Studies of the behavioral sequences: the neuroethological morphology concept crossing ethology and functional morphology

VL Bels, JP Pallandre, E Pelle, F Kirchhoff - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Behavioral sequences analysis is a relevant method for quantifying the
behavioral repertoire of animals to respond to the classical Tinbergen's four questions …

Climate‐related environmental variation in a visual signalling device: the male and female dewlap in Anolis sagrei lizards

T Driessens, S Baeckens, M Balzarolo… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Animals communicate using a variety of signals that differ dramatically among and within
species. The astonishing dewlap diversity in anoles has attracted considerable attention in …

Conflict, compensation, and plasticity: Sex‐specific, individual‐level trade‐offs in green anole (Anolis carolinensis) performance

SP Lailvaux, AM Cespedes… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Trade‐offs in performance expression occur because animals must perform multiple whole‐
organism performance tasks that place conflicting demands on shared underlying …

Signal detection shapes ornament allometry in functionally convergent Caribbean Anolis and Southeast Asian Draco lizards

TC Summers, TJ Ord - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Visual ornaments have long been assumed to evolve hyper‐allometry as an outcome of
sexual selection. Yet growing evidence suggests many sexually selected morphologies can …

Sexually selected weapons can wear out, decreasing their effectiveness in combat

I McEvoy, L Daniels, Z Emberts - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sexual selection has resulted in some of the most elaborate traits seen in animals, many of
which are used as weapons. These weapons can be incredibly diverse, even within species …

It's Not Easy Being Green: Behavior, Morphology, and Population Structure in Urban and Natural Populations of Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) Lizards

SP Lailvaux - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Selection on behavior, signaling, and morphology can be strongly affected by variation in
habitat type. Consequently, populations inhabiting different environments can exhibit …

Skin stiffness in ray‐finned fishes: contrasting material properties between species and body regions

CP Kenaley, A Sanin, J Ackerman, J Yoo… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The skin of aquatic vertebrates surrounds all the mechanical lineages of the body and must,
therefore, play an important role in locomotion. A cross‐woven collagenous dermal design …

Feeding in lizards: form–function and complex multifunctional system

V Bels, AS Paindavoine, LN Zghikh, E Paulet… - Feeding in vertebrates …, 2019 - Springer
Living lizards exploit almost all terrestrial ecosystems where they play the roles of both
predator and prey in complex food webs. Bels et al.(Biomechanics of feeding in Vertebrates …

Intraspecific variation in the information content of an ornament: Why relative dewlap size signals bite force in some, but not all island populations of Anolis sagrei

S Baeckens, T Driessens, K Huyghe… - Integrative and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In many animals, male secondary sexual traits advertise reliable information on fighting
capacity in a male–male context. The iconic sexual signaling device of anole lizards, the …

Dewlap colour variation in Anolis sagrei is maintained among habitats within islands of the West Indies

R Scherrer, CM Donihue, RG Reynolds… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Animal signals evolve in an ecological context. Locally adapting animal sexual signals can
be especially important for initiating or reinforcing reproductive isolation during the early …