Can pregnant lizards adjust their offspring phenotypes to environmental conditions?

Pregnant female lizards Iberolacerta cyr

Pregnant female lizards Iberolacerta cyreni adjust refuge use to decrease thermal costs for their body condition and cell-mediated immune response

✍ Luisa Amo; Pilar López; José Martín 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) 🌐 English ⚖ 119 KB

## Abstract Lizards often respond to increased predation risk by increasing refuge use, but this strategy may entail a loss of thermoregulatory opportunities, which may lead to a loss of body condition. This may be especially important for pregnant oviparous female lizards, because they need to mai