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Greetings! I’m writing with a request for all the photographically-inclined readers of Anole Annals. I’m in the process of finishing up a manuscript looking at the ecology and morphology of four species of Central American aquatic anoles – Anolis aquaticus, A. lionotus, A. oxylophus, and A. poecilopus. I would very much like to include a figure showing a good picture of each of these species. Sadly, my photographing skills are quite poor and I do not have any suitable images to include in this paper. I think the readers of this paper would be well-served to have a good image of each of the species examined and I would really like to include some pictures. Do any of you readers have an image or two of any of these species that you would care to share with me? You would, of course, be credited as the author of the photograph, and it would be published in a scientific study. If so, then please share your images with me at mmunoz@oeb.harvard.edu. Thank you!
Quite a line-up! This August in San Juan. Schedule below, and details on their website, as are the abstracts:
DAY I: August 1, 2013
8:30 Ray Huey Opening remarks
9:00 Ariel Lugo Climate change or land cover change? Which is driving some lizards to the lowlands?
9:30 Jennifer Sunday Global patterns of thermal tolerance and range limits in ectotherms
10:00 Barry Sinervo On the risk of extinction of tropical ectotherms: Are they buffered against climate?
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Elvira Cuevas Update of climate change in the Caribbean, and projections on soil nutrient cycling and interactions
11:30 Omar Gutierrez Significant diurnal and seasonal variation in soil CO2 efflux is positively related to temperature in a moist subtropical forest in Puerto Rico
12:00 Lauren Buckley Thermal specialization of ecotherms on tropical mountains
12:30 Michael Kearney The thermodynamic niches of tropical ectotherms
1:00 Lunch Break
2:30 Mike Kaspari Life in the boundary zone–the thermal ecology of small cursorial insects
3:00 Patricia Burrowes Climate change efects on Caribbean seasonality and its implications on an ectotherm host-pathogen dynamics
3:30 Carlos Navas Vulnerability of anuran amphibians to climate change: inferring the impact of water availability and temperature
4:00 Ana C. Carnaval Integrating data sets to validate models of biological response to former climate change in the Brazilian Atlantic forest
4:30 Coffee Break
5:00 Mridul Thomas The effects of ocean warming on marine phytoplankton diversity
5:30 Brad Lister Long-term declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web
DAY II: August 2, 2013
8:30 Martha M. Muñoz Evolutionary stasis and lability in thermal physiology in a group of tropical lizards
9:00 Luisa Otero Effects of recent climate warming on the reproductive phenology of Puerto Rican Anolis lizards
9:30 Alexander Gunderson Behavioral responses to thermal variation: implications for predicting the biological impacts of climate change
10:00 Michael L. Logan Population level differences in thermal ecology suggest resilience to warming among Honduran Anolis lizards
10:30 Ignacio de la Riva Thermal ecology of Bolivian lizards of the genus Liolaemus: Will climate warming drive them to extinction?
11:00 Mat Vickers Sunshine, on a cloudy day
11:30 Michael Angilletta Symposium highlights
12:00 Leave for Field Trip to El Verde
Developing bark anole embryo. Photo by Catherine May.
A while back, Anthony Geneva offered excess A. distichus eggs from their breeding colonies to any researchers would could use them. Some were sent to Kenro Kusumi’s lab at Arizona State, and Catherine May has now published some cool images of embryos at different ages (1-7 days old and 14+ days old).
Liolaemus tenuis, if I’m not mistaken. Photo by Felipe Rabanal.
South American fence lizard lookalikes Liolaemus keep on racking up the species numbers as new taxa are described willy-nilly. Over at Tetzoo, Darren Naish has written a nice post entitled “The enormous lioaemine radiation: paradoxical herbivory, viviparity, evolutionary cul-de-sacs and the impending mass extinction.” It’s a very nice overview of the different aspects of diversity of this clade, including summary of an interesting recent paper by Pincheira-Donoso and colleagues, and includes the chilling statement: “some herpetologists think that the Liolaemus radiation will eventually exceed the Anolis (sensu lato!) one in terms of number of species.”
There is much variation in the form and function of vertebrate hearts. At one extreme sits the two-chambered, flow-through hearts of fish while at the other end sits the highly efficient four-chambered hearts of birds and mammals that create the complete separation of pulmonary (lung) and circulatory (systemic) systems. Understanding the relationships between heart performance and animal physiology has long fascinated biologists. But more recently, new lines of investigation have also began dissecting the developmental origins of cardiac variation to better understand the ways in which this critical organ has evolved. Several recent research papers have used lizards and snakes – most importantly, anoles – as their centerpiece in the hope of finding new clues about heart evolution and the origin of the fully divided ventricle. These studies fill an important gap in our knowledge of comparative heart development. Prior to this research the study of squamate heart development had lagged well behind species from other vertebrate lineages, sitting idly for over 100 years.
In the next two days, everybody who’s anybody in evolutionary biology will be winging his or her way to beautiful Snowbird, Utah for the 2013 Evolution meetings. And, as always, anole lizards will be major players.
Dobzhansky Prize laureate Rowan Barrett’s fingers getting what they deserve. Photo by Todd Palmer.
Indeed, the last two meetings have been all about anoles. In 2011 in Norman, OK, anoles swept the field, with anole researchers receiving both the prestigious Dobzhansky and Fisher Prizes, as well as three of the four American Society of Naturalist’s Young Investigators Prizes. The hardware continued to head the anole way last year in Ottawa, with Liam Revell nabbing a YIP. And true to form, the parade continues this year, with Berkeley-bound anolologist Ian Wang nabbing one of this year’s YIPs. Moreover, this year’s Dobzhansky Prize goes to Rowan Barrett, who even though known for working on lesser organisms, has lately been seen studying anoles.
Martha Muñoz posted the anole talks a month ago, but here they are again, including time and room:
Isolation by Environment: the Role of Ecology in Genetic Differentiation. Author: Wang, Ian J. June 22, 9:30am, Ballroom 1
Natural selection on the thermal performance curve of Anolis sagrei. Authors: Logan, Michael L; Cox, Robert M; Calsbeek, Ryan G. June 23, 9:00am, Rendezvous A
Natural selection, developmental trajectories, and quantitative genetics underlying intraspecific variation in sexual dimorphism in an island lizard. Authors: Cox, Robert; Daugherty, Christopher; Price, Jennifer; McGlothlin, Joel. June 23, 9:15am, Rendezvous A
Testing for simultaneous divergence and gene flow in sister-pairs of physiologically divergent Anolis lizards from Puerto Rico. Author: McElroy, Matthew. June 23, 11:30am, Ballroom 2
Title: Divergence in coloration and the evolution of reproductive isolation in the Anolis marmoratus species complex. Authors: Muñoz, Martha; Crawford, Nicholas; McGreevy, Jr., Thomas; Schneider, Christopher. June 23, 4:15pm, Cottonwood C
Genomics of local adaptation and colorful pigmentation in Anolis lizards.
Authors: Crawford, Nicholas; McGreevy, Jr., Thomas; Mullen, Sean; Schneider, Christopher. June 25, 10:30am, Rendezvous A
Identification of sex specific molecular markers from reduced-representation genome sequencing. Authors: Gamble, Tony; Zarkower, David. June 25, 2:15pm, Cottonwood D
Extreme sex differences in the development of body size and sexual signals are mediated by hormonal pleiotropy in a dimorphic lizard. Authors: Cox, Christian L.; Hanninen , Amanda F; Cox, Robert M. June 25, 4:15pm, Cottonwood D
A new journal focused on the natural history of Caribbean fauna and flora has just been announced. As the sample cover to the left illustrates, it might be a great place to publish observations on our favorite critters. The journal has a distinguished board of editors and the webpage states:
The Caribbean Naturalist is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original articles focused on field research of all aspects of the biology and ecology of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine organisms and the environments of the Caribbean region. The journal offers:
• over 15 years experience of consistently providing timely publication of high-quality peer-reviewed research
• article-by-article online publication for prompt distribution to a global audience
• an efficient and responsive review process
• the expertise to bring to rapid fruition proposals for Special Issues based on a series of invitational articles or conference proceedings
• the capability to accommodate publication of a wide range of supplemental files in association with journal articles
As is the case with Eagle Hill’s other natural history journals, the Caribbean Naturalist is expected to be fully indexed in Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, Proquest, EBSCO, Google Scholar, and other databases.
Check out the details at their website.
Anole Annals publishes on the WordPress blogging platform and clearly they like us, as they’ve just created a “theme” named Anolis. Maybe it’s time for a blog makeover!
Brother O’Mara has proposed producing a wallet emblazoned with green anoles. It’s on a website, Dynomighty, that appears to be similar to Kickstarter and he’s looking for funding to make the project a go.