Ty Hoffman

Modeling the costs and benefits associated with the evolution of endothermy using a robotic python. Exp Biol 220. 2017

Postural Shifts During Egg-Brooding and Their Impact on Egg Water Balance in Children's Pythons (Antaresia childreni). Ethology 114. 2008

An Assessment of the Evaporative Release of Heat from the Buccopharyngeal, Cutaneous, and Cloacal Epithelia of Birds and Reptiles. Ph.D. Dissertation, Arizona State University. 2007

Maternal Brooding in the Children's Python (Antaresia childreni) Promotes Egg Water Balance. J Comp Physiol B 177. 2007

Cloacal Evaporation: An Important and Previously Undescribed Mechanism for Avian Thermoregulation. Exp Biol 210. 2007

Using Direct Calorimetry to Test the Accuracy of Indirect Calorimetry in an Ectotherm. Physiol Zool 79. 2006

Direct Calorimetry Reveals Large Errors in Respirometric Estimates of Energy Expenditure. Exp Biol 208. 2005

Cloacal Evaporative Cooling: A Previously Undescribed Means of Increasing Evaporative Water Loss at Higher Temperatures in a Desert Ectotherm, the Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum. Exp Biol 207. 2004

Inhibiting Ventilatory Evaporation Produces an Adaptive Increase in Cutaneous Evaporation in Mourning Doves Zenaida macroura. Exp Biol 202. 1999

Do Metabolic Responses to Solar Radiation Scale Directly with Intensity of Irradiance? Exp Biol 200. 1997