Background Recent reports have demonstrated the presence of Crimean-Congo
hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) genomic material in Hyalomma aegyptium ticks feeding …

The rapid development of innovative molecular tools for characterizing biodiversity is
leading to an extensive and sometimes unexpected renovation of taxonomic classifications …

Anatolian mountains have played an important role in speciation and definition of
biogeographical subregions and have been defined as “hotspots” of biodiversity. Because of …

Body size is an ecologically important variable in animals. The geographical size variation of
most snakes and some lizards counters Bergmann's rule in that, among related taxa, the …

Reconstructing species trees for clades containing weakly delimited or incorrectly identified
taxa is one of the most serious challenges facing systematists because building …

Cryptic or undescribed species pose a major problem in conservation biology. Managing
multiple unresolved taxa collectively as a single entity could precipitate the loss of …

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

Testudo graeca has a wide distribution under different geographic, climatic and ecological
conditions, and shows high morphological differences especially in the Asian (Middle …

Simple Summary The morphology of chelonians provides basic information about
development, evolution, biodiversity, biomechanics, behavior, ecology, and physiology …

The genus Testudo is represented by 4 species in the Mediterranean ecoregion, each
occupying distinct climatic niches with some peripheral overlap in their ranges. In this study …