A look on the habitat heterogeneity: how did the physiology and behavior of tropidurine lizards allow occupation of forests and open environments?

• Grant number: 20/12962-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: July 01, 2021
• End date: June 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Physiology of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: José Eduardo de Carvalho
• Grantee: José Eduardo de Carvalho
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Carla Bonetti Madelaire ; Carolina Ribeiro Noronha de Souza ; Danilo Giacometti dos Santos Uehara Oliveira ; Fabiano Campos Lima ; Fábio Cury de Barros ; Fernando Ribeiro Gomes ; Levi Carina Terribile ; Matheus de Souza Lima Ribeiro ; Paul John Schaeffer ; Thayna Medeiros de Andrade
• Associated research grant(s): 25/10129-8 - 11th Brazilian Congress of Herpetology, AR.BR; 24/04225-1 - 10th World Congress of Herpetology, AR.EXT

Abstract

The occupation of contrasting environments by organisms occurs along the emergence of phenotypic traits that allow animals to explore local conditions. Thus, observing the patterns of phenotypic variation among populations and at higher hierarchical levels allow us to understand how often phenotypes are repeated in different lineages and how such phenotypic plasticity of a given lineage are modified as consequence of changes in their habitats under the ecological and evolutionary timescale. In this research project we intend to investigate how the phenotypic variation in tropidurine lizard strains related to the occupation of different habitats contrasting in structure and clime (open environments and forests), focusing in behavioral and physiological traits, within two complementary lines of investigation: (1) the thermoregulatory behavior and the physiological responses to temperature; and (2) the social behavior and the hormonal influence on performance. In addition, we will perform ecological niche analysis and make predictions on the effects of climate change on lizard biology, generating elements for discussion of the impacts of environmental changes on biodiversity. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GIACONNETTI, DANILO; BARS-CLOSEL, MELISSA; KOHLSDORF, TIANA; DE CARVALHO, JOSE EDUARDO; DE BARROS, FABIO CURY. Environmental temperature predicts resting metabolic rates in tropidurinae lizards. OURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART A-ECOLOGICAL AND INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOG, v. 337, n. 9-10, p. 14-pg., 2022-09-20. (15/07650-6, 20/12962-5, 13/14125-0)

LIMA-SANTOS, JADE; ALMEIDA-SANTOS, SELMA MARIA; DE CARVALHO, JOSE EDUARDO; BRASILEIRO, CINTHIA A.. Does reproductive effort influence the metabolic rate of Tomodon dorsatus snakes?. ACTA ZOOLOGICA, SEP 2021. (20/12962-5, 08/57712-4, 20/12866-6)

LISBOA, C. S.; DE CARVALHO, J. E.; DE BARROS, F. C.; DA CRUZ, J. B.; BRASILEIRO, C. A.. Influence of captive breeding environment on the locomotor performance and metabolism of the threatened Alcatraz Snouted Treefrog, Ololygon alcatraz. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2024-11-05. (20/12962-5, 20/12866-6)

GIACOMETTI, DANILO; SILVA, LUIZ HENRIQUE LIMA; GOMES, GUILHERME; DE CARVALHO, JOSE EDUARDO; PALAORO, ALEXANDRE V.. Regional heterothermy in Megasoma gyas is not related to active heat dissipation by the horns. Insect Science, v. N/A, p. 5-pg., 2025-03-06. (20/12962-5)

DE FIGUEIREDO, AYMAM C.; PRADO, DEBORA M. A.; FLORESTE, FELIPE R.; NETO, PATRICIO G. GARCIA; GOMES, FERNANDO R.; DE CARVALHO, JOSE E.. Fasting elicits immune modulation and leukocyte redistribution in bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus). COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY, v. 306, p. 7-pg., 2025-05-02. (20/12962-5)

LIMA-SANTOS, J.; CARVALHO, J. E.; BRASILEIRO, C. A.. How sexual differences affect locomotor performance and metabolism of the Sword Snake: An integrated view from energetics. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, JUN 2021. (20/12866-6, 20/12962-5, 08/57712-4)

DA MOTA ARAUJO, HELENA RACHEL; SARTORI, MARINA RINCON; NAVARRO, CLAUDIA D. C.; DE CARVALHO, JOSE EDUARDO; DA CRUZ, ANDRE LUIS. Feeding effects on liver mitochondrial bioenergetics of Boa constrictor (Serpentes: Boidae). Journal of Experimental Biology, v. 224, n. 21, NOV 2021. (08/57712-4, 20/12962-5, 17/05487-6)

LIMA-SANTOS, J.; CARVALHO, J. E.; BRASILEIRO, C. A.. ow sexual differences affect locomotor performance and metabolism of the Sword Snake: An integrated view from energetic. JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, v. 315, n. 2, p. 149-155, OCT 2021. (20/12962-5, 20/12866-6, 08/57712-4)

SANTANA-LIMA, BEATRIZ; BELAUNDE, LUCAS HUMBERTO ZIMMERMANN; DE SOUZA, KARINE DAMACENO; ROSA, MATHEUS ELIAS; DE CARVALHO, JOSE EDUARDO; MACHADO-JR, JOEL; ALONSO-VALE, MARIA ISABEL CARDOSO; CASELI, LUCIANO; RANDO, DANIELA GONCALES GALASSE; CAPERUTO, LUCIANA CHAGAS. Acute Kaempferol Stimulation Induces AKT Phosphorylation in HepG2 Cells. LIFE-BASEL, v. 14, n. 6, p. 17-pg., 2024-06-01. (19/26686-2, 19/13618-9, 22/03736-7, 20/12962-5)