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How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short-term tactics and long-term impacts. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Koen EL +15 more
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Semicircular canals in Anolis lizards: ecomorphological convergence and ecomorph affinities of fossil species [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Anolis lizards are a model system for the study of adaptive radiation and convergent evolution. Greater Antillean anoles have repeatedly evolved six similar forms or ecomorphs: crown-giant, grass-bush, twig, trunk, trunk-crown and trunk-ground.
Blake V. Dickson +3 more
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Insects, 2019 Characterizing the host-use patterns of mosquitoes is an essential component of understanding the transmission dynamics of mosquito-vectored pathogens.
Lawrence E. Reeves +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The green iguana (Iguana iguana) is an iguanine lizard with herbivorous and arboreal habits, whose distribution spans through South America, Central America to the south of North America. Although the genus Iguana is well‐known, the species still lacks a comprehensive and up‐to‐date anatomical study, particularly addressing the axial skeleton,
Vieno Rosa +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Species of Anolis lizards of the West Indies that naturally inhabit hot and open areas also tend to thrive in urban areas. In this study, transcriptome was sequenced for nine species of Cuban Anolis lizards that are closely related to each other, but ...
Shunsuke Kanamori +5 more
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Novitates Caribaea, 2022 Se registra la muerte accidental de Anolis porcatus (Gray, 1841), Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnés, 1818) y Sphaerodactylus elegans (MacLeay, 1834) en el interior de vasos utilizados como adornos domésticos en un domicilio urbano de San Antonio de ...
Luis F. de Armas
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Nowadays, Lepidosauria is a diverse group represented by squamates and the rhynchocephalian tuatara. However, their origins date back to the end of the Permian Period, when the stem lineages Lepidosauromorpha and Archosauromorpha diverged. Within the lepidosauromorph stem lineage, a few species have been described with unstable phylogenetic ...
Lísie Vitória Soares Damke +4 more
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, 2014 Comparison of Anolis boulengerianus and A. isthmicus and taxonomic conclusions A comparison of our Anolis boulengerianus and A. isthmicus samples is provided in Table 2 (also see Fig. 2). There were no obvious differences between these samples in any of the characters in the table, and we were unable to find any differences in any other characters ...
Oca, Adrián Nieto-Montes De +2 more
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Oogenesis and germinal bed morphology of the brown anole (A. sagrei)
Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.Abstract Background The brown anole is a model species of the genus Anolis, a squamate (encompassing lizards and snakes) group widely studied in evolutionary, behavioral, and developmental biology. Full genome annotation, the establishment of gene editing techniques, and comprehensive description of reproductive tract morphology and embryogenesis in ...
Bonnie K. Kircher +12 more
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, 2014 Anolis nebulosus (Wiegmann 1834) Figs. 95–101 Dactyloa nebulosa Wiegmann 1834: 47; type locality: “ Mexico ”; restricted to Mazatlán, Sinaloa by Smith & Taylor 1950b. Holotype: ZMB 527. Anolis nebuloides: Oliver 1937, Bogert & Oliver 1945, Zweifel & Norris 1955, Smith & Grant 1958, Tanner & Robinson 1959, Fugler & Dixon 1961 Anolis nebulosis: Fosdick ...
Köhler, Gunther +4 more
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