Influence of geography and climate on patterns of cell size and body size in the lizard Anolis carolinensis
作者机构：Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTennesseeUSA Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular BiologyUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTennesseeUSA
出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2013年第8卷第2期
页 面：184-196页
核心收录：
学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 0906[农学-兽医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
基 金：the Department of Ecology&Evolutionary Biology and the University of Tennessee,Knoxville(UTK)for providing research funding and space financial support to R.M.Goodman during this project(also the Biology Division Science Alliance Award and UTK Yates Dissertation Fellowship)
主 题：Bergmann’s rule ecogeographic pattern latitude longitude reptile temperature
摘 要：Geographic patterns in body size are often associated with latitude,elevation,or environmental and climatic *** study investigated patterns of body size and cell size of the green anole lizard,Anolis carolinensis,and potential associations with geography or climatic *** were sampled from 19 populations across the native range,and body size,red blood cell size and size and number of muscle cells were *** data from local weather stations and latitude and longitude were entered into model selection with Akaike’s information criterion to explain patterns in cell and body *** variables did not drive any major patterns in cell size or body size;rather,latitude and longitude were the best predictors of cell and body *** general,smaller body and cell sizes in Florida anoles drove geographic patterns in *** size in Florida may be attributable to�q�the�geological history of the peninsular state or�the�unique ecological factors in this area,including a recently introduced *** contrast to previous studies,we found that *** does not follow Bergmann’s rule when the influence of Florida is ***,the opposite pattern of larger lizards in southern populations is evident in the absence of Florida populations,and mirrors the general pattern in *** cell size was negatively related to latitude and red blood cell size showed no latitudinal trend outside of *** patterns in the sizes of the 2 cell types confirm the importance of examining multiple cell types when studying geographic variation in cell size.
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