The locomotion of extinct secondarily aquatic tetrapods

S Gutarra, IA Rahman - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The colonisation of freshwater and marine ecosystems by land vertebrates has repeatedly
occurred in amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals over the course of 300 million years …

Origins of Galápagos' land-locked vertebrates: what, whence, when, how?

JR Ali, U Fritz - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Based on a synthesis of new molecular phylogenetic data, a detailed review is presented for
the origins of the Galápagos' native land-locked vertebrates [42 species; 11 clades: geckos …

Single origin of the Mascarene stick insects: ancient radiation on sunken islands?

S Bradler, N Cliquennois, TR Buckley - BMC evolutionary biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The study of islands as model systems plays a key role in understanding many
evolutionary processes. Knowledge of the historical events leading to present-day island …

What Darwin could not see: island formation and historical sea levels shape genetic divergence and island biogeography in a coastal marine species

M Hirschfeld, A Barnett, M Sheaves, C Dudgeon - Heredity, 2023 - nature.com
Oceanic islands play a central role in the study of evolution and island biogeography. The
Galapagos Islands are one of the most studied oceanic archipelagos but research has …

The design of an energy harvesting wireless sensor node for tracking pink iguanas

P Loreti, A Catini, M De Luca, L Bracciale, G Gentile… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The design of wireless sensor nodes for animal tracking is a multidisciplinary activity that
presents several research challenges both from a technical and a biological point of view. A …

Ancestral hybridization yields evolutionary distinct hybrids lineages and species boundaries in crocodiles, posing unique conservation conundrums

G Pacheco-Sierra, E Vázquez-Domínguez… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Interspecific hybridization can lead to adaptation and speciation, especially in the context of
recent radiations. The emblematic Crocodylus (true crocodiles) is the most broadly …

Speciation and secondary contact in a fossorial island endemic, the São Tomé caecilian

KA O'connell, I Prates, LA Scheinberg… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A period of isolation in allopatry typically precedes local adaptation and subsequent
divergence among lineages. Alternatively, locally adapted phenotypes may arise and persist …

Colonization history of Galapagos giant tortoises: Insights from mitogenomes support the progression rule

N Poulakakis, JM Miller, EL Jensen… - Journal of Zoological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Galapagos giant tortoises (Chelonoidis spp.) are a group of large, long‐lived reptiles that
includes 14 species, 11 of which are extant and threatened by human activities and …

Island floras as model systems for studies of plant speciation: Prospects and challenges

DJ Crawford, JK Archibald - Journal of Systematics and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic islands have long been called natural laboratories for studying evolution because
they are geologically young, isolated, dynamic areas with diverse habitats over small spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Novel herpesvirus in the critically endangered Galapagos pink land iguana

A Nieto-Claudín, C Sacristán, SL Deem, GA Lewbart… - Acta Tropica, 2024 - Elsevier
Virus surveillance in wildlife is important to understanding ecosystem health, taxonomy, and
evolution. Nevertheless, viruses in reptiles, and specifically in squamates, continue to be …