Turtles are a small taxon that has nevertheless attracted much attention from biologists for
centuries. However, a major portion of their life cycle has received relatively little attention …

The projected rise in global mean sea levels places many freshwater turtle species at risk of
saltwater intrusion into freshwater habitats. Freshwater turtles are disproportionately more …

Bergmann's rule is currently defined as a within‐species tendency for increasing body size
with increasing latitude or decreasing environmental temperature. This well‐known …

We present a rank-free phylogenetic nomenclature for 25 well-established ancient clades of
living turtles. This is the first attempt to document fully the nomenclatural history of a clade …

The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and
distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and …

One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States,
California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth …

The phylogeny and phylogeography of Emys orbicularis was inferred from mitochondrial
nucleotide sequences of the cytochrome b gene analysed by DNA sequencing and RNA …

The western pond turtle Emys (formerly Clemmys) marmorata is declining throughout its
range, primarily due to loss of habitat via urbanization and conversion to agriculture. Urban …

Do phylogenies and branch lengths based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) provide a
reasonable approximation to those based on multiple nuclear loci? In the present study, we …

In the largest group of extant turtles, the Testudinoidea, the acquisition of an aquatic or
terrestrial way of life has occurred within two clades, allowing the study of homoplasy linked …