The farther, the closer: geographic proximity and niche overlap versus genetic divergence in Caucasian rock lizards

D Tarkhnishvili, G Iankoshvili - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia) are a speciose group with 42 described species from the
Caucasus Mountain region. We selected 11 species from Georgia and adjacent territories to …

Single hybrid population but multiple parental individuals at the origin of parthenogenetic rock lizards Darevskia sapphirina and D. bendimahiensis Schmidtler, & …

M Erdolu, MK Şahin, M Somel, A Yanchukov - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Among vertebrates, obligate parthenogenesis is only found in Squamata, where it always
has a hybrid origin and a few lizard genera contain most of the known hybridogenous …

Potential geographic distribution and habitat utilization of Lacerta viridis (Squamata: Lacertidae) in northern Türkiye

MK Şahin, M Kurnaz - Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The genus Lacerta, particularly the green lizard (Lacerta viridis), is a significant lizard group
in the Western Palearctic. This study aims to predict its geographic range in Northern Türkiye …

Head shape divergence between parthenogenetic and their paternal bisexual rock lizards in sympatry

N Barateli, M Gabelaia, G Iankoshvili… - Zoologischer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Head shape plays a crucial role in ecological and evolutionary processes in lizards, and
scientists have studied head shape using traditional and 3D geometric morphometrics …

[PDF][PDF] Сравнительная характеристика посткраниального скелета скальных ящериц комплексов Darevskia (caucasica) и Darevskia (saxicola)(Lacertidae: Sauria)

АВ Лищук, ИВ Доронин, ОВ Кукушкин - … Зоологического института РАН …, 2024 - lacerta.de
РЕЗЮМЕ Впервые на репрезентативных выборках изучены анатомо-морфологические
особенности посткраниального скелета девяти таксонов скальных ящериц рода …

[PDF][PDF] A New Species of the Genus Darevskia Arribas, 1999 from South Ossetia (Reptilia: Sauria: Lacertidae)

BS Tuniyev, TV Petrova, KY Lotiev - Russian Journal of Herpetology, 2023 - lacertilia.de
D. szczerbaki (Lukina, 1963)], the new species is characterized by the smallest body size
among all representatives of this complex Lxx—55–62 mm;}}—58–63 mm. The number of …

IS Darevsky (1924–2009) and rock lizards of the Caucasus: from geographic parthenogenesis to reticulate (hybridogenous) speciation

LJ Borkin - Zoologičeskij žurnal, 2024 - journals.rcsi.science
The path taken by IS Darevsky to the discovery of natural parthenogenesis in rock lizards of
the Caucasus (1957, 1958) is tracked, as well as his further developments of the problem of …

Comparative characteristics of the postcranial skeleton of Rock lizards from the Darevskia (caucasica) and Darevskia (saxicola) complexes

AV Lishchuk, IV Doronin, OV Kukushkin - zin.ru
Anatomical-morphological features of the postcranial skeleton of nine taxa of the rock lizards
of the genus Darevskia Arribas, 1999 belonging to the Darevskia (caucasica) and Darevskia …

The Three Reptile New Locality Records and Their Ecological Niche Models in Hakkari Province, Eastern Anatolia, Türkiye

C Yılmaz, Ç Ilgaz, E Bozkurt, N Üzüm, A Avcı - Commagene Journal of … - dergipark.org.tr
In this study, three reptile species, Mauremys caspica, Mediodactylus orientalis, and
Laudakia stellio, were recorded for the first time from Hakkari province, east Anatolia. The …