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A Common Marking Technique Affects Tadpole Behavior and Risk of Predation

A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Absence of Climbing-Induced Limb Length Plasticity in the Eastern Fence Lizard,Sceloporus undulatus

article by R. L. Rosier & Tracy Langkilde published June 2012 in Journal of Herpetology

Alternative male mating tactics in garter snakes, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis

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Ancestry trumps experience: Transgenerational but not early life stress affects the adult physiological stress response

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Anthropogenic Noise and Physiological Stress in Wildlife

scientific article

Aquatic tail size carries over to the terrestrial phase without impairing locomotion in adult Eastern Red-spotted Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)

scientific article published in 2013

Are Invasive Species Stressful? The Glucocorticoid Profile of Native Lizards Exposed to Invasive Fire Ants Depends on the Context

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Attracting unwanted attention: generalization of behavioural adaptation to an invasive predator carries costs

Aversion learning in response to an invasive venomous prey depends on stimulus strength

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Battle of the sexes: forcibly inseminating male garter snakes target courtship to more vulnerable females

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Bearded ladies: females suffer fitness consequences when bearing male traits

scientific article

Behavioral Adaptations to Invasive Species

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Benefits of parental care: Do juvenile lizards obtain better-quality habitat by remaining with their parents?

scientific article published in 2007

Body size variation in aquatic consumers causes pervasive community effects, independent of mean body size.

scientific article published on 22 October 2017

Color as a Signal: The Relationship between Coloration and Morphology in Male Eastern Fence Lizards, Sceloporus undulatus

scientific article published in 2010

Competing for crevices: interspecific conflict influences retreat-site selection in montane lizards

scientific article published on 14 July 2004

Confusion within ‘mating balls’ of garter snakes: does misdirected courtship impose selection on male tactics?

Consequences of envenomation: red imported fire ants have delayed effects on survival but not growth of native fence lizards

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Contrasting Responses of Lizards to Divergent Ecological Stressors Across Biological Levels of Organization

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Courtship tactics in garter snakes: how do a male's morphology and behaviour influence his mating success?

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Cryptic forcible insemination: male snakes exploit female physiology, anatomy, and behavior to obtain coercive matings

scientific article

Defensive Strategies of Puerto Rican Dwarf Geckos (Sphaerodactylus macrolepis) Against Invasive Fire Ants

Development and characterization of seventeen polymorphic microsatellite loci in the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus

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Different optimal offspring sizes for sons versus daughters may favor the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination in viviparous lizards

scientific article published in October 2005

Do female garter snakes evade males to avoid harassment or to enhance mate quality?

scientific article

Do operational sex ratios influence sex allocation in viviparous lizards with temperature-dependent sex determination?

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Does environmental enrichment really matter? A case study using the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus

Does repeated human handling of study animals during the mating season affect their offspring?

scientific article published on 01 February 2018

Early Activity Rates do not Predict Growth and Future Body Size of Juvenile Eastern Fence Lizards,Sceloporus undulatus

Eastern Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) larvae alter morphological but not chemical defenses in response to predator cues

scientific article published in 2014

Ecoimmune reallocation in a native lizard in response to the presence of invasive, venomous fire ants in their shared environment

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Effects of temperature on plasma corticosterone in a native lizard

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Epigenetic response to environmental change: DNA methylation varies with invasion status ⬇️

scientific article published in April 2016

Evading invaders: the effectiveness of a behavioral response acquired through lifetime exposure

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Evaluation of offspring size-number invariants in 12 species of lizard

scientific article published in January 2009

Facultative pheromonal mimicry in snakes: “she-males” attract courtship only when it is useful

scientific article published in 2012

Female lizards discriminate between potential reproductive partners using multiple male traits when territory cues are absent

scientific article published in 2012

Food or fear: hunger modifies responses to injured conspecifics in tadpoles

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Frogs adapt to physiologically costly anthropogenic noise

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Gestation alters the gut microbiota of an oviparous lizard

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Glucocorticoid and triiodothyronine concentrations do not correlate with behavior in vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna)

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

History of predator exposure affects cell-mediated immunity in female eastern fence lizards, Sceloporus undulatus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Holding ground in the face of invasion: native fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus) do not alter their habitat use in response to introduced fire ants (Solenopsis invicta)

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Honest signals and sexual conflict: Female lizards carry undesirable indicators of quality

scientific article

Hot Boys Are Blue: Temperature-Dependent Color Change in Male Eastern Fence Lizards

article by Tracy Langkilde & Katherine E. Boronow published December 2012 in Journal of Herpetology

How do duration, frequency, and intensity of exogenous CORT elevation affect immune outcomes of stress?

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

How do water skinks avoid shelters already occupied by other lizards?

How much stress do researchers inflict on their study animals? A case study using a scincid lizard, Eulamprus heatwolei

scientific article published in March 2006

Immune responses of eastern fence lizards (Sceloporus undulatus) to repeated acute elevation of corticosterone

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

In response to the letter to the editor regarding the article: “Does environmental enrichment really matter? A case study using the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus”

Interspecific conflict in lizards: Social dominance depends upon an individual's species not its body size

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Invader danger: lizards faced with novel predators exhibit an altered behavioral response to stress

scientific article

Invasive Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) Predation of Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus) Eggs

scientific article (publication date: June 2016)

Invasive fire ants alter behavior and morphology of native lizards

scientific article

Irresistible ants: exposure to novel toxic prey increases consumption over multiple temporal scales

scientific article

Latitudinal and seasonal variation in reproductive effort of the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).

scientific article

Local and systemic immune responses to different types of phytohemagglutinin in the green anole: Lessons for field ecoimmunologists

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Male mate preference is influenced by both female behaviour and morphology

article published in 2013

Maternal corticosterone increases thermal sensitivity of heart rate in lizard embryos

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Maternal stress alters the phenotype of the mother, her eggs and her offspring in a wild-caught lizard

scientific article published on 30 August 2018

Misapplied management makes matters worse: Spatially explicit control leverages biotic interactions to slow invasion

scientific article published on 22 April 2024

Morphological features of the yolk processing pattern in the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulatus (Phrynosomatidae)

scientific article published in 2018

Native predator eats invasive toxic prey: evidence for increased incidence of consumption rather than aversion-learning

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No behavioural compensation for fitness costs of autotomy in a lizard

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No evidence of selection by predators on tadpole boldness

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Obtaining plasma to measure baseline corticosterone concentrations in reptiles: How quick is quick enough?

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

One and done: A single encounter with an invasive predator determines subsequent antipredator behavior of naive juvenile lizards

scientific article published in 2021

Personality Traits Are Expressed in Bullfrog Tadpoles during Open-Field Trials

scientific article published in 2013

Plastic sexual ornaments: Assessing temperature effects on color metrics in a color-changing reptile

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Population history with invasive predators predicts innate immune function response to early-life glucocorticoid exposure in lizards

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Predation risk in tadpole populations shapes behavioural responses of prey but not strength of trait-mediated indirect interactions

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Predatory Attacks to the Head vs. Body Modify Behavioral Responses of Garter Snakes

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Presence of an invasive species reverses latitudinal clines of multiple traits in a native species

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Raising a racket: invasive species compete acoustically with native treefrogs

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Repeated exposure and handling effects on the escape response of fence lizards to encounters with invasive fire ants

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Scaling the heights: thermally driven arboreality in garter snakes

Sex-dependent effects of maternal stress: Stressed moms invest less in sons than daughters

scientific article published on 10 July 2018

Shelter-site use by five species of montane scincid lizards in south-eastern Australia

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Sizing-up the Competition: Factors Modulating Male Display Behavior During Mate Competition

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Snakes in search of sex: the relation between mate-locating ability and mating success in male garter snakes

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Sperm depletion may not limit male reproduction in a capital breeder

Stressed snakes strike first: Hormone levels and defensive behavior in free ranging cottonmouths (Agkistrodon piscivorus).

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Sublethal effects of invasive fire ant venom on a native lizard

scientific article published in January 2010

Temporal dynamics of emergence and dispersal of garter snakes from a communal den in Manitoba

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The Function of Tail Displays in Male Rainbow Skinks (Carlia jarnoldae)

article by Tracy Langkilde et al published June 2005 in Journal of Herpetology

The Role of Prey in Microgeographic Variation in Red-Spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens) Head Width

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The consequences of lifetime and evolutionary exposure to toxic prey: changes in avoidance behaviour through ontogeny

scientific article

The impacts of invaders: basal and acute stress glucocorticoid profiles and immune function in native lizards threatened by invasive ants

scientific article

The physiological basis of geographic variation in rates of embryonic development within a widespread lizard species

scientific article published in October 2010

The role of behaviour in the establishment of novel traits

The roles of pre- and post-hatching growth rates in generating a latitudinal cline of body size in the eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)

The stress of scramble: sex differences in behavior and physiological stress response in a time-constrained mating system

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Traffic noise causes physiological stress and impairs breeding migration behaviour in frogs

scientific article

Trans-generational but not early life exposure to stressors influences offspring morphology and survival.

scientific article

Tree selection is linked to locomotor performance and associated noise production in a lizard ⬇️

microbial communities: a potential mechanism for the initial acquisition of gut microbiota among oviparous birds and lizards

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

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