Investment in chemical signalling glands facilitates the evolution of sociality in lizards

Chemical blindness in Liolaemus lizards is counterbalanced by visual signals, the case of two species with different communication modalities

(2020) Mario R. Ruiz-Monachesi et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Scat on the doorstep: Refuge choice in a group-living lizard is influenced by the presence of scat piles

(2020) Shelley A. Thompson et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Volatile fatty acid and aldehyde abundances evolve with behavior and habitat temperature in Sceloporus lizards

(2020) Stephanie M Campos et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Chemical signalling behaviour in intrasexual communication of lizards lacking femoral pores

(2020) Andre C. Bruinjé et al.   ETHOLOGY

Rapid and repeated divergence of animal chemical signals in an island introduction experiment

(2020) Colin M. Donihue et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Design, delivery and perception of condition-dependent chemical signals in strepsirrhine primates: implications for human olfactory communication

(2020) Christine M. Drea   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Clarifying and expanding the social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity

(2019) Louise Peckre et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Chemosensory discrimination of male age by female Psammodromus algirus lizards based on femoral secretions and feces

(2019) Carolina Nisa Ramiro et al.   ETHOLOGY

The Macroecology of Chemical Communication in Lizards: Do Climatic Factors Drive the Evolution of Signalling Glands?

(2018) Manuel Jara et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Rethinking phylogenetic comparative methods

(2018) Josef C Uyeda et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

How phylogeny and foraging ecology drive the level of chemosensory exploration in lizards and snakes

(2017) S. Baeckens et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Solitary bees reduce investment in communication compared with their social relatives

(2017) Bernadette Wittwer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Breaking the cipher: ant eavesdropping on the variational trail pheromone of its termite prey

(2017) Xiao-Lan Wen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Live bearing promotes the evolution of sociality in reptiles

(2017) Ben Halliwell et al.   Nature Communications

Macroevolutionary diversification of glands for chemical communication in squamate reptiles

(2017) Roberto García-Roa et al.   Scientific Reports

Cooperation facilitates the colonization of harsh environments

(2017) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolution and role of the follicular epidermal gland system in non-ophidian squamates

(2015) Christopher Mayerl et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Group living in squamate reptiles: a review of evidence for stable aggregations

(2015) Michael G. Gardner et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Egernia lizards

(2015) Geoffrey M. While et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Condition-dependent chemosignals in reproductive behavior of lizards

(2015) José Martín et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Chemical signals in terrestrial vertebrates: search for design features

(2015) Peter J. Apps et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Sex, long life and the evolutionary transition to cooperative breeding in birds

(2015) Philip A. Downing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chemical signalling in lizards: an interspecific comparison of femoral pore numbers in Lacertidae

(2014) Simon Baeckens et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Hamilton's rule and the causes of social evolution

(2014) A. F. G. Bourke   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conserved Class of Queen Pheromones Stops Social Insect Workers from Reproducing

(2014) A. Van Oystaeyen et al.   SCIENCE

The Unsolved Challenge to Phylogenetic Correlation Tests for Categorical Characters

(2014) Wayne P. Maddison et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Information content is more important than sensory system or physical distance in guiding the long-term evolutionary relationships between signaling modalities in Sceloporus lizards

(2013) Alison G. Ossip-Klein et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Plasticity and constraints on social evolution in African mole-rats: ultimate and proximate factors

(2013) C. G. Faulkes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Two new graphical methods for mapping trait evolution on phylogenies

(2013) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Care for kin: within-group relatedness and allomaternal care are positively correlated and conserved throughout the mammalian phylogeny

(2012) M. Briga et al.   Biology Letters

Dangerous liaisons: the predation risks of receiving social signals

(2012) Nelika K. Hughes et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Social behavior, chemical communication, and adult neurogenesis: Studies of scent mark function in Podarcis wall lizards

(2012) Enrique Font et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Eulemur, me lemur: the evolution of scent-signal complexity in a primate clade

(2012) J. delBarco-Trillo et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups

(2012) T. J. Ord et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Longevity in Bovids Is Promoted by Sociality, But Reduced by Sexual Selection

(2012) Jakob Bro-Jørgensen   PLoS One

Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R

(2012) Richard G. FitzJohn   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates

(2011) Susanne Shultz et al.   NATURE

Vitamin E Supplementation Increases the Attractiveness of Males' Scent for Female European Green Lizards

(2011) Renáta Kopena et al.   PLoS One

Molecular evolutionary analyses of insect societies

(2011) B. J. Fischman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Tandem evolution of diet and chemosensory responses in snakes

(2010) William Cooper   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Chemosensory species recognition may reduce the frequency of hybridization between native and introduced lizards

(2010) M. Gabirot et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

(2010) SUSANNE A. FRITZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Environmental Uncertainty and the Global Biogeography of Cooperative Breeding in Birds

(2010) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social behavior and pheromonal communication in reptiles

(2010) Robert T. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Night and day: the comparative study of strepsirrhine primates reveals socioecological and phylogenetic patterns in olfactory signals

(2010) J. DELBARCO-TRILLO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Multimodal sexual signals in male ocellated lizards Lacerta lepida: vitamin E in scent and green coloration may signal male quality in different sensory channels

(2010) José Martín et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

The use of scats as social signals in a solitary, endangered scincid lizard,Tiliqua adelaidensis

(2010) Aaron L. Fenner et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Flat lizard female mimics use sexual deception in visual but not chemical signals

(2009) M. J Whiting et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Discrimination of conspecific faecal chemicals and spatial decisions in juvenile Iberian rock lizards (Lacerta monticola)

(2008) Pedro L. Moreira et al.   ACTA ETHOLOGICA

Beyond ‘nasty neighbours’ and ‘dear enemies’? Individual recognition by scent marks in a lizard (Podarcis hispanica)

(2008) P. Carazo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The phylogeny of termites (Dictyoptera: Isoptera) based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers: Implications for the evolution of the worker and pseudergate castes, and foraging behaviors

(2008) Frédéric Legendre et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Natural products from the integument of nonavian reptiles

(2008) Paul J. Weldon et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS