Titre
Reduced tail regeneration in the Common Lizard, Lacerta vivipara, parasitized by blood parasites
Type
article
Institution
Externe
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Oppliger, Anne
Auteure/Auteur
Clobert, J.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
ISSN
0269-8463
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
1997
Volume
11
Numéro
5
Première page
652
Dernière page/numéro d’article
655
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
1. Many lizards will lose their tail through autotomy as an antipredator device even though there must be significant costs during tail regeneration. 2. Parasites are energetically costly to the host, and may reduce the rate of cell regeneration. The relation between the presence of haemogregarines (phylum Sporozoa) and the rate of tail regeneration in the Common Lizard Lacerta vivipara (Jacquin) was examined. 3. Experimentally induced autotomy in parasitized lizards resulted in a significantly reduced rate of tail regeneration compared with non-parasitized lizards. On the ether hand, tail loss was not associated with an abnormal increase of parasite load, suggesting that the physiological stress (induced by tail loss) did not cause a decrease in parasite defence.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_0EE7CACA71FE
Open Access
Oui
Date de création
2011-10-11T11:01:20.220Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T13:22:27Z