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| Open AccessChemical disinfection as a simple and reliable method to control the amphibian chytrid fungus at breeding points of endangered amphibians
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| Open AccessApparent coordinated and communal hunting behaviours by Erabu sea krait Laticauda semifactiata
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| Open AccessEffects of environmental factors and intraspecific niche overlap on the body and ecological characteristics of red-tongued pit vipers (Gloydius ussuriensis)
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| Open AccessSocial opportunities and mate preference improve breeding success in Caribbean iguanas
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| Open AccessFine-scale spatial genetic structure and dispersal among Italian smooth newt populations in a rural landscape
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| Open AccessPopulation genomics reveals how 5 ka of human occupancy led the Lima leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus sentosus) to the brink of extinction
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| Open AccessForty years of monitoring increasing sea turtle relative abundance in the Gulf of Mexico
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| Open AccessRobertsonian fusion triggers recombination suppression on sex chromosomes in Coleonyx geckos
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| Open AccessClimate-mediated population dynamics for the world’s most endangered sea turtle species
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| Open AccessRediscovery of the lost skink Proscelotes aenea and implications for conservation
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| Open AccessTop-down and bottom-up effects and relationships with local environmental factors in the water frog–helminth systems in Latvia
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| Open AccessSpatial ecology to strengthen invasive snake management on islands
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| Open AccessUnexpected morphological variability in the eggshells of the South American caimans Caiman latirostris and Caiman yacare
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| Open AccessA new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant
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| Open AccessTesting the morphological constraint hypothesis of tail length in the sexually dimorphic Cerastes vipera and new perspectives
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| Open AccessTesting multiple hypotheses on the colour change of treefrogs in response to various external conditions
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| Open AccessBiofluorescent sexual dimorphism revealed in a southern Appalachian endemic salamander, Plethodon metcalfi
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| Open AccessChanges in clinicomorphometrical findings, lipid profiles, hepatorenal indices and oxidant/antioxidant status as thermoregulatory adaptive mechanisms in poikilothermic Dabb lizard (Uromastyx aegyptia)
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| Open AccessMolecular phylogeny reveals distinct evolutionary lineages of the banded krait, Bungarus fasciatus (Squamata, Elapidae) in Asia
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| Open AccessDisease state associated with chronic toe lesions in hellbenders may alter anti-chytrid skin defenses
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| Open AccessElevated alpha diversity in disturbed sites obscures regional decline and homogenization of amphibian taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity
- D. Matthias Dehling
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| Open AccessAn ancestral hard-shelled sea turtle with a mosaic of soft skin and scutes
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| Open AccessWild microbiomes of striped plateau lizards vary with reproductive season, sex, and body size
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| Open AccessCoupling phenotypic changes to extinction and survival in an endemic prey community threatened by an invasive snake
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| Open AccessCondition- and context-dependent variation of sexual dimorphism across lizard populations at different spatial scales
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| Open AccessConvergence, divergence, and macroevolutionary constraint as revealed by anatomical network analysis of the squamate skull, with an emphasis on snakes
- Catherine R. C. Strong
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| Open AccessEvolutionary diversification of epidermal barrier genes in amphibians
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| Open AccessGut microbiota plasticity in insular lizards under reversed island syndrome
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| Open AccessComparative host–pathogen associations of Snake Fungal Disease in sympatric species of water snakes (Nerodia)
- Stephen F. Harding
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| Open AccessAn investigation of gecko attachment on wet and rough substrates leads to the application of surface roughness power spectral density analysis
- Amanda M. Palecek
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| Open AccessIncreasing salinity stress decreases the thermal tolerance of amphibian tadpoles in coastal areas of Taiwan
- Ming-Feng Chuang
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| Open AccessArtificial shelters provide suitable thermal habitat for a cold-blooded animal
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| Open AccessRevealing microhabitat requirements of an endangered specialist lizard with LiDAR
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| Open AccessA near-natural experiment on factors influencing larval drift in Salamandra salamandra
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| Open AccessOntogenetic variation in the skull of Stenopterygius quadriscissus with an emphasis on prenatal development
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| Open AccessA new Early Cretaceous lizard in Myanmar amber with exceptionally preserved integument
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| Open AccessThe metabolic cost of turning right side up in the Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca)
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| Open AccessAltered fire regimes modify lizard communities in globally endangered Araucaria forests of the southern Andes
- José Infante
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| Open AccessAssessment of exposure to ionizing radiation in Chernobyl tree frogs (Hyla orientalis)
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| Open AccessA comparative study on image-based snake identification using machine learning
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| Open Access“Ancient DNA” reveals that the scientific name for an extinct tortoise from Cape Verde refers to an extant South American species
- Christian Kehlmaier
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| Open AccessExperimental infection of Asian house geckos with Enterococcus lacertideformus demonstrates multiple disease transmission routes and the in-vivo efficacy of antibiotics
- Jessica E. Agius
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| Open AccessSensory gene identification in the transcriptome of the ectoparasitoid Quadrastichus mendeli
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| Open AccessLandscape resistance constrains hybridization across contact zones in a reproductively and morphologically polymorphic salamander
- Guillermo Velo-Antón
- , André Lourenço
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| Open AccessCongolius, a new genus of African reed frog endemic to the central Congo: A potential case of convergent evolution
- Tadeáš Nečas
- , Gabriel Badjedjea
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| Open AccessPlastic ingestion by freshwater turtles: a review and call to action
- Adam G. Clause
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