A new paper of the costs of reproduction in brown anoles was just published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society! This is collaborative work with Bob Cox's lab at the University of Virginia, with Aaron Reedy as the lead author. Using gonadectomy of both males and female brown anoles, we tested whether a host of traits (parasitism, immune function, and fat storage) were impacted by reproduction. We found that gonadectomized males and females stored more fat and had less of certain parasites than animals with intact gonads. These findings suggest that increased parasitism and decreased fat storage are costs of reproduction in brown anoles. Check out the article via the link below!
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bij.12685/abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bij.12685/abstract
