Hot off the press — the latest anole journal cover! In this issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution, Shane Campbell-Staton and I led a team of researchers to explore the effects of urban heat islands on anoles. We found that not only can urban Anolis cristatellus tolerate higher temperatures than their forest counterparts, but also identified genomic regions associated with divergent thermal tolerance. Check out a summary of this work at the urban evolution blog I co-edit, Life in the City: Anoles Adapt to Beat the Urban Heat.
I am an Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University. My first love is herpetology, but my lab works on urban evolutionary ecology in diverse organisms (but primarily anoles!).
Latest posts by Kristin Winchell (see all)
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