Evolution of parthenogenetic reproduction in Caucasian rock lizards: A review

M Arakelyan, V Spangenberg, V Petrosyan… - Current …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Despite numerous works devoted to hybrid origin of parthenogenesis in reptiles, the causes
of hybridization between different species, resulting in the origin of parthenogenetic forms …

The farther, the closer: geographic proximity and niche overlap versus genetic divergence in Caucasian rock lizards

D Tarkhnishvili, G Iankoshvili - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia) are a speciose group with 42 described species from the
Caucasus Mountain region. We selected 11 species from Georgia and adjacent territories to …

[HTML][HTML] Revising the taxonomy of Darevskia valentini (Boettger, 1892) and Darevskia rudis (Bedriaga, 1886) (Squamata, Lacertidae): a Morpho-Phylogenetic …

O Arribas, K Candan, P Kornilios, D Ayaz, Y Kumlutaş… - Zootaxa, 2022 - mapress.com
Revealing biodiversity allows the accurate determination of the underlying causes of many
biological processes such as speciation and hybridization. These processes contain many …

Love bites: males of lizards prefer to mate with conspecifics, but do not disdain parthenogens

EA Galoyan, NG Sopilko, AV Kovalyeva… - Biological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Parthenogenesis has been discovered in a great number of reptiles, indicating that
parthenogens can outcompete bisexual species and hybridize with them. This raises …

Single hybrid population but multiple parental individuals at the origin of parthenogenetic rock lizards Darevskia sapphirina and D. bendimahiensis Schmidtler, & …

M Erdolu, MK Şahin, M Somel, A Yanchukov - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Among vertebrates, obligate parthenogenesis is only found in Squamata, where it always
has a hybrid origin and a few lizard genera contain most of the known hybridogenous …

Head shape divergence between parthenogenetic and their paternal bisexual rock lizards in sympatry

N Barateli, M Gabelaia, G Iankoshvili… - Zoologischer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Head shape plays a crucial role in ecological and evolutionary processes in lizards, and
scientists have studied head shape using traditional and 3D geometric morphometrics …

Polymorphism of Microsatellite Loci in Populations of Caucasian Rock Lizards and Its Use for Assessing the Genetic Diversity of Darevskia raddei

DO Odegov, AA Valyaeva, MS Arakelyan… - Russian Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
The study of Caucasian rock lizards of the Darevskia raddei complex represented by several
subspecies is of great interest and scientific significance in connection with their …

Premeiotic endoreplication is the mechanism of obligate parthenogenesis in rock lizards of the genus Darevskia

D Dedukh, M Altmanova, R Petrosyan, M Arakelyan… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Among vertebrates, obligate parthenogenesis occurs exclusively in squamate reptiles.
Premeiotic endoreplication in a small subset of developing oocytes has been documented …