Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Study reveals mechanism used by #TeguLizard to raise own temperature https://phys.org/news/2024-08-reveals-mechanism-tegu-lizard-temperature.html
Mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle contributes to reproductive #endothermy in tegu #lizards https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apha.14162
During the reproductive season, the muscles of both males and females produced far more #mitochondria... In addition, a mitochondrial protein ANT, known to be involved in a process that generates heat in #birds, was more abundant and more active during the reproductive season.
Study reveals mechanism used by tegu lizard to raise own temperature
A group of scientists has revealed the mechanism whereby Salvator merianae—the black and white tegu, also called the Argentine giant tegu—is able to keep warm by raising its own body temperature during the reproductive season even while it is in a dark burrow. This had never been observed before in reptiles.