flooring in the sidewinder rattlesnake Crotalus cerastes. Biology Open 12(11): bio060146. [free-access link]

Tingle, J.L., D.J. Jurestovsky, and H.C. Astley. 2023. The relative contributions of multiarticular snake muscles to movement in different planes. Journal of Morphology 284(6):e21591 [free-access link]

Jurestovsky, D.J., J.L. Tingle, and H.C. Astley. 2022. Corn snakes show consistent sarcomere length ranges across muscle groups and ontogeny. Integrative Organismal Biology 4(1): obac040. [free-access link]

Tingle, J.L., B.M. Sherman, and T. Garland, Jr. 2022. Scaling and relations of morphology with locomotor kinematics in the sidewinder rattlesnake Crotalus cerastes. Journal of Experimental Biology 225(7): jeb243817. [free-access link]

Rieser, J.M., Li, T-D., Tingle, J.L., Goldman, D.I., and J.R. Mendelson III. 2021. Functional consequences of convergently-evolved microscopic skin features on snake locomotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(6): e2018264118. [link]

Tingle, J.L. and T. Garland, Jr. 2021. Morphological evolution in relation to sidewinding, arboreality, and precipitation in snakes of the family Viperidae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132(2):328-345. [free-access link]

Tingle, J.L. 2020. Facultatively sidewinding snakes and the origins of locomotor specialization. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(1):202-214. [link; article PDF; Supplemental Figure; Supplemental Tables]

Tingle, J.L., G.E.A. Gartner, B.C. Jayne, and T. Garland, Jr. 2017. Ecological and phylogenetic variability in the spinalis muscle of snakes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30(11):2031-2043. [PDF]

Tingle, J.L., and T. Slimani. 2017. Snake charming in Morocco. Journal of North African Studies 22(4):560-577. [PDF]

Tingle, J.L., S.C. Cook-Patton, and A.A. Agrawal. 2016. Spillover of a biological control agent (Chrysolina quadrigemina) onto native St. Johnswort (Hypericum punctatum). PeerJ 4:e1886. [PDF]

Tingle, J.L. 2012. Field observations on the behavioral ecology of the Madagascan leaf-nosed snake, Langaha madagascariensis. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 7:442-448. [PDF]

Invited articles

Deitloff, J.M., R.E. Espinoza, and J.L. Tingle. 2023. The History of SSAR’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Herpetological Review 54(1):52-57. [PDF]

Tingle, J.L. 2020. Cultivating inclusive communities in taxon-focused societies. Herpetological Review 51(3):663-665. [PDF]

Tingle, J.L. 2013. Developing an undergraduate herpetology club at Cornell University. Herpetological review 44(2):185-187. [PDF]