Adaptive radiation refers to diversification from an ancestral species that produces
descendants adapted to use a great variety of distinct ecological niches. In this review, I …

Although the systematic utility of ecological niche modeling is generally well known (eg,
concerning the recognition and discovery of areas of endemism for biogeographic …

Abstract Geckos in the Western Hemisphere provide an excellent model to study faunal
assembly at a continental scale. We generated a time‐calibrated phylogeny, including …

Squamate reptiles possess two general modes of sex determination:(1) genotypic sex
determination (GSD), where the sex of an individual is determined by sex chromosomes, ie …

We examine the effects of ecological opportunity and geographic area on rates of species
accumulation and morphological evolution following archipelago colonization in day geckos …

The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at
the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858) …

Species delimitation and species concepts have been a matter of debate among biodiversity
researchers in the last decades, resulting in integrative taxonomy approaches and the use of …

We review the intrageneric systematics of day geckos, genus Phelsuma (Squamata: Sauria:
Gekkonidae) in the light of a recently published multigene phylogeny, and provide an …

We use∼ 3100bp of mitochondrial (ND2, ND4) and nuclear (RAG1, phosducin) DNA
sequence data to recover phylogenetic relationships among 14 of the 16 recognized taxa of …

Geckos of the genus Phelsuma are amongst the most conspicuous lizards of the Malagasy
region. The genus contains around 43 extant species, of which ca. 29 occur in Madagascar …