When one tail isn't enough: abnormal caudal regeneration in lepidosaurs and its potential ecological impacts

JI Barr, R Somaweera, SS Godfrey… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abnormal caudal regeneration, the production of additional tails through regeneration
events, occurs in lepidosaurs as a result of incomplete autotomy or sufficient caudal wound …

Limb regeneration in lizards under natural and experimental conditions with considerations on the induction of appendages regeneration in amniotes

L Alibardi - Annals of Anatomy-Anatomischer Anzeiger, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Study on the failure of limb regeneration in lizards evidences the difficult
problems met from amniotes to regenerate organs. Contrary to the tail, limb loss in terrestrial …

Tail furcations in lizards: a revised summary and the second report of tail duplication in the Western Fence Lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis Baird & Girard, 1852

TJ Baum, H Kaiser - Herpetology Notes, 2024 - biotaxa.org
We report a second instance of tail duplication in Sceloporus occidentalis and provide an
updated list of all available data on tail furcations in lizards. The two previous …

Autotomy and regeneration in squamate reptiles (Squamata, Reptilia): Defensive behavior strategies and morphological characteristics (using computer …

DA Gordeev, NB Ananjeva, DV Korost - Biology Bulletin, 2020 - Springer
It has been noted that caudal autotomy as a way of defending against predators in recent
reptiles is characteristic solely of lepidosaurs and is absent in crocodiles and turtles. It was …

Green lizards (Squamata, Lacertidae) from? Pliocene deposits of Węże I in southern Poland, with comments on cranial features for selected lacertids

A Čerňanský - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2024 - Springer
I here describe lacertids from the classic Węże I locality in southern Poland (? Pliocene
deposits) based on six previously undescribed jaws: an incomplete left maxilla, two …

Temporal distribution of 5BrdU‐labelled cells suggests that most injured tissues contribute proliferating cells for the regeneration of the tail and limb in lizard

L Alibardi - Acta Zoologica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
After tail and limb amputation in lizard, injection of 5BrdU for 6 days produces
immunolabelled cells in most tissues of tail and limb stumps. After further 8 and 16 days, and …

[PDF][PDF] Tail bifurcation in Tropidurus hispidus (Spix, 1825) and Copeoglossum nigropunctatum (Spix, 1825)

AC Brasileiro - Herpetology Notes, 2021 - biotaxa.org
Downes, SJ, Shine, R.(2001): Why does tail loss increase a lizard's later vulnerability to
snake predators? Ecology 82: 1293–1303. Fox, SF, Rostker, MA (1982): Social cost of tail …

[PDF][PDF] Tail bifurcation in a Brown Anole, Anolis sagrei (Duméril & Bibron, 1837)

S Hoefer, NJ Robinson - Herpetology Notes, 2020 - biotaxa.org
Sebastian Hoefer & Nathan J. Robinson 334 second tail appearing to have grown above the
original tail. The regenerated tail was twice the length of the original tail, which appeared to …

[PDF][PDF] Record of tail bifurcation and hindlimb malformation in Gonatodes humeralis (Guichenot, 1855) (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Amazonian region of …

JSC Anaissi - Herpetology Notes, 2021 - biotaxa.org
Acknowledgements. We are grateful Raul Sales for providing pre-peer review and helpful
comments on the manuscript; Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade …

[PDF][PDF] Frecuencias de bifurcaciones caudales en lacértidos del Mediterráneo occidental

P Montes-Gavilán, A Sánchez-Vialas… - China. Nature, 2018 - gallotia.de
2017). En esta nota aportamos registros de presencia de autotomía caudal incompleta en la
familia Lacertidae, tras la revisión de 11.869 ejemplares conservados en la colección de …