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Decreased Cell-Mediated Immune Response in Bosk’s Fringe-Toed Lizards (Acanthodactylus boskianus) Inhabiting an Industrialized Area in Southern Tunisia
Lizards increasingly are recognized as suitable contaminant biomonitors in terrestrial ecosystems. Previously, we have shown that Bosk’s fringe-toed lizards (Acanthodactylus boskianus) living close to the Gabès-G...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fluctuating Asymmetry in Acanthodactylus boskianus Living in a Contaminated Area Close to Gabès City (Southern Tunisia)
Environmental pollution can have significant detrimental effects on animal populations (Hughes et al. in Science, 278:689–6923, 1997). Anthropogenic pressures have been increasing in the past decades in Gabès reg...
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Heavy metal accumulation in lizards living near a phosphate treatment plant: possible transfer of contaminants from aquatic to terrestrial food webs
We investigated the accumulation of heavy metals in Bosk’s fringe-toed lizards (Acanthodactylus boskianus) living in Gabès region (southeastern Tunisia), in relation to habitat, diet, and distance from the Gabès-...