Growth rates and body condition in Norops polylepis (Polychrotidae) vary with respect to sex but not mite load

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 414-418

  Schlaepfer, Martin A ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Body condition; Costa Rica; Eutrombicula; Growth rate; Norops polylepis; Parasitism

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; LIZARD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PASTURE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ACARI; EUTROMBICULA; NOROPS; POLYCHROTINAE; POLYLEPIS; SQUAMATA; TROMBICULIDAE;

EID: 33646485583     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00157.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Abell A. J. 2000. Cost of reproduction in male lizards, Sceloperus virgatus. Oikos 88 630 640.
2. Adolph S. C. and W. P. Porter. 1996. Growth, seasonality, and lizard life histories: Age and size at maturity. Oikos 77 267 278.
3. Anderson R. A. and L. J. Vitt. 1990. Sexual selection versus alternative causes of sexual dimorphism in teiid lizards. Oecologia 84 145 157.
4. Andrews R. M. 1971. Structural habitat and time budget of a tropical Anolis lizard. Ecology 52 262 270.
5. Andrews R. M.. 1976. Growth rate in island and mainland anoline lizards. Copeia 1976 477 482.
6. Andrews R. M.. 1982. Patterns of growth in reptiles. In Gans C. and Pough F. H. Eds Biology of the reptilia Vol. 13 pp. 273 320. Academic Press New York.
7. Arendt J. D. 1997. Adaptive intrinsic growth rates: An integration across taxa. Q. Rev. Biol. 72 149 177.
8. Christian K. A. and G. S. Bedford. 1995. Physiological consequences of filarial parasites in the frillneck lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii, in northern Australia. Can. J. Zool. 73 2302 2306.
9. Domrow R. 1981. A small lizard stifled by phoretic deutonymphal mites (Uropodina). Acarologia 22 247 252.
10. Dunlap K. D. and T. Mathies. 1993. Effects of nymphal ticks and their interaction with malaria on the physiology of male fence lizards. Copeia 1993 1045 1048.
11. Dunlap K. D. and J. J. Schall. 1995. Hormonal alterations and reproductive inhibition in male fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) infected with the malarial parasite Plasmodium mexicanum. Physiol. Zool. 68 608 621.
12. Fox S. F. and J. K. McCoy. 2000. The effects of tail loss on survival, growth, reproduction, and sex ratio of offspring in the lizard Uta stansburiana in the field. Oecologia 122 327 334.
13. Freckleton R. P. 2002. On the misuse of residuals in ecology: Regression of residuals vs multiple regression. J. Anim. Ecol. 71 542 545.
14. Green A. J. 2001. Mass/length residuals: Measures of body condition or generators of spurious results? Ecology 82 1473 1483.
15. Hogue C. L. 1983. Eutrombicula (Coloradillas, chiggers). In Janzen D. H. Ed Costa Rican natural history pp. 723 724. Chicago University Press Chicago Illinois.
16. Klukowski M. 2004. Seasonal change in abundance of host-seeking chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae) and infestations on fence lizards, Sceloperus undulatus. J. Herpetol. 38 141 144.
17. Main A. R. and C. M. Bull. 2000. The impact of tick parasites on the behaviour of the lizard Tiliqua rugosa. Oecologia 122 574 581.
18. Savage J. M. 2002. The amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica. University of Chicago Press Chicago Illinois.
19. Schall J. J. 1992. Parasite-mediated competition in Anolis lizards. Oecologia 92 58 64.
20. Schlaepfer M. A. 2002. Population dynamics of a neotropical lizard (Norops polylepis) in its native forest and in adjacent pastures. Ph.D. dissertation. Cornell University Ithaca NY.
21. Schlaepfer M. A. and T. A. Gavin. 2001. Edge effects on lizards and frogs in tropical forest fragments. Conserv. Biol. 15 1079 1090.
22. Schoener T. W. and A. Schoener. 1978. Estimating and interpreting body-size growth in some Anolis lizards. Copeia 1978 390 405.
23. Shine R. 1990. Proximate determinants of sexual differences in adult body size. Am. Nat. 135 278 283.
24. Smith G. R. 1996. Mites on Striped Plateau lizards (Sceloperus virgatus: Phrynosomatidae): Abundance, distribution and effects on host growth. Herpetol. Nat. Hist. 4 175 180.
25. Sorci G. and J. Clobert. 1995. Effects of maternal parasite load on offspring life-history traits in the common lizard (Lacerta vivipara). J. Evol. Biol. 8 711 723.
26. Stamps J. A. 1993. Sexual size dimorphism in species with asymptotic growth after maturity. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 50 123 145.
27. Stamps J. A. J. B. Losos and R. M. Andrews. 1997. A comparitive study of population density and sexual size dimorphism in lizards. Am. Nat. 149 64 90.
28. Tracy C. R. 1999. Differences in body size among chuckwalla (Sauomalus obesus) populations. Ecology 80 259 271.
29. Van Sluys M. 1998. Growth and body condition of the saxicolous lizard Tropidurus itambere in southeastern Brazil. J. Herpetol. 32 359 365.
30. Zippel K. C. R. Powell J. S. Parmerlee Jr. S. Monks A. Lathrop and D. D. Smith. 1996. The distribution of larval Eutrombicula alfreddugesi (Acari: Trombiculidae) infesting Anolis lizards (Lacertilia: Polychrotidae) from different habitats on Hispaniola. Caribb. J. Sci. 32 43 49.