Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

This chapter reviews the diversity, evolutionary relationships, ecology, and conservation of
the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands' endemic caecilian and anuran fauna. A total of nine …

High‐throughput sequencing data have greatly improved our ability to understand the
processes that contribute to current biodiversity patterns. The “vanishing refuge” …

Frogs in the genus Amnirana (family Ranidae) are widely distributed across sub-Saharan
Africa and present a model system for exploring the relationship between diversification and …

Members of the snake subfamily Aparallactinae occur in various habitats throughout sub-
Saharan Africa. The monophyly of aparallactine snakes is well established, but relationships …

Organismal traits interact with environmental variation to mediate how species respond to
shared landscapes. Thus, differences in traits related to dispersal ability or physiological …

Horizontal transfer (HT) of genes between multicellular animals, once thought to be
extremely rare, is being more commonly detected, but its global geographic trend and …

Development projects in west Central Africa are proceeding at an unprecedented rate, often
with little concern for their effects on biodiversity. In an attempt to better understand potential …

We systematically assess the herpetofaunal diversity of the Serra do **ano Forest
Ecosystem (SPFE) and additional localities throughout the northern Angolan province of …

Aim Species with wide distributions spanning the African Guinean and Congolian rain
forests are often composed of genetically distinct populations or cryptic species with …