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Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae.
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Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes
TL;DR: Small size seems to promote fast diversification of disparate body plans, and the absence of mammalian predators allows insular lizards to attain larger body sizes by means of release from predation and allows them to evolve into the top predator niche.
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The integumentary skeleton of tetrapods: origin, evolution, and development
TL;DR: Data support the notion that all osteoderms are derivatives of a neural crest‐derived osteogenic cell population and share a deep homology associated with the skeletogenic competence of the dermis, and that skeletogenesis is comparable with the formation of elasmoid scales.
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Out of the blue: a novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata)
TL;DR: The relationships of this new clade to other major gekkotan groups, previous phylogenetic hypotheses regarding constituent members of this novel clade are evaluated, and the use of historically important morphological characters in gekKotan systematics as they relate to this novelClade are critically examined.
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Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures
Shai Meiri,Aaron M. Bauer,Laurent Chirio,Guarino R. Colli,Indraneil Das,Tiffany M. Doan,Anat Feldman,Fernando-Castro Herrera,Maria Novosolov,Panayiotis Pafilis,Daniel Pincheira-Donoso,Gary D. Powney,Omar Torres-Carvajal,Peter Uetz,Raoul Van Damme +14 more
TL;DR: A large (861 species) global dataset of lizard body temperatures was used, and the mean annual temperatures across their geographic ranges were examined to examine the relationships between body andmean annual temperatures.
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Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)
Margarita Metallinou,E. N. Arnold,Pierre-André Crochet,Philippe Geniez,José Carlos Brito,Petros Lymberakis,Sherif Baha El Din,Roberto Sindaco,Michael D. Robinson,Salvador Carranza +9 more
TL;DR: The phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus Stenodactylus presented in this work permits the reconstruction of the biogeographical history of these common desert dwellers and confirms the importance of the opening of the Red Sea and the climatic oscillations of the Miocene as major factors in the diversification of the biota of North Africa and Arabia.
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The integumentary skeleton of tetrapods: origin, evolution, and development
TL;DR: Data support the notion that all osteoderms are derivatives of a neural crest‐derived osteogenic cell population and share a deep homology associated with the skeletogenic competence of the dermis, and that skeletogenesis is comparable with the formation of elasmoid scales.
Journal ArticleDOI
Out of the blue: a novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata)
TL;DR: The relationships of this new clade to other major gekkotan groups, previous phylogenetic hypotheses regarding constituent members of this novel clade are evaluated, and the use of historically important morphological characters in gekKotan systematics as they relate to this novelClade are critically examined.
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Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures
Shai Meiri,Aaron M. Bauer,Laurent Chirio,Guarino R. Colli,Indraneil Das,Tiffany M. Doan,Anat Feldman,Fernando-Castro Herrera,Maria Novosolov,Panayiotis Pafilis,Daniel Pincheira-Donoso,Gary D. Powney,Omar Torres-Carvajal,Peter Uetz,Raoul Van Damme +14 more
TL;DR: A large (861 species) global dataset of lizard body temperatures was used, and the mean annual temperatures across their geographic ranges were examined to examine the relationships between body andmean annual temperatures.
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Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)
Margarita Metallinou,E. N. Arnold,Pierre-André Crochet,Philippe Geniez,José Carlos Brito,Petros Lymberakis,Sherif Baha El Din,Roberto Sindaco,Michael D. Robinson,Salvador Carranza +9 more
TL;DR: The phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus Stenodactylus presented in this work permits the reconstruction of the biogeographical history of these common desert dwellers and confirms the importance of the opening of the Red Sea and the climatic oscillations of the Miocene as major factors in the diversification of the biota of North Africa and Arabia.
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South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos.
TL;DR: Deep genetic divergences support the specific recognition of three Sri Lankan taxa previously regarded as subspecies of mainland forms and validate H. subtriedrus as a species distinct from H. triedrus.