We provide a review and synthesis of key findings in phylogeographic research on terrestrial
animals in the Aegean archipelago (Greece) and surrounding regions (Greek mainland …

With about 11,100 islands and islets of which ca. 250 are regularly inhabited by human, the
Mediterranean Sea represents one of the regions of the world with the most islands and …

Abstract Kotschy's Gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi, is a small gecko native to southeastern
Europe and the Levant. It displays great morphological variation with a large number of …

Using two mitochondrial DNA fragments and 13 microsatellite loci, we examined the
phylogeographic structure and taxonomy of two codistributed snake species (Natrix natrix …

Situated at the junction of three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, the Eastern
Mediterranean is an ideal region to study the effects of palaeogeography, ecology and long …

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

The subgenus Transphlebotomus comprises sand fly species with distribution markedly
restricted to the Mediterranean basin and suspected of Leishmania transmission. Only three …

Morphological and DNA data support that the East Mediterranean snake-eyed skink
Ablepharus kitaibelii represents a species complex that includes four species A. kitaibelii, A …

Reconstructing reliable timescales for species evolution is an important and indispensable
goal of modern biogeography. However, many factors influence the estimation of divergence …

Abstract Aim The Mediterranean basin has a long history of interactions between humans
and biota, with multiple ancient and recent introductions of alien species. Such a multitude of …