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Are all islands the same? A comparative thermoregulatory approach in four insular populations
Karameta, Emmanouela; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Pafilis, Panayiotis (Brill, 2022-12-21)As ectotherms, lizards, among the best models in thermal studies, are influenced by many abiotic factors. Interestingly, there is a scarcity of data regarding the impact that insularity may have on thermoregulation. Islands, ...
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The story of a rock-star: multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation in the starred or roughtail rock agama, Laudakia stellio (Reptilia: Agamidae)
Karameta, Emmanouela; Lymberakis, Petros; Grillitsch, Heinz; Ilgaz, Çetin; Avci, Aziz; Kumlutaş, Yusuf; Candan, Kamil; Wagner, Philipp; Sfenthourakis, Spyros; Pafilis, Panayiotis; Poulakakis, Nikos (Oxford Academic, 2022-01-31)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 human presence on animal evolution. Laudakia ...
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Substrate type has a limited impact on the sprint performance of a Mediterranean lizard
Savvides, Pantelis; Georgiou, Eleni; Pafilis, Panayiotis; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (Firenze University Press, 2019-12-27)Environmental factors may affect animal performance in diverse ways, even among different populations of a single species. Here, we assess the impact of substrate type on the sprint performance (maximum speed and acceleration) ...