Lisa Mangiamele

Lisa Mangiamele is an integrative neurobiologist interested in animal communication. Her research uses behavioral, physiological, molecular and neuroanatomical techniques to investigate the mechanisms of communication behavior in frogs and fish. In particular, her lab studies how sensory systems integrate communication signals to guide adaptive behaviors, such as mating behaviors, and how those sensory processes are modified by hormones. She is also interested in comparative neurobiology and evolution of the brain.

Selected Publications

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Mangiamele, L.A., Dawn, A.*, LeCure, K.M.*, Mantica, G.E.*, Racicot, R., Fuxjager, M.J., and Preininger, D. (2024) How new communication behaviors evolve: Androgens as modifiers of neuromotor structure and function in foot-flagging frogs. Hormones and Behavior 161: 105502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105502

Holtz, M.A.*, Racicot, R., Preininger, D., Stuckert, A.M.M.,  Mangiamele, L.A. (2023) Genome assembly of the foot-flagging frog, Staurois parvus: a resource for understanding mechanisms of behavior. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 13:jkad193  https://doi-org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad193

Eigerman, A.R.*  and Mangiamele, L.A. (2021) Mechanisms of multimodality: Androgenic hormones and adaptive flexibility in multimodal displays. Animal Behaviour 184:149-156 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.08.016

Smith, S.M.*, Eigerman, A.R.*, LeCure, K.M.*, Kironde, E.*, Privett-Mendoza, A.G.*, Fuxjager, M.J., Preininger, D., and Mangiamele, L.A. (2021) Androgen receptor modulates multimodal displays in the Bornean rock frog (Staurois parvus). Integrative and Comparative Biology 61: 221-230  https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icab042

Mangiamele, L.A. and Fuxjager, M.F. 2018. Insight into the neuroendocrine basis of signal evolution: a case study in foot-flagging frogs. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 204:61-70 [Invited Review for Special Issue] https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-017-1218-0

Thompson, R.R. and Mangiamele, L.A. 2018. Rapid sex steroid effects on reproductive responses in male goldfish: Sensory and motor mechanisms. Hormones and Behavior 104:52-62 [Invited Review]
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.05.007

Mangiamele, L.A., Gomez, J.R., Curtis, N.J.,and Thompson, R.R. 2017. GPR30/GPER, a membrane estrogen receptor, is expressed in the brain and retina of a social fish (Carassius auratus) and co-localizes with isotocin. Journal of Comparative Neurology 525(2): 252-270 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138143/

Mangiamele, L.A., Fuxjager, M.J., Schuppe, E.R., Taylor, R.S.*, Hodl, W., and Preininger, D. 2016. Increased androgenic sensitivity in the hind limb muscular system marks the evolution of a derived gestural display. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 11:5664-5669. [Cover article] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603329113

Mangiamele, L.A., Keeney, A.D., D’Agostino, E.N., and Thompson, R.R. 2013. Pheromone exposure influences preoptic arginine vasotocin gene expression and inhibits social approach behavior in response to rivals but not potential mates. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 81:194-202.

Mangiamele, L.A. and Thompson, R.R. 2012. Testosterone rapidly increases ejaculate volume and sperm density in competitively breeding goldfish through an estrogenic membrane receptor mechanism. Hormones and Behavior 62:107-112. [Cover article]

Mangiamele, L.A. and Burmeister, S.S. 2011. Auditory selectivity for acoustic features that confer species recognition in the tungara frog. Journal of Experimental Biology 214:2911-2918. [Featured research article in Inside JEB]

Chakraborty, M., Mangiamele, L.A., and Burmeister, S.S. 2010. Neural activity patterns in response to interspecific and intraspecific variation in mating calls in the tungara frog. PLoS ONE 5(9):e12898.

Mangiamele, L.A., Thomson, C.J., Lebonville, C.L., and Burmeister, S.S. 2010. Characterization of the plasticity-related gene, Arc, in the frog brain. Developmental Neurobiology 70(12):813-825

Mangiamele, L.A. and Burmeister, S.S. 2008. Acoustically-evoked immediate-early gene expression in the pallium of the tungara frog. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 72: 239-250.

Burmeister, S.S., Mangiamele, L.A., and Lebonville, C.L. 2008. Acoustic modulation of immediate-early gene expression in the auditory midbrain of female túngara frogs. Brain Research 1190:105-114.