Darevskia portschinskii   (KESSLER, 1878)

Darevskia portschinskii   (KESSLER, 1878)


          
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  • Arakelyan, M.S. (2012) -  Sympatric speciation processes in populations of bisexual rock lizards of the genus Darevskia. -  Biological Journal of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 64 (3): 10-15.  

    Аракелян, М.C. (2012) -  Процессы видообразования в симпатрических популяциях двуполых видов скальных яшериц рода Darevskia.  -  Биологический журнал Армении, 64 (3): 10-15.    

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  • Arakelyan, M.S. & Danielyan, F.D. (2014) -  New evidence on hybrid zones of bisexual species of rock lizards of genus Darevskia Arribas, 1997.  -  Proceedings of the International conference „Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna of the Caucasus – 2“, Yerevan, Armenia, September 23-26..Publishing house LLC „Spika“, Yerevan, pp. 32-34. (in Russian)   

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  • Barateli, N. & Tarknishvili, D. & Iankoshvili, G. & Kokiashvili, L. (2022) -  Reproductive effort of unisexual and bisexual rock lizards (genus Darevskia). -  Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology, 301: 196-204.    

  • Barateli, N. & Tarknishvilii, D. & Iankoshvili, G. & Kokiashvili, L. & Dvali, N. & Janiashvili, Z. (2021) -  Fine-scale analysis of habitat occupancy by Kura lizard (Darevskia portschinskii) and its daughter parthenogenetic form (Darevskia dahli). -  Herpetozoa 34: 71-81.     

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  • Bunyatova, S.N. & Dzhafarova, S.K. (2019) -  Study of the distribution and number of the genus Darevskia Arribas lizards, 1997 (Reptilia, Sauria, Lacertidae) in Azerbaijan. -  Proceedings of the VII congress of the Nikolsky Herpetological Society in ”University proceedings. Volga region. Natural sciences”: 12-19.  

    Бунятова, С.Н. & Джафарова, С.К. (2019) -  К изучению распространения и численности ящериц рода Darevskia Arribas, 1997 (Reptilia, Sauria, lacertidae) в Азербайджане -  Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: 12-19.    

  • Ciobanu, D.G. & Grechko, V.V. & Darevsky, I.S. (2003) -  Molecular Evolution of Satellite DNA CLsat in Lizards from the Genus Darevskia (Sauria: Lacertidae): Correlation with Species Diversity. -  Russian Journal of Genetics, Moscow, 39 (11): 1292-1305.    

    Чобану Д.Г., Гречко В.В., Даревский И.С. (2003) -  Молекулярная эволюция сателлитной ДНК CLSAT ящериц рода Darevskia (Sauria: Laeertidae): корреляция с видовым разнообразием. -  Генетика, 39 (11): 1527-1541.  

  • Ciobanu, D.G. & Roudykh, I.A. & Ryabinina, N.L. & Grechko, V.V. & Kramerov, D.A. & Darevsky, I.S. (2002) -  Reticulate Evolution of Parthenospecies of the Lacertidae Rock Lizards: Inheritance of CLsat Tandem Repeats and Anonymous RAPD Markers. -  Molecular Biology, Moscow, 36 (2): 223-231    

  • Darevsky, I.S. (1957) -  Systematics and ecology of rock lizards (Lacerta saxicola Eversmann), common in Armenia. -  Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR - Zoological collection, Yerevan, Armenia, 10: 27-57.  

    Даревский, И.С. (1957) -  Систематика и экология скальных ящериц Lacerta saxicola Eversmann, распространенных в Армении. -  Академия наук Армянской ССР - Зоологический сборник, 10: 27-58.  

  • Darevsky, I.S. (1978) -  Lacerta saxicola portshinskii Kessler, 1878.  -  In: Rock lizards of the Caucasus. (Systematic, ecology and phylogenesis of the polymorphic groups of rock lizards of the subgenus Archaeolacerta). – Leningrad, Nauka Press. p. 84-91.   

  • Darevsky, I.S. (1982) -  Wonderful rock lizards. -  Priroda 1982(3): 33-44. (in Russisch)   

  • Darevsky, I.S. & Grechko, V.V. & Kupriyanova, L.A. (2009) -  Lizards breeding without males. -  Priroda, 2000 (9): 61-68.  

  • Doronin, I.V. (2013) -  New records of Rock Lizards of the genus Darevskia Arribas, 1997 (Sauria: Lacertidae) in the Caucasus. -  Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 317 (3): 282-291.   

    И.В. Доронин (2013) -  Новые находки скальных ящериц рода Darevskia arribas, 1997 (Sauria: Lacertidae) на Кавказе. -  Труды Зоологического института РАН, 317 (3): 282-291.     

  • Doronin, I.V. (2015) -  Systematics, phylogeny and distribution of rock lizards supra-specific complexes Darevskia (praticola), Darevskia (caucasica) and Darevskia (saxicola). -  Dissertation - Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 371 pp.  

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  • Freitas, S.M.R.N. de (2017) -  Why Sex? Darevskia answers. -  Programa Doutoral em Biodiversidade, Genética e Evolução. Universidade do Porto. 245 p.     

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  • Fu, J. & Murphy, R.W. & Darevsky, I.S. (1997) -  Towards the phylogeny of Caucasian rock lizards: implications from mitochondrial DNA gene sequences. -  Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 120 (4): 463-477.    

  • Gabelaia, M. & Adriaens, D. & Tarkhnishvili, D. (2017) -  Phylogenetic signals in scale shape in Caucasian rock lizards (Darevskia species). -  Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipzig, 268: 32-40.   

  • Gabelaia, M. & Tarknishvili, D. & Adriaens, D. (2018) -  Use of three-dimensional geometric morphometrics for the identification of closely related species of Caucasian rock lizards (Lacertidae: Darevskia). -  Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 2018, XX, 1–9 (early view).    

  • Galoyan, E. & Moskalenko, V. & Gabelaia, M. & Tarknishvilii, D. & Spangenberg, V. & Chamkina, A. & Arakelyan, M. (2020) -  Syntopy of two species of rock lizards (Darevskia raddei and Darevskia portschinskii) may not lead to hybridization between them. -  Zoologischer Anzeiger, 288:43-52.    

  • Galoyan, E. & Sopilko, N. & Kovalyeva, A. & Chamkina, A. (2022) -  Double-check in lizard age estimation: use of phalanx bone and keratin claw sheath lamellas. -  Research Square, 2022. 11 pp.   

  • Galoyan, E.A. & Tsellarius, E.Y. & Arakelyan, M.S. (2019) -  Friend-or-foe? Behavioural evidence suggests interspecific discrimination leading to low probability of hybridization in two coexisting rock lizard species (Lacertidae, Darevskia). -  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 73: 46.     

  • Grechko, V.V. & Ryabinin, D.M. & Fedorova, L.V. & Fedorov, A.N. & Ryskov, A.P. & Darevsky, I.S. (1997) -  Parentage of Caucasian parthenogenetic rock lizard species (Lacerta) as revealed by restriction endonuclease analysis of highly repetitive DNA. -  Amphibia-Reptilia, 18 (4): 407-418.    

  • Grechko, V.V. et al. (1997) -  Restriction Endonuclease Analysis of Highly Repetitive DNA as a Phylogenetic Tool. -  Journal of Molecular Evolution, 45: 332-336.    

  • Harutyanyan, T.K. & Danielyan, F.D. & Arakelyan, M.S. (2015) -  Blood parasites morphotypes of rock lizards of Armenia. -  Proceedings of the Yerevan State University, Chemistry and Biology, Yerevan, Armenia, 2015 (2): 45-49.   

  • Harutyunyan, T.K. (2011) -  Infections by blood parasites in sympatric populations of rock lizards Darevskia raddei and Darevskia portchinskii. -  Biological Journal of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 63 (2): 6-11.   

    Հարությունյան, Թ.Կ. (2011) -  Ժայռային մողեսների (Darevskia raddei և Darevskia portchinskii) մակաբույծներով վարակվածությունը` կախված սեռից և տեսակից.  -  Հայաստանի կենսաբանական հանդես, 63 (2): 6-11.     

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  • Kessler, K.F. (1878) -  Description of Darevskia portschinskii. -  In: Transcaucasian voyage. - Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg, 8 (suppl.). 200 pp.   

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  • MacCulloch, R.D. & Murphy, R.W. & Fu, J. & Darevsky, I.S. & Danielyan, F. (1997) -  Disjunct habitats as islands: genetic variability in the Caucasian rock lizard Lacerta portschinskii. -  Genetica, The Hague, 101 (1): 41-45.    

  • Martirosyan, I.A. & Korchagin, V.I. & Tokarskaya, O.N. & Darevsky, I.S. & Ryskov, A.P. (2006) -  Finding of Bov-BLINE Retroelement in Parthenogenetic and Bisexual Lizard Species of the Genus Darevskia (Lacertidae). -  Russian Journal of Genetics, Moscow, 42 (7): 790–794.    

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  • Martirosyan, I.A. & Odegov, D.O. & Kafarova, I.E. & Arakelyan, M.S. & Ryskov, A.P. & Korchagin, V.I. (2023) -  Molecular genetic characteristics of Darevskia portschinskii lizard populations based on microsatellite markers analysis. -  Acta Herpetologica 18 (2): 147-158.    

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  • Murphy, R.W. & Darevsky, I.S. & MacCulloch, R.D. & Fu, J. & Kupriyanova, L.A. (1996) -  Evolution of the bisexual species of Caucasian rock lizards: A phylogenetic evaluation of allozyme data. -  Russian Journal of Herpetology, Moscow, 3 (1): 18-31.    

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  • Osipov, F.A. & Bobrov, V.V. & Dergunova, N.N. & Arakelyan, M.S. & Petrosyan, V.G. (2021) -  Reconstruction of the ranges of parthenogenetic and their parental bisexual species of Darevskia rock lizards in late Pleistocene, Holocene and modelling of the dynamics of ranges under efect the global climatic changes. -  In: Dunayev, E.A. & N.A. Poyarkov et al. (ed.): Problems of Herpetology Program and abstracts of the VIII congress of the A.M. Nikolsky Herpetological Society (NHS) of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Current herpetological research in Eurasia” October 3-9. 2021. Moscow. p. 204-206. (in Russisch)   

  • Osipov, F.A. & Bobrov, V.V. & Dergunova, N.N. & Arakelyan, M.S. & Petrosyan, V.G. (2023) -  Ecological niches breadth analysis of Darevskia (Lacertidae, Reptilia) parthenogenetic lizards with various scenarios of clonal lineage formation in populations. -  Current Studies in Herpetology, 23 (3–4): 108-112.  

    Осипов Ф. А., Бобров В. В., Дергунова Н. Н., Аракелян М. С., Петросян В. Г. (2023) -  Анализ ширины экологических ниш партеногенетических ящериц рода Darevskia (Lacertidae, Reptilia) с различными сценариями формирования клональных линий в популяциях -  СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ГЕРПЕТОЛОГИЯ, 23 (3–4): 108-112.    

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  • Petrosyan, V.G. & Osipov, F. & Bobrov, V. & Dergunova, N. & Omelchenko, A. & Danielyan, F. & Arakelyan, M. (2020) -  Development of species distribution and relized niches models of parthenogenetic and parental specvies of the genus Darevskia based on long term monitoring data and climate topographic and landscape predictors. pp. 436-439. -  Information Technology in Biodiversity Research III. National Scientific Conference with international participation,dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Russian academician Pavel Gorchakovski. iConference Abstracts. Ekaterinburg, Russia, October 5–10, 2020. (in Russisch)     

  • Petrosyan, V.G. & Osipov, F. & Bobrov, V. & Dergunova, N. & Omelchenko, A. & Vashavskiy, A. & Danielyan, F. & Arakelyan, M. (2020) -  Species distribution models and niche partitioning among unisexual Darevskia dahli and its parental bisexual (D. portschinskii, D. mixta) Rock Lizards in the Caucasus. -  Mathematics, 8 (8). https://doi.org/10.3390/math8081329.  

  • Petrosyan, V.G. & Osipov, F.A. & Bobrov, V.V. & Dergunova, N.N. & Kropachev, I.I. & Danielyan, F.D. & Arakelyan, M.S. (2020) -  New records and geographic distribution of the sympatric zones of unisexual and bisexual rock lizards of the genus Darevskia in Armenia and adjacent territories. -  Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e56030 (https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e56030)    

  • Rato, C. & Stratakis, M. & Sousa-Guedes, D. & Sillero, N. & Corti, C. & Freitas, S. & Harris, D.J. & Carretero, M.A. (2020) -  The more you search, the more you find: Cryptic diversity and admixture within the Anatolian rock lizards (Squamata, Darevskia). -  Zoologica Scripta, 2020. Early view. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12462  

  • Ryabinina, N.L. & Grechko, V.V. & Semenova, S.K. & Darevsky, I.S. (1999) -  On the hybridogenous origin of the parthenogenetic species Lacerta dahli and Lacerta rostombekovi revealed by RAPD technique. -  Russian Journal of Herpetology, Moscow, 6 (1): 55-60.  

  • Ryskov, A.P. & Martirosyan, I.A. & Vergun, A.A. & Malysheva, D.N. & Badaeva, T.N. & Tokarskaya, O.N. & Vassetzky, N.S. & Korchagin, V.I. (2009) -  Molecular structure of allelic variants of microsatellite loci Du281 and Du47 in unisexual and bisexual lizard species of the genus Darevskia. -  Biology Bulletin, 36 (2): 159-166.  

  • Sargsyan, N.H. & Danielyan, F.D. & Vardanyan, L.K. (2014) -  Nematoda Spauligodon saxicolae in Rock Lizards oft he genus Darevskia in Armenia. -  In: Proceedings of the International conference „Biological diversity and conservation problems of the fauna of the Caucasus – 2“, Yerevan, Armenia, September 23-26..Publishing house LLC „Spika“, Yerevan, pp. 336-339.  

  • Sargsyan, N.H. & Harutyunyan, T.K. (2012) -  The relative helminthic and blood-parasite infections of the Armenian lizards. -  Biological Journal of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, 64 (3): 6-9.  

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