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Assembly of the largest squamate reference genome to date: The western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis

Journal of Heredity, 2023
Spiny lizards (genus Sceloporus) have long served as important systems for studies of behavior, thermal physiology, dietary ecology, vector biology, speciation, and biogeography.
A. P. Bishop, Erin P. Westeen, M. L. Yuan, M. Escalona, E. Beraut, C. Fairbairn, M. Marimuthu, O. Nguyen, N. Chumchim, E. Toffelmier, R. Fisher, H. B. Shaffer, Ian J. Wang   +12 more
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Allometric analysis of sexual dimorphism and morphological variation in two chromosome races of the Sceloporus grammicus complex (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) from Mexico

Vertebrate zoology, 2023
Sexual dimorphism is a widespread feature in the Animal Kingdom. In lizards of the Sceloporus grammicus complex, studies of sexual dimorphism that analyze the allometric trajectories of body traits remain unexplored. Here we investigate sexual dimorphism
Abraham Lozano, Jack W. Sites, Jr, A. Ramírez‐Bautista, Jonathon C. Marshall, N. Pavón, Raciel Cruz‐Elizalde   +5 more
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Sceloporus occidentalis

CABI Compendium, 2022
This datasheet on Sceloporus occidentalis covers Identity, Distribution, Further Information.

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An annotated list of the species-group names applied to the lizard genus Sceloporus

Acta Zoologica Mexicana, 2022
An alphabetically-arranged list of all (196) species-group names ever proposed or used in the genus Sceloporus is presented, with citations of the original proposal, onomatophore, type locality, English standardnames, current status, combination priority,
E. L. Bell, Hobart M. Smith, D. Chiszar
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Rock Refuges Are Strongly Associated with Increased Urban Occupancy in the Western Fence Lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis

Diversity, 2022
Urbanization has dramatically altered habitats for local species worldwide. While some species are unable to meet the challenges that these alterations bring, others are able to persist as long as a threshold for suitable habitat is met.
Alexander J. Rurik, Seth C. Wilmoth, K. Dayton, Amanda M. Sparkman   +3 more
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Whole-chromosome fusions in the karyotype evolution of Sceloporus (Iguania, Reptilia) are more frequent in sex chromosomes than autosomes

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021
Whole-chromosome fusions play a major role in the karyotypic evolution of reptiles. It has been suggested that certain chromosomes tend to fuse with sex chromosomes more frequently than others. However, the comparative genomic synteny data are too scarce
A. Lisachov, K. Tishakova, S. Romanenko, A. S. Molodtseva, D. Prokopov, J. Pereira, M. Ferguson-Smith, P. Borodin, V. Trifonov   +8 more
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Information out of the blue: phenotypic correlates of abdominal color patches in Sceloporus lizards.

Zoology, 2021
Colorful ornaments are important visual signals for animal communication that can provide critical information about the quality of the signaler. In this study, we focused on different color characteristics of the abdominal patches of males of six lizard
J. Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, J. Pruett, Alison G. Ossip‐Drahos, Stephanie M. Campos, Ryan J. Seddon, Savannah Price, Cristina Romero‐Diaz, Julio A. Rivera, C. Vital-García, D. K. Hews, E. Martins   +10 more
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Dietary effects on gut microbiota of the mesquite lizard Sceloporus grammicus (Wiegmann, 1828) across different altitudes

Microbiome, 2020
High-altitude ecosystems are extreme environments that generate specific physiological, morphological, and behavioral adaptations in ectotherms. The shifts in gut microbiota of the ectothermic hosts as an adaptation to environmental changes are still ...
Nina M. Montoya-Ciriaco, Selene Gómez-Acata, L. C. Muñoz-Arenas, L. Dendooven, A. Estrada-Torres, A. H. Díaz de la Vega-Pérez, Yendi E. Navarro-Noya   +6 more
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A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology

bioRxiv, 2020
High-quality genomic resources facilitate population-level and species-level comparisons to answer questions about behavioral ecology, morphological and physiological adaptations, as well as the evolution of genomic architecture.
Aundrea K Westfall, Rory S Telemeco, M. B. Grizante, D. S. Waits, Amanda D. Clark, Dasia Y. Simpson, Randy L. Klabacka, Alexis P. Sullivan, G. Perry, M. Sears, C. L. Cox, R. M. Cox, M. Gifford, H. John-Alder, T. Langkilde, Michael J. Angilletta, A. Leaché, Marc Tollis, K. Kusumi, T. Schwartz   +19 more
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To be small and dark is advantageous for gaining heat in mezquite lizards, Sceloporus grammicus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)

, 2020
Body temperature is important in determining individual performance in ectotherms such as lizards. Environmental temperature decreases with increasing altitude, but nevertheless many lizards inhabit high-altitude environments.
J. C. González-Morales, Jimena Rivera-Rea, G. Moreno-Rueda, E. Bastiaans, Héctor M Díaz-Albiter, A. H. Díaz de la Vega-Pérez, A. Bautista, Víctor Fajardo   +7 more
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