The Asian part of Turkey, ie Anatolia, is the region where three of the world's 35 biodiversity
hotspots meet, and interact: the Caucasus, Irano-Anatolian, and Mediterranean basin …

Simple Summary The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar) is an important bird species with
significant economic and ecological value. Every year, thousands of partridges raised in …

The core of Turkey's land is the Anatolian Peninsula, which is surrounded by several seas
(Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Sea). Offering a high variety of morphological …

Situated at the junction of three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, the Eastern
Mediterranean is an ideal region to study the effects of palaeogeography, ecology and long …

The process of species formation is characterized by the accumulation of multiple
reproductive barriers. The evolution of hybrid male sterility, or Haldane's rule, typically …

Due to active tectonic evolution of the Aegean Area during Miocene and Pleistocene, the
Balkans and Anatolia have repeatedly connected and disconnected causing isolation and …

During the Pleistocene glacial periods, the ranges of many temperate species in Europe
contracted southwards to refugia near the Mediterranean Basin. This study tested the …

The barcoding of the mitochondrial COX1 gene has been instrumental in cataloguing the
tree of life, and in providing insights in the phylogeographic history of species. Yet, this …

Turkey is biogeographically diverse and consequently has a rich herpetofauna. As a result
of active herpetological research, the number of species has steadily increased in recent …

Little is known about the evolutionary history of Helix, despite the fact that it includes the
largest land snails in the western Palaearctic, some of which (eg H. pomatia Linnaeus …