... convergence of hydrophobic structured skin in a group of semi-aquatic tetrapods. We show that the skin surface of semi-aquatic species of Anolis lizards is characterized by a more elaborate microstructural architecture (i.e. longer spines and spinules) and a lower wettability relative to closely related...

... microhabitat use and thermal physiology in two ectothermic congeners that are ecologically similar but differ in their degree of sexual size dimorphism. Brown anoles ( Anolis sagrei ) exhibit male-biased sexual size dimorphism and live in thermally heterogeneous habitats, whereas slender anoles ( Anolis...

... effects differ among sympatric species, and often utilize unrealistic temperature treatments. We used thermal fluctuations from nests within the urban-heat island to determine how thermal tolerance of embryos changes across development and differs among two sympatric lizard species ( Anolis sagrei...

... crested anole lizard ( Anolis cristatellus ) nests in both city and forest habitats. We bred anoles in the laboratory and subjected their eggs to five incubation treatments that mimicked temperature regimes from the field, three of which included brief exposure to extremely high temperatures (i.e. thermal...

... and manoeuvrability . J. Theor. Biol. 47 , 333 - 350 . Irschick D. J. ( 2000 ). Comparative and behavioral analyses of preferred speed: Anolis lizards as a model system . Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 73 , 428 - 437 . Irschick D. J. , Jayne B. C. ( 1999 ). A field study of the effects...

... into the developmental regulation of Hb synthesis in the green anole lizard Anolis carolinensis . We tested two hypotheses derived from comparative genomic studies of the globin gene clusters in tetrapod vertebrates. First, we tested whether the product of the Anolis α D -globin gene is incorporated into embryonic Hb...

... on the importance of the tail in jumping. Using high-speed video we recorded jumps from six lizards (Anolis carolinensis) both before and after removing 80% of the tail to test the hypothesis that tail loss has a significant effect on jumping kinematics. Several key performance metrics, including jump distance...

... plate to investigate the scaling of functional variables associated with jumping within(for three species) and across adults of 12 species of Anolis lizards. Both ontogenetically (with the exception of Anolis carolinensis ) and across the 12 species examined, limb dimensions increased geometrically...

...Jonathan B. Losos; Barry Sinervo ABSTRACT We investigated the mechanistic basis for the observed correlation between leg length and perch size among West Indian Anolis lizards by testing the hypothesis that species use those perches upon which they can move most effectively. We used four Anolis...

...Brett A. Adams ABSTRACT The thermal dependence of passive electrical properties was determined for twitch fibres from the white region of the iliofibularis (IF) muscle of Anolis cristatellus (15–35°C) and Sceloporus accidentalis (15–40°C), and for twitch fibres from the white (15–45°C) and red (15...