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Newly published papers on reptiles and amphibians from the HerpAtlas research library, updated automatically. Browse by animal on the species pages.
- Using accelerometers for tracking loggerhead and green sea turtle behaviour.
Harvey-Carroll J, Carroll D, Crespo-Picazo JL et al. · Animal biotelemetry · 2025-06 · open access
Background Understanding animal behaviour is critical for the design of effective conservation and management strategies. Animal-borne tri-axial accelerometers constitute a type of biologging device which have the potential to provide continuous high-resolution behavioural data. For marine animals,…
- Investigation of the shear characteristics of snakeskin-inspired interface using discrete-element method
Aidin Kahbasi, Liang Zhang, Lei Wang · Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering · 2025-06
- Specialist Savvy Versus Generalist Grit: Elucidating the Trade-Offs in Adaptive Dietary Ecomorphology Amongst African Green and Bush Snakes.
Engelbrecht HM, Chapelle KEJ, Alexander GJ · Ecology and evolution · 2025-06 · open access
Kinetic feeding bones of macrostomatan Afrophidian snakes enable them to consume diverse prey types. While significant research has focused on functional feeding morphology in snakes, it often emphasizes broad taxonomic comparisons or species with distinct dietary ecologies. There is limited…
- Microbial Enrichments Contribute to Characterization Of Desert Tortoise Gut Microbiota.
Blair EM, Margalith NJ, O'Malley MA · Microbial ecology · 2025-06 · open access
Introduction Tortoise populations significantly contribute to their habitat, as they are involved in mineral cycling, building burrows to shelter themselves and other animals, seed dispersal, and additional key aspects of maintaining and restoring ecosystems. Better understanding these reptiles can…
- Co-Exposure with the Herbicide 2,4-D Does Not Exacerbate Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Infection in the Italian Crested Newt ( Triturus carnifex ).
Meléndez EF, Fieschi-Méric L, Verbrugghe E et al. · Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025-06 · open access
1. Introduction Amphibians are the most endangered and rapidly declining vertebrate group on Earth, with 41% of species threatened with extinction. The main cause of these declines is habitat loss and degradation, notably through agriculture (77% of species impacted), but climate change, invasive…
- Does the Post-Natal Social Environment Influence Cognitive Development in a Social Gecko?
Szabo B, Ringler E · Ecology and evolution · 2025-06 · open access
Background Cognition is a general term for all neural processes by which individuals collect, retain, process, and use information gathered from their environment through the use of exploration, exploitation, or evasion that can lead to changes in behavior with the potential to increase survival…
- Hydric and Thermal Traits of Northern Australian Geckos: Water Loss Is Not Explained by Aridity.
Skelton K, Moritz C, Day KA et al. · Ecology and evolution · 2025-06 · open access
Behavioural and physiological adaptations are important for maintaining stable hydric states and viable body temperatures under challenging conditions experienced in variable terrestrial environments. For example, reptiles from arid locations tend to have lower rates of evaporative water loss…
- Defence Against Desiccation and Predation in Lophyohylini Casque-Headed Tree Frogs.
Alexandre C, Mailho-Fontana PL, Távora BCLF et al. · Toxins · 2025-06 · open access
Casque-headed tree frogs (Lophyohylini) can have a very large and distinctive head characterised by hyperossification of their cranial skin. This type of skull was primarily associated with phragmosis, a behaviour in which the frog enters holes backwards and seals them with its head to prevent…
- Cryo-EM structures of GnRHR: Foundations for next-generation therapeutics.
Shen S, He X, Liu H et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025-06 · open access
- A user's guide for understanding reptile and amphibian hydroregulation and climate change impacts.
Wu NC, Anderson RO, Borzée A et al. · Conservation physiology · 2025-06 · open access
Introduction The colonization of land presented substantial physiological and morphological challenges associated with water balance for early terrestrial animals, yet it allowed opportunities for novel evolutionary strategies that enabled an explosion of animal diversity on land. Nevertheless,…
- Potentials of cepharanthine and tomatidine as novel LpxC and TLR4 inhibitors to mitigate gut-mediated inflammation in Parkinson's disease: a high-throughput investigation through molecular docking and dynamic simulation.
Roy R, Gahatraj I, Sharma A et al. · 3 Biotech · 2025-06
- Widespread Contamination by Anticoagulant Rodenticides in Insectivorous Wildlife from the Canary Islands: Exploring Alternative Routes of Exposure.
Martín Cruz B, Acosta Dacal A, Macías-Montes A et al. · Toxics · 2025-06 · open access
Research on anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) in wildlife has primarily focused on apex predators, with less attention given to their potential integration into lower trophic levels and the associated exposure pathways. At the base of the terrestrial food web, invertebrates have been suggested as…
- Osteology and arthrology of the ankle and tarsometatarsus of anoles (Iguania: Anolidae): not convergent with geckos but divergent from the ancestral iguanian condition.
Russell AP, McGregor LD, Higham TE · Journal of anatomy · 2025-06 · open access
- First case of serpentovirus infection in a ball python ( Python regius ) in Thailand: a case report with molecular characterization.
Laoungbua P, Laopichienpong N, Longya A et al. · Veterinary research forum : an international quarterly journal · 2025-06 · open access
- Efficacy and safety of afoxolaner (NexGard®) in a collection of captive-bred lizards for the treatment and control of mite infestation.
Mendoza-Roldan JA, Perles L, Miuli C et al. · International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025-06 · open access
- Differential requirement of Hand1 during differentiation of lateral plate mesoderm lineages in Xenopus laevis.
Deveau VA, Willson JA, Carleton JL et al. · Developmental biology · 2025-06
- A novel cluster of improved frilled lizard optimization and multi-ladder gated networks for the detection of cyber-attacks in computer networks
Vandana Dharmapuri, Shubham Dutta · Discover Computing · 2025-06 · open access
- Hibernating male lizards (Eremias argus) cleverly respond to insecticide exposure and warming temperatures: survival rate and physical condition cannot coexist.
Zhang Y, Yu S, Nie Y et al. · The Science of the total environment · 2025-06
- Host-defence caerin 1.1 and 1.9 peptides suppress B16 melanoma growth by inducing apoptosis and disrupting lipid metabolism.
Fu J, Song X, Mo R et al. · Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2025-06 · open access
Caerin peptides, originally isolated from the skin secretions of Australian tree frogs of the genus Litoria, have shown potential as anti-cancer agents in previous studies. This study investigates the impact of caerin 1.1 and 1.9 (F1/F3) peptides on lipid and amino acid metabolism in B16 melanoma…
- KDM6B is a conserved activator at the top of the male sex determination pathway.
Dupont SM, Garcia-Moreno A, O'Neil EV et al. · Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025-06
- Assessing the effects of climate change on the current and future global distribution of three Tegu species using an optimized model
Frank M. Fontanella · Biodiversity · 2025-06
- Environmental drivers of calling activity in the critically endangered lemur leaf frog, Agalychnis lemur (Hylidae: Phyllomedusinae).
Chirino F, Willink B, Elizondo-Calvo J et al. · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025-06
- Involvement of enkephalinergic system in the reproductive stress response of the gecko Hemidactylus frenatus.
Ganeyan A, Ganesh CB · Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025-06
- Diversity and Composition of Gut Microbiota in Different Developmental Stages of the Tibetan Toad ( Bufo tibetanus ).
He K, Han C, Liu C et al. · Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025-06 · open access
1. Introduction Gut microbiota is one of the main components of the intestinal ecosystem and can profoundly influence the biology of hosts, including digestive efficiency, metabolic processes, and immune regulatory processes. In addition, a number of studies have established it contributes to the…
- Systematics of Ecuadorian anoles: Anolis bitectus Cope, 1864 and A. lemniscatus Boulenger, 1898, two junior synonyms of A. binotatus Peters, 1863 (Reptilia: Squamata: Anolidae).
Ayala-Varela F, Poe S, Posse-Sarmiento V et al. · Zootaxa · 2025-06
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