Kathleen N Ivey

TL;DR: Temperature can alter the lizard gut microbiota, with potential implications for the physiological performance and fitness of natural populations, and relationships between variation in the gut microbiota and the thermal physiology of natural host populations are suggested.

TL;DR: No evidence for an influence of noise on clutch size, brood size, number of fledglings, or overall nest success in western bluebirds, and ash-throated flycatcher nests exposed to noise had lower reproductive success than quiet nests, suggesting that nest box placement near roads may be counterproductive to efforts to bolster population densities of some species.

TL;DR: The blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila) is a federally endangered species that, despite protection, remains in extremely arid, hot areas and may be at risk of extirpation due to climate change.

TL;DR: Both live and dead lizards had lower brain than cloacal temperatures, suggesting living lizards do not actively maintain lower brain temperatures when they cannot pant, and body size should therefore be considered in studies involving CTmax data on species with variable sizes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used whole-genome sequencing to identify representatives from 23 previously uncultured candidate bacterial genera, 12 of which were not detected by culture-independent sequencing.