Granite boulders act as deep‐time climate refugia: A Miocene divergent clade of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mysore …

I Agarwal, T Thackeray, S Pal… - Journal of Zoological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a divergent clade and three new rupicolous species of dwarf geckos of the
genus Cnemaspis from the Mysore Plateau, southern India. Cnemaspis bangarasp. nov., C …

The evolutionary history of an accidental model organism, the leopard gecko Eublepharis macularius (Squamata: Eublepharidae)

I Agarwal, AM Bauer, T Gamble, VB Giri… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The leopard gecko, Eublepharis macularius, is a widely used model organism in laboratory
and experimental studies. The high phenotypic diversity in the pet trade, the fact that the …

Exponential rise in the discovery of endemic plants underscores the need to conserve the Indian savannas

AN Nerlekar, AR Chorghe, JV Dalavi, RK Kusom… - Biotropica, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity of tropical grasslands and savannas (tropical grassy biomes, TGBs) remains
poorly documented compared with tropical forests. This is in part due to the misplaced …

A preliminary taxonomic revision of the girii clade of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of four new species from …

A KHANDEKAR, SM GAIKWAD, T THACKERAY… - Zootaxa, 2024 - mapress.com
The girii clade is the most diverse clade of South Asian Cnemaspis in the Northern Western
Ghats, including ten valid species. Recent collections of four divergent lineages from …

Molecular phylogenetic tools reveal the phytogeographic history of the genus Capparis L. and suggest its reclassification

S Maurya, X Cornejo, C Lee, SY Kim… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2023 - Elsevier
Capparis is the largest genus of the family Capparaceae, represented by 142 species in the
tropics and subtropics of the Old World. Despite being one of the medicinally and …

Biogeographical and diversification analyses of Indian pseudoscorpions reveal the Western Ghats as museums of ancient biodiversity

J Johnson, SF Loria, MM Joseph, D Harms - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The tropical forests of the Western Ghats (WG) of India are considered 'refugia'harbouring
highly diverse and endemic taxa but these refugia are under immense anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Diversification in the mountains: a generic reappraisal of the Western Ghats endemic gecko genus Dravidogecko Smith, 1933 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with …

R Chaitanya, VB Giri, V Deepak, A Datta-Roy, B Murthy… - Zootaxa, 2019 - mapress.com
The monotypic genus Dravidogecko, represented by its type-species D. anamallensis, is
singular amongst peninsular Indian gekkonid lineages in its endemism to the Western …

Eocene–Oligocene cooling and the diversification of Hemidactylus geckos in Peninsular India

A Lajmi, PK Karanth - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene cooling marks a global shift towards a cooler and drier
climate, concurrent with significant turnover in biota globally. In Peninsular India …

An evaluation of touch input at the edge of a table

N Joshi, D Vogel - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Tables, desks, and counters are often nearby, motivating their use as interactive surfaces.
However, they are typically cluttered. As an alternative, we explore touch input along …

[HTML][HTML] A non-adaptive radiation of viviparous skinks from the seasonal tropics of India: Systematics of Subdoluseps (Squamata: Scincidae), with description of a new …

I Agarwal, T Thackeray… - Vertebrate …, 2024 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
Subdoluseps is a recently described genus of Lygosomine skinks distributed in peninsular
India and Southeast Asia. We conduct the first revision of Indian Subdoluseps based on …