The parthenogenetic triploid lizard Aspidoscelis neotesselata originated from a hybridization event between a female of diploid parthenogenetic Aspidoscelis tesselata (pattern class C) and a male of ...

1. The competitive interactions of closely related species have long been considered important determinants of community composition and a major cause of phenotypic diversification. However, while ...

Population differentiation is the first step toward speciation. Then, understanding mechanisms underlying population structure is a crucial issue in evolutionary biology and ecology (Barton and Hewitt ...

We hypothesized that D. carolina, D. longipennis, D. pictipennis, and D. spurcata exhibit significant genetic divergence in the COII mitochondrial gene and morphological characteristics that support ...

The evolutionary clade and biodiversity of green lizards of the genera Lacerta and Timon -- reptiles common in the Mediterranean basin and surrounding areas of the European continent, North Africa and ...