We evaluated progress towards animal biodiversity research in Georgia, a key area in the
Caucasus biodiversity hotspot. By reviewing recently (1990–2018) published articles in all …

Studies of geographical distribution of parthenogenetic Darevskia armeniaca and its
parental species D. mixta and D. valentini can extend our knowledge in terms of their …

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 …

Darevskia rock lizards include both sexual and parthenogenetic species, mostly distributed
in the heterogeneous and ecologically diverse Caucasus. The parthenogenetic species …

Hybridization is a common evolutionary process with multiple possible outcomes. In
vertebrates, interspecific hybridization has repeatedly generated parthenogenetic hybrid …

Geometric morphometrics is a better tool to evaluate the variation of shape than 'traditional'
morphometrics. In reptiles, it outperforms morphometrics based on linear measurements and …

We generated a phylogeny for Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia), and included six other
families of true lizards (Lacertini), based on complete mitochondrial genome analysis. Next …

We genotyped multiple populations of all seven parthenogenetic species of rock lizards,
genus Darevskia, as well as their putative sexual parental populations, using double digest …

Obligate parthenogenesis is found in only 0.1% of the vertebrate species, is thought to be
relatively short lived and is typically of hybrid origin. However, neither the evolutionary …

Darevskia praticola differs from the other species of the genus in having a large but disjunct
distribution, covering the Balkan and the Caucasus regions. Furthermore, most Darevskia …