| an immunohistochemical study of endocrine cells of the alimentary tract of the king's skink (egernia kingii). | the gastrointestinal tract of the king's skink (egernia kingii) was examined for the presence of fifteen regulatory peptides, two proteinases and an amine by immunohistochemical methods. immunoreactivity was detected for somatostatin, gastrin, motilin, bovine pancreatic polypeptide, pepsinogen and serotonin, but not for avian pancreatic polypeptide, gastric inhibitory peptide, secretin, cholecystokinin, enteroglucagon, pancreatic glucagon, gastrin-releasing polypeptide, neurotensin, vasoactive i ... | 1990 | 2254171 |
| guanylyl cyclase receptors and guanylin-like peptides in reptilian intestine. | receptors for guanylin and uroguanylin were identified on the mucosal surface of enterocytes lining the intestine of the bobtail skink (tiliqua rugosa), king's skink (egernia kingii), and knight anole (anolis equestris) by receptor autoradiography using 125i-st (escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin) as the radioligand. specific, high-affinity binding of 125i-st to receptors was found on the microvillus border of enterocytes and little or no specific binding of 125i-st was observed in other s ... | 1997 | 9245531 |
| novel eimeria sp. isolated from a king's skink (egernia kingii) in western australia. | a novel eimeria sp. was identified in faeces collected from a king's skink (egernia kingii) housed at the kanyana wildlife rehabilitation centre in western australia. oocysts measure 17.0×15.0 μm with a length/width ratio (l/w) of 1.13. phylogenetic analysis of 18s rrna sequences indicated that the novel eimeria sp. shared the highest genetic similarity to eimeria antrozoi and eimeria rioarribaensis from vespertilionid bats from north america (≥98.9%). at the coi locus, bat-derived sequences wer ... | 2013 | 23201218 |
| eimeria tiliquae n. sp. (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from the shingleback skink (tiliqua rugosa rugosa). | a new species, eimeria tiliquae n. sp. is described from a shingleback skink (tiliqua rugosa rugosa). sporulated oocysts (n=50) are spherical to subspherical, with colourless trilaminate oocyst wall, 0.7±0.1 (0.5-0.75) thick. oocyst with 4 spheroidal to subspheroidal sporocysts. oocyst length, 13.7±0.9 (12.0-16.3); oocyst width, 12.8±0.9 (11.5-15.0); oocyst length/width (l/w) ratio, 1.07±0.05 (1.0-1.2). micropyle, oocyst residuum and polar granule absent. sporocysts with globular sporocyst resid ... | 2013 | 23201215 |
| anaesthesia in two species of large australian skink. | the use of ketamine hydrochloride and sodium pentobarbitone in the anaesthesia of two species of australian skink was examined. the effects of ketamine at ambient temperatures of 15 degrees c and 30 degrees c were studied. ketamine produced consistent responses up to and including anaesthesia at dose rates of 170 to 230 mg/kg at 30 degrees c. the effect of temperature on the anaesthetic dose, respiratory and cardiac rates, muscle relaxation, analgesia and the onset and duration of anaesthesia wa ... | 1988 | 3420784 |
| an unusual thyroid gland in a race of lizards (egernia kingii) from eclipse island, western australia. | | 1935 | 17104558 |
| ecto- and endoparasites of the king's skink (egernia kingii) on penguin island. | wildlife species are often host to a diversity of parasites, but our knowledge of their diversity and ecology is extremely limited, especially for reptiles. little is known about the host-parasite ecology of the australian lizard, the king's skink (egernia kingii). in spring of 2015, we carried out a field-based study of a population of king's skinks on penguin island (western australia). we documented five species of parasites, including two ectoparasitic mites (an undescribed laelapid mite and ... | 2020 | 32423514 |
| re-regeneration to reduce negative effects associated with tail loss in lizards. | many species of lizard use caudal autotomy, the ability to self-amputate a portion of their tail, regenerated over time, as an effective anti-predation mechanism. the importance of this tactic for survival depends on the degree of predation risk. there are, however, negative trade-offs to losing a tail, such as loss of further autotomy opportunities with the regenerated tail vertebrae being replaced by a continuous cartilaginous rod. the common consensus has been that once a tail has been autoto ... | 2019 | 31822746 |