Gaetano Odierna

TL;DR: The phylogeny indicates that the evolutionary transition from oviparity to viviparity probably occurred once in the lacertid lizard Lacertavivipara, and suggests an eastern origin of v Viviparity.

TL;DR: The occurrence and form of sex chromosomes were investigated with the aid of C-banding and 4′-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining in 13 species of lacertid lizards to show the presence in five species of a female heterogamety in which the two sex chromosomes have the same shape and size, but the W differs from the Z in being almost entirely heterochromatic.

TL;DR: The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa.

TL;DR: The genome size increase seems to depend on various mechanisms, the most wide-spread one seems to be the amplification of interspersed repetitive and non-repetitive sequences.

TL;DR: A higher diploid number than that generally observed in most species of Lacertidae and supernumerary chromosomes have been observed in three of the species investigated and an evident interand intraspecific variability has been found in the C-banding pattern of the various species studied.