Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) offer a unique model system for testing hypotheses
about the evolutionary transition from oviparity (egg-laying) to viviparity (live-bearing) in …

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 5: Mammals is the fifth of five second-
edition volumes representing a comprehensive and integrated overview of hormones and …

In the past decade, snake fungal disease (SFD) has been identified as an emerging threat to
snake populations throughout the eastern USA. Snake fungal disease is caused by the …

Reproductive effort has been defined as the proportion of an organism's energy budget that
is allocated to reproduction over a biologically meaningful time period. Historically, studies …

512 Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes from ecological and ultimate
(evolutionary) perspectives, but also from the simply mechanistic standpoint of the dynamics …

When access to resources is limited, organisms must shift energy investment among
physiological processes to survive, reproduce, and respond to unpredictable events. The …

Climate change should lead to massive loss of biodiversity in most taxa, but the detailed
physiological mechanisms underlying population extinction remain largely elusive so far. In …

We conducted an experiment to examine the effects of sex and food intake on growth, mass
gain, and attainment of sexual maturity in Western Diamond‐backed Rattlesnakes (Crotalus …

We studied steroid hormone patterns and aggression during breeding in female Galápagos
marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). Females display vigorously towards courting …

The tegu lizard Salvator merianae is a large, widely distributed teiid lizard endemic to South
America that exhibits annual cycles of high activity during the spring and summer, and …