Talk:Ctenophorus decresii

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 31 August 2021 and 10 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Edickerson1.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 19:38, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Peer Edits

Hi! I made edits to the article starting by placing the “male-male interactions” heading outside of the “mating” heading since it was not entirely connected to mating. I also removed the "mate searching behavior” subheading and kept the "mating" heading since it was about general mating. Lastly, I made edits to the sentence structure and grammar of the article. In the “description” heading, I changed the wording of the second sentence to make it easier to understand that color variations were previously attributed to sexual maturity. Under the “habitat and geographic range” heading, I combined the first two sentences to make it more clear that the lizard lives in rocky areas but also in a few distinct parts of Australia. In the third sentence of the “behavior/male-male interactions” heading, I changed the sentence structure/grammar to clarify that males can differentiate aggression regardless of lineage. LewisWang4 (talk) 04:24, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Article Feedback

I simply made some edits to your sentence structure however, the overall structure of the polymorphism section could be further organised. Otherwise, it is a good article and even more impressive since you had to create the article, it is understandable that some areas are lacking. Biol&steel (talk) 18:09, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

I made a couple of spelling, grammar and structure changes. I also broke up the first paragraph into smaller, more focused paragraphs, because I thought it displayed the information in a more organized way. I think you may want to look at it though, and make sure that it's still expressed in the way that you wanted it to be conveyed. Also I changed the wording of your first sentence, because you said that polymorphism is the ability to change forms. Polymorphism is actually the expression of different variants or forms within a species. I was not sure if the polymorphism was different in this species, and if an individual is capable of changing it's appearance within it's own lifetime, so if that is the case, you can change your sentence back. Lastly, I made sure to lowercase "decresii" for the times that you wrote "Ctenophorus decresii" because as customary species naming goes, you only capitalize the genus name (Ctenophorus) and you keep the specific species name (decresii) lowercase. Also, I know you had to start this article, but I think it would be a good idea to consider creating a geographical section, and putting the information about different existing variants (now in the fourth paragraph) in that section. I've noticed that done in other, similar articles. It could help distinguish that information from the other information more pertinent to the environmental selection that maintains the polymorphism in nature. You did a good job on explaining both sexual and natural selection by the environment, though! I think it was an overall well-written article, but organizing it a bit differently may make the information easier to digest. Biol3010 evo bsp (talk) 12:37, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Peer Edit 11/15/15

Hi, Mdanzo0807,

I noticed that you added a ton of new information to this article. Good job with that. I didn't have very many problems with what you wrote. I did come up with a few nit-picky suggestions, and I removed a couple of sentences that I felt were unnecessary. The first change I made was to the sentence, “Based on this study, it is understandable why the diversity of colors of lizards' throats has been maintained for many generations.” I removed "Based on this study," because the study was already cited at the end of the sentence and didn't need an in-text citation. I also changed the first sentence of the last paragraph in the polymorphism section from. "The color variants in the Ctenophorous decresii may be discrete or continuous," to, "The color variants in the Ctenophorous decresii is discrete, meaning individual lizards morphology could be placed into specific categories." I feel that this change reduces confusion because you later say that tests have shown that the variation is discrete, therefore there is no reason to say it can be discrete or continuous. That leads me to my first suggestion. Since the polymorphic traits are discrete, I think you should talk about the genetics vs. environment topic we went over in class. Since the traits are discrete, most of the variation is probably due to genetics and there is probably a high heritability. Another thing you could add would be information about why different environments favor certain colors. You did a good job talking about the selection pressures of predators on color, but you also mentioned that lizards in different countries show different colors, so if there is information about the reason for this, you could add it. Other than those small suggestions, there was nothing about your article that I thought needed work. You did a good job talking about evolution without getting too technical for a wiki article. I'll look forward to seeing what you add. Gern Blanston 13 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:46, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

I liked your article. I italicized the species for you in your section because they should be always italicized in an article. I notice you varied between the abbreviation and full binomial name. You may want to consider just picking and sticking to one style for consistency sake. There’s some issues in your tense. It looks like you are talking in past tense about a currently living organism. So, I changed some of them for you to the best of my ability. I simplified some sentences to make them flow better. Your organization of paragraphs is pretty good. Drhumz (talk) 06:54, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Final edits: For my final draft, I did a lot of reorganization in my article. I think this significantly helped the flow of the article. I then went through and fixed all the verb tenses to make them all present tense since it is a living species. I added some information about heritability as well to further my article. Finally, I added links to more advanced terms as well as linked my article to the polymorphism and Ctenephorus page. I think my article now presents a more organized, easy to follow presentation of polymorphism in C. Decresii. Mdanzo0807 (talk) 19:19, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Spelling

Is there a reason this article doesn't use Australian spellings? Q·L·1968 ☿ 19:14, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Minor Edits

Great article! I added some more information to the lead in order to expand it a bit more and also changed some of the sentences in the article to make it easier to read. I added a few embedded links and changed some of the Ctenophorus decresii to C. decresii to make it more consistent throughout the article. Emshen526 (talk) 19:44, 18 November 2021 (UTC)