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- Emergence of Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, Nannizziopsis barbatae and Paranannizziopsis in free-ranging Australian reptiles.
Butcher RG, Ng B, Hyndman TH et al. · Australian veterinary journal · 2026-02 · open access
Emerging fungal diseases pose a threat to reptiles globally. Increasing detections of onygenalean fungi, particularly Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, Nannizziopsis spp. and Paranannizziopsis spp. in clinically diseased free-ranging reptiles, indicate likely ongoing spread within wild reptile populations.…
- Citizen science records of Australian water dragons (Agamidae, Intellagama lesueurii ) in South Australia
Matthew Mo, Elouise Mo · Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia · 2026-01
- Indirect pathogen transmission underlies an emerging infectious fungal disease outbreak in a wild reptile population.
Becker SC, Albery GF, Jackson N et al. · Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025-12
- Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard.
Class B, Strickland K, Potvin D et al. · The American naturalist · 2024-09
- Ecological Correlates of Small Territories and Intra-Seasonal Variation in the Social Context of Displays in Male Water Dragons, Intellagama lesueurii
Troy A. Baird, Teresa D. Baird, Richard Shine · Journal of Herpetology · 2023-10
- Adaptive significance of affiliative behaviour differs between sexes in a wild reptile population.
Delmé C, Jackson N, Class B et al. · Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023-06 · open access
In recent years, we have begun to appreciate that social behaviours might exhibit repeatable among-individual variation. Such behavioural traits may even covary and have critical evolutionary implications. Importantly, some social behaviours such as aggressiveness have been shown to provide fitness…
- Agonism does not covary with territoriality in a gregarious reptile
Sarah C. Ball, Dominique A. Potvin, Barbara Class et al. · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · 2023-06 · open access
Abstract Natural selection for territoriality is theorised to occur under conditions favouring intra-sexual phenotypic variation in physiology, morphology, and behaviour. In this context, certain suites of behavioural traits associated with territoriality are expected to consistently covary among…
- Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard
Jessica Tacey, Barbara Class, Coralie Delmé et al. · Animal Behaviour · 2023-04 · open access
Emerging infectious fungal diseases are responsible for the extinction of myriad species across a range of phyla. As recently shown by the COVID-19 pandemic, social transmission can be key to disease spread, and in this context, humans are not alone in trying to be alone. In group-living species,…
- Digest: Parks aren't just for us: city parks as archipelagos for the study of rapid evolution.
Murphy L, Maguire B · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2023-02
- Reptiles and Amphibians on a University Campus in a Peri-urban Area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Matthew Mo · Reptiles & Amphibians · 2022-02 · open access
- Small Breeding Season Home Ranges and Egg-Laying Migrations in Urban Female Water Dragons (Intellagama lesueurii)
Troy A. Baird, Teresa D. Baird, Teresa D. Baird et al. · Journal of Herpetology · 2021-10
- Repeatability and heritability of social reaction norms in a wild agamid lizard.
Strickland K, Mitchell DJ, Delmé C et al. · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2021-07
- Intellagama lesueurii (Eastern Water Dragon). Warning display.
Troy A. Baird, Richard Shine, Stephanie Torrico-Paz, Mauricio Ocampo, and James Aparicio · Herpetological Review · 2021-01
- Cross-continental emergence of Nannizziopsis barbatae disease may threaten wild Australian lizards.
Peterson NR, Rose K, Shaw S et al. · Scientific reports · 2020-12 · open access
Introduction Emerging fungal diseases have been associated with catastrophic declines and extinctions among wildlife and pose an increasingly recognized threat to ecosystems and biodiversity –. Ectothermic taxa are particularly vulnerable to fungal pathogens and in recent decades, herpetofauna have…
- Fitness benefits of male dominance behaviours depend on the degree of individual inbreeding in a polyandrous lizard.
Piza-Roca C, Schoeman D, Frere C · Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020-05
- City life alters the gut microbiome and stable isotope profiling of the eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii).
Littleford-Colquhoun BL, Weyrich LS, Kent N et al. · Molecular ecology · 2019-10
- Potential Invasion Risk of Pet Traded Lizards, Snakes, Crocodiles, and Tuatara in the EU on the Basis of a Risk Assessment Model (RAM) and Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK)
Oldřich Kopecký, Anna Bílková, Veronika Hamatová et al. · Diversity · 2019-09 · open access
Because biological invasions can cause many negative impacts, accurate predictions are necessary for implementing effective restrictions aimed at specific high-risk taxa. The pet trade in recent years became the most important pathway for the introduction of non-indigenous species of reptiles…
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- Presence of kin-biased social associations in a lizard with no parental care: the eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii)
Carme Pizà‐Roca, Kasha Strickland, Nicola Kent et al. · Behavioral Ecology · 2019-05
- Pathogenesis of Bohle Iridovirus (Genus Ranavirus) in Experimentally Infected Juvenile Eastern Water Dragons ( Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii).
Maclaine A, Forzán MJ, Mashkour N et al. · Veterinary pathology · 2019-01
- Maternal nesting behaviour in city dragons: a species with temperature-dependent sex determination
Nicola Jackson, Romane H. Cristescu, Carme Pizà‐Roca et al. · Journal of Urban Ecology · 2019-01 · open access
Abstract Urban environments present some of the greatest challenges to species survival. This is particularly true for species that exhibit thermally sensitive traits, such as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). This is because urban environments not only present species with entirely…
- Characterisation of ranaviral infection and its management in Australian lizards
Alicia Maclaine · ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University) · 2019-01
- Street fighters: Bite force, injury rates, and density of urban Australian water dragons ( Intellagama lesueurii )
James H. Baxter‐Gilbert, Martin J. Whiting · Austral Ecology · 2018-11
- Baseline morphometric, haematological and plasma biochemical parameters in free-ranging eastern water dragons (Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii).
Johnson R, Harlow PS, Phillips CA et al. · Australian veterinary journal · 2018-11
- Eastern water dragons modify their social tactics with respect to the location within their home range
Carme Pizà‐Roca, Kasha Strickland, David S. Schoeman et al. · Animal Behaviour · 2018-09 · open access
- Seeing red: pteridine-based colour and male quality in a dragon lizard
Thomas Merkling, Dani Chandrasoma, Katrina J. Rankin et al. · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · 2018-05
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