It takes two to tango – Phylogeography, taxonomy and hybridization in grass snakes and dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae: Natrix natrix, N. tessellata)

Marika Asztalos; Dinçer Ayaz; Yusuf Bayrakcı; Murat Afsar; Cemal Varol Tok; Carolin Kindler; Daniel Jablonski; Uwe Fritz

doi:10.3897/vz.71.e76453

Uwe Fritz, L. Lee Grismer, Marika Asztalos (2023)
Hybrid zones of Natrix helvetica and N. natrix: Phenotype data from iNaturalist and genetics reveal concordant clines and the value of species-diagnostic morphological traits. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 383.

DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e103319

Andreas Schild, Hannes Baur, Stefan T. Hertwig, Uwe Fritz, Sylvain Ursenbacher (2024)
Genetic identification, morphology and distribution of Natrix helvetica subspecies in southern and western Switzerland (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes). ZooKeys 1205: 223.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.123911

Yannis Schöneberg, Sven Winter, Oscar Arribas, Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola, Maya Master, John Benjamin Owens, Michail Rovatsos, Wolfgang Wüster, Axel Janke, Uwe Fritz (2023)
Genomics reveals broad hybridization in deeply divergent Palearctic grass and water snakes (Natrix spp.). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 184: 107787.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107787

Daniel Jablonski, Benny Trapp, Elias Tzoras, Konrad Mebert (2022)
Erythrism in the Eastern Grass Snake, Natrix natrix (Linnaeus, 1758). Herpetozoa 35: 213.

DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.35.e90928

Petronel Spaseni, Tiberiu C. Sahlean, Iulian Gherghel, Ștefan R. Zamfirescu, Ionuț C. Petreanu, Raluca Melenciuc, Cristina F. Alistar, Viorel D. Gavril, Alexandru Strugariu (2024)
Natrix natrix after dark: citizen science sheds light on the common grass snake’s nightlife. PeerJ 12: e17168.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.17168

E. B. Romanova, E. I. Solomaykin, A. G. Bakiev, R. A. Gorelov, A. A. Klenina (2023)
Adaptive Reactions of the Blood System of Elaphe dione, Natrix natrix, and N. tessellata (Reptilia: Colubridae). Biology Bulletin 50: 2603.

DOI: 10.1134/S106235902310014X

Daniel Jablonski, Marika Asztalos, Can Yılmaz, Aziz Avcı (2023)
The range-wide mitochondrial lineage of Natrix natrix scutata (Pallas, 1771) presented in the northern Zagros Mountains. Evolutionary Systematics 7: 67.

DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.7.89662

Yurii V. Kornilev, Georgi Popgeorgiev, Dimitar Plachiyski, Angel Dyugmedzhiev, Vladimir Mladenov, Kostadin Andonov, Simeon Lukanov, Emiliya Vacheva, Miroslav Slavchev, Borislav Naumov (2023)
Distribution of the grass snake (Natrix natrix) and dice snake (N. tessellata) in Bulgaria. Historia naturalis bulgarica 45: 239.

DOI: 10.48027/hnb.45.093

Christophe Dufresnes, Nikolay Poyarkov, Daniel Jablonski (2023)
Acknowledging more biodiversity without more species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120: .

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302424120

Viatcheslav Ratnikov (2023)
Do northern species of amphibians and reptiles of Eurasia need southern refugia?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society : .

DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blad030

Jan Chmelař, Petr Civiš, David Fischer, Daniel Frynta, Lenka Jeřábková, Veronika Rudolfová, Ivan Rehák (2023)
Protecting isolated reptile populations outside their main area of distribution: a predictive model of the Dice snake, Natrix tessellata, distribution in the Czech Republic. Biodiversity Data Journal 11: .

DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.11.e114790

Melodi Yenmiş, Yusuf Bayrakcı, Dinçer Ayaz (2022)
Hierarchical microstructure of the scales in grass snake (Natrix natrix) and dice snake (Natrix tessellata). Biologia 77: 765.

DOI: 10.1007/s11756-022-01034-6

E. B. Romanova, E. I. Solomaykin, A/ G. Bakiev, R. A. Gorelov, A. A. Klenina (2022)
Adaptive reactions of the blood system of Elaphe dione, Natrix natrix, and N. tessellata (Reptilia: Colubridae). Povolzhskiy Journal of Ecology : 336.

DOI: 10.35885/1684-7318-2022-3-336-349

Daniel Jablonski, Elias Tzoras, Alexios Panagiotopoulos, Marika Asztalos, Uwe Fritz (2023)
Genotyping the phenotypic diversity in Aegean Natrix natrix moreotica (Bedriaga, 1882) (Reptilia, Serpentes, Natricidae). ZooKeys 1169: 87.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1169.104594

Adam Javorčík, Ilias Strachinis, Evanthia Thanou, Panagiotis Kornilios, Aziz Avcı, Nazan Üzüm, Kurtuluş Olgun, Çetin Ilgaz, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Petros Lymberakis, Zoltán T. Nagy, Daniel Jablonski (2024)
Phylogeography of Dolichophis Populations in the Aegean Region (Squamata: Colubridae) with Taxonomic Remarks. Diversity 16: 184.

DOI: 10.3390/d16030184

Daniel Jablonski, Konrad Mebert, Rafaqat Masroor, Evgeniy Simonov, Oleg Kukushkin, Timur Abduraupov, Sylvia Hofmann, Jing Che (2024)
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys. Current Zoology 70: 150.

DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoad008

Daniel Jablonski, Soran H. Ahmed (2023)
Re-evaluating first impressions: Melanism in Hemorrhois nummifer (Reuss, 1834) from Kurdistan Region, Iraq . Zoology in the Middle East 69: 243.

DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2023.2243733

Uwe Fritz, Flora Ihlow (2022)
Citizen Science, taxonomy and grass snakes: iNaturalist helps to clarify variation of coloration and pattern in Natrix natrix subspecies. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 533.

DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e87426