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Thermal Plasticity in a Cross‐Sexual Transfer Trait: Geographic Variation and Phenotypic Integration of Blue Wing Colour in Female Butterflies

Ecology Letters, Volume 28, Issue 8, August 2025.
We provide a first test whether female colour variation in common blue butterflies (a) has arisen through cross‐sexual transfer. Analyses of museum specimens (b) show that the distribution of females wing colour varies in a geographic mosaic pattern, and laboratory experiments (c) show that this variation is both genetically determined and impacted by ...
Magne Friberg, Karolina Pehrson, Kristoffer Mjörnman, Erik I. Svensson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conserved visual sensitivities across divergent lizard lineages that differ in an ultraviolet sexual signal

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 9, Issue 20, Page 11824-11832, October 2019., 2019
The sensory drive hypothesis predicts that the coevolution of signaling traits and sensory perception may contribute to reproductive isolation and speciation. We tested whether opsin protein expression differs between divergent lineages of the tawny dragon (Ctenophorus decresii) that differ in the presence/absence of an ultraviolet sexual signal.
Caroline M. Dong, Claire A. McLean, Adnan Moussalli, Devi Stuart‐Fox   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generation length of the world's amphibians and reptiles

Ecography, Volume 2025, Issue 7, July 2025.
Variation in life histories influences demographic processes, from adaptive changes to population declines leading to extinction. Among life history traits, generation length offers a critical feature to forecast species' demographic trajectories such as population declines (widely used by the IUCN Red List) and adaptability to environmental change ...
Giordano Mancini, Luca Santini, Victor Cazalis, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Shai Meiri, Uri Roll, Sofia Silvestri, Daniel Pincheira‐Donoso, Moreno Di Marco   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlated evolution between targets of pre‐ and postcopulatory sexual selection across squamate reptiles

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 6, Issue 18, Page 6452-6459, September 2016., 2016
Using both conventional and phylogenetic comparative methods we found a significant negative correlation between targets for pre‐ and postcopulatory selection in squamate reptiles. This evolutionary pattern suggests that strong precopulatory selection may often constrain the opportunity for postcopulatory selection, and that the relative importance of ...
Ariel F. Kahrl, Christian L. Cox, Robert M. Cox   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Filling gaps in the geographic distribution of Anolis fuscoauratus d’Orbigny, 1837 (Squamata, Dactyloidae) in the southeastern Brazilian Atlantic Forest [PDF]

Check List, 2018
We update the southeastern distribution of Anolis fuscoauratus d’Orbigny, 1837 based on newly collected specimens and on specimens from scientific collections misidentified or deposited with questionable identifications. We include&
Thiago Silva-Soares, Paulo V. Scherrer, Thiago M. de Castro, Rodrigo de O. L. Salles   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Positive Selection of TLR2 and MyD88 Genes Provides Insights Into the Molecular Basis of Immunological Adaptation in Amphibians

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 12, December 2024.
We found that recurrent positive selection has acted on TLR2 and MyD88 in amphibians and positively selected sites were mainly located at or close to function domains. Our results suggest that amphibians have adapted to different pathogenic microorganisms during their transition from the aquatic to terrestrial environment and diversification into ...
Jie Zhang, Ruinan Zhao, Hongyan Bi, Jiaoying He, Yang Guo, Dian Liu, Ganggang Yang, Xiaohong Chen, Zhuo Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turbinal bones are still one of the last frontiers of the tetrapod skull: hypotheses, challenges and perspectives

Biological Reviews, Volume 99, Issue 6, Page 2304-2337, December 2024.
ABSTRACT Turbinals are bony or cartilaginous structures that are present in the nasal cavity of most tetrapods. They are involved in key functions such as olfaction, heat, and moisture conservation, as well as protection of the respiratory tract. Despite recent studies that challenged long‐standing hypotheses about their physiological and genomic ...
Quentin Martinez, Eli Amson, Irina Ruf, Timothy D. Smith, Nelly Pirot, Morgane Broyon, Renaud Lebrun, Guillaume Captier, Cristina Gascó Martín, Gabriel Ferreira, Pierre‐Henri Fabre   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relación entre el tipo de percha y el comportamiento de agresividad en el lagarto Norops polylepis (Squamata: Dactyloidae) [PDF]

, 2015
The intensity of aggression against intruders by owners of a territory has been related to the type of resources available to an individual within its territory.
Jiménez, Randall R., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jorengeth Abad   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

Unleashing diversity through flexibility: The evolutionary journey of sex chromosomes in amphibians and reptiles

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 341, Issue 3, Page 230-241, April 1, 2024.
Sex determination systems have greatly diversified between amphibians and reptiles. In this review, we discuss the diversity of sex chromosomes in amphibians and reptiles resulted from comparative analyses of chromosome homology of sex chromosomes in amphibians and reptiles reported so far, using the genome of the chicken, which is thought to resemble ...
Yoshinobu Uno, Kazumi Matsubara
wiley   +1 more source

Non-additive effects of multiple predators alter the biological control of the coffee leaf miner (Leucoptera coffeella)

Basic and Applied Ecology
Although most prey are attacked by multiple predators, much of the ecological theory on prey suppression focuses on the effects of a single predator. The presence of multiple predators can lead to complex interactions such as trait-mediated interactions (
Iris Saraeny Rivera-Salinas, Amarilys D. Irizarry, Koralis Reyes-Maldonado, Ivette Perfecto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source