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The genomes of birds and nonavian reptiles (Reptilia) are critical for understanding genome evolution in mammals and amniotes generally. Despite decades of study at the chromosomal and single-gene levels, and the evidence for great diversity in genome size, karyotype, and sex chromosome diversity, reptile genomes are virtually unknown in the comparative genomics era. The recent sequencing of th...

Characterization of reptilian genomes is essential for understanding the overall diversity and evolution of amniote genomes, because reptiles, which include birds, constitute a major fraction of the amniote evolutionary tree. To better understand the evolution and diversity of genomic characteristics in Reptilia, we conducted comparative analyses of online sequence data from Alligator mississip...

In the present study, the morphological and morphometric characterization of two species of digenetic trematodes infecting the large intestines of the common chameleon Chamaeleo chamaeleon (Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae) were described by means of light microscopy as a first description. 30 and 37 out of 115 (26.1 % and 32.1%) of this lizard species were found to be naturally infected with Postorchi...

Six classes of vertebrate animals were injected with massive doses of estrogen for various periods of time necessary to produce a grossly recognizable response. Swelling of the liver, associated with hypercalcemia, hyperproteinemia, and lipemia, occurred in Teleostei, Amphibia, Reptilia, and Aves, but not in Elasmobranchii or Mammalia. Calcium that was added to the serum was bound as a calcium ...

The Third World Congress of Herpetology was held at Prague, Czech Republic, from 2 to 10 August 1997. Two DoC staff attended: Don Newman and Mandy Tocher. Congress organisers invited papers on all aspects of herpetology (that is the study of amphibians and reptiles), and no criteria (topics) were pre-set. The final scientific programme therefore reflected current interests amongst herpetologist...

Naming taxa is an important endeavor in the documentation of life by systematists, whether it is conducted in the context of traditional rank-based classification or within a phylogenetic framework. Proponents of the phylogenetic approach distinguish between the diagnosis of a group and its definition (Ghiselin, 1984; Rowe, 1987, 1988), and this distinction forms the basis for a phylogeneticall...