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ArticleRoyal Society open science2026

Desert lizards modulate nutritional responses to match seasonal biological needs.

Mihir Joshi, Avichal Tatu, Dror Hawlena, David Raubenheimer, Maria Thaker

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mihir JoshiCentre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.ORCID 0000-0002-3596-7604
Avichal TatuCentre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8589-6242
Dror HawlenaDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9142-1553
David RaubenheimerDepartment of Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-1447
Maria ThakerCentre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6019-2639

Funding

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance IA/I/19/2/504639Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals in extreme environments such as deserts experience severe seasonal fluctuations in abiotic conditions and resources. Under these conditions, they must obtain macronutrients in optimal amounts and ratios to meet their nutritional requirements, which themselves vary with seasonal changes in physiological and life-history processes. To understand whether nutritional intakes and retention align with key life-history events across seasons, we examined the nutritional ecology of the desert-dwelling lizard,

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dietelemental analysisfaecal compositionherbivorynutritional ecologyomnivory

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PMID41788176
PMCPMC7618820

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