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Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard communityJonathan B Losos
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Nature 424:542-5. 2003....- Convergence and the multidimensional nicheLuke J Harmon
Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Evolution 59:409-21. 2005..This suggests that the habitat specialist niches into which these anoles have evolved are multidimensional, involving several distinct and independent aspects of morphology... - Out of Cuba: overwater dispersal and speciation among lizards in the Anolis carolinensis subgroupRichard E Glor
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Mol Ecol 14:2419-32. 2005..Finally, our results suggest that large Greater Antillean islands serve as centres of origin for regional species diversity... 
Admixture determines genetic diversity and population differentiation in the biological invasion of a lizard speciesJason J Kolbe
Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Biol Lett 4:434-7. 2008..If adaptive genetic variation is similarly restructured, then the ability of invasive species to adapt to new conditions may be enhanced...
Multiple sources, admixture, and genetic variation in introduced anolis lizard populationsJason J Kolbe
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Conserv Biol 21:1612-25. 2007....- Genetic variation increases during biological invasion by a Cuban lizardJason J Kolbe
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
Nature 431:177-81. 2004..If these costs are to be mitigated, a greater understanding of the causes, progression and consequences of biological invasions is needed... - Partial island submergence and speciation in an adaptive radiation: a multilocus analysis of the Cuban green anolesRichard E Glor
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:2257-65. 2004..Allopatric speciation initiated during partial island submergence may play an important role in speciation during the adaptive radiation of Anolis lizards... - Differential admixture shapes morphological variation among invasive populations of the lizard Anolis sagreiJason J Kolbe
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
Mol Ecol 16:1579-91. 2007.... - Rapid temporal reversal in predator-driven natural selectionJonathan B Losos
Department of Biology, Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
Science 314:1111. 2006..Our experimental studies on 12 islets confirmed these predictions within a single generation, thus demonstrating the rapidity with which evolutionary forces can change during times of environmental flux... - Intercontinental community convergence of ecology and morphology in desert lizardsJane Melville
Department of Natural Sciences, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Proc Biol Sci 273:557-63. 2006..This result indicates that in these desert lizards, deterministic adaptive evolution shapes community patterns and overrides the historical contingencies unique to particular lineages... - Predator-induced behaviour shifts and natural selection in field-experimental lizard populationsJonathan B Losos
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Nature 432:505-8. 2004.... - Tempo and mode of evolutionary radiation in iguanian lizardsLuke J Harmon
Department of Biology, Campus Box 1137, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130 4899, USA
Science 301:961-4. 2003..This inverse relationship between timing of diversification and morphological disparity within subclades may be a general feature that transcends the historically contingent properties of different evolutionary radiations... - Shared and unique features of diversification in Greater Antillean Anolis ecomorphsR Brian Langerhans
Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130 4899, USA
Evolution 60:362-9. 2006..Quantifying the relative importance of shared and unique responses to similar selective regimes provides a more complete understanding of phenotypic diversification, even in this much-studied system... - Molecular phylogenetic perspective on evolution of lizards of the Anolis grahami seriesTodd R Jackman
Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA
J Exp Zool 294:1-16. 2002..Divergence among haplotypes within A. garmani is substantially lower (approximately 3% sequence difference), and phylogeographic patterns are significantly different from those observed in A. grahami, A. lineatopus and A. opalinus... - The effect of intraspecific sample size on type I and type II error rates in comparative studiesLuke J Harmon
Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
Evolution 59:2705-10. 2005..If within-species variance is particularly large and intraspecific sample sizes small, then either larger sample sizes or comparative methods that account for measurement error are necessary... - Lack of convergence in aquatic Anolis lizardsManuel Leal
Department of Biology, Union College, Schenectady, New York 12308, USA
Evolution 56:785-91. 2002..Comparative data from other taxa would help enlighten the question of why the extent of convergence is so great in some lineages and not in others... - A developmental staging series for the lizard genus Anolis: a new system for the integration of evolution, development, and ecologyThomas J Sanger
Department of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
J Morphol 269:129-37. 2008..We present a developmental staging series for Anolis lizards that can act as a baseline for later comparative and experimental studies within this genus... - Repeated modification of early limb morphogenesis programmes underlies the convergence of relative limb length in Anolis lizardsThomas J Sanger
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:739-48. 2012.... - Effect of immersion in seawater on egg survival in the lizard Anolis sagreiJonathan B Losos
Department of Biology, Washington University, Campus Box 1137, St Louis, MO 63130, USA
Oecologia 137:360-2. 2003..Hatching success and incubation time did not differ among the three treatments. These findings help explain the persistence of anole populations on small islands vulnerable to hurricanes... - Variable ecological effects of hurricanes: the importance of seasonal timing for survival of lizards on Bahamian islandsThomas W Schoener
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:177-81. 2004..We suggest that, in addition to severity, the timing of a hurricane as it coincides with reproductive scheduling or other phenological aspects may determine the magnitude of its effect on a variety of organisms... - Sexual dimorphism and adaptive radiation in Anolis lizardsMarguerite A Butler
Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2538 McCarthy Mall, Edmonson 152, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Nature 447:202-5. 2007..Conversely, if sexual dimorphism and interspecific divergence are alternative means of ecological diversification, then the degree of sexual dimorphism may be negatively related to the extent of adaptive radiation... - Island biogeography of populations: an introduced species transforms survival patternsThomas W Schoener
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Science 310:1807-9. 2005..Thus, species introduction radically changed a resident species' relation of survival to a key island-biogeographical variable... - A phylogenetic test for adaptive convergence in rock-dwelling lizardsLiam J Revell
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Evolution 61:2898-912. 2007.... - Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of the niche in lizards of the Anolis sagrei groupJason H Knouft
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and University of Colorado Museum, UCB 265, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Ecology 87:S29-38. 2006..Comparisons also revealed a specialist-generalist sister species pair in which the niche of one species is nested within, and much narrower than, the niche of another closely related species... - Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among speciesJonathan B Losos
Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Ecol Lett 11:995-1003. 2008..Consequently, ecologists should not assume that phylogenetic niche conservatism exists, but rather should empirically examine the extent to which it occurs...