Publications

reconstructing an island radiation using ancient and recent dna: the extinct and living day geckos (phelsuma) of the mascarene islands.	mitochondrial (12srrna and cyt b, 1086 bp) and nuclear (c-mos, 374 bp) dna sequences were used to investigate relationships and biogeography of 24 living and extinct taxa of phelsuma geckos. monophyly of phelsuma and sister relationship to the sw african rhoptropella is corroborated. phelsuma originated on madagascar and made multiple long-distance invasions of oceanic islands including the mascarenes, aldabra, comores, seychelles, andamans, and perhaps pemba. the mascarenes were probably coloni ...	2004	15019612
gold dust day gecko (phelsuma laticauda).		2007	17590075
two new species of coccidia (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from leaf-tailed geckos, uroplatus spp. (sauria: gekkonidae) from madagascar, including a new host of eimeria brygooi upton & barnard, 1987.	during may and june 2015, four common leaf-tailed geckos, uroplatus fimbriatus (schneider), five satanic leaf-tailed geckos, uroplatus phantasticus (boulenger), and four mossy leaf-tailed geckos, uroplatus sikorae boettger originally collected from madagascar and housed at the dallas zoo, usa, had their faeces examined for coccidian parasites. eight (62%) geckos were found to be passing oöcysts, including a new eimerian, a new isosporan and a previously described eimerian. three of four (75%) u. ...	2016	27638735
the mitochondrial genome of the gold-dust day gecko, phelsuma laticauda (sauria, gekkota, gekkonidae).	we sequenced the nearly complete mitochondrial genome of the gold-dust day gecko, phelsuma laticauda, which is native to northern madagascar. the mitogenome is 15,416 bp in size, consisting of 37 genes coding for 13 proteins, 22 trnas, and 2 rrnas. due to the unsuccessful sequencing of the control region, the length is relatively shorter than that of other gekkonids. the gene organization conforms to the vertebrate consesus gene arrangement.	2016	24438276