ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2010
Social behavior and pheromonal communication in reptiles.
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- Sex Determination in Reptiles: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
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- Hidden social complexity behind vocal and acoustic communication in non-avian reptiles.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
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- Sensory Stimulation as a Means of Sustained Enhancement of Well-Being in Leopard Geckos,Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Chemical communication and its role in sexual selection across Animalia.Communications biology · 2023Review
- Keeping reptiles as pets in Brazil: keepers' motivations and husbandry practices.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2023Article
- Carbonic anhydrase IV in lizard chemical signals.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Female-female aggression in the Gila monster (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Skin lipids alone enable conspecific tracking in an invasive reptile, the Argentine black and white tegu lizard (Salvator merianae).PloS one · 2023Article
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- Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Behavioral Assessment of Six Reptile Species during a Temporary Zoo Closure and Reopening.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
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Abstract
The role of pheromones in orchestrating social behaviors in reptiles is reviewed. Although all reptile orders are examined, the vast majority of the literature has dealt only with squamates, primarily snakes and lizards. The literature is surprisingly large, but most studies have explored relatively few behaviors. The evolution of chemical signaling in reptiles is discussed along with behaviors governed by pheromones including conspecific trailing, male-male agonistic interactions, sex recognition and sex pheromones, and reptilian predator recognition. Nonreptilian prey recognition by chemical cues was not reviewed. The recent literature has focused on two model systems where extensive chemical ecology studies have been conducted: the reproductive ecology of garter snakes and the behavioral ecology of Iberian lacertid lizards. In these two systems, enough is known about the chemical constituents that mediate behaviors to explore the evolution of chemical signaling mechanisms that affect life history patterns. In addition, these models illuminate natural and sexual selection processes which have lead to complex chemical signals whose different components and concentrations provide essential information about individuals to conspecifics. Reptiles provide excellent candidates for further studies in this regard not only in squamates, but also in the orders where little experimental work has been conducted to date.
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