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Christian Cox

@coxevolab.bsky.social

I am an integrative evolutionary biologist. My laboratory at Florida International University studies the evolution of functional diversity in nature. Read more at coxevolab.org.

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Christian Cox @coxevolab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Our new paper on the impact of testosterone on gene expression in spiny lizards was just published in The American Naturalist! We found that the impact of testosterone on gene expression was similar between the sexes but different between species. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Effects of Testosterone on Gene Expression Are Concordant between Sexes but Divergent across Species of Sceloporus Lizards | The American Naturalist: Vol 204, No 5

Abstract Hormones mediate sexual dimorphism by regulating sex-specific patterns of gene expression, but it is unclear how much of this regulation involves sex-specific hormone levels versus sex-specif...

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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Check out the amazing structure of Plethodon cinereus sperm! It has a flagellum that contains an axoneme AND an electron-dense axial rod with an undulating membrane between. You can see the transition between the head and flagella and hints of axial rod structure in fragmented cell (in comments).

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Christian Cox @coxevolab.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Cool paper!

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Christian Cox @coxevolab.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Our new paper on behavioral interactions between non-native anoles was just published in the Journal of Zoology! This research project was part of the Herpetology class that I teach at FIU. Congrats to first author Dr. Ian Clifton! zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Bite or flight? Behavioral interactions between bark anoles and brown anoles in their nonnative rang...

Here, we compared the behavior of brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) and bark anoles (A. distichus) when faced with an incursion by an unknown brown anole to examine the intra- and interspecific interacti...

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Christian Cox @coxevolab.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

A new paper from the lab on how a snake feeds on dangerous prey was just published in ICB! Congrats to first author Noah Gripshover, and check out the link to read the paper: academic.oup.com/icb/article/...

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