ReptilesRichard Shine
Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Curr Biol 23:R227-31. 2013
..And another 200-million-year-old lineage has left just a single survivor, a lizard-like creature (the tuatara), on a few islands in New Zealand...
An airborne sex pheromone in snakesR Shine
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 8:183-5. 2012
..Hence, the sexual behaviour of reptiles can be affected by airborne as well as substrate-bound pheromones...
- An evolutionary process that assembles phenotypes through space rather than through time
Richard Shine
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:5708-11. 2011
..g., acceleration of invasion fronts, insular flightlessness, preadaptation) may have evolved via spatial sorting as well as (or rather than) by natural selection, and this evolutionary mechanism warrants further study...
The ecological impact of invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) in AustraliaRichard Shine
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Q Rev Biol 85:253-91. 2010
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- Host-parasite relationships during a biologic invasion: 75 years postinvasion, cane toads and sympatric Australian frogs retain separate lungworm faunas
Ligia Pizzatto
School of Biological Sciences, A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Wildl Dis 48:951-61. 2012
..are widely distributed geographically and across host taxa but are more common in some frog species (especially, large-bodied species) than they are in others...
- Maternal and environmental effects on offspring phenotypes in an oviparous lizard: do field data corroborate laboratory data?
Daniel A Warner
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Oecologia 161:209-20. 2009
..Hence, although many results from this field study corroborate those from the laboratory, caution is needed when extrapolating laboratory-incubation results to field conditions...
- Determinants of incubation period: do reptilian embryos hatch after a fixed total number of heart beats?
Wei Guo Du
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006 Australia
J Exp Biol 212:1302-6. 2009
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- Reid's paradox revisited: the evolution of dispersal kernels during range expansion
Benjamin L Phillips
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Am Nat 172:S34-48. 2008
..For accurate long-range forecasts of range advance, we need to take into account the potential for dispersal kernels to be evolutionarily dynamic...
- Beyond size-number trade-offs: clutch size as a maternal effect
Gregory P Brown
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1097-106. 2009
..Our results also challenge conventional experimental methodologies such as split-clutch designs for laboratory incubation studies: by separating an egg from its siblings, we may directly affect offspring size and thus viability...
- Exploiting intraspecific competitive mechanisms to control invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina)
Michael R Crossland
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 279:3436-42. 2012
..More generally, communication systems that have evolved for intraspecific conflict provide novel opportunities for invasive-species control...
- Habitat selection in a rocky landscape: experimentally decoupling the influence of retreat site attributes from that of landscape features
Benjamin M Croak
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e37982. 2012
..Standardized retreat sites can provide robust experimental data on the effects of landscape-scale attributes on retreat site selection, revealing interspecific divergences among sympatric taxa that use similar habitats...
- Embryonic exposure to conspecific chemicals suppresses cane toad growth and survival
Michael R Crossland
School of Biological Sciences, A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 8:226-9. 2012
..The waterborne cue responsible for these effects might provide a weapon to reduce toad recruitment within the species' invaded range...
- Infection dynamics of the lungworm Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala in its natural host, the cane toad (Bufo marinus), and in novel hosts (native Australian frogs)
Ligia Pizzatto
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Wildl Dis 46:1152-64. 2010
..Evolution has resulted in an enhanced ability of the lungworm to locate the target organ (the lungs) of the toad, and an increase in rates of parasite survival within this host...
- Fatal attraction: adaptations to prey on native frogs imperil snakes after invasion of toxic toads
Mattias Hagman
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 276:2813-8. 2009
..Together, these results illustrate the dissonance in behavioural adaptations that can arise following the arrival of invasive species, and reveal the strong selection that occurs when mutually naive species first interact...
- Are the phenotypic traits of hatchling lizards affected by maternal allocation of steroid hormones to the egg?
Rajkumar S Radder
School of Biological Sciences A08, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Gen Comp Endocrinol 154:111-9. 2007
..Hence, our results do not support the hypothesis that reproducing female lizards manipulate the phenotypic traits of their offspring by differential allocation of steroid hormones...
- Plio-pleistocene diversification and connectivity between mainland and Tasmanian populations of Australian snakes (Drysdalia, Elapidae, Serpentes)
Sylvain Dubey
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 56:1119-25. 2010
..Two highly divergent genetic lineages within Drysdalia coronoides occur in Tasmania. Molecular dating suggests that these lineages were isolated from the mainland in the Pleistocene...
- Impact of invasive cane toads on Australian birds
Christa Beckmann
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
Conserv Biol 23:1544-9. 2009
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- Abiotic and biotic influences on the dispersal behavior of metamorph cane toads (Bufo marinus) in tropical Australia
Travis Child
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Exp Zool A Ecol Genet Physiol 309:215-24. 2008
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- Offspring sex in a lizard depends on egg size
Rajkumar S Radder
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Curr Biol 19:1102-5. 2009
..Remarkably, then, offspring sex in this species is the end result of an interaction between three mechanisms: sex chromosomes, nest temperatures, and yolk allocation...
- Ontogenetic shifts in a prey's chemical defences influence feeding responses of a snake predator
John Llewelyn
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Oecologia 169:965-73. 2012
..Our data are thus consistent with the hypothesis that ontogenetic changes in toxin content can affect individuals' vulnerability to predation...
- Determinants of habitat selection by hatchling Australian freshwater crocodiles
Ruchira Somaweera
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e28533. 2011
..Thus, habitat selection of hatchling crocodiles in this system may be driven both by prey availability and by predation risk...
- Facultative cardiac responses to regional hypoxia in lizard embryos
Wei Guo Du
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 156:491-4. 2010
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- Locomotor performance in an invasive species: cane toads from the invasion front have greater endurance, but not speed, compared to conspecifics from a long-colonised area
John Llewelyn
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Oecologia 162:343-8. 2010
..Nonetheless, shifts in endurance between frontal and core populations of this invasive species point to the complex panoply of traits affected by selection for increased dispersal ability on expanding population fronts...
- Corticosterone exposure during embryonic development affects offspring growth and sex ratios in opposing directions in two lizard species with environmental sex determination
Daniel A Warner
University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Physiol Biochem Zool 82:363-71. 2009
..These results demonstrate the complexity of proximate mechanisms for sex determination among reptiles with TSD and illustrate the potential role of corticosterone in sex-determining systems...
- Thermally induced torpor in fullterm lizard embryos synchronizes hatching with ambient conditions
Rajkumar Radder
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 2:415-6. 2006
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- The influence of hydric environments during egg incubation on embryonic heart rates and offspring phenotypes in a scincid lizard (Lampropholis guichenoti)
Wei Guo Du
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 151:102-7. 2008
..Thus, as in many other squamate species, hatchling phenotypes and embryonic developmental rates of L. guichenoti are less sensitive to hydric conditions in the nest than to thermal regimes...
- The ecological impact of invasive cane toads on tropical snakes: field data do not support laboratory-based predictions
Gregory P Brown
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Ecology 92:422-31. 2011
..Our study casts doubt on the ability of a priori desktop studies, or short-term field surveys, to predict or document the ecological impact of invasive species...
- Size and sex matter: infection dynamics of an invading parasite (the pentastome Raillietiella frenatus) in an invading host (the cane toad Rhinella marina)
Crystal Kelehear
School of Biological Sciences, A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Parasitology 139:1596-604. 2012
..Although experimental studies are required to identify the causal bases of such patterns, our data confirm that infection status within a population can be strongly linked to host phenotypic traits...
- Interacting impacts of invasive plants and invasive toads on native lizards
Samantha J Price-Rees
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Am Nat 179:413-22. 2012
..As a result, populations of lizards from areas previously exposed to these alien plants may be preadapted to deal with the toxins of the more recent anuran invader...
- Turgid female toads give males the slip: a new mechanism of female mate choice in the Anura
Bas Bruning
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 6:322-4. 2010
..This overlooked mechanism of anuran mate choice may reflect a common evolutionary pattern, whereby females co-opt defensive traits for use in sexual selection...
- Maternal nutrition affects reproductive output and sex allocation in a lizard with environmental sex determination
Daniel A Warner
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 274:883-90. 2007
..Overall, our results show that sex determination in these animals is more complex, and responsive to a wider range of environmental cues, than that suggested by the classification of 'environmental sex determination'...
- Invasion, stress, and spinal arthritis in cane toads
Gregory P Brown
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:17698-700. 2007
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- Windows of embryonic sexual lability in two lizard species with environmental sex determination
Richard Shine
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Ecology 88:1781-8. 2007
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- Fitness of juvenile lizards depends on seasonal timing of hatching, not offspring body size
Daniel A Warner
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Oecologia 154:65-73. 2007
..Growth rates and survival were strongly enhanced by early-season hatching, but were not affected by hatchling body size...
- Establishment success of introduced amphibians increases in the presence of congeneric species
Reid Tingley
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Am Nat 177:382-8. 2011
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- Influence of lung parasites on the growth rates of free-ranging and captive adult cane toads
Crystal Kelehear
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Oecologia 165:585-92. 2011
..Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala may be a valuable component of a biological control strategy for cane toads in Australia...
- Why do female lizards lay their eggs in communal nests?
Rajkumar S Radder
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Anim Ecol 76:881-7. 2007
..5. Hydric modifications of incubation conditions within a cluster of tightly packed eggs thus may provide a direct fitness benefit to communal oviposition...
- Estimating survival rates of uncatchable animals: the myth of high juvenile mortality in reptiles
David A Pike
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Ecology 89:607-11. 2008
..Our analyses challenge the widely held belief that juvenile reptiles have low rates of annual survival and suggest instead that sampling problems and the elusive biology of juvenile reptiles have misled researchers in this respect...
- Kleptothermy: an additional category of thermoregulation, and a possible example in sea kraits (Laticauda laticaudata, Serpentes)
François Brischoux
Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 5:729-31. 2009
..Thermal monitoring on a small tropical island documents a possible example of kleptothermy, based on high stable temperatures of a sea snake (Laticauda laticaudata) inside a burrow occupied by seabirds...
- Using combined morphological, allometric and molecular approaches to identify species of the genus Raillietiella (Pentastomida)
Crystal Kelehear
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e24936. 2011
..To facilitate valid descriptions of new species of pentastomes, future taxonomic work should include both morphological measurements (incorporating quantitative measures of body size and hook bluntness) and molecular data...
- The effects of experimentally infecting Australian tree frogs with lungworms (Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala) from invasive cane toads
Ligia Pizzatto
School of Biological Sciences A08, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Int J Parasitol 41:943-9. 2011
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- Interactions among thermal parameters determine offspring sex under temperature-dependent sex determination
Daniel A Warner
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 278:256-65. 2011
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- Modeling the consequences of thermal trait variation for the cane toad invasion of Australia
Jason J Kolbe
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Ecol Appl 20:2273-85. 2010
..Low-temperature tolerance of the adult phase may constrain the southern range limit of the cane toad in Australia, and plasticity in this trait may have facilitated the southward range expansion...
- Parasites and pathogens lag behind their host during periods of host range advance
Ben L Phillips
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Ecology 91:872-81. 2010
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- Adapting to the unpredictable: reproductive biology of vertebrates in the Australian wet-dry tropics
Richard Shine
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:363-73. 2008
..Such flexibility fine-tunes developmental rates and trajectories to conditions--especially, rainfall patterns--that are not predictable at the time of oviposition...
- Rain, prey and predators: climatically driven shifts in frog abundance modify reproductive allometry in a tropical snake
Gregory P Brown
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Oecologia 154:361-8. 2007
..Thus, the link between female body size and reproductive output varied among years, with climatic factors modifying the relative reproductive rates of larger (older) versus smaller (younger) animals within the keelback population...
- Is increased maternal basking an adaptation or a pre-adaptation to viviparity in lizards?
Richard Shine
Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Exp Zool A Comp Exp Biol 305:524-35. 2006
..Thus, as for many other behavioural correlates of pregnancy in viviparous reptiles, maternal thermophily likely may have already been present in the ancestral oviparous taxa that gave rise to present-day viviparous forms...
- Invasion and the evolution of speed in toads
Benjamin L Phillips
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Nature 439:803. 2006
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- Genetic evidence for co-occurrence of chromosomal and thermal sex-determining systems in a lizard
Rajkumar S Radder
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 4:176-8. 2008
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- Smart moves: effects of relative brain size on establishment success of invasive amphibians and reptiles
Joshua J Amiel
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e18277. 2011
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- Lizards combine stored energy and recently acquired nutrients flexibly to fuel reproduction
Daniel A Warner
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Anim Ecol 77:1242-9. 2008
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- Impact of the invasive cane toad (Bufo marinus) on an Australian frog (Opisthodon ornatus) depends on minor variation in reproductive timing
Michael R Crossland
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Oecologia 158:625-32. 2009
..Minor interspecific differences in the seasonal timing of oviposition thus have the potential to massively alter the impact of invasive cane toads on native anurans...
- Nesting lizards (Bassiana duperreyi) compensate partly, but not completely, for climate change
Rory S Telemeco
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Ecology 90:17-22. 2009
..As a result, mean incubation temperatures in natural nests now have crossed the thermal threshold at which incubation temperature directly affects offspring sex in this population...
- Phylogenetic relationships within laticaudine sea snakes (Elapidae)
Amanda Lane
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 59:567-77. 2011
..saintgironsi. A major divergence in speciation patterns between the two major clades of laticaudine snakes thus correlates with (and perhaps, is driven by) differences in the importance of terrestrial habitats in the species' ecology...
- Hotter nests produce smarter young lizards
Joshua J Amiel
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 8:372-4. 2012
..Hence, factors such as maternal nest-site selection and climate change affect not only the size, shape and athletic abilities of hatchling reptiles, but also their ability to learn novel tasks...
- Different optimal offspring sizes for sons versus daughters may favor the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination in viviparous lizards
Tracy Langkilde
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Evolution 59:2275-80. 2005
..Hence, opposing fitness determinants of sons and daughters may have favored evolutionary transitions from genetic sex determination to TSD in both oviparous turtles and viviparous lizards...
- Life-history evolution in range-shifting populations
Benjamin L Phillips
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Ecology 91:1617-27. 2010
..Recent studies suggest that such nonequilibrium processes during recent population history may have contributed to many patterns usually ascribed to evolutionary forces acting in populations at spatial equilibrium...
- Removing forest canopy cover restores a reptile assemblage
David A Pike
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
Ecol Appl 21:274-80. 2011
..One such species is Australia's most endangered snake, the broadheaded snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides)...
- Climate-induced reaction norms for life-history traits in pythons
Beata Ujvari
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Ecology 92:1858-64. 2011
..Thus, the reaction norms recorded over 16 years of mal" (albeit highly variable) climatic conditions gave little insight into the population's response to a more extreme nutritional crisis...
- Origin of the parasites of an invading species, the Australian cane toad (Bufo marinus): are the lungworms Australian or American?
Sylvain Dubey
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Mol Ecol 17:4418-24. 2008
..We did not find this lungworm species in any Australian frogs sympatric with cane toads, suggesting that the parasite does not attack Australian frogs and hence may offer potential as a biocontrol agent of the toad...
- Offspring sex is not related to maternal allocation of yolk steroids in the lizard Bassiana duperreyi (Scincidae)
Rajkumar Radder
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Physiol Biochem Zool 80:220-7. 2007
..Further, yolk steroid concentrations were not significantly related to egg size. Thus, yolk steroid hormones do not appear to play a critical role in sex determination for B. duperreyi...
- Geographic variation in the age of temperate-zone reptile and amphibian species: Southern Hemisphere species are older
Sylvain Dubey
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 7:96-7. 2011
..Because a species' age may influence its vulnerability to anthropogenic threats, geographical variation in species ages should be incorporated into conservation planning...
- Early experience influences both habitat choice and locomotor performance in tiger snakes
Fabien Aubret
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Am Nat 171:524-31. 2008
..imposed by that habitat type. The end result may be to create ecomorphs, whereby different individuals within a population become specialized for different types of habitats even in the absence of genetic differentiation...
- When dinner is dangerous: toxic frogs elicit species-specific responses from a generalist snake predator
Ben Phillips
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Am Nat 170:936-42. 2007
..Adders deal with these prey types in different and highly stereotyped ways: they consume nontoxic frogs directly but envenomate and release the other taxa, waiting until the chemical defense loses its potency before consuming the prey...
- Intraspecific variation in the direction and degree of sex-biased dispersal among sea-snake populations
Amanda Lane
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Mol Ecol 20:1870-6. 2011
..This flexibility may reflect sex differences in diets, with spatial variation in sex-specific resources generating spatial variation in sex-specific dispersal distances...
- Reproducing lizards modify sex allocation in response to operational sex ratios
Daniel A Warner
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Biol Lett 3:47-50. 2007
..e. overproduced the more abundant sex). This response may enhance fitness if local OSRs predict survival probabilities of offspring of each sex, rather than the intensity of sexual competition...
- Evolutionary diversification of the lizard genus Bassiana (Scincidae) across Southern Australia
Sylvain Dubey
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 5:e12982. 2010
..The lizard genus Bassiana (Squamata, Scincidae) contains three species that occur across a wide area of southern Australia (including Tasmania), rendering them ideally-suited to studies on the impact of past climatic fluctuations...
- Do changing moisture levels during incubation influence phenotypic traits of hatchling snakes (Tropidonophis mairii, Colubridae)?
Gregory P Brown
Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Physiol Biochem Zool 78:524-30. 2005
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- Desiccation risk drives the spatial ecology of an invasive anuran (Rhinella marina) in the Australian semi-desert
Reid Tingley
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e25979. 2011
..This finding illustrates that risk assessment protocols need to recognise that under some circumstances an introduced species may be able to thrive in conditions far removed from any that it experiences in its native range...
- Compensating for a bad start: catch-up growth in juvenile lizards (Amphibolurus muricatus, Agamidae)
Rajkumar S Radder
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Exp Zool A Ecol Genet Physiol 307:500-8. 2007
..Thus, the two groups were indistinguishable in body size at 6 months of age. Intriguingly, the compensatory growth occurred in winter, a period that is generally unsuitable for rapid growth in ectotherms...
- How much stress do researchers inflict on their study animals? A case study using a scincid lizard, Eulamprus heatwolei
Tracy Langkilde
Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
J Exp Biol 209:1035-43. 2006
..More generally, we urge researchers to seek objective information on the effects of their activities on research subjects, rather than relying upon subjectivity and anthropomorphism in making these evaluations...
- Morphological adaptations to marine life in snakes
François Brischoux
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
J Morphol 272:566-72. 2011
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- PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Characterization of tri- and tetranucleotide microsatellite loci for the slatey-grey snake (Stegonotus cucullatus, Colubridae)
Sylvain Dubey
School of Biological Sciences, Heydon Laurence Building, A08, Science Road, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Mol Ecol Resour 8:431-3. 2008
..Based on a total of 100 samples, the number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 10, and the observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.62 to 0.86 and from 0.53 to 0.83, respectively...
- The adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination: experimental tests with a short-lived lizard
Daniel A Warner
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Evolution 59:2209-21. 2005
..Thus, the timing of hatching is likely to influence reproductive success in this short-lived, early maturing species; and this effect may well differ between the sexes...
- Do lizards and snakes really differ in their ability to take large prey? A study of relative prey mass and feeding tactics in lizards
Richard Shine
Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Oecologia 144:492-8. 2005
..Thus, although lizards lack the impressive cranial kinesis or prey-subduction adaptations of snakes, at least some lizards are capable of overpowering and ingesting prey items as large as those consumed by snakes of similar body sizes...
- Tracking elusive timber rattlers with molecular genetics
Richard Shine
School of Biological Sciences A08, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Mol Ecol 17:715-6. 2008
..The study by Clark et al. in this issue builds upon our increasingly sophisticated understanding of snake behaviour, to interpret patterns of gene flow in the light of our emerging knowledge of snake behavioural ecology...
