Estimating Ancestral Ranges: Testing Methods with a Clade of Neotropical Lizards (Iguania: Liolaemidae) [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Establishing the ancestral ranges of distribution of a monophyletic clade, called the ancestral area, is one of the central objectives of historical biogeography.
Juan Manuel Díaz Gomez
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Life Stages and Phylogenetic Position of the New Scale-Mite of the Genus Neopterygosoma (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae) from Robert’s Tree Iguana [PDF]
Animals, 2023 A new pterygosomatid mite species, Neopterygosoma robertmertensi sp. n. (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae) was collected from two specimens of Liolaemus robertmertensi (Liolaemidae) from Argentina.
Monika Fajfer, Maciej Skoracki
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Chromosome Evolution of the Liolaemus monticola (Liolaemidae) Complex: Chromosomal and Molecular Aspects [PDF]
Animals, 2022 Chromosomal rearrangements can directly influence population differentiation and speciation. The Liolaemus monticola complex in Chile is a unique model consisting of several chromosome races arranged in a latitudinal sequence of increasing karyotype ...
Madeleine Lamborot +4 more
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Structure and comparative analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of Liolaemus lizards with different modes of reproduction and ploidy levels [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Liolaemus is the most specious genus of the Squamata lizards in South America, presenting exceptional evolutionary radiation and speciation patterns. This recent diversification complicates the formal taxonomic treatment and the phylogenetic analyses of ...
Julian Valdes +4 more
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Thermophysiology and Locomotor Performance of the Andean Lizard Phymaturus williamsi: Vulnerable to Rising Temperatures? [PDF]
BiologyAmbient temperature strongly influences the physiology and performance of ectotherms, making it essential to understand their responses to thermal variation under climate change.
Ana E. Victorica Erostarbe +4 more
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Lizard predation by spiders: A review from the Neotropical and Andean regions [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Vertebrate predation by invertebrates has been classically underexplored and thus underestimated, despite the fact that many arthropods consume vertebrates.
Claudio Reyes‐Olivares +5 more
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The micro-niche explains allotopy and syntopy in South American Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) lizards [PDF]
PeerJSpecies distribution models have been established as essential tools for projecting the effects of changing environmental conditions on species distribution across space and time.
Andrés S. Quinteros +1 more
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Vulnerability to climate change of a microendemic lizard species from the central Andes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Given the rapid loss of biodiversity as consequence of climate change, greater knowledge of ecophysiological and natural history traits are crucial to determine which environmental factors induce stress and drive the decline of threatened species ...
A. Laspiur +6 more
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Reptiles of Chubut province, Argentina: richness, diversity, conservation status and geographic distribution maps [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2015 An accurate estimation of species and population geographic ranges is essential for species-focused studies and conservation and management plans. Knowledge of the geographic distributions of reptiles from Patagonian Argentina is in general limited and ...
Ignacio Minoli +2 more
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Rediscovery and redescription of the holotype of Liolaemus lemniscatus Gravenhorst, 1838 (Reptilia, Squamata, Liolaemidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2013 The presumed lost holotype of Liolaemus lemniscatus Gravenhorst 1838 has been found at the Museum of Natural History of the University of Wrocław and identified by the individual pattern of head scales which matches Gravenhorst’s drawing. The first
Bartosz Borczyk
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