Podarcis wall lizards are endemic to the Mediterranean Basin where they represent the
predominant reptile group. Despite being extensively used as model organisms in …

Unravelling when divergent lineages constitute distinct species can be challenging,
particularly in complex scenarios combining cryptic diversity and phylogenetic discordances …

Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that speciation with gene flow is more common
than previously thought. From a conservation perspective, the potential negative effects of …

Despite the high species richness of freshwater gastropods in the western Mediterranean,
the evolutionary patterns of the North African taxa are poorly understood. In a recent survey …

The description of Vipera walser from the Northern Italian Alps as a new species (Ghielmi et
al., 2016, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 54, 161) was one of …

Home ranges in animals can be estimated by different methods like minimum convex
polygons, characteristic hulls or kernels while correlative ecological niche models (ENMs) …

Numerous molecular studies emphasized how past climatic oscillations in the Sahara‐Sahel
have left strong imprints on current biodiversity patterns and identified the Atlantic coast and …

There is an increasing amount of evidence pointing towards the importance of bacteria and
parasites in the ecology and dynamics of host populations. Complex microorganism …

[eng] Wall lizards from the Podarcis genus, which have diversified and evolved in the
Mediterranean basin, present wide morphological, ecological, and genetic variability. This …

Most phylogenetic analyses assume that the evolutionary history of an alignment (either that
of a single locus, or of multiple concatenated loci) can be described by a single bifurcating …