But they move! Vicariance and dispersal in southern South America: Using two methods to reconstruct the biogeography of a clade of lizards endemic to South America. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 This study aims to identify events that modeled the historical biogeography of Phymaturus, using three methodologies: Spatial Analysis of Vicariance (VIP), Statistical Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis (S-DIVA), and Bayesian Binary Method MCMC (BBM).
Thomas Nathaniel Hibbard +2 more
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Macroevolutionary diversification with limited niche disparity in a species-rich lineage of cold-climate lizards [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018 Background Life diversifies via adaptive radiation when natural selection drives the evolution of ecologically distinct species mediated by their access to novel niche space, or via non-adaptive radiation when new species diversify while retaining ...
Ashley M. Reaney +2 more
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Characterization of the bacterial microbiota in different gut and oral compartments of splendid japalure (Japalura sensu lato) [PDF]
BMC Veterinary Research, 2022 Background Gut and oral microbes form complex communities and play key roles in co-evolution with their hosts. However, little is understood about the bacterial community in lizards.
Zhige Tian +12 more
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Potential benefits from global warming to the thermal biology and locomotor performance of an endangered Patagonian lizard [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Global warming can significantly affect many aspects of the biology of animal species, including their thermal physiology and physiological performance.
Facundo Cabezas-Cartes +3 more
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Thermophysiology and Locomotor Performance of the Andean Lizard Phymaturus williamsi: Vulnerable to Rising Temperatures? [PDF]
BiologyAmbient temperature strongly influences the physiology and performance of ectotherms, making it essential to understand their responses to thermal variation under climate change.
Ana E. Victorica Erostarbe +4 more
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Lessons from the diet: Captivity and sex shape the gut microbiota in an oviparous lizard (Calotes versicolor). [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2022 Relationships between bacterial and KEGG pathway by sex (a) and captive (b). Pairwise comparisons of bacterial were displayed with a color gradient denoting Spearman's correlation coefficient. Bacterial and KEGG community composition was related to each bacterium by Mantel test. Abstract Studies have indicated that the abundance and community structure
Zhang L +5 more
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Reptiles of Chubut province, Argentina: richness, diversity, conservation status and geographic distribution maps [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2015 An accurate estimation of species and population geographic ranges is essential for species-focused studies and conservation and management plans. Knowledge of the geographic distributions of reptiles from Patagonian Argentina is in general limited and ...
Ignacio Minoli +2 more
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The shadow of the past: Convergence of young and old South American desert lizards as measured by head shape traits. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2018 Convergent evolution in South American lizards. In this study we test if natural selection was stronger than historical contingency in the putative convergence of head traits between an old lizard lineage (Ctenoblepharys adspersa) and younger lizards (Liolaemus species) living in the extreme desert environments of the South American Pacific coast.
Aguilar-Puntriano C +7 more
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Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias, 2021 Basking and retreat sites constitute a key resource in the habitat of any ectotherm. Identifying the elements that are used and modelling the microhabitat selection of species is crucial for assessing the impact of anthropogenic disturbances at the ...
Nadia Vicenzi +2 more
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Undersampling taxa will underestimate molecular divergence dates: an example from the South american lizard clade liolaemini. [PDF]
Int J Evol Biol, 2013 Methods for estimating divergence times from molecular data have improved dramatically over the past decade, yet there are few studies examining alternative taxon sampling effects on node age estimates. Here, I investigate the effect of undersampling species diversity on node ages of the South American lizard clade Liolaemini using several alternative ...
Schulte JA.
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