Hologenomic data generation and analysis in wild vertebrates by Carlotta Pietroni, Nanna Gaun, Aoife Leonard, Jonas Lauritsen, Garazi Martin‐Bideguren, Iñaki Odriozola, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Antton Alberdi, Raphael Eisenhofer

“…We also report that birds and bats both have substantially lower microbial DNA fractions and a higher degree of sample‐to‐sample variability compared to amphibians, reptiles and non‐flying mammals. Based on these data, we provide suggestions to the field for robustly and efficiently generating hologenomic data from wild vertebrates.…”
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Tooth replacement of the filter-feeding pterosaur Forfexopterus and its implications for ecological adaptation by CHANG-FU ZHOU, FENGMIN FAN

“…Reconstruction of Zahnreihen shows an average Z-spacing of 2.02, comparable to that of the simple alternate replacement (Z-spacing = 2) between odd- and even-numbered tooth positions in reptiles. Based on comparisons with Balaenognathus, Ctenochasma, and Pterodaustro, the tooth replacement pattern appears to be varied in ctenochasmatids, and needs to be further studied in the future.…”
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Ecological Risk Assessment for Invasive Wildlife in Florida by Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Kyle Allen, Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…Florida ports are the entry points for about half of the reptiles, arachnids, insects, and crustaceans imported into the United States. …”
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PRMT5 Inhibitor EPZ015666 Decreases the Viability and Encystment of <i>Entamoeba invadens</i> by Rigoberto Ortiz-Hernández, Elmer Joel Millán-Casarrubias, Jeni Bolaños, Susana Munguía-Robledo, Carlos Vázquez-Calzada, Elisa Azuara-Licéaga, Jesús Valdés, Mario Alberto Rodríguez

“…For this reason, <i>Entamoeba invadens</i>, a parasite of reptiles, has been used as a differentiation model system for the genus. …”
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Natural repeated backcrosses lead to triploidy and tetraploidy in parthenogenetic butterfly lizards (Leiolepis: Agamidae) by Eduard Galoyan, Roman Nazarov, Marie Altmanová, Sergey Matveevsky, Ivan Kropachev, Dmitrij Dedukh, Eugene Iryshkov, Mark Pankin, Natalia Sopilko, Oleg Nikolaev, Nikolai Orlov, Marine Arakelyan, Jiří Klíma, Evgeniya Solovyeva, Tao Nguyen, Lukáš Kratochvíl

“…Abstract Obligatory parthenogenesis in vertebrates is restricted to squamate reptiles and evolved through hybridisation. Parthenogens can hybridise with sexual species, resulting in individuals with increased ploidy levels. …”
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Switchable Adhesion of Hydrogels to Plant and Animal Tissues by Leah K. Borden, Morine G. Nader, Faraz A. Burni, Samantha M. Grasso, Irene Orueta‐Ortega, Mahima Srivastava, Paula Montero‐Atienza, Metecan Erdi, Sarah L. Wright, Rajabrata Sarkar, Anthony D. Sandler, Srinivasa R. Raghavan

“…This includes tissues from animals, including humans and other mammals; birds; fish; reptiles (e.g., lizards); amphibians (e.g., frogs), and invertebrates (e.g., shrimp, worms). …”
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Habitat sharing and interspecies interactions in caves used by bats in the Republic of Congo by Morgane Labadie, Serge Morand, Mathieu Bourgarel, Fabien Roch Niama, Guytrich Franel Nguilili, N’Kaya Tobi, Alexandre Caron, Helene De Nys

“…We identified and/or quantified mainly rodents, but also numerous categories of animals such as insects, birds, reptiles and carnivores using the caves. We investigated the temporal variation in the use of caves and the potential interactions between humans, wild animals and bat colonies. …”
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From Scientific Research to Geoconservation and Geopark by Dan Grigorescu

“…The Haţeg region of Transylvania-Romania, known as the “Haţeg Country”, due to its specific character as a region wholly encircled by mountains, has been renowned for over a century for its palaeontological geosites from which dinosaur bones of several species, dinosaur eggs and hatchlings, were unearthed along with numerous other taxa representative of all the major vertebrate groups: fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. The region illustrates the phenomenon of “insular dwarfism”, linked to the lengthy persistence of animals in isolated habitats. …”
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Illustrating Animals and Visualizing Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopaedias by Rose Roberto

“…Both editions contain numerous entries on mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and microorganisms, with numerous illustrations depicting these topics. …”
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Role of Chromosome Changes in Evolution and Diversity by Kornsorn Srikulnath, Watcharaporn Thapana, Narongrit Muangmai

“…These provided an important contribution of chromosomal rearrangements for the evolutionary processes of Crocodylia and Sauropsida (birds and reptiles). The karyotypic features of crocodilians contain small diploid chromosome numbers (30~42), with little interspecific variation of the chromosome arm number (fundamental number) among crocodiles (56~60). …”
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DISTOCIA EN UNA SERPIENTE RATONERA AMARILLA (Coelognathus flavolineatus, SCHLEGEL 1837)-REPORTE DE CASO by D. M. Estrada, K. Mathes, P. P. Martínez

“…La distocia en reptiles es una patología caracterizada por la dificultad de llevar a cabo el proceso de parto u ovoposición, la literatura es escasa en lo que concierne a distocias en serpientes, por tanto, existen vacíos frente a este tema. …”
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Ecological Risk Assessment for Invasive Wildlife in Florida by Venetia Briggs-Gonzalez, Kyle Allen, Rebecca G. Harvey, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…Florida ports are the entry points for about half of the reptiles, arachnids, insects, and crustaceans imported into the United States. …”
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A One Health Perspective on Multidrug Resistance Amongst Iberian Exotic Pet Owners by Fábio Cardoso-Freitas, Stéphanie M. Mota, Vanessa Silva, Albert Martinez-Silvestre, Ângela Martins, Patrícia Poeta

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Exertional Myopathy in a Juvenile Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Entangled in a Large Mesh Gillnet by Brianne E. Phillips, Sarah A. Cannizzo, Matthew H. Godfrey, Brian A. Stacy, Craig A. Harms

“…Exertional myopathy in reptiles has not been well characterized. Sea turtle mortality resulting from forced submergence has been attributed to blood gas derangements and seawater aspiration; however, exertional myopathy may also be an important contributing factor. …”
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The significance of the cestode Joyeuxiella pasqualei (cyclophyllidea: dipylidiidae) for clinical practice and the welfare of cats by Ilić Tamara, Pavlović Jelena, Jovanović Nemanja M., Stepanović Predrag, Nenadović Katarina

“…Cats become infected by ingesting primary hosts (coprophagic insects) and secondary intermediate hosts (reptiles and small mammals), which harbor the infective larval forms of the parasite (cysticercoids). …”
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Digit ratio in the common spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus (Anura: Mesobatrachia: Pelobatidae): patterns and correlations by M. Frątczak, M. Kaczmarski, Ł. Jankowiak, J. Klessa, K. Bielicki, B. Lyskov, P. Tryjanowski

“…While DR patterns often display a sex bias, they vary among taxa: in most mammals and tailed amphibians, females exhibit higher 2D:4D ratio than males, whereas in birds and reptiles, the trend is reversed. However, data on DR in Anuran amphibians remains limited, particularly within the Mesobatrachia, a relatively primitive group. …”
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Elimination of Large Bladder Stone-Obstructing Pelvic Canal in African Spurred Tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata) with Per-Cloacal Bladder Stone Removal Method without Utilizing an En... by Nofan Rickyawan, drh., M.Sc., Vivi Oktavia, Dodik Prasetyo

“…Bladder stone formation in reptiles arises from the accumulation and subsequent solidification of uric acid in the urinary bladder. …”
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Prispevek k recentni razširjenosti, ekologiji in varstvu močvirske sklednice Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus, 1758) v Beli krajini (JV Slovenija) by Melita Vamberger, Marijan Govedič, Gregor Lipovšek

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What ‘unexplored’ means: mapping regions with digitized natural history records to look for ‘biodiversity blindspots’ by Laymon Ball, Sheila Rodríguez-Machado, Diego Paredes-Burneo, Samantha Rutledge, David A. Boyd, David Vander Pluym, Spenser Babb-Biernacki, Austin S. Chipps, Rafet Ç. Öztürk, Yahya Terzi, Prosanta Chakrabarty

“…We examined global records of accessible natural history voucher collections (with publicly available data and reliable locality data) for terrestrial and freshwater vascular plants, fungi, freshwater fishes, birds, mammals, and herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles) and highlight areas of the world that would be considered undersampled and sometimes called ‘unexplored’ (i.e., have relatively low, or no evidence of, past sampling efforts) under typical Western-scientific descriptions. …”
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Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset by Irene Goyenechea Mayer‐Goyenechea, Gustavo Montiel‐Canales, Juan Márquez, Claudia T. Hornung‐Leoni, Jesús M. Castillo‐Cerón, Norma L. Manríquez‐Morán

“…This study aims to analyze the distribution of plants, beetles, odonates, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals using an endemicity analysis to identify endemism areas and confirm the SMO's biogeographical units. …”
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