Iguanas

Alberts A., Jackintell L. and Phillips J. (1994). Effects of chemical and visual exposure to adults on growth, hormones, and behavior of juvenile Green Iguanas. Physiol Behav 55, 987-992. 

Davidson, Jane P. "I am the poison-dripping dragon" iguanas and their symbolism in the alchemical and occult paintings of David Teniers the Younger 62. Ambix 34, no. 2 (Jul 1987) 62-80. 

Flanigan, W. F. (1973). Sleep and wakefulness in iguanid lizards, Ctenosaura pectinata and Iguana iguana. Brain Behan. Evol. 8, 401-36. 

Alberts, A. C. and Werner, D. I. (1993) Chemical recognition of unfamiliar conspecifics by green iguanas functional significance of different signals components. Anim. Behav. 46, 197-199. 

Bealor, M. T. and Krekorian, C. O. (2002) Chemosensory identification of lizard-eating snakes in the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis (Squamata Iguanidae). J. Herpetol. 36, 9-15. 

Pedersen, J. M. (1992) Field observations on the role of tongue extrusion in the social-behavior of the desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis). J. Comp. Psych. 106, 287-294. 

Fig. 2.27. Representative HPLC chromatograms of carotenoids found in the plasma of green iguanas after being fed with a carotene-deficient diet (a) or a diet supplemented with /3-carotene (b), can-thaxanthin (c) and /f-apo-8 -carotenoic acid ethyl ester (d) recorded at 450 nm. Enumerated peaks are (1) lutein (21.3min) (2) zeaxanthin (22.2min) (3) undefined peak co-eluted with zeaxanthin (22.2min) (4) canthaxanthin (23.1min) and (5) apo-8 -carotenoic acid ethyl ester (26.7min). Retention times in parentheses. Reprinted with permission from J. Raila et al. [65],...

CONCENTRATIONS OF PLASMA RETINOL (1, NG/ML), LUTEIN (2, NG/ML), ZEAXANTHIN (3, NG/ ML), CANTHAXANTHIN (4, NG/ML) AND a-TOCOPHEROL (5, /xG/ML) IN CONTROL AND EXPERIMENTAL GREEN IGUANAS AFTER INGESTING DIETS SUPPLEMENTED WITH DIFFERENT CAROTENOIDS (80 MG/KG DIET) FOR 28 DAYS (MEAN S.D N = 5)... 

Thaller MC, Migliore L, Marquez C et al (2010) Tracking acquired antibiotic resistance in commensal bacteria of Galapagos land iguanas no man, no resistance. PLoS One 5(2) e8989... 

The VNO plays an important role in feeding behavior in garter snakes (Halpern and Frumin, 1979). Lizards also appear to use their VNO for food detection. Examples are the scincid lizard Chalcides ocellatus Gnves and Halpern, 1990) and the desert iguana D. dorsalis (Cooper and Alberts, 1991). The latter... 

Relatively non-volatile materials such as the proteins (10-30kDa) and lipids in the femoral gland secretion of desert iguanas, D. dorsalis, may strongly absorb long-wave ultraviolet (300-500 nm). Desert iguanas actually locate scent marks better under ultraviolet light (Alberts, 1989). 

Hatchling green iguanas. Iguana iguana, recognize kin by the odor of their feces, but also by their body odor (Werner et al, 1987). 

Alberts, A. C. (1989). Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in desert iguanas implications for pheromone detection. Animal Behaviour 38,129-137. 

Alberts, A. C., Sharp, T. R., Werner, D. I., and Weldon, P. J. (1992). Seasonal variation of lipids in femoral gland secretions of male green iguanas Iguana iguana). Journal of ChemicalBcology 18,703-712. 

Wikelski, M. Thom, C. (2000) Marine iguanas shrink to survive El Nino. Nature, 403, 37. 

McFall-Ngai, M., and J. Horwitz (1990). A comparative study of the thermal stability of the vertebrate eye lens Antarctic fish to the desert iguana. Exp. Eye Res. 50 703-709. 

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