Comprehending how changing environmental conditions are affecting species and ecosystems is essential for well-informed conservation planning. Especially since changes at minor spatial scales could be happening rapidly, substantial fieldwork efforts are necessary to detect novel behaviours and their consequences. Leer más.
Los primeros resultados sugieren patrones característicos de surfing genético, un proceso que afecta la expansión de especies de baja dispersión afectadas por deriva genética. Leer más.
We found that colour change is rapid, reversible, and primarily achieved through changes in the quantity of eumelanin in the skin. Leer más.
Postmortem analyzes were negative for chytrids and ranaviruses. Additionally, the animal had parasitic cysts due to trematodes in the liver provably non related with the edema. The edema syndrome is multifactorial, and metabolic origin is suspected in this case. Leer más.
Climatic adaptation played a significant role in driving diversification among European vipers. Cold-adapted and warm-adapted lineages presented similar climatic requirements and remarkable responses to Pleistocene stages, resulting in an intricate pattern of niche divergence along the phylogeny that favours local adaptation rather than PNC. Leer más
