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Serological Variety and Antimicrobial Resistance in Salmonella Isolated from Reptiles

open access: yesBiology, 2022
Salmonella enterica is one of the best adapted bacterial pathogens causing infections in a wide variety of vertebrate species. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Salmonella in different reptile species and to evaluate their ...
Lina Merkevičienė   +8 more
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Candidatus Cryptoplasma Associated with Green Lizards and Ixodes ricinus Ticks, Slovakia, 2004–2011

open access: yesEmerging 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   +6 more
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Diets Alter the Gut Microbiome of Crocodile Lizards

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +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

open access: yesActa 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variation in body size and sexual size dimorphism in the most widely ranging lizard: testing the effects of reproductive mode and climate

open access: yesEcology 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   +13 more
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Pathogenic Leishmania spp. detected in lizards from Northwest China using molecular methods

open access: yesBMC 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Helminth fauna of reptiles in the National Park «Smolny», Russia

open access: yesNature 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   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correlation between the Lunar Phase and Tail-Lifting Behavior of Lizards (Pogona vitticeps) Exposed to an Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field

open access: yesAnimals, 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hepatozoon kisrae n. sp. infecting the lizard Agama stellio is transmitted by the tick Hyalomma cf. aegyptium

open access: yesParasite, 2002
Hepatozoon kisrae n. sp. was found infecting a starred lizard at a site in southeastern Samaria, Palestine. These lizards were also hosts to the ixodid tick Hyolomma cf. aegyptium, which was demonstrated to be the vector of this hemogregarine. Hepatozoon
Paperna I.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identity of Gymnophthalmus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from northeastern Amazonia with evidence for G. underwoodi as invasive in Belém

open access: yesActa 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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