Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Uganda is one of the most species rich countries in Africa because of the presence of
several major biomes. However, it is also a country that has lost much of its natural habitat to …

Historically, an understanding of viviparity and its evolution in Old World chameleons
(Chamaeleonidae) has lagged behind that of other squamate families. Not only is …

The cyprinid genus Garra is so far represented in Mount Kenya streams by a single species,
but which species it should be referred to as remains yet to be determined. Molecular …

The genus Scotophilus contains 21 currently recognized species ranging throughout Africa
and Southeast Asia. Among the 13 species recognized from continental Africa, systematic …

Integrative taxonomy has been generally considered as a goal in systematics for more than
a decade. Here, we employed environmental, molecular, and morphological data to …

Pygmy Chameleons of the genus Rhampholeon represent a moderately diverse,
geographically circumscribed radiation, with most species (18 out of 19 extant taxa) limited …

The geographically widespread species Afrixalus laevis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) currently has
a disjunct distribution in western Central Africa (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and …

To date, knowledge about the herpetological diversity and the species distribution in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo remains largely incomplete. In order to fill this gap, we …

Pyricularia oryzae and P. grisea are important agents of major diseases on a wide range of
gramineous hosts. Whereas P. oryzae is the most important pathogen causing outbreaks of …