Font, E. (2023) 50 years of the Nobel Prize to Lorenz, Tinbergen, and von Frisch: Integrating behavioral function into an ethology for the 21st century. Frontiers in Ethology 2:1270913.
Bartolomé, A., P. Carazo & E. Font (2023) Environmental enrichment for reptiles in European zoos: Current status and perspectives. Animal Welfare 32(e48):1-13.
Font, E. (2023) Scientific photography and animal behaviour: A historical perspective. Metode Science Studies Journal 13. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.24660
De la Cruz, F., G. Pérez i de Lanuza & E. Font (2023) Signalling on islands: The case of Lilford’s wall lizard (Podarcis lilfordi gigliolii) from Dragonera. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 138:372-391.
González-Granero, S., E. Font, E. Desfilis, V. Herranz-Pérez & J.M. García-Verdugo (2023) Adult neurogenesis in the telencephalon of the lizard Podarcis liolepis. Frontiers in Neuroscience 17:1125999.
Font, E., G.M. Burghardt & M. Leal (2023) Reptile brains, behavior, and cognition: Multiple misconceptions. In: Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles (Warwick, C., Arena, P.C. & Burghardt, G.M., Eds.), pp. 211-238. Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
2022
Font, E. & E.V. Font‐Ferrer (2022) Beauty and mate choice: What evolutionary biology can teach us. Metode Science Studies Journal. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.13.24205.
Abalos, J., G. Pérez i de Lanuza, A. Bartolomé, F. Aubret, T. Uller & E. Font (2022) Viability, behavior, and color expression in the offspring of matings between common wall lizard Podarcis muralis color morphs. Current Zoology 68:41-55.
2021
Badiane, A. & E. Font (2021) Information content of ultraviolet-reflecting colour patches and visual perception of body coloration in the Tyrrhenian wall lizard Podarcis tiliguerta. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75:96.
Font, E. & P. Carazo (2021) False dichotomies and human sexual size dimorphism: A comment of Dunsworth (2020). Evolution and Human Behavior 42:176-178.
2020
Abalos, J., G. Pérez i de Lanuza, A. Bartolomé, O. Liehrmann, H. Laakkonen, F. Aubret, T. Uller, P. Carazo & E. Font (2020) No evidence for differential sociosexual behavior and space use in the color morphs of the European common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis). Ecology and Evolution 10:10986-11005.
Font, E. (2020) Soziale Organisation von Streunender Hunden. In: Streuner Hunde: Von Moskaus U-Bahn-Hunden bis Indiens Underdogs (K. Kitchenham, Ed.), pp. 14-33. Kosmos.
Font, E. (2020) Squamate cognition. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (J. Vonk & T. Shackelford, Eds.), pp. 1-10. Springer International Publishing: Cham, Switzerland.
2019
Font, E. (2019) Rapid learning of a spatial memory task in a lacertid lizard (Podarcis liolepis). Behavioural Processes 169:103963.
Font, E., R. García-Roa, D. Pincheira-Donoso & P. Carazo (2019) Rethinking the effects of body size on the study of brain size evolution. Brain Behav. Evol. 93:182-195.
Brejcha, J., J.V. Bataller, Z. Bosáková, J. Geryk, M. Havlíková, K. Kleisner, P. Marsik & E. Font (2019) Body coloration and mechanisms of colour production in Archelosauria: The case of deirocheline turtles. Royal Society Open Science 6:190319.
Gaunet, A., V. Dincă, L. Dapporto, S. Montagud, R. Vodă, S. Schär, A. Badiane, E. Font & R. Vila (2019) Two consecutive Wolbachia-mediated mitochondrial introgressions obscure taxonomy in Palearctic swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Zoologica Scripta 48:507-519.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G., A. Bellati, D. Pellitteri-Rosa, E. Font & M.A. Carretero (2019) Colour variation between different lineages of a colour polymorphic lizard. Journal of Zoology 308:175-187.
Andrade, P., C. Pinho et al. (2019) Regulatory changes in pterin and carotenoid genes underlie balanced color polymorphisms in the wall lizard. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116:5633-5642.
Font, E. (2019) Mimicry, camouflage and perceptual exploitation: The evolution of deception in nature. Biosemiotics 12:7-24.
Fleishman, L. J. & E. Font (2019) Sensory processing in relation to signaling behavior. In: Behavior of Lizards: Evolutionary and Mechanistic Perspectives (V. Bels & A. Russell, Eds.), pp. 207-258. Taylor and Francis Publishing; Abingdon, UK.
2018
Bohórquez-Alonso, M.L., G. Mesa-Avila, M. Suárez-Rancel, E. Font & M. Molina-Borja (2018) Predictors of contest outcome in males of two subspecies of Gallotia galloti (Squamata: Lacertidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72:63.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G., J. Ábalos, A. Bartolomé & E. Font (2018) Through the eye of a lizard: Hue discrimination in a lizard with ventral polymorphic coloration. Journal of Experimental Biology 221:jeb169565.
Badiane, A., P. Carazo & E. Font (2018) Colouration in male blue-throated keeled lizards (Algyroides nigropunctatus): Evidence for ultraviolet reflectance of throat and lateral patches. Herpetological Journal 28:39-42.
Londoño, C., A. Bartolomé, P. Carazo & E. Font (2018) Chemosensory enrichment as a simple and effective way to improve the welfare of captive lizards. Ethology 124:674-683.
2017
Pérez i de Lanuza, G., M.A. Carretero & E. Font (2017) Intensity of male-male competition predicts morph diversity in a color polymorphic lizard. Evolution 71:1832-1840.
Palacios, V., E. Font, E.J. García, L. Svensson, L. Llaneza, J. Frank & J.V. López-Bao (2017) Reliability of human estimates of the presence of pups and the number of wolves vocalizing in chorus howls: implications for decision-making processes. European Journal of Wildlife Research 63:59.
Badiane, A., G. Pérez i de Lanuza, M.C. García-Custodio, P. Carazo & E. Font (2017) Colour patch size and measurement error using reflectance spectrophotometry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8:1585-1593.
Ábalos, J., G. Pérez i de Lanuza, S. Reguera, A. Badiane, J. Brejcha & E. Font (2017) First record of blue Podarcis muralis from eastern Pyrenees. Herpetozoa 29:218-223.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G, E. Font & M.A. Carretero (2017) Colour assortative pairing in a colour polymorphic lizard is independent of population morph diversity. The Science of Nature 103:82.
Kramer, M. & E. Font (2017) Reducing sample size in experiments with animals: Historical controls and related strategies. Biological Reviews 92:431-445.
2016
Pérez i de Lanuza, G. & E. Font (2016) Iridescent (angle-dependent reflectance) properties of dorsal coloration in Podarcis muralis (Laurenti, 1768). Amphibia-Reptilia 37:441-445.
Abalos, J., G. Pérez i de Lanuza, P. Carazo & E. Font (2016) The role of male coloration in the outcome of staged contests in the European common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis). Behaviour 153:607-631.
Palacios, V., J.V. López-Bao, L. Llaneza, C. Fernández C & E. Font (2016) Decoding group vocalizations: the acoustic energy distribution of chorus howls is useful to determine wolf reproduction. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0153858.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G., M.A. Carretero & E. Font (2016) Thermal-dependence of signalling: do polymorphic wall lizards compensate for morph-specific differences in conspicuousness? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70:1151-1159.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G. & E. Font (2016) The evolution of colour pattern complexity: selection for conspicuousness favours contrasting within-body colour combinations in lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29:942-951.
2015
Pérez i de Lanuza, G. & E. Font (2015) Differences in conspicuousness between alternative color morphs in a polychromatic lizard. Behavioral Ecology 26:1432-1446.
Salazar, A., B. Füsternau, C. Quero, N. Pérez-Hidalgo, P. Carazo, E. Font & D. Martínez-Torres (2015) Aggressive mimicry coexists with mutualism in an aphid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112:1101-1106.
Palacios, V., E. Font, R. Márquez & P. Carazo (2015) Recognition of familiarity on the basis of howls: A playback experiment in a captive group of wolves. Behaviour 152:593-614.
2014
Pérez i de Lanuza, G. & E. Font (2014) Ultraviolet vision in lacertid lizards: Evidence from retinal structure, eye transmittance, SWS1 visual pigment genes and behaviour. Journal of Experimental Biology 217:2899-2909.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G. & E. Font (2014) Now you see me, now you don't: Iridescence increases the efficacy of lizard chromatic signals. Naturwissenschaften 101:831-837.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G., P. Carazo & E. Font (2014) Colours of quality: Structural (but not pigment) coloration informs about male quality in a polychromatic lizard. Animal Behaviour 90:73-81.
Carazo, P. & E. Font (2014) 'Communication breakdown': The evolution of signal unreliability and deception. Animal Behaviour 87:17-22.
2013
Pérez i de Lanuza, G., E. Font & J.L. Monterde (2013) Using visual modelling to study the evolution of lizard coloration: Sexual selection drives the evolution of sexual dichromatism in lacertids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26:1826-1835.
Luna, S., G. Pérez i de Lanuza & E. Font (2013) Use of an infrared thermographic camera to measure field body temperatures of small lacertid lizards. Herpetological Review 44:59-62.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G., E. Font & P. Carazo (2013) Color-assortative mating in a color-polymorphic lacertid lizard. Behavioral Ecology 24:273-279.
2012
Carazo, P., R. Fernández-Perea & E. Font (2012) Quantity estimation based on numerical cues in the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor). Frontiers in Psychology 3:1-7
Font, E., D. Barbosa, C. Sampedro & P. Carazo (2012) Social behavior, chemical communication, and adult neurogenesis: Studies of scent mark function in Podarcis wall lizards. General and Comparative Endocrinology 177:9-17.
Font, E., P. Carazo, G. Pérez i de Lanuza & M. Kramer (2012) Predator-elicited foot shakes in wall lizards (Podarcis muralis): Evidence for a pursuit-deterrent function. Journal of Comparative Psychology 126:87-96.
2011
Carazo, P., E. Font & E. Desfilis (2011) The role of scent marks in female choice of territories and refuges in a lizard (Podarcis hispanica). Journal of Comparative Psychology 125:362-365.
Carazo, P., P. Molina-Vila & E. Font (2011) Male reproductive senescence as a potential source of sexual conflict in a beetle. Behavioral Ecology 22:192-198.
Bohórquez-Alonso, M.L., E. Font & M. Molina-Borja (2011) Activity and body orientation of Gallotia galloti in different habitats and daily times. Amphibia-Reptilia 32:93-103.
2010
Font, E., P. Carazo, G. Pérez i de Lanuza & D. Barbosa (2010) Comportamiento y comunicación animal: ¿Qué nos enseñan los lagartos? Acta Zoológica Lilloana 54:12-35.
Pérez i de Lanuza, G. & E. Font (2010) Lizard blues: Blue body colouration and ultraviolet polychromatism in lacertids. Revista Española de Herpetología 24:67-84.
Bohórquez-Alonso, M.L., J. Martinez Cotrina, D. Aquilar Pardo, E. Font, M. Molina-Borja (2010) Sex differences in antipredator tail-waving displays of the diurnal yellow-headed gecko Gonatodes albogularis from tropical forests of Colombia. Journal of Ethology 28:305-311.
Font, E. & P. Carazo (2010) Animals in translation: Why there is meaning (but probably no message) in animal communication. Animal Behaviour 80:e1-e6.
Carazo, P. & E. Font (2010) Putting information back into biological communication. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23:661-669.
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