I’m hoping that some of you out there have been collecting Basal Metabolic Rate or Resting Metabolic Rate data on Caribbean anoles!
I’m working with a group of scientists on a large-scale comparative database on circulating hormones in free-living vertebrates – we call our collaboration HormoneBase – and we’re hoping to look at relationships between hormone levels and metabolism. (We’ll be presenting some of this work at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in January 2018 – check out our symposium announcement here!) We have a good list of anole species in the database, thanks to the work of Jerry Husak and Matt Lovern (2014), but it seems that very little metabolism rate data are available for these species. Do you know of such data, or do you have them – published or unpublished? If so, please contact me (mjohnso9@trinity.edu)!
Reference:
Husak JF and MB Lovern. 2014. Variation in steroid hormone levels among Caribbean Anolis lizards: endocrine system convergence? Hormones and Behavior 65:408-415.
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Jerry Husak
That would be awesome! It’s been done in A. carolinensis (big surprise!), but I’m not aware of it for other species. Maybe A. sagrei?