The last species list of the European herpetofauna was published by Speybroeck, Beukema
and Crochet (2010). In the meantime, ongoing research led to numerous taxonomic …

The climate has undergone significant changes since the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
and in the course of the Holocene, parallel to important cultural transformations and …

Modern taxonomy relies on the unified species concept and integrative approaches to
delimit evolutionary coherent taxa. The western Mediterranean vipers within the Vipera …

An illustration of the human footprint on biodiversity are the faunal movements that have
accompanied commercial and cultural exchanges between civilizations throughout history …

Quaternary climatic oscillations and geographic barriers have strongly influenced the
distribution and diversification of thermophilic species occurring in the Mediterranean Basin …

We examined phylogeographic differentiation of the red-eyed grass snake (Natrix
astreptophora) using 1984 bp of mtDNA and 13 microsatellite loci from specimens collected …

Hybrid zones are natural laboratories allowing insights in genetic processes like lineage
diversification, speciation and introgression. Using large sampling, 15 microsatellite loci and …

Aim Allele surfing remains poorly investigated in empirical studies due to a lack of explicit
methods to detect it in natural populations. Here, we introduce a spatially explicit, sliding …

Estimating geographical ranges of intra‐specific evolutionary lineages is crucial to the fields
of biogeography, evolution, and biodiversity conservation. Models of isolation mechanisms …

Studies of biodiversity in the Maghreb have revealed high genetic diversity and divergent
genetic lineages among many taxa including squamates. Geographic barriers such as the …