Lipid metabolism is central to understanding whole‐animal energetics. Reptiles store most
excess energy in lipid form, mobilise those lipids when needed to meet energetic demands …

Ancient DNA research has been revolutionized following development of next-generation
sequencing platforms. Although a number of such platforms have been applied to ancient …

Climate change often includes increases in the occurrence of extreme environmental
events. Among these, heatwaves affect the pace of life and performance of wildlife …

Animals will continue to encounter increasingly warm environments, including more frequent
and intense heat waves. Yet the physiological consequences of heat waves remain …

Infection can result in substantial costs to animals, so they frequently respond by removing
infectious agents with an immune response. However, immune responses entail their own …

Oxidative stress is a potential cost of reproduction, but conclusive evidence for this
relationship is lacking. The goal of this study was to serially assess across a seasonal …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are inescapable byproducts of energy metabolism and may
cause costly damage to biomolecules. Organisms have evolved different means to counter …

Baseline hematologic and plasma biochemical analytes provide insight into wildlife health.
In recent years, blood analytes have been used to infer foraging strategies and nutritional …

The residue of simazine herbicide in the environment is known as one of pollutant stress for
lizards by crippling its fitness on direct toxic effects and indirect food shortage via the food …

Following a meal, an animal can exhibit dramatic shifts in physiology and morphology, as
well as a substantial increase in metabolic rate associated with the energetic costs of …