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List of works by Spartak N. Litvinchuk

A Case of Natural Triploidy in European Diploid Green Toad ( Bufo viridis ), with Some Distributional Records of Diploid and Tetraploid Toads

A New Species of Common Toads from the Talysh Mountains, South-Eastern Caucasus: Genome Size, Allozyme, and Morphological Evidences

A molecular assessment of phylogenetic relationships and lineage accumulation rates within the family Salamandridae (Amphibia, Caudata).

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A record of alien Pelophylax species and widespread mitochondrial DNA transfer in Kaliningradskaya Oblast’ (the Baltic coast, Russia)

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Allozyme and Genome Size Variation in Tree Frogs from the Caucasus, with Description of a New Subspecies Hyla arborea gumilevskii , from the Talysh Mountains

Amphibians and Reptiles of Moldavia: Additions and Corrections, with a List of Species

Amphibians crossing the Bering Land Bridge: evidence from holarctic treefrogs (Hyla, Hylidae, Anura).

scientific article published on 9 March 2015

Are glacial refugia hotspots of speciation and cytonuclear discordances? Answers from the genomic phylogeography of Spanish common frogs

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Atlantal Vertebrae of Tailed Amphibians of Russia and Adjacent Countries

scientific article published in 2009

Call a spade a spade: taxonomy and distribution of Pelobates, with description of a new Balkan endemic

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Comparative Morphology of Trunk and Sacral Vertebrae of Tailed Amphibians of Russia and Adjacent Countries

scholarly article by Vyacheslav Yu Ratnikov & Spartak N Litvinchuk published 2007 in Russian Journal of Herpetology

Comparative and phylogenetic perspectives of the cleavage process in tailed amphibians

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Correlations of geographic distribution and temperature of embryonic development with the nuclear DNA content in the Salamandridae (Urodela, Amphibia).

scientific article published in April 2007

Cryptic diversity among Western Palearctic tree frogs: postglacial range expansion, range limits, and secondary contacts of three European tree frog lineages (Hyla arborea group).

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Cryptic speciation in Pelobates fuscus (Anura, Pelobatidae): evidence from DNA flow cytometry

Cytological maps of lampbrush chromosomes of European water frogs (Pelophylax esculentus complex) from the Eastern Ukraine.

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Discovery of a Pelophylax saharicus (Anura, Ranidae) population in Southern France: a new potentially invasive species of water frogs in Europe

scientific article published in 2021

Distribution and Conservation Status of the Caucasian Newt, Lissotriton lantzi (Wolterstorff, 1914)

Distribution and Conservation Status of the Eichwald’s Toad, Bufo eichwaldi in Azerbaijan

scientific article published on 21 March 2020

Distribution and Conservation Status of the Smooth Newt ( Lissotriton vulgaris ) in Western Siberia and Kazakhstan

Diversification and speciation in tree frogs from the Maghreb (Hyla meridionalis sensu lato), with description of a new African endemic

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Epicoracoid Overlap Indices in Newts of the Genus Triturus (Amphibia: Salamandridae)

Evolutionary melting pots: a biodiversity hotspot shaped by ring diversifications around the Black Sea in the Eastern tree frog (Hyla orientalis).

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Fifteen shades of green: The evolution of Bufotes toads revisited

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

First Record of the Danube Newt, Triturus dobrogicus , in Moldavia

Fossorial but widespread: the phylogeography of the common spadefoot toad (Pelobates fuscus), and the role of the Po Valley as a major source of genetic variability

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Genetic Divergence and Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Eastern Mediterranean Water Frogs

Genetic data reveal that water frogs of Cyprus (genusPelophylax) are an endemic species of Messinian origin

scholarly article by Jörg Plötner et al published October 2012 in Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Zoologische Reihe

Genomic Evidence for Cryptic Speciation in Tree Frogs From the Apennine Peninsula, With Description of Hyla perrini sp. nov

scientific article published in 2018

Hybridization and introgression between toads with different sex chromosome systems

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Influence of environmental conditions on the distribution of Central Asian green toads with three ploidy levels

scientific article published in 2011

Intraspecific taxonomy and nomenclature of the Danube crested newt, Triturus dobrogicus

Is mitochondrial DNA divergence of Near Eastern crested newts (Triturus karelinii group) reflected by differentiation of skull shape?

scientific article published in 2013

Keeping, Breeding, and Maintenance of Zooculture of the Ladakh Toad, Bufotes latastii (Boulenger, 1882)

scientific article published on 13 September 2020

Mass Occurrence of Polyploid Green Frogs ( Rana esculenta Complex) in Eastern Ukraine

Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogeny of circum-Mediterranean tree frogs from the Hyla arborea group

scientific article published on 12 September 2008

Mutual maintenance of di- and triploid Pelophylax esculentus hybrids in R-E systems: results from artificial crossings experiments.

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Next-generation phylogeography of the banded newts (Ommatotriton): A phylogenetic hypothesis for three ancient species with geographically restricted interspecific gene flow and deep intraspecific genetic structure

scholarly article published in 2022

Nuclear DNA Content in Some Green Toads ( Bufo viridis Complex) of Turkey and Iran

Nuclear and mitochondrial phylogeography of the European fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata supports their independent histories.

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Observations of Paedomorphic Newts ( Triturus vulgaris ) from the Former Soviet Union

On Records of Salamandra salamandra in the South-Eastern Part of the Baltic Region

On tree frog cryptozoology and systematics – response to Y. Werner

Optional Endoreplication and Selective Elimination of Parental Genomes during Oogenesis in Diploid and Triploid Hybrid European Water Frogs

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Origin and genome evolution of polyploid green toads in Central Asia: evidence from microsatellite markers

scientific article published on 5 November 2014

Phylogenetic relationships among four new complete mitogenome sequences of Pelophylax (Amphibia: Anura) from the Balkans and Cyprus.

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Phylogeny of spiny frogs Nanorana (Anura: Dicroglossidae) supports a Tibetan origin of a Himalayan species group

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Phylogeographic patterns of genetic diversity in eastern Mediterranean water frogs have been determined by geological processes and climate change in the Late Cenozoic

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Phylogeographic patterns of genetic diversity in the common spadefoot toad, Pelobates fuscus (Anura: Pelobatidae), reveals evolutionary history, postglacial range expansion and secondary contact

Phylogeography of a cryptic speciation continuum in Eurasian spadefoot toads (Pelobates)

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Phylogeography reveals an ancient cryptic radiation in East-Asian tree frogs (Hyla japonica group) and complex relationships between continental and island lineages

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Radically different phylogeographies and patterns of genetic variation in two European brown frogs, genus Rana

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

Reconstruction of past distribution for the Mongolian toad, Strauchbufo raddei (Anura: Bufonidae) using environmental modeling

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Rediscovery of the High Altitude Lazy Toad, Scutiger occidentalis Dubois, 1978, in India

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Relict groups of spiny frogs indicate Late Paleogene-Early Neogene trans-Tibet dispersal of thermophile faunal elements

scientific article published on 15 July 2021

Shedding light on taxonomic chaos: Diversity and distribution of South Asian skipper frogs (Anura, Dicroglossidae, <i>Euphlyctis</i>)

scientific article published in 2022

Spontaneous Triploidy in the Crested Newt, Triturus cristatus (Salamandridae)

Strigea robusta causes polydactyly and severe forms of Rostand's anomaly P in water frogs

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Taxonomic Status of Triturus karelinii on the Balkans, with Some Comments about Other Crested Newt Taxa

Taxonomic status of Triturus vittatus (Amphibia: Salamandridae) in western Turkey: trunk vertebrae count, genome size and allozyme data

scientific article published in 2005

Tetraploid Green Toad Species ( Bufo pewzowi ) from the Altay Mountains: the First Record for Russia

scientific article published in 2010

The Distribution of Green Frogs ( Rana esculenta Complex) in Nizhny Novgorod Province, Central European Russia

scholarly article by Leo J Borkin et al published 2002 in Russian Journal of Herpetology

The First Record of Mass Triploidy in Hybridogenic Green Frog Rana esculenta in Russia (Rostov Oblast')

scholarly article by Leo J Borkin et al published 2006 in Russian Journal of Herpetology

The Near East as a cradle of biodiversity: A phylogeography of banded newts (genus Ommatotriton) reveals extensive inter- and intraspecific genetic differentiation

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The distribution and biogeography of slow worms (Anguis, Squamata) across the Western Palearctic, with an emphasis on secondary contact zones

scientific article published in 2021

The effect of phylogeographic history on species boundaries: a comparative framework in Hyla tree frogs

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

The first case of natural spontaneous triploidy in the family Bombinatoridae

scientific article published in 2016

Tracing a toad invasion: lack of mitochondrial DNA variation, haplotype origins, and potential distribution of introduced Duttaphrynus melanostictus in Madagascar

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Tracing glacial refugia of Triturus newts based on mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and species distribution modeling

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Two New Cases of Paedomorphosis in the Caucasian Newts: Ommatotriton ophryticus (The First Record) and Lissotriton vulgaris lantzi

scientific article published in 2009

Update on Distribution and Conservation Status of Amphibians in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Conclusions Based on Field Surveys, Environmental Modelling, Molecular Analyses and Call Properties

scientific article published on 09 July 2021

Variation in hybridogenetic hybrid emergence between populations of water frogs from the Pelophylax esculentus complex

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Ventral and lateral spot patterns differentiation between three smooth newt species (Amphibia: Salamandridae: Lissotriton)

scientific article published on 12 August 2022

The incidence of the anomaly P syndrome in water frogs (Anura, Ranidae, Pelophylax) from the Middle Volga River (Russia)

scientific article published in 2022