Luke Anderson
@dialektical.bsky.social
Incoming postdoc at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. My PhD work at Tulane explored behavioral ecology and evolutionary genomics in manakins
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Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette
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Unprecedented lead tolerance in an urban lizard
Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic heavy metal pollutant pervasive in many environments with serious health consequences for humans and wildlife. We foun…
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August 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette
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March 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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New work from the lab! Annelise Blanchette found that brown anole lizards may be the most lead (pb) tolerant vertebrate known to date by integrating physiological studies of field and lab exposed animals and transcriptomics #urbanecology #ecotox #anolis 🦎 1/n
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Extreme lead tolerance in an urban lizard
Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic heavy metal pollutant pervasive in many environments with serious health consequences for humans and wildlife. Identifying organisms that can serve as biomonitors of le...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:35 PM
New work from the lab! Annelise Blanchette found that brown anole lizards may be the most lead (pb) tolerant vertebrate known to date by integrating physiological studies of field and lab exposed animals and transcriptomics #urbanecology #ecotox #anolis 🦎 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Awesome new manakin work by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social et al!
BCO2 controls collar pigmentation in Manacus manakins, and the pigmented-collar allele arose in one species, introgressed into a second, and kept on introgressin’ from the second species into a third 🧬🪶
BCO2 controls collar pigmentation in Manacus manakins, and the pigmented-collar allele arose in one species, introgressed into a second, and kept on introgressin’ from the second species into a third 🧬🪶
Published today, plumage color genomics! We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with H.C. Lim. #evobio #birds 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 22, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Awesome new manakin work by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social et al!
BCO2 controls collar pigmentation in Manacus manakins, and the pigmented-collar allele arose in one species, introgressed into a second, and kept on introgressin’ from the second species into a third 🧬🪶
BCO2 controls collar pigmentation in Manacus manakins, and the pigmented-collar allele arose in one species, introgressed into a second, and kept on introgressin’ from the second species into a third 🧬🪶
Excited to share that my first dissertation chapter has been published in Biology Letters!
"Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system"
Check it out at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system"
Check it out at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
September 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Excited to share that my first dissertation chapter has been published in Biology Letters!
"Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system"
Check it out at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
"Fruit resources shape sexual selection processes in a lek mating system"
Check it out at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Fieldwork on Christmas Day => red and green color bands 🎄🪶
December 25, 2023 at 10:58 PM
Fieldwork on Christmas Day => red and green color bands 🎄🪶
Eyelash palm-pitviper (Bothriechis schlegelii), Ecuadorian Chocó.
December 19, 2023 at 10:21 PM
Eyelash palm-pitviper (Bothriechis schlegelii), Ecuadorian Chocó.
Awesome to witness this bushmaster surgery at Reserva FCAT! Bushmasters are the longest vipers in the world, and researchers here are implanting radio transmitters to track the snakes’ movements, with goals of understanding their basic biology and reducing human-wildlife conflict in NW Ecuador.
December 17, 2023 at 6:28 PM
Awesome to witness this bushmaster surgery at Reserva FCAT! Bushmasters are the longest vipers in the world, and researchers here are implanting radio transmitters to track the snakes’ movements, with goals of understanding their basic biology and reducing human-wildlife conflict in NW Ecuador.
Finally made it over to Bsky! I suppose it’s only fitting to kick things off with a manakin pic..
November 2, 2023 at 11:59 PM
Finally made it over to Bsky! I suppose it’s only fitting to kick things off with a manakin pic..