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List of works by Melita Vamberger

A revision of African helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with descriptions of six new species

scientific article (publication date: 15 May 2014)

Already too late? Massive trade in Indian star tortoises (Geochelone elegans) might have wiped out its phylogeographic differentiation

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Asymmetric allelic introgression across a hybrid zone of the coal tit (<i>Periparus ater</i>) in the central Himalayas

scientific article published on 24 November 2021

Big data can cause big mistakes: using the Societas Europaea Herpetologica atlas by Sillero et al. (2014), the distribution of Emys orbicularis will be misunderstood

scientific article published in March 2018

Complex hybridization patterns in European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in the Pyrenean Region

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Current Status of and Threats to Sicilian Turtles

Differences in gene flow in a twofold secondary contact zone of pond turtles in southern Italy (Testudines: Emydidae:Emys orbicularis galloitalica,E. o. hellenica,E. trinacris)

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Disentangling the Pelodiscus axenaria complex, with the description of a new Chinese species and neotype designation for P. axenaria (Zhou, Zhang & Fang, 1991)

scientific article published in 2022

Distribution and population size of the European pond turtle Emys orbicularis in Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia

scientific article published in 2017

Diversity of North American map and sawback turtles (Testudines: Emydidae: Graptemys)

scientific article published in 2017

First observations on some aspects on the natural history of European pond turtles Emys orbicularis in Slovenia

scientific article published in 2010

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

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Genetic admixture despite ecological segregation in a North African sparrow hybrid zone (Aves, Passeriformes, Passer domesticus × Passer hispaniolensis)

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Hybridization patterns in two contact zones of grass snakes reveal a new Central European snake species.

scientific article

In quest of contact: phylogeography of helmeted terrapins (Pelomedusa galeata, P. subrufa sensu stricto).

scientific article

Integrative Taxonomy of Southeast Asian Snail-Eating Turtles (Geoemydidae: Malayemys) Reveals a New Species and Mitochondrial Introgression

scientific article

Is the imperilled spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) native in Sardinia? Implications from population genetics and for conservation

Leopard tortoises in southern Africa have greater genetic diversity in the north than in the south (Testudinidae)

scientific article published in 2018

Massive transoceanic gene flow in a freshwater turtle (Testudines: Geoemydidae:Mauremys rivulata)

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Millennium-old farm breeding of Chinese softshell turtles (Pelodiscus spp.) results in massive erosion of biodiversity

scientific article published in 2018

Mitochondrial ghost lineages blur phylogeography and taxonomy of Natrix helvetica and N. natrix in Italy and Corsica

scientific article published in 2020

Phylogeny and phylogeography of chelonians from sub-Saharan Africa—A review of current knowledge in tribute to Margaretha D. Hofmeyr

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

Phylogeography of the Asian softshell turtle Amyda cartilaginea (BODDAERT, 1770): evidence for a species complex

scientific article published in 2014

Species list of the European herpetofauna – 2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Stand out from the Crowd: Small-Scale Genetic Structuring in the Endemic Sicilian Pond Turtle

The good, the bad and the ugly: Emys trinacris, Placobdella costata and Haemogregarina stepanowi in Sicily (Testudines, Annelida and Apicomplexa).

scientific article

Threat or fiction: is the pond slider (Trachemys scripta) really invasive in Central Europe? A case study from Slovenia

Tortoise (Reptilia, Testudinidae) radiations in Southern Africa from the Eocene to the present

scientific article published in 2018

Tropical ancient DNA reveals relationships of the extinct Bahamian giant tortoise Chelonoidis alburyorum.

scientific article published in January 2017

Unexpected hybridization patterns in Near Eastern terrapins (Mauremys caspica,M. rivulata) indicate ancient gene flow across the Fertile Crescent

scientific article published in 2016

Where are you from, stranger? The enigmatic biogeography of North African pond turtles (Emys orbicularis)

scholarly article by Heiko Stuckas et al published 20 February 2014 in Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Chelonian challenge: three alien species from North America are moving their reproductive boundaries in Central Europe

scientific article published in 2023