期刊
JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY
卷 53, 期 -, 页码 198-204出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2015.09.001
关键词
Temperature preference; Reproductive condition; Tupinambis merianae; Body size; Intraspecific variation
资金
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) [314]
- Fondo para la Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (FONCYT) BID-PICT [2011-1599]
- Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnologia (SeCyT) [05/I624 2011]
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
Body temperature is a key factor in physiological processes, influencing lizard performances; and life history traits are expected to generate variability of thermal preferences in different individuals. Gender, body size and reproductive condition may impose specific requirements on preferred body temperatures. If these three factors have different physiological functions and thermal requirements, then,the preferred temperature may represent a compromise that optimizes these physiological functions. Therefore, the body temperatures that lizards select in a controlled environment may reflect a temperature that maximizes their physiological needs. The tegu lizard Tupinambis merianae is one of the largest lizards in South America and has wide ontogenetic variation in body size and sexual dimorphism. In the present study we evaluate intraspecific variability of thermal preferences of T. merianae. We determined the selected body temperature and the rate at which males and females attain their selected temperature, in relation to body size and reproductive condition. We also compared the behavior in the thermal gradient between males and females and between reproductive condition of individuals. Our study show that T merianae selected body temperature within a narrow range of temperatures variation in the laboratory thermal gradient, with 36.24 +/- 1.49 degrees C being the preferred temperature. We observed no significant differences between sex, body size and reproductive condition in thermal preferences. Accordingly, we suggest that the evaluated categories of 1: merianae have similar thermal requirements. Males showed higher rates to obtain heat than females and reproductive females, higher rates than non-reproductive ones females. Moreover, males and reproductive females showed a more dynamic behavior in the thermal gradient. Therefore, even though they achieve the same selected temperature, they do it differentially. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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