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Evolution of a Lizard Room, Part VI: Generating Food In House
In a previous post on the evolution of the Glor Lab’s lizard room, Julienne discussed our general strategy for acquiring anole food. As Julienne discussed, the crickets for our adult lizards are obtained primarily in the form of bi-weekly shipments … Continue reading
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Baby Anoles – Cute, Cuddly, and Easily Staged!
Check out this piece in the New Scientist, which picked up on our images of Anolis embryos and Thom’s awesome research! http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/12/teeny-lizards-reveal-the-cuter.html The readers of this blog do not need to be convinced that anoles are an amazing model system … Continue reading
Challenges and Resources for the Post-genomic Era of Anole Research
The Anolis carolinensis genome represents the first annotated squamate genome and provides a valuable resource for those interested in anole morphology, development, physiology, systematics, and behavior (yes, even behavior!). Since the release of the original A. carolinensis draft genome in … Continue reading
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Anolis – Now in 3D!
Jumping on the 3D bandwagon that has infested Hollywood, I wanted to introduce the Anole Annals community to the newest tool being employed to study Anole diversity and evolution, High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography, or CT scanning for short. HRXCT … Continue reading
Evolution of a Lizard Room, Part V: The Shopvac
As we’ve discussed previously in our series on the evolution of a lizard room, some little tools and tricks can save you lots of time when maintaining a reasonably large lizard breeding facility. One useful new tool that we added to … Continue reading
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Marking Techniques for Population Studies
Many studies of natural selection, behavioral ecology, and population biology in anoles focus on one to several populations over the course of days, weeks, or months. These studies require reliable identification of individual lizards over time. I describe several ID’ing … Continue reading
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Evolution of a Lizard Room, Part IV: Crickets
To continue our series on lab anole husbandry, let’s talk food! We feed our room full of hungry anoles Acheta crickets ordered from Fluker Farms. We house crickets in 21-gallon plastic tubs (bought from places like Target or Home Depot) … Continue reading
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Evolution of a Lizard Room, Part III: The Watering Wand
The thing about keeping captive anoles that most surprises the uninitiated is the fact that they don’t drink out of bowls. Instead, anoles generally lap up water provided in the form of daily sprayings. If you have a few anoles … Continue reading
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Evolution of a Lizard Room Part II: Maintaining Humidity
As Julienne mentioned in the introductory post in our series on lab anole husbandry, we’ve been through a lot of trial and error over the past few years. One fairly persistent issue has been maintaining our lizard rooms temperature and humidity. … Continue reading
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Evolution of a Lizard Room Part I: Introduction
Breeding anoles to look at inheritance of dewlap color has been a major component of my research. It has also, however, been a major frustration. Every step of the process, from keeping the anoles happy enough to reproduce, to finding … Continue reading
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Glowing Green Lizard Heads: Tips and Tricks of Skeletal Preparation
It’s October and that means Halloween is approaching. What says Halloween better than skeletons? They are everywhere this time of year! Therefore, I think that it is the right time to post a few ideas about how to prepare, label, … Continue reading
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Notes from a Common Garden Experiment
We are in the midst of a common garden experiment in which we’ve taken gravid Anolis carolinensis females from morphologically differentiated populations in the wild and returned with them to the lab where we are collecting eggs to incubate and hatch. … Continue reading
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Anolis Video from Day’s Edge
Another video about Anolis research from Day’s Edge Productions. Cool research! Great footage!
Thinking about Speciation in Hungary
I just finished attending a workshop in Kesthely, Hungary on Niche evolution and speciation – two of my favorite topics. Sadly there was no Anolis news to report from any of the excellent talks, but the work I presented is … Continue reading
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A Primer on Filming Anole Behavior – Part 1(b)
Back in my first post on this topic, I described some of the equipment I use to film anole behavior. I ended with a promise of a second entry replete with example videos to outline specific techniques I use to … Continue reading
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Incoming: Comparative Genomicists Requesting Anole Material
In the last two days, I have received email requests from researchers studying various aspects of anole genomics, one asking for whole genomic DNA from A. carolinensis and the other for material derived from A. carolinensis embryos. These particular researchers are … Continue reading
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DIY Dot Maps for Caribbean Anoles in R
Do you ever stop and think about how long it must have taken Schwartz and Henderson to make all those amazing dot maps in their 1991 opus on West Indian amphibians and reptiles? They plotted known localities for every species … Continue reading
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The Proper Way to Measure the Color of an Anole Dewlap
For anyone interested in studying the color of anole dewlaps, Manuel Leal explains the state-of-the-art way to collect color measurements here.
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A Primer on Filming Anole Behavior – Part 1
I’m in the midst of my fourth summer of field work, and over the course of this time, I have spent many hours filming male Anolis carolinensis. I’ve done this work under several conditions; one project involved filming known animals … Continue reading
Lizard Noosing Material Update
A few months back, we had a lively discussion of the best material to use to make a lizard noose. I and others went old school and advocated dental floss as the lariat of choice. In this vein, I have … Continue reading
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