Our paper on evaporative water loss in squamate reptiles was just published in the journal Evolution! In this paper, we used phylogenetic comparative methods to show 1) rates of evaporative water loss are highest in mesic environments and lowest in arid environments and 2) transition rates between either habitat extreme are relatively rare compared to those involving a semiarid intermediate. Check out the image below to read the article.
Evolutionary shifts in habitat aridity predict evaporative water loss across squamate reptiles9/17/2015
Chinonye "ChiChi" Obialo is joining the lab, and will begin helping with research on the ecology and evolution of color polymorphism in cricket frogs and hognose snakes.
Abstracts are submitted! The Cox lab will be joining the "other" Cox Lab at the annual Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) annual meeting in January, along with the Bedore and McBrayer labs from Georgia Southern. We will be presenting our work on how metabolism, growth, and gene expression impact the expression and evolution of sexual dimorphism in lizards.
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