Tag: Lizards

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Fur, focus, and lizards: the hush of friendship woven in field days

This blog post is provided by Qiong Zhang and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Sex-specific responses to warming: A longitudinal study linking life-history variation to telomere dynamics, telomerase expression and oxidative stress“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. This study examined how climate warming influences sex-specific life history trajectories of toad-headed agamas by monitoring growth, survival, telomere dynamics, telomerase expression, and … Continue reading Fur, focus, and lizards: the hush of friendship woven in field days

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Hungry lizards catch the worms

Parasite transmission is dependent upon host diet and habitat use. A recent paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology examined over 350 species of lizard in search of a link between parasite diversity and lizard ecology. Here to tell us more is lead author Dr Tommy Leung, a Lecturer in Parasitology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of New England, Australia. All animals are infected with … Continue reading Hungry lizards catch the worms

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Effects of a maternal stress hormone across life stages

Anthropogenic disturbance is a growing threat, and the physiological consequences of exposure to such stressors is gaining increasing attention. A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology explores the consequences of stress-relevant hormones for mothers and their offspring. David Ensminger, lead author of the study, is finishing up his PhD with Dr. Tracy Langkilde, taking an integrative approach to examining the role stress-relevant … Continue reading Effects of a maternal stress hormone across life stages

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