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A new microendemic frog species of the genus Blommersia (Anura: Mantellidae) from the east coast of Madagascar
No full textPabijan, Maciej, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Köhler, Jörn, Glaw, Frank, Vences, Miguel (2011): A new microendemic frog species of the genus Blommersia (Anura: Mantellidae) from the east coast of Madagascar. Zootaxa 2978: 34-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20773
FIGURE 1 in Deciphering the cryptic species diversity of dull-coloured day geckos Phelsuma (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Madagascar, with description of a new species
No full textFIGURE 1. (A) Anja Reserve and surrounding anthropogenically modified areas; (B–C) views of the fragmented forest in Anja Reserve. A and B, photos by AC; C photo by Thomas Althaus.Published as part of Crottini, Angelica, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Glaw, Frank, Harris, James, Lima, Alexandra & Vences, Miguel, 2011, Deciphering the cryptic species diversity of dull-coloured day geckos Phelsuma (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Madagascar, with description of a new species, pp. 40-48 in Zootaxa 2982 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20812
FIGURE 4 in Phylogenetic systematics of day geckos, genus Phelsuma, based on molecular and morphological data (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
No full textFIGURE 4. Molecular phylogeny of the Phelsuma cepediana group as calculated from the multi-gene dataset of Rocha et al. (2009). Shown are the respective clades from the Bayesian 50% majority-rule consensus trees based on (a) the combined dataset of mitochondrial and nuclear genes, (b) the mitochondrial genes only, and (c) the nuclear genes only. See caption to Fig. 2 for further explanations.Published as part of Rocha, Sara, Rösler, Herbert, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Glaw, Frank, Posada, David, Harris, James & Vences, Miguel, 2010, Phylogenetic systematics of day geckos, genus Phelsuma, based on molecular and morphological data (Squamata: Gekkonidae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2429 on page 14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19469
FIGURE 1 in New species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Ankarafantsika National Park in north-western Madagascar
No full textFIGURE 1. Results of a phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial ND4 gene (to the left), and haplotype network of the nuclear Rag-1 gene (to the right; haplotypes numbered H1-H4), with a map showing approximate collection localities of Blaesodactylus samples in Madagascar. In the tree, values above branches are Bayesian posterior probabilities followed by MP bootstrap proportions. A sample of Geckolepis sp. was used as outgroup (not shown). Samples are given with their field numbers (see Material and Methods for abbreviations). In the haplotype network, the size of circles is proportional to the number of individuals (all were homozygotes) bearing a certain haplotype (H2, H4: 2 individuals; H1: 9 individuals; H3: 16 individuals).Published as part of Bauer, Aaron M., Glaw, Frank, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian & Vences, Miguel, 2011, New species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Ankarafantsika National Park in north-western Madagascar, pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 2942 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20527
FIGURE 1 in Molecular phylogeography of a widespread Malagasy leaf chameleon species, Brookesia superciliaris
No full textFIGURE 1. Phylogenetic relationships of Brookesia superciliaris inferred from the Bayesian and maximum Likelihood analyses of 12S rRNA gene sequence data. Numbers above the branches represent posterior probability values. Numbers below the branches represent maximum likelihood bootstrap values. Sequences of Brookesia therezieni were used as outgroup. Inset picture shows a specimen of B. superciliaris. Map shows sampling localities.Published as part of Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Ranaivoarisoa, Freddy J., Rafeliarisoa, Tsilavo H., Crottini, Angelica, Louis Jr, Edward E. & Vences, Miguel, 2010, Molecular phylogeography of a widespread Malagasy leaf chameleon species, Brookesia superciliaris, pp. 62-64 in Zootaxa 2554 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2554.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/530366
FIGURE 4 in A new microendemic frog species of the genus Blommersia (Anura: Mantellidae) from the east coast of Madagascar
No full textFIGURE 4. Scatterplot of relative femoral gland length (FGL/SVL ratio) and relative distance between inner edges of femoral glands (FGD/SVL) in the three endemic Blommersia species of Madagascar's northern central east coast, and B. wittei. Based on measurements provided in Table 1 (B. variabilis sp. nov. and some B. wittei) and Vences et al. (2010) for B. dejongi and B. galani, as well as type specimens of B. wittei (only male specimens with complete measurement data were used). Arrow points to a putative hybrid between a female B. galani and male B. dejongi (specimen ZSM 452/2006).Published as part of Pabijan, Maciej, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Köhler, Jörn, Glaw, Frank & Vences, Miguel, 2011, A new microendemic frog species of the genus Blommersia (Anura: Mantellidae) from the east coast of Madagascar, pp. 34-50 in Zootaxa 2978 on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20773
FIGURE 1 in Two new species of leaf-tailed geckos (Uroplatus) from the Tsaratanana mountain massif in northern Madagascar
No full textFIGURE 1. Bayesian inference phylogenetic tree of the Uroplatus ebenaui group based on a 2313 bp alignment of four concatenated mitochondrial gene fragments (ND4, 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, COX1) (mtDNA). Only posterior probability values of 0.95 or greater are displayed at nodes. An outgroup (U. alluaudi) was used for rooting but omitted from the tree for graphical reasons. Note that the phylogenetic position of Uroplatus ebenaui [Ca8] from Ambohitantely is tentative, because only sequences of a single gene fragment were available from this sample. To the right of the tree is a haplotype network independently calculated from sequences of the nuclear gene CMOS showing concordant differentiation (absence of haplotype sharing) among the target species described herein and all nominal species of the U. ebenaui group.Published as part of Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Scherz, Mark D., Vieites, David R., Glaw, Frank & Vences, Miguel, 2017, Zootaxa 4347 (3), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/104875
FIGURE 3. Majority-rule consensus tree from a in Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascar's rainforest
No full textFIGURE 3. Majority-rule consensus tree from a partitioned maximum likelihood analysis of a multigene dataset of 10,141 bp of fragments of five mitochondrial and eight nuclear markers for all species and candidate species in the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group. Lineages are colored to match the 16S tree and haplotype networks (Figs. 1‒2). A1 to A5 are ad-hoc defined major subclades as discussed in the text. Outer circles of different color mark categories of bootstrap branch support as indicated, inner circles of different color mark categories of Posterior Probability support from a separate partitioned Bayesian analysis.Published as part of Vences, Miguel, Multzsch, Malte, Gippner, Sven, Miralles, Aurélien, Crottini, Angelica, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Glaw, Frank & Scherz, Mark D., 2022, Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascar's rainforest, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 5179 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5179.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/704074
Episode 35: Alexis Castellanos, Author of “Isla to Island”, and Her Panel Presentation during the Operación Pedro Pan Two-Day Event
No full textIn Part 1 of “Operación Pedro Pan: The Voices and Stories of Cuba’s Child Exodus—A Knights HistoryCast Mini-Series,” the Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Alexis Castellanos, an author, illustrator, graphic novelist, and a panelist at the esteemed, conspicuous, and powerful “Operación Pedro Pan: Honoring the Cultural, Historical Legacy of Cuba’s Child Exodus” Two-Day Program that Florida Humanities, UCF’s Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures sponsored (see https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/ for more details on sponsors and the program in general).
Sebastian structured this specific episode on Alexis Castellanos’ Isla to Island, a wordless graphic novel grounded by her personal family history and the history of Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan). By analyzing such a historic event through the medium of fiction, Sebastian argued that this is one of the most unique Knights HistoryCast episodes of all time. Naturally, their conversation expanded to what she talked about during her panel presentation in Panel One, Day 1 of the event that featured “internationally renowned scholars that discussed the political, historical, and cultural legacy of Operación Pedro Pan (1960-1962).” (https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/)
To purchase Isla to Island (strongly recommend), check out: https://islatoisland.com/.
To find out more about Alexis and her professional work, check out her website at https://alexiscastellanos.com/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1034/thumbnail.jp
Phelsuma klemmeri
No full textPhelsuma klemmeri group (contains P. klemmeri) Affinities of this species to the P. lineata and P. laticauda groups are apparent and well-supported from our analysis (Fig. 7), but mitochondrial as well as nuclear markers place P. klemmeri at a basal position within the clade containing these two species groups. Because its colouration is very characteristic and strongly differs from all other Phelsuma, the isolated position of this species is best reflected by placing it in a separate species group. Phenotypically, several characters of P. klemmeri are in agreement with its affinities: non-gluing behaviour and absence of nostril-rostral contact are shared with the P. lineata and P. laticauda groups, and presence of smooth ventral and subcaudal scales, number of nasalia (3) as well as of size-reduced vertebral scales are similar to the P. laticauda group (Tables 1–2).Published as part of Rocha, Sara, Rösler, Herbert, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Glaw, Frank, Posada, David, Harris, James & Vences, Miguel, 2010, Phylogenetic systematics of day geckos, genus Phelsuma, based on molecular and morphological data (Squamata: Gekkonidae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 2429 on page 23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19469
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