Our work also highlights areas for further taxonomic research: range-wide phylogenomic data are required to disentangle the L. boscai – L. maltzani species complex and the northern and southern lineages of L. v. vulgaris. Leer más.
We herein document the activity of juvenile and adult Montpellier Snakes in an urban area in Vigo, Pontevedra, northwestern Spain (42.2079, -8.7317) during autumn and winter. Habitat in the area is a combination of stone walls, small cultivated fields, and an industrial area. This area has been regularly monitored as part of a study on urban reptiles and introduced species. Leer más.
Using an environmental DNA approach, we confirmed the presence of C. asper in eight out of 13 sites deemed climatically suitable for the species, although it had never been observed there before. Then, we sampled brown trout (Salmo trutta) living in sympatry with C. asper and, through fish faeces analyses, confirmed that brown trout are predators of C. asper. Leer más.
This study proposes a novel experimental methodology, capitalising on thermography, to provide an alternative method to less invasively obtain reliable body temperatures of thermoregulating ectotherms, while allowing behaviour and heating mode to be considered when quantifying thermal exchange rates. Leer más.
Selection on specific promoter regions indicated adaptive evolution in transcription factor binding sites with the potential to enhance transcriptional flexibility, resulting in increased cellular stress tolerance. Leer más.
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