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Ferguson, G. W., Kingeter, A. J., & Gehrmann, W. H. (2013). Ultraviolet light exposure and response todietary vitamin d-3 in two jamaican anoles. Journal of Herpetology, 47(4), 624–529. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
BibTeX citation key: Ferguson2013
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Categories: Englisch = English
Keywords: Reptilien = Reptiles, Vitamin D = Vitamin D
Creators: Ferguson, Gehrmann, Kingeter
Collection: Journal of Herpetology
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Abstract
In Jamaica, free-living male and female-sized Anolis sagrei are exposed to more natural ultraviolet-B (UVB) from sunlight than
male and female-sized Anolis lineatopus. In the laboratory, we tested predictions derived from the hypothesis that Anolis possess a mechanism
for behaviorally photo-regulating their exposure to UVB depending on their dietary intake of vitamin D3. Anolis sagrei voluntarily exposed
themselves more frequently to visible and UVB light and received higher doses of UVB in an artificial light gradient when fed a low vitamin D3
diet for 6 weeks than when subsequently fed a high dietary vitamin D3 diet for 6 weeks. When we returned the anole’s diet to the low vitamin
D3 regimen for a third 6-week period, UVB exposure remained lower than in the first 6-week period. This suggests an initial UV photoregulatory
adjustment to high dietary vitamin-D3 but a slow return to greater reliance on UVB-induced endogenous vitamin D3 production.
Conversely, while exposing themselves to UVB with similar frequency and doses as A. sagrei over the course of the 18-week experiment, A.
lineatopus did not show the same decreased attraction to visible and UVB light in response to increased dietary vitamin D3. The response of A.
sagrei in the laboratory to visible light without UVB was similar to their response to visible light with UVB. Therefore, the anoles appeared to
be responding primarily to visible light. Anolis lineatopus may be unable to use dietary vitamin D3 to restore low vitamin D status.
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