Publications

three novel herpesviruses associated with stomatitis in sudan plated lizards (gerrhosaurus major) and a black-lined plated lizard (gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus).	glossal stomatitis was observed in a sudan plated lizard (gerrhosaurus major) with severe dyspnea. on necropsy, intranuclear inclusion bodies were seen in the periglottal lingual epithelium. labial stomatitis was seen in a second sudan plated lizard and a black-lined plated lizard (g. nigrolineatus). degenerate polymerase chain reaction (pcr) primers targeting a conserved region of herpesvirus dna-dependent dna polymerase gene were used to amplify products from lesions from each lizard. nucleoti ...	2004	15193073
a molecular phylogeny of the african plated lizards, genus gerrhosaurus wiegmann, 1828 (squamata: gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera.	we constructed a molecular phylogeny of the african plated lizard family gerrhosauridae using two mitochondrial markers (nd2, 732 bp; 16s, 576 bp) and one nuclear marker (prlr, 538 bp). this analysis showed that the subfamily gerrhosaurinae consists of five major clades which we interpret as representing five genera. the genera tetradactylus and cordylosaurus were each recovered as monophyletic, but gerrhosaurus as currently conceived is paraphyletic, consisting of three distinct genus-level ass ...	2013	25113712