The joint expression of particular colors, morphologies, and behaviors is a common feature
of adaptation, but the genetic basis for such “phenotypic syndromes” remains poorly …

Interspecific hybridization can be consequential for insular species. The Critically
Endangered Aeolian wall lizard, Podarcis raffonei, severely declined due to interactions with …

Hybrid zones are dynamic systems where natural selection, sexual selection, and other
evolutionary forces can act on reshuffled combinations of distinct genomes. The movement …

Although several phylogeographic studies of Asian snakes have been conducted, most
have focused on pitvipers, with non‐venomous snakes, such as colubrids or natricids …

Related species often engage in abutting or overlap** contact zones with various
strengths of interspecific competition. Biotic interactions such as these preclude the …

The common practice of using subspecies as conservation targets raises the question of
whether efforts are focused on preserving conspicuous components of the species' …

The lacertid wall lizards of the genus Podarcis (Wagler, 1830) originate from Western
Europe and are divided into 24-25 species (Speybroeck et al., 2020). Despite the …

The smooth snake Coronella austriaca (Laurenti, 1768) is distributed across the western
Palearctic throughout north‐central, southern Europe and western Asia. So far, only few …

Cryptic diversity poses a great obstacle in our attempts to assess the current biodiversity
crisis and may hamper conservation efforts. The gekkonid genus Mediodactylus, a well …

Many animal species show considerable intraspecific phenotypic variation. For species with
broad distributions, this variation may result from heterogeneity in the strength and agents of …