JOHN LIGHTON

(John R.B. Lighton; J.R.B. Lighton; Lighton, J.; Lighton, J.R.B.)
Updated: 08/25/2008

Publications in Refereed Journals

(1) Bartholomew, GA, Lighton, JRB & Louw, GN. 1985. Energetics of locomotion and patterns of respiration in tenebrionid beetles from the Namib desert. J. Comp. Physiol. 155: 155-162

(2) Lighton, JRB. 1985. Minimum costs of transport and ventilatory patterns in three African beetles. Physiol. Zool. 58: 390-399

(3) Bartholomew, GA & Lighton, JRB. 1985. Ventilation and oxygen consumption during rest and locomotion in a tropical cockroach, Blaberus giganteus. J. Exp. Biol. 118: 449-454

(4) Bartholomew, GA & Lighton, JRB. 1986. Endothermy and energy metabolism in a giant tropical fly, Pantophthalmus tabaninus Thunberg. J. Comp. Physiol. 156: 461-467

(5) Bartholomew, GA and Lighton, JRB. 1986. Oxygen consumption during hover-feeding in free- ranging Anna hummingbirds. J. Exp. Biol. 123: 191-199

(6) Lighton, JRB. 1987. Cost of tokking: The energetics of substrate communication in the tok-tok beetle, Psammodes striatus. J. Comp. Physiol. 157: 11-20

(7) Lighton, JRB, Bartholomew, GA & Feener, DH. 1987. Energetics of locomotion and load carriage and a model of the energy cost of foraging in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica. Physiol. Zool. 60: 524-537

(8) Garwood, NC & Lighton, JRB. 1988. Consumo de oxigeno en semillas tropicales. Revista de Biologica Tropical 35: 220

(9) Bartholomew, GA, Lighton, JRB & Feener, DH. 1988. Energetics of trail running, load carriage, and emigration in the column-raiding army ant Eciton hamatum. Physiol. Zool. 61: 57-68

(10) Lighton, JRB & Bartholomew, GA. 1988. Standard energy metabolism of a desert harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex rugosus: Effects of humidity, temperature, body mass and group size. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 85: 4765-4769

(11) Lighton, JRB. 1988a. Discontinuous carbon dioxide emission in a small insect, the formicine ant Camponotus vicinus. J. Exp. Biol. 134: 363-376

(12) Lighton, JRB. 1988b. A simple, sensitive and versatile solid-state pressure transducer. J. Exp. Biol. 134: 429-433

(13) Lighton, JRB. 1988c. Simultaneous measurement of oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide emission during discontinuous ventilation in the tok-tok beetle, Psammodes striatus. J. Insect Physiol. 34: 361-367

(14) Feener, DH, Lighton, JRB & Bartholomew, GA. 1989. Curvilinear allometry, energetics and foraging ecology: a comparison of leaf-cutting ants and army ants. Functional Ecology 2: 509- 520

(15) Lighton, JRB & Gillespie, RG. 1989. The energetics of mimicry: The cost of pedestrian transport in a formicine ant and its mimic, a clubionid spider. Physiol. Entomol. 14: 173-177

(16) Martin, KLM & Lighton, JRB. 1989. Terrestrial CO2 and O2 exchange during activity in the amphibious fish, Alticus kirki (Teleostei: Blenniidae). Copeia 1989(3): 723-727

(17) Lighton, JRB & Feener, DH. 1989. Water loss and cuticular permeability in foragers of the desert ant, Pogonomyrmex rugosus. Physiol. Zool. 62: 1232-1256

(18) Lighton, JRB. 1989. Individual and whole-colony respiration in an African formicine ant. Functional Ecology 3: 523-530

(19) Lighton, JRB & Feener, DH. 1989. Running in a desert ant: A comparison of energetics and ventilation during voluntary and forced locomotion. Nature 342: 174-175

(20) Lighton, JRB. 1990. Slow discontinuous ventilation in the Namib dune-sea ant, Camponotus detritus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). J. Exp. Biol. 151: 71-82

(21) Garwood, NCG & Lighton, JRB. 1990. Physiological ecology of seed respiration in some tropical species. New Phytol. 115: 549-558

(22) Lighton, JRB & Lovegrove, BGL. 1990. A temperature-induced switch from diffusive to convective ventilation in the honeybee. J. Exp. Biol. 154: 509-516

(23) Suarez RK, Lighton JRB, Moyes CD, Brown GS, Gass CL & Hochachka PW. 1990. Fuel selection in rufous hummingbirds: Ecological implications of metabolic biochemistry. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87: 9207-9210

(24) Lighton, JRB. 1991a. Measurements on insects. In Concise Encyclopedia on Biological and Biomedical Measurement Systems, Ed. P.A. Payne pp 201-208. Pergamon Press, Oxford.

(25) Lighton, JRB. 1991b. Computer-assisted data acquisition and analysis. In Concise Encyclopedia on Biological and Biomedical Measurement Systems, Ed. P.A. Payne pp 113- 118. Pergamon Press, Oxford.

(26) Suarez RK, Lighton JRB, Brown GS & Mathieu-Costello O. 1991. Mitochondrial respiration in hummingbird flight muscles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 4870-4873.

(27) Lighton, JRB. 1991c. Ventilation in Namib Desert tenebrionid beetles: Mass scaling, and evidence of a novel quantized flutter phase. J. Exp. Biol. 159: 249-268.

(28) Feener, DH & Lighton, JRB. 1991. Is foraging in the desert ant Messor pergandei (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) limited by water? Ecol. Entomol. 16, 183-191.

(29) Goldstein G, Sharifi MR, Kohorn LU, Lighton JRB, Shultz, L & Rundel, PW. 1991. Photosynthesis by inflated pods of a desert shrub Isomeria arborea. Oecologia 85, 396-402

(30) Nagy KA, Clarke BC, Seely MK, Mitchell D, Lighton JRB. 1991. Water and energy balance in Namibian desert sand dune lizards Angolosaurus skoogi. Functional Ecology 5, 731-739

(31) Lighton JRB. 1992. Simultaneous measurement of CO2 emission and mass loss in two species of ants. J. Exp. Biol. 173, 289-293.

(32) Lighton JRB, Wehner R. 1993. Ventilation and respiratory metabolism in the thermophilic desert ant, Cataglyphis bicolor (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). J. Comp. Physiol. 163, 11-17.

(33) Lighton JRB, Fukushi T., Wehner R. 1993. Ventilation in Cataglyphis bicolor: regulation of CO2 release from the thoracic and abdominal spiracles. J. Insect Physiol. 39, 687-699.

(34) Lighton JRB, Weier JA, Feener DH. 1993. The energetics of locomotion and load carriage in the desert harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex rugosus. J. Exp. Biol. 181, 49-61.

(35) Lighton JRB, Garrigan D, Duncan FD, Johnson RA. 1993. Spiracular control of respiratory water loss in female alates of the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex rugosus. J. Exp. Biol. 179, 233-244

(36) Berrigan D, Lighton JRB. 1993. Bioenergetic and kinematic consequences of limblessness in larval Diptera. J. Exp. Biol. 179, 245-259.

(37) Lighton JRB, Fielden L, Rechav Y. 1993. Characterization of discontinuous ventilation in a non-insect, the tick Amblyomma marmoreum (Acari: Ixodidae) J. Exp. Biol. 180, 229-245.

(38) Fielden LJ, Duncan FD, Lighton JRB, Rechav Y. 1993. Ventilation in the adults of Amblyomma hebraeum and A. marmoreum (Acari, Ixodidae), vectors of heartwater in Southern Africa. Révue d'élevage et de medecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux 46: 335-338.

(39) Duncan FD, Lighton JRB. 1994. The burden within: The energetics of internal load carriage in the honeypot ant, Myrmecocystus. Physiol. Zool. 67: 190-203.

(40) Lighton JRB. 1994. Discontinuous ventilation in terrestrial insects. Physiol Zool. 67: 142-162.

(41) Watson P, Lighton JRB. 1994. Sexual selection and the energetics of copulatory courtship in the Sierra dome spider. Animal Behaviour 48: 615-626.

(42) Berrigan D, Lighton JRB. 1994. Energetics of pedestrian locomotion in adult male blowflies, Protophormia terranovae (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Physiol. Zool. 67: 1140-1153.

(43) Duncan FDD, Lighton JRB. 1994. Water relations in nocturnal and diurnal foragers of the desert honeypot ant Myrmecocystus: implications for colony-level selection. J. Exp. Zool. 270: 350-359.

(44) Roces F, Lighton JRB. 1995. Larger bites of leaf-cutting ants. Nature 373: 392-393.

(45) Lighton JRB, Fielden LJ. 1995. Mass scaling of standard metabolism in ticks: A valid case of low metabolic rates in sit-and-wait strategists. Physiol. Zool. 68: 43-62.

(46) Lighton JRB, Quinlan MC, Feener DH. 1995. Is bigger better? Water balance in the polymorphic desert harvester ant Messor pergandei. Physiol. Entomol. 19: 325-334.

(47) Weier JA, Feener DH, Lighton JRB. 1995. Individual variation in energy cost of running and loading in the seed-harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex maricopa. J. Insect Physiol. 41: 321-327.

(48) Lighton JRB, Berrigan D. 1995. Questioning paradigms: Caste-specific ventilation in harvester ants, Messor pergandei and M. julianus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Exp. Biol. 198: 521-530

(49) Lighton JRB, Garrigan D. 1995. Ant breathing: Testing regulation and mechanism hypotheses with hypoxia. J. Exp. Biol. 198: 1613-1620

(50) Lighton JRB, Duncan FD. 1995. Metabolic effects of temperature, mass and activity in an unsegmented arthropod, the velvet mite Dinothrombium pandorae. J. Insect Physiol. 41: 877-889

(51) Dickinson MH, Lighton JRB. 1995. Muscle efficiency and elastic storage in the flight motor of Drosophila. Science 268: 87-90.

(52) Lighton, JRB. 1996. Discontinuous gas exchange in insects. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 41: 309-324.

(53) Lighton JRB, Fielden LJ. 1996. Gas exchange in wind spiders: Evolution of convergent respiratory strategies in solphugids and insects. J. Insect Physiol. 42: 347-357.

(54) Fielden LJ, Lighton JRB. 1996. Effects of water stress and humidity on ventilation in the tick Dermacentor andersoni (Acari: Ixodidae). Physiol. Zool. 69: 599-617.

(55) Fewell JH, Lighton JRB, Harrison JF. 1996. Energetics of foraging in the giant tropical ant Paraponera clavata. Oecologia 105: 419-427.

(56) Suarez RK, Lighton JRB, Joos B, Roberts SP, Harrison JF. 1996. Energy metabolism, enzymatic flux capacities and metabolic flux rates in flying honeybees. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 12616-12620.

(57) Joos B, Lighton JRB, Suarez RK, Roberts SP, Harrison JF. 1996.Effects of ambient oxygen tension on flight performance, metabolism and water loss of the honeybee. Physiol. Zool. 70: 167-174.

(58) Suarez RK, Staples JF, Lighton JRB, West TG. 1997. Relationships between enzymatic flux capacities and metabolic flux rates: Nonequilibrium reactions in muscle glycolysis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 94: 7065-7069.

(59) Duncan, F.D., Lighton, J.R.B. 1997. Discontinuous ventilation and energetics of locomotion in the desert dwelling female mutillid wasp Dasymutilla gloriosa. Physiol. Entomol. 22: 310-315

(60) Harrison JF, Lighton JRB. 1998. Oxygen-sensitive flight metabolism in the dragonfly, Erythemis simplicolis. J. Exp. Biol. 201:1739-1744

(61) Lighton, JRB. 1998. Notes from underground: Towards ultimate hypotheses of cyclic, discontinuous gas exchange in tracheate arthropods. Amer. Zool. 38: 483-491.

(62) Quinlan MC, Lighton JRB. 1999. Respiratory physiology and water relations of three species of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Physiol. Entomol. 24: 293-302.

(63) Suarez RK, Staples JF, Lighton JRB, Mathieu-Costello O. 2000. Mitochondrial function in flying honeybees (Apis mellifera): respiratory chain enzymes and electron flow from complex III to oxygen. J. Exp. Biol. 203: 905-911.

(64) Lighton JRB, Brownell PH, Joos B and Turner R. 2001. Low metabolic rate in scorpions: Implications for population biomass and cannibalism. J. Exp. Biol. 204: 607-613

(65) Lighton JRB, Duncan FDD. 2002. Energy cost of locomotion: Validation of laboratory data by in situ respirometry. Ecology 83: 3517–3522

(66) Lighton JRB., Joos B. 2002. Discontinuous gas exchange in a tracheate arthropod, the pseudoscorpion Garypus californicus: Occurrence, characteristics and temperature dependence. 4pp. J. Insect Sci., 2:23

(67) Lighton JRB. 2002. Lack of discontinuous gas exchange in a tracheate arthropod, Leiobunum townsendi (Arachnida, Opiliones).  Physiol. Entomol. 30: 75-81

(68) Lighton JRB, Turner RJ. 2004.  Thermolimit respirometry: an objective assessment of critical thermal maxima in two sympatric desert harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex rugosus and P. californicus. J. Exp. Biol. 207: 1903-1913. pdf

(69) Lighton JRB, Schilman PE, Holway DA. 2004. The hyperoxic switch: Assessing respiratory water loss rates in tracheate arthropods with continuous gas exchange. J. Exp. Biol. 207: 4463-4471. pdf

(70) Chown SL, Gibbs AG, Hetz SK, Kestler P, Klok CJ, Lighton JRB, Marais E. 2005. Discontinuous gas exchange in insects: A clarification of hypotheses and approaches. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 75: 345-349

(71) Lighton JRB, Duncan FD. 2005. Shaken, Not Stirred: A Serendipitous Study of Ants and Earthquakes. J. Exp. Biol. 208: 3103-3107. Click here for abstract. (Featured in Inside JEB) pdf

(72) Schilman PE, Lighton JRB,  Holway DA. 2005. Respiratory and cuticular water loss in insects with continuous gas exchange: Comparison across five ant species. J. Insect Physiol 51: 1295-1305.

(73) Lighton JRB, Ottesen EA. 2005. To DGC or not to DGC: Oxygen Guarding in the Termite Zootermopsis nevadensis (Isoptera: Termopsidae). J. Exp. Biol. 208: 4671-4678. pdf

(74) Lighton JRB. 2005. Strange cycles and the fruit-fly's tongue. (Dispatch). Current Biology. pdf

(75) Schilman PE, Lighton JRB, Holway DA. 2006. Water balance in the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) compared with five common native ant species from southern California. Physiol. Entomol. 32: 1-7. pdf

(76) Lighton JRB. 2007. Hot hypoxic flies: Whole-organism interactions between hypoxic and thermal stressors in Drosophila melanogaster. J. Thermal Biol. 32: 134-143.

(77) Chown SL, Marais E, Terblanche JS, Klok CJ, Lighton JRB, Blackburn TM. 2007. Scaling of insect metabolic rate is inconsistent with the nutrient supply network model. Functional Ecology 21: 282-290.

(78) Lighton JRB, Schilman PE. 2007. Oxygen reperfusion damage in an insect. PLoS ONE. 2007; 2(12): e1267. pdf

(79) Lighton JRB. 2007. Why Insects Evolved Discontinuous Gas Exchange. Current Biology 17: 645-647

(80) Schilman PE, Kaiser A, Lighton JRB. 2007. Breathe softly, beetle: Continuous gas exchange, water loss and the role of the subelytral space in the tenebrionid beetle, Eleodes obscura. J Insect Physiol 54: 192-203.

(81) Lighton JRB. 2007. They Would Be Giants. Current Biology 17: 969-971

(82) Lighton JRB, Turner RJ. 2008. The hygric hypothesis does not hold water: Abolition of discontinuous gas-exchange cycles does not affect water loss in the ant, Camponotus vicinus. J Exp Biol 211: 563-567