| 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 |
| glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase is an enzyme-crystallin in diurnal geckos of the genus phelsuma. | lenses from diurnal geckos, phelsuma barbouri, phelsuma madagascariensis grandis and phelsuma serraticauda contain a prominent 37 kda polypeptide (pi-crystallin) that is not present in lenses from the nocturnal geckos, gekko gekko, hemidactylus garnoti, tarentola annularis, and uroplatus henkeli. this protein was partially purified from p. serraticauda and was identified as glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gapd). the gapds, which constitute 14-24% of the lens soluble protein in the diur ... | 1995 | 7733971 |