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A new species of Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 (Apicomplexa: Adelerina) from the snake Philodryas nattereri Steindachner (Squamata: Dipsadidae) in northeastern Brazil

scientific article

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 paradise for parasites? Seven new haemogregarine species infecting lizards from the Canary Islands

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

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

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 integrative taxonomic revision of the Tarentola geckos (Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) of the Cape Verde Islands

scholarly article by RAQUEL VASCONCELOS et al published 25 January 2012 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Ancient introgression of Lepus timidus mtDNA into L. granatensis and L. europaeus in the Iberian Peninsula

scientific article published in April 2003

Apicomplexa primers amplify Proteromonas (Stramenopiles, Slopalinida, Proteromonadidae) in tissue and blood samples from lizards.

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Assessing the diversity, host-specificity and infection patterns of apicomplexan parasites in reptiles from Oman, Arabia.

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Assessing the influence of geographic distance in parasite communities of an exotic lizard.

scientific article published on January 2016

Assessing the phylogenetic signal of the nuclear β-Fibrinogen intron 7 in salamandrids (Amphibia: Salamandridae)

scholarly article by Fernando Sequeira et al published 1 August 2006 in Amphibia-Reptilia

Beneath the hairy look: the hidden reproductive diversity of the Gibsmithia hawaiiensis complex (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta).

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Biogeographic and demographic history of the Mediterranean snakes Malpolon monspessulanus and Hemorrhois hippocrepis across the Strait of Gibraltar

scientific article published on 22 November 2021

Biogeographical crossroad across the Pillars of Hercules: Evolutionary history of Psammodromus lizards in space and time

scholarly article by Joana Mendes et al published 24 September 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

Blood parasite diversity (Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) within the western populations of the European pond turtle Emys orbicularis

scientific article published in 2022

Codon bias variation in C-mos between squamate families might distort phylogenetic inferences ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2003

Comments on the Systematic Revision of Adeleid Haemogregarines: Are More Data Needed?

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Comparative phylogeography of northwest African Natrix maura (Serpentes: Colubridae) inferred from mtDNA sequences

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2008

Comparative phylogeography of northwest African Natrix maura (Serpentes: Colubridae) inferred from mtDNA sequences

scientific article published in 2008

Comparing patterns of nuclear and mitochondrial divergence in a cryptic species complex: the case of Iberian and North African wall lizards (Podarcis, Lacertidae)

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Complex biogeographical distribution of genetic variation within Podarcis wall lizards across the Strait of Gibraltar

scholarly article by David James Harris et al published September 2002 in Journal of Biogeography

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

scientific article published on March 2004

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

scientific article

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Correction to: The role of hybridisation in the origin and evolutionary persistence of vertebrate parthenogens: a case study of Darevskia lizards

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Cryptic diversity within the endemic prehensile-tailed geckoUrocotyledon inexpectataacross the Seychelles Islands: patterns of phylogeographical structure and isolation at the multilocus level

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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Cyanobacterial hydrogenases: diversity, regulation and applications

scientific article published on 26 September 2007

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

Deep evolutionary lineages in a Western Mediterranean snake (Vipera latastei/monticola group) and high genetic structuring in Southern Iberian populations

scientific article published on 7 September 2012

Digging up the roots of an insular hotspot of genetic diversity: decoupled mito-nuclear histories in the evolution of the Corsican-Sardinian endemic lizard Podarcis tiliguerta

scientific article

Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Hemidactylus geckos from the Comoro islands

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Does Contraceptive Use Lead to Increased Affairs? A Response to Larmuseau et al

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

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 the phylogenetic signal limit from mitogenomes, slow evolving nuclear genes, and the concatenation approach. New insights into the Lacertini radiation using fast evolving nuclear genes and species trees

scientific article

Evidence for genetic similarity of two allopatric European hares (Lepus corsicanus and L. castroviejoi) inferred from nuclear DNA sequences.

scientific article published on 28 November 2007

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

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Evolutionary and demographic correlates of Pleistocene coastline changes in the Sicilian wall lizard Podarcis wagleriana

Evolutionary dynamics of an expressed MHC class IIβ locus in the Ranidae (Anura) uncovered by genome walking and high-throughput amplicon sequencing

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Evolutionary history of the Maltese wall lizard Podarcis filfolensis: insights on the ‘Expansion–Contraction’ model of Pleistocene biogeography

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Evolutionary history of the genus Tarentola (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) from the Mediterranean Basin, estimated using multilocus sequence data

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Evolutionary patterns of the mitochondrial genome in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica

scientific article published on 18 September 2012

Extreme genetic diversity in the lizard Atlantolacerta andreanskyi (Werner, 1929): a montane cryptic species complex

scientific article (publication date: 4 September 2012)

First report of Hepatozoon (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina) in caecilians, with description of a new species.

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Genetic admixture between the Iberian endemic lizardsPodarcis bocageiandPodarcis carbonelli: evidence for limited natural hybridization and a bimodal hybrid zone

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Genetic diversity of Hepatozoon (Apicomplexa) from domestic cats in South Africa, with a global reassessment of Hepatozoon felis diversity

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Genetic diversity within scorpions of the genus Buthus from the Iberian Peninsula: mitochondrial DNA sequence data indicate additional distinct cryptic lineages

article published in 2010

Genetic polymorphism of 11 allozyme loci in populations of wall lizards (Podarcis sp.) from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa

scientific article published on October 2003

Genetic variability within the Oudri's fan-footed gecko Ptyodactylus oudrii in North Africa assessed using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

scientific article published on 19 October 2009

Getting ahead: exploitative competition by an invasive lizard ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 September 2020

Hares on thin ice: Introgression of mitochondrial DNA in hares and its implications for recent phylogenetic analyses

scholarly article by Paulo Célio Alves et al published August 2006 in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Hepatozoon infection prevalence in four snake genera: influence of diet, prey parasitemia levels, or parasite type?

scientific article published on 2 May 2012

High Diversity of Hepatozoon spp. in Geckos of the Genus Tarentola.

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

High levels of mitochondrial DNA diversity within oxychilid land snails (subgenus Drouetia Gude, 1911) from São Miguel island, Azores

scientific article published in 2013

Identifying priority areas for island endemics using genetic versus specific diversity – The case of terrestrial reptiles of the Cape Verde Islands

scholarly article by Raquel Vasconcelos et al published September 2012 in Biological Conservation

Intragenomic variation within ITS1 and ITS2 of freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae): implications for phylogenetic and microsatellite studies.

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Invasive lizard has fewer parasites than native congener ⬇️

scientific article published on 07 July 2021

Inverted replication of vertebrate mitochondria

scientific article published on 21 February 2008

Isolation and characterization of nine microsatellite loci in Podarcis bocagei (Squamata: Lacertidae)

scientific article published in 2004

Learning from others: an invasive lizard uses social information from both conspecifics and heterospecifics ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Letter to the Editors

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Lusitania revisited: a phylogeographic analysis of the natterjack toad Bufo calamita across its entire biogeographical range

scientific article published on 17 October 2005

Melting pots and hotspots: genetic variation within Acanthodactylus erythrurus (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from the Iberian Peninsula

scientific article published in 2019

Mitochondrial DNA Divergence Suggests That Podarcis hispanica atrata (Squamata: Lacertidae) from the Columbretes Islands Merits Specific Distinction

Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangements and Partial Genome Duplications Detected by Multigene Asymmetric Compositional Bias Analysis

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

Modelling the partially unknown distribution of wall lizards (Podarcis) in North Africa: ecological affinities, potential areas of occurrence, and methodological constraints

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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 Screening of Haemogregarine Hemoparasites (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae) in Populations of Native and Introduced Pond Turtles in Eastern Europe

scientific article published in 2023

Molecular assessment of apicomplexan parasites in the snake Psammophis from North Africa: do multiple parasite lineages reflect the final vertebrate host diet?

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Molecular characterization of Hepatozoon species in reptiles from the Seychelles

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Molecular phylogenetics of Iberian wall lizards (Podarcis): is Podarcis hispanica a species complex?

scientific article published on April 2002

Molecular phylogeny, biogeography and insights into the origin of parthenogenesis in the Neotropical genus Leposoma (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae): Ancient links between the Atlantic Forest and Amazonia

scientific article published on 27 July 2011

Molecular screening of nematodes in lacertid lizards from the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands using 18S rRNA sequences

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Molecular survey of Apicomplexa in Podarcis wall lizards detects Hepatozoon, Sarcocystis, and Eimeria species.

scientific article published in June 2012

Molecular survey of Hepatozoon species in lizards from North Africa

scientific article published on 9 December 2010

Morphological and molecular characterization of Karyolysus--a neglected but common parasite infecting some European lizards

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Morphology and molecules reveal two new species of the poorly studied gecko genus Paragehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Madagascar

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Multigene phylogeny of Malagasy day geckos of the genus Phelsuma

scientific article published on 9 April 2009

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

Name and shame: can taxonomists agree on systematic reforms? ⬇️

scientific article published in 2023

New data on the diversity and distribution of lineages of the Acanthodactylus erythrurus species complex in North Africa derived from mitochondrial DNA markers

scientific article published in 2024

New species need characters: comments on recently described apicomplexan parasites from Australia

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Non-equilibrium estimates of gene flow inferred from nuclear genealogies suggest that Iberian and North African wall lizards (Podarcis spp.) are an assemblage of incipient species

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Origin and length distribution of unidirectional prokaryotic overlapping genes

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Origins and taxonomic status of Hemidactylus geckos on the Îles Éparses of the Western Indian Ocean

scientific article published in 2024

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

Permanent genetic resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 December 2011-31 January 2012.

scientific article published on 26 March 2012

Permanent genetic resources added to molecular ecology resources database 1 December 2012-31 January 2013.

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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 analysis of apicomplexan parasites infecting commercially valuable species from the North-East Atlantic reveals high levels of diversity and insights into the evolution of the group

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

Phylogenetic analysis of the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean species of the genus Stenosoma (Isopoda, Valvifera, Idoteidae)

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Phylogenetic relationship of Hepatozoon blood parasites found in snakes from Africa, America and Asia.

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Phylogenetic relationships of Hemidactylus geckos from the Gulf of Guinea islands: patterns of natural colonizations and anthropogenic introductions estimated from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

scientific article published on January 2005

Phylogenetic relationships of Trachylepis skink species from Madagascar and the Seychelles (Squamata: Scincidae).

scientific article published on 19 February 2013

Phylogeny and evolution of the green lizards, Lacerta spp. (Squamata: Lacertidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

scholarly article by Raquel Godinho et al published 1 September 2005 in Amphibia-Reptilia

Phylogeny of North African Agama lizards (Reptilia: Agamidae) and the role of the Sahara desert in vertebrate speciation

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Phylogeographic evidence for multiple long-distance introductions of the common wall lizard associated with human trade and transport

scientific article published in 2019

Phylogeographic patterns of Buthus scorpions (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Maghreb and South-Western Europe based on CO1 mtDNA sequences

Phylogeography and diversification history of the day-gecko genus Phelsuma in the Seychelles islands ⬇️

scientific article published on January 5, 2013

Phylogeography and genetic diversity of Psammophis schokari (Serpentes) in North Africa based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2007

Phylogeography and genetic diversity of Psammophis schokari (Serpentes) in North Africa based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

scientific article published in 2007

Phylogeography of Drosophila subobscura from North Atlantic islands inferred from mtDNA A+T rich region sequences.

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Phylogeography of Mabuya maculilabris (Reptilia) from São Tomé Island (Gulf of Guinea) inferred from mtDNA sequences

scientific article published on 8 August 2005

Phylogeography of North African Amietophrynus xeros estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2009

Phylogeography of the Madeiran endemic lizard Lacerta dugesii inferred from mtDNA sequences.

scientific article published on February 2003

Phylogeography of the lacertid lizard, Psammodromus algirus, in Iberia and across the Strait of Gibraltar

Prevalence and diversity of Hepatozoon in native and exotic geckos from Brazil.

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

Rapid speciation, morphological evolution, and adaptation to extreme environments in South African sand lizards (Meroles) as revealed by mitochondrial gene sequences.

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Recent evolutionary history of the Iberian endemic lizards Podarcis bocagei (Seoane, 1884) and Podarcis carbonelli Pérez-Mellado, 1981 (Squamata: Lacertidae) revealed by allozyme and microsatellite markers

scientific article published in 2011

Recent oceanic long-distance dispersal and divergence in the amphi-Atlantic rain forest genus Renealmia L.f. (Zingiberaceae).

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Reconstruction of the evolutionary history of Haemosporida (Apicomplexa) based on the cyt b gene with characterization of Haemocystidium in geckos (Squamata: Gekkota) from Oman.

scientific article published on 12 September 2015

Reevaluation of 16S ribosomal RNA variation in Bufo (Anura: Amphibia).

scientific article published in May 2001

Reexamination of the Iberian and North African Podarcis (Squamata: Lacertidae) phylogeny based on increased mitochondrial DNA sequencing

scientific article published on 2 August 2005

Relationships of Afroablepharus Greer, 1974 skinks from the Gulf of Guinea islands based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA: patterns of colonization and comments on taxonomy

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Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology.

scientific article published in October 1998

Relationships of scincid lizards (Mabuya spp; Reptilia: Scincidae) from the Cape Verde islands based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

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Review of the distribution and conservation status of the terrestrial reptiles of the Cape Verde Islands

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Rules have reasons: response to Greay et al. (2019)

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Structure and Evolution of the Mitochondrial DNA Complete Control Region in the Lizard Lacerta dugesii (Lacertidae, Sauria)

Structure and evolution of the mitochondrial DNA complete control region in the Drosophila subobscura subgroup.

scientific article published in December 2001

Surfing in tortoises? Empirical signs of genetic structuring owing to range expansion

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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

Systematics, biogeography and evolution of the endemicHemidactylusgeckos (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae) of the Cape Verde Islands: based on morphology and mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

scholarly article by E. N. Arnold et al published November 2008 in Zoologica Scripta

The importance of integrative approaches in nematode taxonomy: the validity of Parapharyngodon and Thelandros as distinct genera

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

The inversion of the Control Region in three mitogenomes provides further evidence for an asymmetric model of vertebrate mtDNA replication

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The role of hybridisation in the origin and evolutionary persistence of vertebrate parthenogens: a case study of Darevskia lizards

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

The taxonomy of the Tarentola mauritanica species complex (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae): Bayesian species delimitation supports six candidate species.

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

The unexpected gecko: A new cryptic species within Urocotyledon inexpectata (Stejneger, 1893) from the northern granitic Seychelles ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 June 2022

Transcriptome annotation and characterization of novel toxins in six scorpion species

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Underground cryptic speciation within the Maghreb: multilocus phylogeography sheds light on the diversification of the checkerboard worm lizard Trogonophis wiegmanni

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Updated catalogue and taxonomic notes on the Old-World scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae)

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When cryptic diversity blurs the picture: a cautionary tale from Iberian and North African Podarcis wall lizards

When selection deceives phylogeographic interpretation: the case of the Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758).

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Why are Red List species not on the EDGE? A response to Winter et al ⬇️

scientific article published on April 11, 2013

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