The S Iberian Peninsula and NW Africa constitute one of the main hotspots for plant
biodiversity within the Mediterranean Basin. At the core of this hotspot, across the Strait of …

The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is
discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and …

The amphibian fauna of the Kingdom of Morocco was traditionally regarded as poor and
closely related to its European counterpart. However, an increase in research during the last …

Many studies have assessed the impact of different pollutants on amphibians across a
variety of experimental venues (laboratory, mesocosm, and enclosure conditions). Past …

Several studies have observed that taxa below the level of species can vary in the degree to
which they differ from one another in the environmental space they occupy. These patterns …

One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States,
California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth …

New analytical methods are improving our ability to reconstruct robust species trees from
multilocus datasets, despite difficulties in phylogenetic reconstruction associated with recent …

Cryptic phylogeographic diversifications provide unique models to examine the role of
phylogenetic divergence on the evolution of reproductive isolation, without extrinsic factors …

Developmental plasticity is found in most organisms, but its role in evolution remains
controversial. Environmentally induced phenotypic differences may be translated into …

Variation in 815bp of mitochondrial DNA from two gene fragments (300bp of cytochrome b
and 395–515bp of 12S rRNA) for 26 Malpolon monspessulanus, and cytochrome b for a …