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Candidatus Cryptoplasma Associated with Green Lizards and Ixodes ricinus Ticks, Slovakia, 2004–2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
During 2004–2011, we collected green lizards and Ixodes ricinus ticks in Slovak Karst National Park in Slovakia; 90% (36/40) of lizards and 37% of ticks removed from lizards were infected with family Anaplasmataceae bacteria. Only Candidatus Cryptoplasma
Božena Kočíková, Igor Majláth, Bronislava Víchová, Lenka Maliničová, Peter Pristaš, Vincent A. Connors, Viktória Majláthová   +6 more
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Diets Alter the Gut Microbiome of Crocodile Lizards

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
The crocodile lizard is a critically endangered reptile, and serious diseases have been found in this species in recent years, especially in captive lizards.
Hai-Ying Jiang, Hai-Ying Jiang, Hai-Ying Jiang, Jing-E Ma, Juan Li, Juan Li, Juan Li, Xiu-Juan Zhang, Lin-Miao Li, Nan He, Hai-Yang Liu, Shu-Yi Luo, Zheng-Jun Wu, Ri-Chou Han, Jin-Ping Chen   +14 more
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Tail tip removal for tissue sampling has no short-term effects on microhabitat selection by Podarcis bocagei, but induced autotomy does

Acta Herpetologica, 2011
Tail tip removal is a common method for obtaining tissue samples for genetics and other studies on lizards. This study evaluates the effect of tail tip autotomy on microhabitat selection in the lacertid Podarcis bocagei.
Enrique García-Muñoz, Francisco Ceacero, Luis Pedrajas, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, Miguel Á. Carretero   +4 more
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Variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism in the most widely ranging lizard: testing the effects of reproductive mode and climate

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Reproductive mode, ancestry, and climate are hypothesized to determine body size variation in reptiles but their effects have rarely been estimated simultaneously, especially at the intraspecific level.
Evgeny S. Roitberg, Valentina F. Orlova, Nina A. Bulakhova, Valentina N. Kuranova, Galina V. Eplanova, Oleksandr I. Zinenko, Oscar Arribas, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Katarina Ljubisavljević, Vladimir P. Starikov, Henk Strijbosch, Sylvia Hofmann, Olga A. Leontyeva, Wolfgang Böhme   +13 more
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Pathogenic Leishmania spp. detected in lizards from Northwest China using molecular methods

BMC Veterinary Research, 2019
Background Leishmaniosis, a disease caused by pathogenic Leishmania parasites, remains an unresolved health problem in the New World and the Old World.
Jun-Rong Zhang, Xian-Guang Guo, Han Chen, Jin-Long Liu, Xiong Gong, Da-Li Chen, Jian-Ping Chen   +6 more
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Helminth fauna of reptiles in the National Park «Smolny», Russia

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2021
Reptiles are a common component of natural biological communities. They serve as the final and paratenic hosts of helminths and play an important role in the transmission of parasites.
Alexander А. Kirillov, Nadezhda Yu. Kirillova   +1 more
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Correlation between the Lunar Phase and Tail-Lifting Behavior of Lizards (Pogona vitticeps) Exposed to an Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field

Animals, 2019
We previously showed that the agamid lizard Pogona vitticeps responded to an extremely low-frequency electromagnetic field (ELF-EMF; frequency: 6 and 8 Hz; peak magnetic field: 2.6 µT; peak electric field: 10 V/m) with tail-lifting behavior.
Tsutomu Nishimura, Harue Tada, Masanori Fukushima   +2 more
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Identity of Gymnophthalmus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from northeastern Amazonia with evidence for G. underwoodi as invasive in Belém

Acta Amazonica, 2021
We report the occurrence of the lizard Gymnophthalmus underwoodi in the municipality of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil. This is the first record of that species south of the Amazonas River, probably because of an accidental introduction by ships that dock ...
Adriano O. MACIEL, Ivanei S. ARAÚJO, Geraldo R. LIMA-FILHO, Felipe M. R. CASTRO, Lywouty R. S. NASCIMENTO, Manuela V. dos SANTOS, Ana L. C. PRUDENTE, Marcelo J. STURARO   +7 more
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The effects of seasonality on the foraging behavior of Tropidurus hispidus and Tropidurus semitaeniatus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) living in sympatry in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2009
In this study, we performed field observations of 38 and 84 specimens of the lizards Tropidurus hispidus (Spix, 1825) and Tropidurus semitaeniatus (Spix, 1825), respectively, inhabiting a Caatinga in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil,
Miguel F. Kolodiuk, Leonardo B. Ribeiro, Eliza M. X. Freire   +2 more
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The life-cycle and ultrastructure of Sarcocystis ameivamastigodryasi n. sp., in the lizard Ameiva ameiva (Teiidae) and the snake Mastigodryas bifossatus (Colubridae)(1)

Parasite, 2000
Sarcocysts in muscles of the teiid lizard Ameiva ameivafrom north Brazil were fed to the colubrid snake Mastigodryas bifossatus, the faeces of which had been shown to be devoid of coccidial oocysts or sporocysts.
Lainson R., Paperna I.
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