Alexia Scarbough
Lab report 2
BI142C
Congdon
11/30/18
Anolis Lizards: Convergent Evolution
Introduction:
Anolis is a genus of anoles, lizards in the family Dactyloidae, native to the Americas. With
more than 425 species, it represents the world’s most species-rich amniote tetrapod genus,
although it has been proposed that many of these should be moved to other genera, in which case
only about 45 Anolis species remain. Spreading through the Americas, one lizard group, the
