| [the genus leishmania in italy]. | seventy-four leishmania isolates collected in italy from six different regions where leishmaniases are endemic, have been typed. parasites have been isolated from: man (vl and cl), dog, black rat (rattus rattus), fox (vulpes vulpes) and geckoes (tarentola mauritanica and cyrtodactylus kotschyi). the isolates have been characterized by starch-gel electrophoresis for 9-16 enzymes whose mobility was compared with that of international reference strains for l. infantum, l. tropica, l. major, l. dono ... | 1985 | 3870639 |
| multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in kotschy's gecko, mediodactylus kotschyi: hidden diversity and cryptic species. | kotschy's gecko, mediodactylus kotschyi, is a small gecko native to southeastern europe and the levant. it displays great morphological variation with a large number of morphologically recognized subspecies. however, it has been suggested that it constitutes a species complex of several yet unrecognized species. in this study, we used multilocus sequence data (three mitochondrial and three nuclear gene fragments) to estimate the phylogenetic relationships of 174 specimens from 129 sampling local ... | 2018 | 29555295 |
| the phylogeography of the gecko cyrtopodion kotschyi (reptilia: gekkonidae) in the aegean archipelago. | cyrtopodion kotschyi is a small gecko, widely distributed on the islands of the aegean archipelago and the adjacent mainland. we unveiled the phylogeography of the species by using a portion of the cytochrome oxidase i mitochondrial dna gene from 35 insular and mainland populations. the distinct geographic distribution of the major clades of the phylogenetic tree and its topology suggest a spatial and temporal sequence of phylogenetic separations that coincide with some major paleogeographical s ... | 2005 | 15878130 |
| hemoflagellates in cyrtodactylus kotschyi (steindachner, 1870) (reptilia, gekkonidae) in italy. | | 1983 | 6142639 |
| to move or not to move: cranial joints in european gekkotans and lacertids, an osteological and histological perspective. | lepidosaurs are frequently described as having highly kinetic skulls, and different forms of cranial kinesis have been described as being characteristic of their radiation. the model of amphikinesis proposed by frazzetta, j morphol 1962; 111:287-319, which was long considered a synapomorphy of the large suborder sauria, is now much debated given its uncertain distribution among the various lizard taxa and the lack of data about its morphological correlates. in this article, we analyze the anatom ... | 2014 | 24550139 |
| intraspecific competition, not predation, drives lizard tail loss on islands. | tail autotomy is mainly considered an antipredator mechanism. theory suggests that predation pressure relaxes on islands, subsequently reducing autotomy rates. intraspecific aggression, which may also cause tail loss, probably intensifies on islands due to the higher abundance. we studied whether tail autotomy is mostly affected by predation pressure or by intraspecific competition. we further studied whether predator abundance or predator richness is more important in this context. to test our ... | 2017 | 27624973 |