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Unprecedented lead tolerance in an urban lizard

2024-12-10

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Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic heavy metal pollutant pervasive in many environments with serious health consequences for humans and wildlife. We found that Cuban brown anole lizards ( Anolis sagrei ) in New Orleans, USA, have the highest mean (955±877 µg/dL; N = 40) and individual (3,192 µg/dL) blood lead levels of any free-living vertebrate reported to date. Unexpectedly, this extreme field lead exposure did no...

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Literature Corpus work: f0d6cb6f-24b3-5522-a7fb-e280ec81a6f2
DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.06.626998

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