The green lizards of the genus Lacerta (Sauria, Lacertidae) comprise nine recognized species, which in Europe are mainly restricted to the southern peninsulas. Four of them (L. trilineata, L. viridis, L. bilineata and L. agilis) occur in Greece. The uncertainty of morphological diversification renders the taxonomic assignment into species and subspecies problematic. In this study sequence data ...

Yapılan çalışmada, Türkiye’nin Konya iline bağlı Akşehir ve civarından toplanmış olan Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi ZDEU-ÇOMÜ Koleksiyonu’nda bulunan örnekler kullanılmıştır. Lacertidae familyasına ait üç türden toplamda 30 birey (Lacerta trilineata 5♂♂, 5 juvenil; Ophisops elegans 5♀♀; Parvilacerta parva 5♀♀) değerlendirilmiştir. Örneklerden alınan falanj, femur humerus kemiklerinde iske...

The lacertid lizard Lacerta vivipara is one of the few squamate species with two reproductive modes. We present the intraspecific phylogeny obtained from neighbor-joining and maximum-parsimony analyses of the mtDNA cytochrome b sequences for 15 individuals from Slovenian oviparous populations, 34 individuals from western oviparous populations of southern France and northern Spain, 92 specimens ...

An analysis was made of the influence biotope temperature regime on body Lacerta agilis in local populations floodplain middle reaches Khoper river (Saratov region). The rectal active L. out-side their shelters shown to be 18.3–35.1°С and 18.2–34.8°С for males females, respectively. females spring period does not differ significantly. optimal agilis, which activity individuals is observed at, s...

The population consequences of sexual conflict are relatively unexplored. In a recent paper, Le Galliard et al. now show that males of the common lizard Lacerta vivipara cause such damage to females that male-biased populations decrease in size, posing a real risk to the persistence of local lizard populations. Their study reveals surprising parallels between sexual conflict and the tragedy of ...