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Wintertime tales: How the lizard Liolaemus lineomaculatus endures the temperate cold climate of Patagonia, Argentina

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022
In temperate, polar and montane environments, ectotherms must find ways to endure throughout the coldest months of the year. Lizards search for microsites where temperatures remain warm or alter their biochemical balance to tolerate freezing or avoid it ...
NICOLÁS R. CECCHETTO   +3 more
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Artificial Water Point for Livestock Influences Spatial Ecology of a Native Lizard Species. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Pastoralism is a major agricultural activity in drier environments, and can directly and indirectly impact native species in those areas. We investigated how the supply of an artificial watering point to support grazing livestock affected movement and ...
Stephan T Leu, C Michael Bull
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Parasitic infection patterns in Coleodactylus meridionalis (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from Atlantic Forest fragments, northeast of the Neotropical Region

open access: yesHelminthologia, 2021
Studies that seek to understand which factors influence the patterns of infection in the lizard Coleodactylus meridionalis are non-existent. In this way, we recorded the infection rates for these lizards from three different sized fragments of the ...
Teixeira A. A. M.   +6 more
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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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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

lizard

open access: yesJournal of Religion & Film, 2021
This is a review of the short film, Lizard (2020), directed by Akinola Davies.
openaire   +3 more sources

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