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Pregnancy reduces critical thermal maximum, but not voluntary thermal maximum, in a viviparous skink. J Comp Physiol B 2019; 189:611-621. [DOI: 10.1007/s00360-019-01230-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2019] [Revised: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Salazar JC, del Rosario Castañeda M, Londoño GA, Bodensteiner BL, Muñoz MM. Physiological evolution during adaptive radiation: A test of the island effect in Anolis lizards. Evolution 2019; 73:1241-1252. [PMID: 30989637 PMCID: PMC6593988 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Phenotypic evolution is often exceptionally rapid on islands, resulting in numerous, ecologically diverse species. Although adaptive radiation proceeds along various phenotypic axes, the island effect of faster evolution has been mostly tested with regard to morphology. Here, we leveraged the physiological diversity and species richness of Anolis lizards to examine the evolutionary dynamics of three key traits: heat tolerance, body temperature, and cold tolerance. Contrary to expectation, we discovered slower heat tolerance evolution on islands. Additionally, island species evolve toward higher optimal body temperatures than mainland species. Higher optima and slower evolution in upper physiological limits are consistent with the Bogert effect, or evolutionary inertia due to thermoregulation. Correspondingly, body temperature is higher and more stable on islands than on the American mainland, despite similarity in thermal environments. Greater thermoregulation on islands may occur due to ecological release from competitors and predators compared to mainland environments. By reducing the costs of thermoregulation, ecological opportunity on islands may actually stymie, rather than hasten, physiological evolution. Our results emphasize that physiological diversity is an important axis of ecological differentiation in the adaptive radiation of anoles, and that behavior can impart distinct macroevolutionary footprints on physiological diversity on islands and continents.
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- Jhan C. Salazar
- Facultad de Ciencias BiológicasDepartamento de Ciencias NaturalesUniversidad IcesiCaliValle del CaucaColombia
- Department of Biological SciencesVirginia TechBlacksburgVirginia24061
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- Facultad de Ciencias BiológicasDepartamento de Ciencias NaturalesUniversidad del ValleCaliValle del CaucaColombia
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- Facultad de Ciencias BiológicasDepartamento de Ciencias NaturalesUniversidad IcesiCaliValle del CaucaColombia
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- Department of Biological SciencesVirginia TechBlacksburgVirginia24061
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Wiens JJ, Camacho A, Goldberg A, Jezkova T, Kaplan ME, Lambert SM, Miller EC, Streicher JW, Walls RL. Climate change, extinction, and Sky Island biogeography in a montane lizard. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:2610-2624. [PMID: 30843297 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2018] [Revised: 02/16/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Around the world, many species are confined to "Sky Islands," with different populations in isolated patches of montane habitat. How does this pattern arise? One scenario is that montane species were widespread in lowlands when climates were cooler, and were isolated by local extinction caused by warming conditions. This scenario implies that many montane species may be highly susceptible to anthropogenic warming. Here, we test this scenario in a montane lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) from the Madrean Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona. We combined data from field surveys, climate, population genomics, and physiology. Overall, our results support the hypothesis that this species' current distribution is explained by local extinction caused by past climate change. However, our results for this species differ from simple expectations in several ways: (a) their absence at lower elevations is related to warm winter temperatures, not hot summer temperatures; (b) they appear to exclude a low-elevation congener from higher elevations, not the converse; (c) they are apparently absent from many climatically suitable but low mountain ranges, seemingly "pushed off the top" by climates even warmer than those today; (d) despite the potential for dispersal among ranges during recent glacial periods (~18,000 years ago), populations in different ranges diverged ~4.5-0.5 million years ago and remained largely distinct; and (e) body temperatures are inversely related to climatic temperatures among sites. These results may have implications for many other Sky Island systems. More broadly, we suggest that Sky Island species may be relevant for predicting responses to future warming.
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- John J Wiens
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.,Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.,Functional Genomics Core, Arizona Research Laboratories, Research, Discovery & Innovation, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.,Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- CyVerse, Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Valle CA, Grijalva CJ, Calle PP, Muñoz-Pérez JP, Quezada G, Vera CA, Lewbart GA. Methods of body temperature assessment in Conolophus subcristatus, Conolophus pallidus (Galápagos land iguanas), and Amblyrhynchus cristatus X C. subcristatus hybrid. PeerJ 2019; 7:e6291. [PMID: 30740271 PMCID: PMC6366400 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Since cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic systems of reptiles are affected by temperature, accurate measurements are of great importance in both captive husbandry and research. Ectothermic animals generally have core body temperatures close to ambient temperature but can differ from the immediate environment if they are using sunlight to thermoregulate. Many zoological facilities and exotic pet caregivers have begun using infrared temperature guns to assess ambient temperatures of reptile enclosures but there are currently few studies assessing the efficacy of these devices for measuring the body temperatures of reptiles. Conolophus subcristatus, Conolophus pallidus (Galápagos land iguanas), and Amblyrhynchus cristatus X C. subcristatus hybrid are robust land iguanas endemic to the Galápagos archipelago. By comparing the infrared body temperature measurements of land iguanas against virtual simultaneous collection of cloacal temperatures obtained using a thermocouple thermometer, we sought to assess the efficacy of this non-invasive method. We found that internal body temperature can be predicted with a high level of accuracy from three external body temperature sites, providing a good non-invasive method that avoids the capture of animals.
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- Carlos A Valle
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Campus Cumbayá Av. Diego de Robles S/N e Interoceánica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Galápagos Science Center GSC, Isla San Cristobal, Galápagos, Ecuador
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Zoological Health Program, New York, NY, USA
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- Technical Biodiversity Research, Dirección Parque Nacional Galápagos, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador
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- Technical Biodiversity Research, Dirección Parque Nacional Galápagos, Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador
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- North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Recoder RS, Magalhães-Júnior A, Rodrigues J, Pinto HBDA, Rodrigues MT, Camacho A. Thermal Constraints Explain the Distribution of the Climate Relict Lizard Colobosauroides carvalhoi (Gymnophthalmidae) in the Semiarid Caatinga. J HERPETOL 2018. [DOI: 10.2994/sajh-d-17-00072.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Renato Sousa Recoder
- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Colegiado Acadêmico de Ciências da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Campus Serra da Capivara, São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí, 64770-000, Brazil
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- Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Répteis e Anfíbios, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Répteis e Anfíbios, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil
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Source of environmental data and warming tolerance estimation in six species of North American larval anurans. J Therm Biol 2018; 76:171-178. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2018.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2017] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Camacho A, Rusch T, Ray G, Telemeco RS, Rodrigues MT, Angilletta MJ. Measuring behavioral thermal tolerance to address hot topics in ecology, evolution, and conservation. J Therm Biol 2018; 73:71-79. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2018.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Kirchhof S, Hetem RS, Lease HM, Miles DB, Mitchell D, Müller J, Rödel M, Sinervo B, Wassenaar T, Murray IW. Thermoregulatory behavior and high thermal preference buffer impact of climate change in a Namib Desert lizard. Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Sebastian Kirchhof
- Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz‐Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Invalidenstr. 43 10115 Berlin Germany
- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB) Altensteinstr. 34 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Brain Function Research Group School of Physiology Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand 7 York Road Parktown 2193 Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences Faculty of Sciences University of the Witwatersrand 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein 2000 Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group School of Physiology Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand 7 York Road Parktown 2193 Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa
- School of Physiology University of Arizona Tucson Arizona 85721 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences Ohio University Athens Ohio 45701 USA
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- Brain Function Research Group School of Physiology Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand 7 York Road Parktown 2193 Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa
- School of Human Sciences University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley Perth Western Australia 6009 Australia
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- Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz‐Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Invalidenstr. 43 10115 Berlin Germany
- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB) Altensteinstr. 34 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz‐Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science Invalidenstr. 43 10115 Berlin Germany
- Berlin‐Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB) Altensteinstr. 34 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Institute for the Study of the Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts University of California 130 McAllister Way, Coastal Biology Building Santa Cruz California 95064 USA
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- Gobabeb Research and Training Centre P.O. Box 953 Walvis Bay Namibia
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- Brain Function Research Group School of Physiology Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand 7 York Road Parktown 2193 Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa
- Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation Tucson Arizona 85701 USA
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Pafilis P, Maragou P, Sagonas K, Valakos E. Partitioning thermal habitat on a vertical rock, a herculean task. J Therm Biol 2017; 70:54-60. [PMID: 29108558 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2017] [Revised: 10/06/2017] [Accepted: 10/20/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Species occurring in sympatry have to effectively segregate their niche in order to co-exist. In the case of ectotherms in particular, the very important parameter of thermal biology has to be taken into account. Here we investigated the thermoregulatory effectiveness (E) of two endemic Greek lizards (Hellenolacerta graeca and Podarcis peloponnesiacus) that live syntopically on a rocky cliff in the Peloponnese. We presumed that the two species would select different microhabitats, to avoid interspecific competition, and follow a similar thermoregulation pattern as they experience the same conditions. We also expected that E values for both species would differ depending on the season. Overall, we found that the two species had similar E values for each season but differentiated partial thermoregulatory attributes. Though they both occurred in the same types of microhabitat, H. graeca selected higher sites (average 99cm above ground) than P. peloponnesiacus (average 44cm). Also, the latter achieved higher preferred temperatures during summer and winter. Finally, the effectiveness of thermoregulation for both species varied interseasonally and received its highest values during summer, in response to the lowest thermal quality that was observed then. Similar studies stress the importance of thermal shifts for ectotherm co-existence.
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- Panayiotis Pafilis
- Section of Zoology and Marine Biology, Dept. of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia 15784, Greece.
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, E1 4NS London, UK
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- Section of Animal and Human Physiology, Dept. of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Ilissia 15784, Greece
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