Evolution of animal chemical communication: insights from non-model species and phylogenetic comparative methods

S Baeckens - … royale zoologique de Belgique.-Gent, 1990 …, 2019‏ - repository.uantwerpen.be
Chemical communication is probably the oldest, most ubiquitous form of information
exchange in the natural world, spanning all three domains of life. While excellent …

[كتاب][B] The secret social lives of reptiles

JS Doody, V Dinets, GM Burghardt - 2021‏ - books.google.com
Covering diverse species from garter snakes to Komodo dragons, this book delves into the
evolutionary origins and fascinating details of the mysterious social lives of reptiles. Reptiles …

[HTML][HTML] Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii)

KM Brock, MC Chelini, C Ayton, IE Madden, C Ramos… - Animal Behaviour, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Space is a limited resource in which many animals need to perform basic functions such as
feeding and reproducing. Competition over access to space can induce a variety of …

How phylogeny and foraging ecology drive the level of chemosensory exploration in lizards and snakes

S Baeckens, R Van Damme… - Journal of Evolutionary …, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
The chemical senses are crucial for squamates (lizards and snakes). The extent to which
squamates utilize their chemosensory system, however, varies greatly among taxa and …

Social behavior, chemical communication, and adult neurogenesis: studies of scent mark function in Podarcis wall lizards

E Font, D Barbosa, C Sampedro, P Carazo - General and Comparative …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Lacertid lizards have been hailed as a model system for the study of reptilian chemical
communication. However, results obtained with the genus Podarcis, a diverse group of wall …

[PDF][PDF] Do introduced wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) cause niche shifts in a native sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) population? A case study from south-western Germany

A Heym, G Deichsel, A Hochkirch, M Veith, U Schulte - Salamandra, 2013‏ - lacertilia.de
Numerous introductions of common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) into populations of native
sand lizards (Lacerta agilis) are known from Germany. Since the sand lizard is strongly …

Orange ornamentation increases sex-specific conspicuousness of juvenile males to conspecifics and predators

J Agan, JM Macedonia, JL Grindstaff… - Biological Journal of …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Many animal species have evolved striking colour patterns that attract the opposite sex and
intimidate rivals. Although conspicuous coloration is usually restricted to adults in the context …

Why blue tongue? A potential UV-based deimatic display in a lizard

A Badiane, P Carazo, SJ Price-Rees… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018‏ - Springer
Deimatic displays are a type of anti-predator behaviour that startles the predator. They have
received much recent theoretical attention, enabling the empirical study of this phenomenon …

Intersexual chemo-sensation in a “visually-oriented” lizard, Anolis sagrei

S Baeckens, T Driessens, R Van Damme - PeerJ, 2016‏ - peerj.com
While the conspicuous visual displays of anoles have been studied in great depth, the
possibility that these lizards may also interact through chemical signalling has received …

Squamate cognition

E Font - Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior, 2022‏ - Springer
Animal vision is incomplete without the ability to change the gaze that involves coordinated
control of eyes, head, and body movements (McCluskey and Cullen 2007). Saccadic eye …