Animal populations have developed multiple strategies to deal with environmental change.
Among them, the demographic buffering strategy consists in constraining the temporal …

A series of phylogeographic studies in the Maghreb identified a repeated pattern of deep
genetic divergence between an eastern (Tunisia) and western (Morocco) lineage for several …

Age‐related telomere length (TL) variation is relatively well‐described for mammals, birds
and other model organisms. Nevertheless, it remains largely unknown in ectotherms …

Background: Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) and Tacheng tick virus-1 (TcTV-1) are emerging tick–
borne viruses that have been recently confirmed to be etiological agents of human disease …

In this study, we aimed to understand the contemporary and ancient colonization routes of
the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica, using simple sequence repeats. By analyzing the …

Chelonians are among the animal groups with the poorest conservation status. Since
tortoises are long-lived species that need very long time to reach sexual maturity, they are …

Ticks carry a diverse community of microorganisms including non‐pathogenic symbionts,
commensals, and pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and fungi. The …

Management and conservation of highly trafficked species suffer from a lack of baseline data
on their status in the wild. This study provides insights into the historical drivers shaping …

Abstract The Testudo graeca (ie, Greek Tortoise or Spur‐thighed Tortoise) origin in Western
Europe is a subject of debate within the scientific community. The species is a part of the …

Contact zones are considered as windows into the evolutionary process, allowing
identification of factors influencing the evolutionary forces. Here, we combined phylogenetic …