Multilocus Phylogenetic Analyses of Hispaniolan and Bahamian Trunk Anoles (Distichus Species Group) ⇑ Anthony J
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<I>ANOLIS</I> LIZARDS in the FOOD WEBS of STRUCTURALLY
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 12-2016 ASSESSING THE FUNCTIONAL SIMILARITY OF NATIVE AND INVASIVE ANOLIS LIZARDS IN THE FOOD WEBS OF STRUCTURALLY-SIMPLE HABITATS IN FLORIDA Nathan W. Turnbough University of Tennessee, Knoxville, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss Part of the Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology Commons Recommended Citation Turnbough, Nathan W., "ASSESSING THE FUNCTIONAL SIMILARITY OF NATIVE AND INVASIVE ANOLIS LIZARDS IN THE FOOD WEBS OF STRUCTURALLY-SIMPLE HABITATS IN FLORIDA. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2016. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/4174 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Nathan W. Turnbough entitled "ASSESSING THE FUNCTIONAL SIMILARITY OF NATIVE AND INVASIVE ANOLIS LIZARDS IN THE FOOD WEBS OF STRUCTURALLY-SIMPLE HABITATS IN FLORIDA." I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. -
Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History Database
Literature Cited in Lizards Natural History database Abdala, C. S., A. S. Quinteros, and R. E. Espinoza. 2008. Two new species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from the puna of northwestern Argentina. Herpetologica 64:458-471. Abdala, C. S., D. Baldo, R. A. Juárez, and R. E. Espinoza. 2016. The first parthenogenetic pleurodont Iguanian: a new all-female Liolaemus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. Copeia 104:487-497. Abdala, C. S., J. C. Acosta, M. R. Cabrera, H. J. Villaviciencio, and J. Marinero. 2009. A new Andean Liolaemus of the L. montanus series (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from western Argentina. South American Journal of Herpetology 4:91-102. Abdala, C. S., J. L. Acosta, J. C. Acosta, B. B. Alvarez, F. Arias, L. J. Avila, . S. M. Zalba. 2012. Categorización del estado de conservación de las lagartijas y anfisbenas de la República Argentina. Cuadernos de Herpetologia 26 (Suppl. 1):215-248. Abell, A. J. 1999. Male-female spacing patterns in the lizard, Sceloporus virgatus. Amphibia-Reptilia 20:185-194. Abts, M. L. 1987. Environment and variation in life history traits of the Chuckwalla, Sauromalus obesus. Ecological Monographs 57:215-232. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2003. Anfibios y reptiles del Uruguay. Montevideo, Uruguay: Facultad de Ciencias. Achaval, F., and A. Olmos. 2007. Anfibio y reptiles del Uruguay, 3rd edn. Montevideo, Uruguay: Serie Fauna 1. Ackermann, T. 2006. Schreibers Glatkopfleguan Leiocephalus schreibersii. Munich, Germany: Natur und Tier. Ackley, J. W., P. J. Muelleman, R. E. Carter, R. W. Henderson, and R. Powell. 2009. A rapid assessment of herpetofaunal diversity in variously altered habitats on Dominica. -
Male Courtship Display in Two Populations of Anolis Heterodermus (Squamata: Dactyloidae) from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia
Herpetology Notes, volume 12: 881-884 (2019) (published online on 15 August 2019) Male courtship display in two populations of Anolis heterodermus (Squamata: Dactyloidae) from the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia Iván Beltrán1,2,* and Leidy Alejandra Barragán-Contreras3 Animal displays are generally associated with Anolis heterodermus (Duméril, 1851) is a medium-size territoriality, predator avoidance and courtship arboreal lizard that inhabits shrubs and small trees of high behaviour, in which visual cues transmit a large amount Andean forests in Colombia and Ecuador (Moreno-Arias of information (Alcock and Rubenstein, 1989). Visual and Urbina-Cardona, 2013). Their aggressive and sexual cues can vary in type and frequency depending on behaviour have been described mainly as occasional several factors such as habitat structure, environmental observations in the field and laboratory (Jenssen, 1975; temperature and density of conspecifics (Endler, 1992; Guzmán, 1989; Beltrán, 2019). This species belongs to Candolin, 2003). Visual displays usually convey the heterodermus complex of species from which its information about species identity and/or physiological phylogenetic relations are not well established (Lazell, status of the signaller. Moreover, since an effective 1969; Castañeda and de Queiroz, 2013). Recently, it communication will determine the reproductive was suggested that there are at least three genetically success of the individual and ultimately its fitness, the distinct clades within the complex (Vargas-Ramírez and information must be quickly comprehended by the Moreno-Arias, 2014). However, there is no evidence receiver (Sullivan and Kwiatkowski, 2007). Variations that these genetic differences are backed by behavioural in the signalling pathway constitute a prezygotic changes that could act as a prezygotic barrier. -
The Evolution of Androgen Receptor Expression and Behavior in Anolis Lizard Forelimb Muscles
Trinity University Digital Commons @ Trinity Biology Faculty Research Biology Department 2018 The Evolution of Androgen Receptor Expression and Behavior in Anolis Lizard Forelimb Muscles Michele A. Johnson Trinity University, [email protected] Bonnie K. Kircher [email protected] Diego J. Castro Trinity University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/bio_faculty Part of the Biology Commons Repository Citation Johnson, M.A., Kircher, B.K., & Castro, D.J. (2018). The evolution of androgen receptor expression and behavior in Anolis lizard forelimb muscles. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology, 204(1), 71-79. doi:10.1007/s00359-017-1228-y This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biology Department at Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biology Faculty Research by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Author's personal copy Journal of Comparative Physiology A (2018) 204:71–79 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-017-1228-y ORIGINAL PAPER The evolution of androgen receptor expression and behavior in Anolis lizard forelimb muscles Michele A. Johnson1 · Bonnie K. Kircher2 · Diego J. Castro1,3 Received: 1 June 2017 / Revised: 12 October 2017 / Accepted: 9 November 2017 / Published online: 15 November 2017 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2017 Abstract The motor systems that produce behavioral movements are among the primary targets for the action of steroid hormones, including androgens. Androgens such as testosterone bind to androgen receptors (AR) to induce physiological changes in the size, strength, and energetic capacity of skeletal muscles, which can directly influence the performance of behaviors in which those muscles are used. -
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64 (2012) 255–260
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64 (2012) 255–260 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ympev Are subspecies of Anolis lizards that differ in dewlap color and pattern also genetically distinct? A mitochondrial analysis ⇑ Richard E. Glor , Robert G. Laport Department of Biology, University of Rochester, RC Box 270211, Rochester, NY 14627, USA article info abstract Article history: Subspecies of Anolis lizards are often defined on the basis of geographic variation in the color and pattern of Received 15 April 2010 the dewlap, an extensible throat fan considered central to species recognition and sexual selection. Among Revised 28 October 2010 the most impressive examples of this phenomenon are two species of trunk anoles found across Hispaniola Accepted 7 November 2010 and the Bahamas: Anolis distichus is divided into 16 subspecies with dewlap colors ranging from deep wine Available online 12 November 2010 red to pale yellow while Anolis brevirostris is divided into three subspecies with dewlaps ranging from pale yellow to orange. Limited sampling of allozyme data indicates some genetic divergence among subspecies Keywords: and suggests that they may deserve recognition at the species-level. Our goal here is to use more compre- Anolis hensive geographic sampling of mtDNA haplotypes to test whether the five subspecies of A. distichus and Dewlap Subspecies three subspecies of A. brevirostris that occur in the Dominican Republic correspond with genetically distinct Speciation populations that may warrant recognition under the general lineage concept. We obtain an aligned dataset Phylogeography of 1462 bp comprised of the genes encoding ND2 and adjacent tRNAs from 76 individuals of A. -
Anolis Newsletter VI
Anolis Newsletter VI Edited by D. Luke Mahler Anthony Herrel Jonathan B. Losos i June 2, 2010 The Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University 26 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA All rights reserved. Names or nomenclatural acts in this work are disclaimed for nomenclatural purposes under ICZN 8.3. Front cover: The enigmatic, rostrally-endowed Anolis proboscis, from Ecuador. Reprinted with permission from Williams (1979; Breviora 449:1-19). Illustration by Laszlo Meszoly. ii In Memory of A. Stanley Rand (1932-2005) Stan Rand (left) with his former graduate advisor, Ernest Williams (right) at Soroa, Cuba in 1983. iii Preface On the first weekend of October in 2009, 125 anole biologists traveled from eight countries to Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology to attend the 6th Anolis Symposium. It had been 10 years since the previous symposium, and a reunion was long past due. In 2008, as we began to consider how to proceed with such an endeavor, a fortunate thing happened: the Herpetology Department at the MCZ renovated its library and teaching space – the famous lair of the late pater anolis, Ernest Williams. The library needed a namesake, and Ernest was under strong consideration (after all, he had been instrumental in filling its shelves!). After a brief period of friendly deliberation, it was decided that the library would be dedicated to Williams, and that the occasion would be the commencement of the 6th Anolis Symposium, held at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Anole biology has changed considerably in the last decade, and it’s been for the better! First and foremost, the field has grown explosively. -
ARE DEWLAP COLOR and DISPLAY BEHAVIOR HONEST INDICATORS of MALE QUALITY in ANOLIS LIZARDS? Ellee G
Trinity University Digital Commons @ Trinity Biology Honors Theses Biology Department 4-19-2013 ARE DEWLAP COLOR AND DISPLAY BEHAVIOR HONEST INDICATORS OF MALE QUALITY IN ANOLIS LIZARDS? Ellee G. Cook Trinity University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/bio_honors Recommended Citation Cook, Ellee G., "ARE DEWLAP COLOR AND DISPLAY BEHAVIOR HONEST INDICATORS OF MALE QUALITY IN ANOLIS LIZARDS?" (2013). Biology Honors Theses. 13. http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/bio_honors/13 This Thesis open access is brought to you for free and open access by the Biology Department at Digital Commons @ Trinity. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biology Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Trinity. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ARE DEWLAP COLOR AND DISPLAY BEHAVIOR HONEST INDICATORS OF MALE QUALITY IN ANOLIS LIZARDS? ELLEE G. COOK A DEPARTMENT HONORS THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AT TRINITY UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION WITH DEPARTMENTAL HONORS DATE ______ ____________________________ ________________________________ THESIS ADVISOR THESIS CO-ADVISOR ________________________________ DEPARTMENT CHAIR _________________________________________________ ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, CURRICULUM AND STUDENT ISSUES Student Copyright Declaration: the author has selected the following copyright provision (select only one): [X] This thesis is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which allows some noncommercial copying and distribution of the thesis, given proper attribution. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. [ ] This thesis is protected under the provisions of U.S. -
ZOO 4462C – Herpetology Spring 2021, 4 Credits
ZOO 4462C – Herpetology Spring 2021, 4 credits Course Schedule – See page 10 Instructor: Dr. Gregg Klowden (pronounced "Cloud - in”) Office: Room 202A, Biological Sciences E-mail: [email protected] Phone: Please send an email instead Mark Catesby (1731) “Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands” "These foul and loathsome animals . are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; and so their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them." Carolus Linnaeus (1758) ***Email Requirements: I teach several courses and receive a large volume of emails. To help me help you please: 1. format the subject of your email as follows: “Course – Herpetology, Subject - Question about exam 1” 2. include your 1st and last name in the body of all correspondence. I try to respond to emails within 48 hours however, response time may be greater. o Please plan accordingly by not waiting to the last minute to contact me with questions or concerns. All messaging must be done using either Webcourses or your Knight's E-Mail. o Messages from non-UCF addresses will not be answered. Due to confidentiality, questions about grades should be sent via Webcourses messaging, not via email. Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:30-11:30a and 2:00-3:00p or by appointment All office hours will be held online via Zoom. An appointment is not necessary. Just log into Zoom using the link posted on Webcourses. You will initially be admitted to a waiting room and Dr. -
ABSTRACTS 29 Reptile Ecology I, Highland A, Sunday 15 July 2018
THE JOINT MEETING OF ASIH SSAR HL lcHTHYOLOGISTS & HERPETOLOGISTS ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 2018 ABSTRACTS 29 Reptile Ecology I, Highland A, Sunday 15 July 2018 Curtis Abney, Glenn Tattersall and Anne Yagi Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Thermal Preference and Habitat Selection of Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis in a Southern Ontario Peatland Gartersnakes represent the most widespread reptile in North America. Despite occupying vastly different biogeoclimatic zones across their range, evidence suggests that the thermal preferenda (Tset) of gartersnakes has not diverged significantly between populations or different Thamnophis species. The reason behind gartersnake success could lie in their flexible thermoregulatory behaviours and habitat selection. We aimed to investigate this relationship by first identifying the Tset of a common gartersnake species (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) via a thermal gradient. We then used this Tset parameter as a baseline for calculating the thermal quality of an open, mixed, and forested habitat all used by the species. We measured the thermal profiles of these habitats by installing a series of temperature-recording analogues that mimicked the reflectance and morphology of living gartersnakes and recorded environmental temperatures as living snakes experience them. Lastly, we used coverboards to survey the current habitat usage of T. s. sirtalis. Of the three habitats, we found that the open habitat offered the highest thermal quality throughout the snake’s active season. In contrast, we recorded the greatest number of snakes using the mixed habitat which had considerably lower thermal quality. Although the open habitat offered the greatest thermal quality, we regularly recorded temperatures exceeding the upper range of the animals’ thermal preference. -
HERPETOLOGICAL HUSBANDRY Soil and Laid a Second Egg on 17 May
Female #1 tunneled from under the shelter to the bottom of the HERPETOLOGICAL HUSBANDRY soil and laid a second egg on 17 May. The first egg laid by this female remained on the soil surface and failed to hatch. Female #2 also dug a tunnel and laid three eggs on 18 May. Neither female Notes on the Captive Reproductive Behavior of accepted mealworms or crickets offered as food. the Asiatic Four-lined Skink, Observations of both females and their eggs were made through the transparent floor of the cages, or by carefully removing the Eumeces quadrilineatus shelters. Both females used their bodies to surround their eggs throughout incubation. Although they occasionally shifted their AKIKO HOSONO position within the tunnels, they remained under the soil and never and appeared on the surface until their eggs hatched (see below). TSUTOMU HIKIDA When Female #1 was observed outside her tunnel on 27 June, Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, we examined her egg and found a hatchling (Hatchling #1). Female Kitashirakawa, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan #2 emerged from the soil on 8 July, whereupon we excavated e-mail (AH): [email protected] three hatchlings (Hatchlings #2, 3, and 4), while Hatchling #4 Eumeces quadrilineatus ranges through southern China, was just struggling to extricate itself from its egg. Assuming that Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand (Taylor 1935). It has been the females emerged upon the hatching of their eggs, as is the grouped with the American four-lined forms (E. gilberti, E. case of other congeneric species (e.g., E. -
Anolis Tandai, a New Dietary Record for the Amazon Ringed Snake, Rhinobothryum Lentiginosum (Scopoli, 1785) (Squamata: Colubridae)
Herpetology Notes, volume 13: 981-987 (2020) (published online on 26 November 2020) Anolis tandai, a new dietary record for the Amazon ringed snake, Rhinobothryum lentiginosum (Scopoli, 1785) (Squamata: Colubridae) Luis A. García–Ayachi1,2,3,*, Mallory Wittwer3, and Christopher Kirkby3 The Amazon banded snake is a rare, infrequently because they observed these snakes on the ground observed species of squamate with only a few (Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Doan and Arriaga, 2000; specimens stored in biological collections, despite its Duellman, 2005; Ribeiro Duarte, 2010; Avila–Pires et widespread distribution (Cunha and Nascimento, 1978). al., 2010). However, dietary information suggests that R. This snake lives in the lowland Amazonian forests of lentiginosum is a lizard specialist that feeds on a variety Brazil, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, of terrestrial and arboreal species that range in size from Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru (Peters small species, such as Gonatodes spp. to the larger and Orejas–Miranda, 1970; Miranda et al., 2009; Iguana iguana (Table 1). Rhinobothryum lentiginosum Reynolds and MacCulloch, 2012; Uetz et al., 2020). likely forages in tree and bushes, and possibly preys Although it has been recorded in primary forest (Cunha on night–sleeping lizards (Oliveira and Martins, 1998; and Nascimento, 1978; Cunha et al., 1985; Martins Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Vitt et al., 2000; Duellman, and Oliveira, 1998; Fraga et al., 2014), some records 2005; Ribeiro Duarte, 2010), and occasionally on frogs, demonstrate that R. lentiginosum also inhabits secondary small birds and mammals (Zimmerman and Rodrigues, forest (Venegas and Couceiro, 2017), and more open, 1990; Avila–Pires et al., 2010). -
Morfología, Distribución Geográfica Y Microhábitat De Los Lagartos Cubanos Del Género Anolis (Lepidosauria: Iguania)
INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y SISTEMÁTICA MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA, TECNOLOGÍA Y MEDIO AMBIENTE Morfología, distribución geográfica y microhábitat de los lagartos cubanos del género Anolis (Lepidosauria: Iguania) AUTORA: Lic. Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino TUTOR: Dr. Alberto Coy Otero Tesis en opción al grado científico de Doctor en Ciencias Biológicas La Habana 1999 A mis padres, esposo e hijos SÍNTESIS En el género Anolis Daudin, 1802, se incluyen más de 250 especies, distribuidas desde Norte hasta Sur América, incluyendo las Antillas Mayores y Menores, las Islas Bahamas y algunas islas del Pacífico. En Cuba viven 51 especies (94.1 % endémicas), número que es el mayor registrado para un país. Para conservarlas adecuadamente, los objetivos trazados fueron: preparar una clave para su identificación y verificar la presencia de grupos de especies morfológicamente afines; actualizar la distribución geográfica y altitudinal; caracterizar los tipos de substratos que utilizan y comprobar si existe distribución vertical sobre ellos. Para alcanzarlos, se revisó la literatura al respecto, se tomaron diferentes medidas a los ejemplares depositados en colecciones, se revisaron los ficheros de las colecciones, se visitaron numerosas localidades a través de todo el país, donde se realizaron censos de las especies y observaciones sobre el tipo de substrato y la altura sobre el suelo a que se encontraban. Con todo este trabajo se logró por primera vez: preparar un compendio sobre las especies cubanas del género; identificarlas mediante la clave confeccionada; comprobar