Watson, C.M. & C.L. Cox. 2025. The integrative biology of decoy coloration in lizards. The Journal of Experimental Biology. Invited Review. 228 (8).

Richards, H. & C.M. Watson 2024 Evidence of alternative prey selection by the ant specialist,
Phrynosoma cornutum. Southwestern Naturalist 67, 298-300

Esquivel, C.* & C.M. Watson 2024 Variation in energy and moisture content of milkweed
(Asclepias) foliage across species. Southwestern Naturalist 67, 234-237

 Alujević, K., L. Bakewell, I. Clifton, C. Cox, L. Frishkoff, E. Gangloff, G. Garcia-Costoya, M. Gifford, Glenwinkel, S. Gulati, A. Head, M. Miles, C. Pettit, C. Watson, K. Wuthrich, & M. Logan, (2024) 3D printed models are an accurate, cost-effective, and reproducible tool for quantifying terrestrial thermal environments. Journal of Thermal Biology. 119.

Gripshover, N. D., Hennessey, P., McBrayer, L. D., Meik, J. M., Watson, C. M., & Cox, C. L. (2023). When food fights back: skull morphology and feeding behavior of centipede-eating snakes. Integrative And Comparative Biology.

Watson, C.M. & C. Cox. 2021. Elevation, oxygen, and the origins of viviparity. Journal of Experimental Zoology-B. 336. 457-469.

Heninger, R.*, C.M. Watson, & C. Cox. 2020. Relative fitness of decoy coloration is mediated by habitat type. Zoology. 125820

Kravchuk, L.* & C.M. Watson. 2020. Corn snakes can behaviorally enhance crypsis by choosing complex backgrounds and substrate. Animal Behavior and Cognition 7. 39-48.

Watson, C.M., Z. Degon*, W. Krogman, C. Cox. 2019. Evolutionary and ecological forces underlying ontogenetic loss of decoy coloration. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 128. 138–148.

Watson, C.M. & W.W. Burggren. 2016. Interspecific differences in metabolic rate and metabolic temperature sensitivity create distinct thermal ecological niches in lizards. PLoS One

Watson, C.M. & G. Francis*. 2015. Three-dimensional printing as an effective method of producing anatomically accurate models for studies in thermal ecology. Journal of Thermal Biology 51. 42-46.

Watson, C.M., R. Makowsky, & J. C. Bagley.  2014. Reproductive mode evolution in lizards revisited: updated analyses examining geographic, climatic and phylogenetic effects support the cold-climate hypothesis.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27 (12), 2767-2780

Watson, C.M. & L. Gough. 2012. The role of temperature in determining distributions and coexistence of three species of Plestiodon. Journal of Thermal Biology 37(5) 374-379.

Watson, C.M. & D. R. Formanowicz. 2012. A comparison of maximum sprint speed among the five-lined skinks (Plestiodon) of the Southeastern United States at ecologically relevant temperatures. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 7(1) 75-82.

Watson, C.M., C. Roelke, P. Pasichnyk*, & C. Cox. 2012. The fitness consequences of the autotomous blue tail in lizards: An empirical test of predator response using clay models. Zoology 115(5) 339-344

Watson, C.M. and M. L. Nicholson. 2011 (Published 2014). The recovery of the macroarthropod community within the leaf-litter of an East Texas mixed hardwood-pine habitat following a prescribed burn. The Texas Journal of Science 64(1)

Watson, C.M. 2009. Selection of available post-fire substrate by Scincella lateralis Say (Ground Skink). The Texas Journal of Science 61(3) 219-224.