fence lizard


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Noun 1. [画像:fence lizard - spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico]fence lizard - spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico
spiny lizard - any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales; of North America and Central America
blue-belly, Sceloporus occidentalis, western fence lizard, swift - common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks
eastern fence lizard, pine lizard, Sceloporus undulatus - small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia
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Geographic variation in the effects of heat exposure on maximum sprint speed and Hsp70 expression in the western fence lizard Sceloporus occidentalis.
Differential Regulation of Hsp70 Expression in Six Lizard Species under Normal and High Environmental Temperatures
Ovarian cycle of the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis.
REPRODUCTION IN THE CAPE REGION WHIPTAIL ASPIDOSCELIS TIGRIS MAXIMUS (SQUAMATA: TEIIDAE) FROM BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, MEXICO
The species Rosenblum and her colleagues have been focused on are the eastern fence lizard, the lesser earless lizard and the little striped whiptail.
True colors: learning about evolution from the white lizards of White Sands
hyperythra (n = 173), and then the western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis; n = 155).
Rare alluvial sands of El Monte Valley, California (San Diego county), support high herpetofaunal species richness and diversity, despite severe habitat disturbance
I spotted this northern fence lizard in the Hudson Highlands.
Lizard in the highlands
Testosterone regulates sexually dimorphic coloration in the eastern fence lizard, Sceloporus undulates.
Variacion morfologica asociada a los patrones de color de la garganta, en lagartijas Sceloporus horridus horridus (Sauria: Phrynosomatidae)
Four genera (Anolis, Eumeces, Scincella, and Sceloporus) and six different species of lizards were captured during this investigation, represented by one species of anole, four species of skinks, and one species of fence lizard (Table I).
A survey of small vertebrates in a central Georgia Piedmont forested habitat
(37) The western fence lizard is an important host for disease-bearing ticks there but is resistant to Bb.
The Lyme disease debate: host Biodiversity and Human Disease Risk
Talleklint-Eisen L, Eisen RJ (1999) Abundance of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting tbe western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis, in relation to environmental factors.
Ectoparasitic load in the yarrow spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) in the Canon de las Piedras Encimadas, Durango, Mexico/Carga ectoparasitaria en la lagartija espinosa de yarrow (Sceloporus jarrovii) en el Canon de las Piedras Encimadas, Durango, Mexico/carga de ectoparasitos em el lagarto espinhoso de yarrow (Sceloporus jarrovii) em el Canon de las Piedras Encimadas, Durango, Mexico
Since the dunes developed, a light-colored form of the normally dark-shaded eastern fence lizard has arisen; the new form blends in with the landscape.
Adaptation breeds confusion
Lyme disease in California: interrelationship of lxodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae), the western fence lizard (Seeloporus occidentalis), and Borrelia burgdorferi.
Borrelia lusitaniae and green lizards (Lacerta viridis), Karst Region, Slovakia

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