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friday, march 10, 1978
daily nebraskan
Grant used to study
reptile reproduction
By Laura Castleberry
Over two thousand lizards will be invading UNL this
spring and summer as part of a study on the evolution of
life history strategies on the control of reproductive
maturity in lizards.
The Natiorfal Science Foundation awarded Royce E.
Ballinger, UNL associate professor of life sciences a
$60,000 grant in February for the study.
The study, Ballinger said, is to find out at what age
lizards become reproductive, why some mature early and
others later, and examine the characteristics of each.
Ballinger said that this study is important in scientific
research because "the population in the ecology of lizards
and the rate and age that they mature can be related to
the growth rate of (human) population.
'To understand how systems in nature work and how
alterations in the nature system can affect our survival,
it's important to learn about specific animals and their
habits."
The type of lizard that will be tested and used in the
experiment is the Milton Spineless which lives in the
mountains and deserts of Southeastern Arizona. They
average about five inches in length.
Ballinger said that the range of altitudes in Arizona
provides a variety of environments and characteristics
for studying the lizards.
Ballinger has done research in the southwest deserts
and has his Ph.D. in Ecology and Statistics from Texas
A & M. He has studied lizards since 1964.
In April and May, Ballinger and others will travel to
Arizona and capture lizards to bring back to Nebraska.
Half of them will be taken from high altitudes and half
from low altitudes. From there they will determine the
reproductive characteristics of the lizards on a genetic
basis.
The lizards will be kept in two environmental chambers
that hold 54 lizards at a time, and followed from birth
to the reproductive season. The lizards will be subjected
to different altitudes, food regimens and activity
programs."
The results will be recorded for study.
Ballinger said the $60,000 will be spent for equip
ment in the study, lab work, a full-time lab assistant and
travel expenses for obtaining the lizards.
Ballinger said that although the value of the study is
not easily measured in layman's terms, the study will
provide predictions on what will happen if ecology
is disturbed or altered and the consequences of it.
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