Hurricanes Shape Puerto Rican Anole Distributions
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by Anna Thonis
1d ago
The Caribbean’s history of tropical cyclones (e.g., hurricanes, tropical storms, tropical depressions) is well-known, and a number of studies have quantified how anole populations differ before and after a storm. Previous studies have recorded changes in anole phenotype, behavior, and population density following a tropical cyclone. That said, these are almost always opportunistic studies in ..read more
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New Article on Anolis roosevelti and the Question of Its Survival
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by Jonathan Losos
1w ago
We’ve had a number of posts in the past about the enigmatic A. roosevelti, last seen alive in more than 90 years ago. Here’s an interesting summary of the species and how its specter haunts current land use on Culebra and elsewhere in the species’ geographic range ..read more
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Lizard Diving Champions: Trading Heat For Safety Underwater
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by Jonathan Losos
1w ago
From the pages of Binghamton University’s In the fascinating world of semi-aquatic lizards, the anoles have emerged as the scuba-diving champions, capable of staying submerged for over 16 minutes. However, for these cold-blooded creatures, spending time in cool running streams can come with physiological trade-offs, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of ..read more
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Field Drawings of Anoles in the Dominican Republic
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by Lillian Durand
2w ago
When I was a kid, my favorite thing to do was go outside with my rainbow zebra-stripe notebook and draw any living thing I could find. Often, especially for the animals, I would include little comments and blurbs about the things I observed them doing, or make up stories about them. As the years went ..read more
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Undergraduate With Her Own Funding Looking For A Field Assistant Position
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by Nicole Povelikin
1M ago
Hello Anolophiles! Could anyone use a free undergraduate field assistant this summer for any squamate evolution or conservation projects, preferably outside of the U.S.? I am an undergraduate student in Drs. Emily Lemmon and Frank Burbrink’s labs with $5k from a merit based scholarship that I need to spend this summer on my “educational enrichment ..read more
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The Trophic Niche of Lizards in María Cleofas Island
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by Ilse K. Barraza-Soltero
2M ago
I woke up after spending the whole night in motion and listening to the engine noise as a crib song. Some years ago, it had been a crab boat in Alaska and it was now equipped to do biological research in the northwest of Mexico. I am here after a few talks with Armando Escobedo ..read more
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Do Large Brown Anoles Get the Most Mating Opportunities?
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by Jonathan Losos
2M ago
This post is an update of one from 2020. Below is the old post based on a presentation by Rachana Bhave at the 2020 SICB meetings. Rachana has now done the genetic parentage studies and published the cool paper in Behavioral Ecology. Here’s the abstract of the paper: In promiscuous species, fitness estimates obtained from genetic parentage ..read more
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An Evolutionary Trade-off of Strategies in the Bones of Anoles
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by Ken Toyama
4M ago
We recently published (together with Alex Tinius and Luke Mahler) a paper in Evolution in which we explore how the strength of the femur of Anolis lizards might be attained by two independent mechanisms, and how the interaction between them represents a previously unexplored axis of phenotypic diversity! I will try to summarize the main ideas ..read more
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A New, High-quality Genome for a Well-studied Anole from Panama
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by Renata Pirani
4M ago
We recently published a chromosome-scale assembly of the slender anole (Anolis apletophallus) genome, a species that has been studied for decades at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Here is the abstract: The slender anole, Anolis apletophallus, is a small arboreal lizard of the rainforest understory of central and eastern Panama. This species has been ..read more
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A Good Week in Anole Genomics
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by Aryeh Miller
5M ago
This week, anoles are in the genomic spotlight for three papers– Pirani et al. (2023), Taft et al. (2023), and Farleigh et al. (2023). I’ve briefly highlighted each below, but check em’ all out! New literature alert!   Pirani et al. (2023) usher in a new age of Anolis lizard biology by publishing the first mainland ..read more
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