Regulatory changes in pterin and carotenoid genes underlie balanced color polymorphisms in the wall lizard

P Andrade, C Pinho… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Reptiles use pterin and carotenoid pigments to produce yellow, orange, and red colors.
These conspicuous colors serve a diversity of signaling functions, but their molecular basis …

Patterns, mechanisms and genetics of speciation in reptiles and amphibians

KC Wollenberg Valero, JC Marshall, E Bastiaans… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this contribution, the aspects of reptile and amphibian speciation that emerged from
research performed over the past decade are reviewed. First, this study assesses how …

Evolutionary and demographic correlates of Pleistocene coastline changes in the Sicilian wall lizard Podarcis wagleriana

G Senczuk, DJ Harris, R Castiglia… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Emergence of coastal lowlands during Pleistocene ice ages might have provided
conditions for glacial expansions (demographic and spatial), rather than contraction, of …

Multigene phylogeny, phylogeography and population structure of Podarcis cretensis species group in south Balkans

L Spilani, K Bougiouri, A Antoniou, N Psonis… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
The evolutionary history of taxa with limited overseas dispersal abilities is considered to be
majorly influenced by vicariant events constituting them as model organisms for the …

Određivanje bioraznolikosti faune tulara (Insecta, Trichoptera) u Hrvatskoj metodom barkodiranja DNA

A Ćukušić - 2019 - repozitorij.unizg.hr
Sažetak Tulari se zbog povezanosti sa specifičnim uvjetima staništa i osjetljivosti na
onečišćenje, smatraju ključnom bioindikatorskom skupinom na temelju koje su se brojne …