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Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches
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Global extinction projections were validated with local extinctions observed from 1975 to 2009 for regional biotas on four other continents, suggesting that lizards have already crossed a threshold for extinctions caused by climate change.
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Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata)
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DNA sequence analyses of 91 individuals representing 34 recognized species of leptotyphlopids show divergences among living lineages as early as the mid-Cretaceous, and evidence that the breakup of West Gondwana into South America and Africa and the separation of West Africa from South and East Africa by high sea levels in the Cretaceous influenced the biogeographic history of the family through isolation.
Atlas and red list of the reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Between a rock and a hard polytomy: rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae).
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Natural colonization or introduction? Phylogeographical relationships and morphological differentiation of house geckos (Hemidactylus) from Madagascar
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Morphological data strongly confirm the occurrence of three Hemidactylus species on Madagascar and demonstrate the presence of a fourth species, H. brooki, on the Mascarenes and Comoros archipelagos and indicates that populations of H.mercatorius in Madagascar have a long history that predates human settlement.
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Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana
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It is found that the earliest blindsnake lineages, representing two new families described here, were distributed on the palaeolandmass of India+Madagascar named here as Indigascar, and their later evolution out of IndIGascar involved vicariance and several oceanic dispersal events, including a westward transatlantic one, unexpected for burrowing animals.
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Dissecting the major African snake radiation: a molecular phylogeny of the Lamprophiidae Fitzinger (Serpentes, Caenophidia)
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Molecular data do not support the traditional placement of Micrelaps within the Atractaspidinae, but its phylogenetic position requires additional molecular data and they are both treated as Elapoidea incertae sedis.
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Phylogenetics of the southern African dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae).
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Ancient forest fragmentation or recent radiation? Testing refugial speciation models in chameleons within an African biodiversity hotspot
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These alternative hypotheses using data for a diverse genus of East African forest chameleons, Kinyongia, showed that accumulation of new species due to radiation within refugial habitats or retention of older palaeoendemic species in stable refugia is possible.
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Life underground: food habits and reproductive biology of two amphisbaenian species from southern Africa
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The substantial differences in trophic biology between these two taxa and other sympatric fossorial reptiles, suggest that adaptations to fossoriality do not constrain ecological diversity within burrowing squamates.
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