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List of works by Miguel A. Carretero

A Combination of Divergence and Conservatism in the Niche Evolution of the Moorish Gecko, Tarentola mauritanica (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae)

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A new species of Spauligodon (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Pharyngodonidae) in geckos from São Nicolau Island (Cape Verde) and its phylogenetic assessment

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A phylogenetic assessment of the colonisation patterns in Spauligodon atlanticus Astasio-Arbiza et al., 1987 (Nematoda: Oxyurida: Pharyngodonidae), a parasite of lizards of the genus Gallotia Boulenger: no simple answers

scientific article published on 31 July 2011

A phylogenetic assessment of the meadow lizard Darevskia praticola (Eversmann, 1834) from Iran

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A place in the sun: interspecific interference affects thermoregulation in coexisting lizards

scientific article published in 2015

Alien reptiles on Mediterranean Islands: A model for invasion biogeography

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Along for the ride or missing it altogether: exploring the host specificity and diversity of haemogregarines in the Canary Islands.

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An assessment of the reliability of growth rings counts for age determination in the Hermann's Tortoise Testudo hermanni

An ecophysiological background for biogeographic patterns of two island lizards?

scientific article published on 26 November 2016

An integrated Assessment of a group with complex systematics: the Iberomaghrebian lizard genus Podarcis (Squamata, Lacertidae).

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Are the helminth communities from unisexual and bisexual lizards different? Evidence from gastrointestinal parasites of Darevskia spp. in Turkey

scientific article published in 2015

Assessing the reliability of thermography to infer internal body temperatures of lizards.

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Biodiversity and Land uses at a regional scale: Is agriculture the biggest threat for reptile assemblages?

scientific article published in 2009

Biomarkers of exposure and effect in a lacertid lizard (Podarcis bocagei Seoane) exposed to chlorpyrifos.

scientific article published on 17 August 2012

Chemical stimuli mediate species recognition in Podarcis wall lizards

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Chemically mediated species recognition in closely related Podarcis wall lizards.

scientific article published on 23 May 2006

Colour assortative pairing in a colour polymorphic lizard is independent of population morph diversity.

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Complex estimates of evolutionary relationships in Tarentola mauritanica (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) derived from mitochondrial DNA sequences

scientific article published on March 2004

Complex phylogeography in the Southern Smooth Snake (Coronella girondica) supported by mtDNA sequences

scientific article published in 2012

Composition and seasonal variation of epigeic arthropods in field margins of NW Portugal

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Conflicting patterns of nucleotide diversity between mtDNA and nDNA in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica.

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Cryptic diversity and unexpected evolutionary patterns in the meadow lizard,Darevskia praticola(Eversmann, 1834)

scientific article published in 2016

Cryptic speciation patterns in Iranian rock lizards uncovered by integrative taxonomy

scientific article published in 2013

Cryptic species unveiled: the case of the nematodeSpauligodon atlanticus

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Deciphering patterns of transoceanic dispersal: the evolutionary origin and biogeography of coastal lizards (Cryptoblepharus) in the Western Indian Ocean region

scholarly article by Sara Rocha et al published January 2006 in Journal of Biogeography

Distribution of the meadow lizard in Europe and its realized ecological niche model

scientific article published in 2018

Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Hemidactylus geckos from the Comoro islands

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Does ecophysiology mediate reptile responses to fire regimes? Evidence from Iberian lizards

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Ecological niche models improve home range estimations

scientific article published in 2020

Ecomorphological variation in male and female wall lizards and the macroevolution of sexual dimorphism in relation to habitat use.

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Ecophysiological Dissimilarities of Two Sympatric Lizards

Ecophysiological traits and activity patterns of coleopterans from Atacama Desert provide clues to the functional responses of small ectotherms to climate change

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Ecophysiology Tracks Phylogeny and Meets Ecological Models in an Iberian Gecko.

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Effects of environmental disturbance on phenotypic variation: an integrated assessment of canalization, developmental stability, modularity, and allometry in lizard head shape

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

Effects of urban habitat fragmentation on common small mammals: species versus communities

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Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Escape tactics of two syntopic forms of the Lacerta perspicillata complex with different colour patterns

scientific article published in 2006

Evaluating how species niche modelling is affected by partial distributions with an empirical case

scientific article published in 2016

Evolution of alternative male morphotypes in oxyurid nematodes: a case of convergence?

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Exotic Fish in Exotic Plantations: A Multi-Scale Approach to Understand Amphibian Occurrence in the Mediterranean Region

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Functional responses in a lizard along a 3.5‐km altitudinal gradient

scientific article published in 2023

Gene flow among deeply divergent mtDNA lineages of Testudo graeca (Linnaeus, 1758) in Transcaucasia

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Genetic depletion does not prevent rapid evolution in island‐introduced lizards

scientific article published in 2023

Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Mabuya spp. (Squamata: Scincidae) from western Indian Ocean islands

Genetic variation among spiny-footed lizards in the Acanthodactylus pardalis group from North Africa

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2008

Genetic variation among spiny-footed lizards in the Acanthodactylus pardalis group from North Africa

scientific article published in 2008

Geographic variation of life-history traits in the sand lizard, Lacerta agilis: testing Darwin's fecundity-advantage hypothesis.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Getting ahead: exploitative competition by an invasive lizard

scientific article published on 5 September 2020

Getting there and around: Host range oscillations during colonisation of the Canary Islands by the parasitic nematode Spauligodon

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Helminth communities of two lizard populations (Lacertidae) from Canary Islands (Spain): Host diet-parasite relationships

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Home ranges of parthenogenetic and bisexual species in a community ofDarevskializards (Reptilia: Lacertidae)

scientific article published in 2016

Incidence patterns of ectodermic lesions in wild populations of Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis)

Instantaneous Versus Interval Speed Estimates of Maximum Locomotor Capacities for Whole-Organism Performance Studies

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Intensity of male-male competition predicts morph diversity in a color polymorphic lizard.

scientific article published on 25 April 2017

Inter-observer and intra-observer differences in measuring body length: a test in the common lizard, Zootoca vivipara

Interspecific and intersexual variation in presacral vertebrae number in Podarcis bocagei and P. carbonelli

Intestinal Helminth Parasites of Wall Lizards, Podarcis vaucheri Complex (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Algeria

scholarly article by Miguel A. Carretero et al published September 2011 in Journal of Herpetology

Intraspecific ecomorphological variation: linear and geometric morphometrics reveal habitat-related patterns within Podarcis bocagei wall lizards

scientific article published on 06 April 2010

Lateralization in escape behaviour at different hierarchical levels in a gecko: Tarentola angustimentalis from Eastern Canary Islands

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Lateralization in refuge selection in Podarcis hispanica at different hierarchical levels

scientific article published in 2012

Lizards from urban areas are more asymmetric: using fluctuating asymmetry to evaluate environmental disturbance

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Local Segregation of Realised Niches in Lizards

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Looking Closer at the Patterns of Land Cover in the City of Porto, Portugal, between 1947 and 2019—A Contribution for the Integration of Ecological Data in Spatial Planning

scientific article published in 2022

Mitochondrial phylogeography of the Bedriaga's rock lizard, Archaeolacerta bedriagae (Reptilia: Lacertidae) endemic to Corsica and Sardinia

Modelling the past and future distribution of contracting species. The Iberian lizard Podarcis carbonelli (Squamata: Lacertidae) as a case study

scientific article published in 2013

Molecular Detection ofHemolivia(Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) from Ticks of North AfricanTestudo graeca(Testudines: Testudinidae) and an Estimation of Their Phylogenetic Relationships Using 18S rRNA Sequences

Molecular evolution and functional divergence of the metallothionein gene family in vertebrates

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Morphological divergence among populations of Testudo graeca from west-central Morocco

scientific article published in 2005

Morphology matches mtDNA lineages in the southern smooth snake (Coronella girondica) from Iberia

scientific article published on 3 October 2012

Multiple dispersal out of Anatolia: biogeography and evolution of oriental green lizards

scholarly article by Faraham Ahmadzadeh et al published 12 July 2013 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Multivariate and geometric morphometrics in the analysis of sexual dimorphism variation inPodarcis lizards

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Optimizing protection efforts for amphibian conservation in Mediterranean landscapes

scientific article published in 2013

Parthenogenesis through the ice ages: A biogeographic analysis of Caucasian rock lizards (genus Darevskia).

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Patterns of genetic diversity in Hepatozoon spp. infecting snakes from North Africa and the Mediterranean Basin

scientific article published on 23 February 2014

Persistence across Pleistocene ice ages in Mediterranean and extra-Mediterranean refugia: phylogeographic insights from the common wall lizard

scientific article (publication date: 11 July 2013)

Phylogenetic affinities of Comoroan and East African day geckos (genus Phelsuma): multiple natural colonisations, introductions and island radiations

scientific article published on 26 July 2006

Phylogenetic relationships of the populations ofIranolacerta brandtii(de Filippi, 1863) (Squamata: Lacertidae) recently found in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

scholarly article by Catarina Rato et al published 2 October 2015 in Zoology in the Middle East

Phylogeography of the European Whip Snake, Hierophis viridiflavus (Colubridae), using mtDNA and nuclear DNA sequences

Phylogeography of the genus Blanus (worm lizards) in Iberia and Morocco based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers — preliminary analysis

Physiological differences in preferred temperatures and evaporative water loss rates in two sympatric lacertid species

scientific article published on 24 December 2017

Pleistocene climate fluctuations as the major driver of genetic diversity and distribution patterns of the Caspian green lizard, <i>Lacerta strigata</i> Eichwald, 1831

scientific article published on 02 May 2021

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Postnatal Dynamics of Developmental Stability and Canalization of Lizard Head Shape Under Different Environmental Conditions

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Predators as mediators: Differential antipredator behavior in competitive lizard species in a multi-predator environment

article published in 2015

Preferred temperatures of Podarcis vaucheri from Morocco: intraspecific variation and interspecific comparisons

Preliminary survey on genetic variation within the Pygmy Algyroides, Algyroides fitzingeri, across Corsica and Sardinia

Rapid lizard radiation lacking niche conservatism: ecological diversification within a complex landscape

Reconstructing the complex colonisation histories of lizards across Mediterranean archipelagos

scientific article published in 2023

Relationship between diet and helminths in Gallotia caesaris (Sauria: Lacertidae).

scientific article published in January 2005

Relationships between head morphology, bite performance and ecology in two species of Podarcis wall lizards

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Relationships between helminth communities and diet in Canarian lizards: the evidence fromGallotia atlantica(Squamata: Lacertidae)

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Relationships of Podarcis wall lizards from Algeria based on mtDNA data

scholarly article by Said Larbes et al published 2009 in Amphibia-Reptilia

Remote sensing as a tool to analyse lizards behaviour

SOURCES OF COLOUR PATTERN VARIATION IN MEDITERRANEAN PSAMMODROMUS ALGIRUS

scientific article published in 2002

Seasonal variation of prey consumption by Liolaemus barbarae, a highland lizard endemic to Northern Chile

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Separate histories in both sides of the Mediterranean: phylogeny and niche evolution of ocellated lizards

scholarly article by Faraham Ahmadzadeh et al published 11 February 2016 in Journal of Biogeography

Snakes on the Balearic islands: an invasion tale with implications for native biodiversity conservation

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Spermatogenesis in two Iberian Podarcis lizards: relationships with male traits

scientific article published in 2006

Spring diet and trophic partitioning in an alpine lizard community from Morocco

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2006

Spring diet and trophic partitioning in an alpine lizard community from Morocco

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Systematic and phylogeographical assessment of the Acanthodactylus erythrurus group (Reptilia: Lacertidae) based on phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA.

scientific article published on 6 December 2008

The helminth community of the skink Chalcides sexlineatus from Gran Canaria (Canary Islands).

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The intestinal helminth community of the spiny-tailed lizard Darevskia rudis (Squamata, Lacertidae) from northern Turkey

scientific article published in March 2016

The pond network: can structural connectivity reflect on (amphibian) biodiversity patterns?

scientific article published in 2011

The relevance of morphology for habitat use and locomotion in two species of wall lizards

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The role of metabolism in understanding the altitudinal segregation pattern of two potentially interacting lizards

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The use of a lacertid lizard as a model for reptile ecotoxicology studies--part 1 field demographics and morphology.

scientific article published on 8 February 2012

The use of a lacertid lizard as a model for reptile ecotoxicology studies: part 2--biomarkers of exposure and toxicity among pesticide exposed lizards.

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Thyroid disruption in the lizard Podarcis bocagei exposed to a mixture of herbicides: a field study.

scientific article published on 10 November 2012

Towards a functional understanding of species coexistence: ecomorphological variation in relation to whole-organism performance in two sympatric lizards

scientific article published in 2017

Unravelling the origin of the common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) in outh-eastern Europe using mitochondrial evidence

scientific article published in 2022

What do Myrmecophagous Geckos Eat When Ants are not Available?: Comparative Diets of Three Socotran Species

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What you get is what they have? Detectability of intestinal parasites in reptiles using faeces

scientific article published on 03 September 2013