Browsing Research Output by Author "Burger, Marius"
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African Herald snakes, Crotaphopeltis, show population structure for a widespread generalist but deep genetic divergence for forest specialists
Engelbrecht, Hanlie M.; Burger, Marius; Branch, William R.; Greenbaum, Eli; Conradie, Werner (Wiley, 2020)The African colubrid snake genus Crotaphopeltis currently comprises six species and occurs throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. The most widespread of these, Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia , inhabits most biomes, aside from rainforest ... -
Evolutionary history of burrowing asps (Lamprophiidae: Atractaspidinae) with emphasis on fang evolution and prey selection
Portillo, Frank; Burger, Marius; Stanley, Edward L.; Branch, William R.; Conradie, Werner (PLoS, 2019)Atractaspidines are poorly studied, fossorial snakes that are found throughout Africa and western Asia, including the Middle East. We employed concatenated gene-tree analyses and divergence dating approaches to investigate ... -
Exploring rain forest diversification using demographic model testing in the African foam‐nest treefrog Chiromantis rufescens
Leaché, Adam D.; Burger, Marius; Portik, Daniel M.; Rivera, Danielle; Rödel, Mark-Oliver (Wiley, 2019)Aim Species with wide distributions spanning the African Guinean and Congolian rain forests are often composed of genetically distinct populations or cryptic species with geographic distributions that mirror the locations ... -
Sexual dichromatism drives diversification within a major radiation of African amphibians
Portik, Daniel M.; Burger, Marius; Channing, Alan; Bell, Rayna C.; Blackburn, David C. (Oxford Univ Press, 2019)Theory predicts that sexually dimorphic traits under strong sexual selection, particularly those involved with intersexual signaling, can accelerate speciation and produce bursts of diversification. Sexual dichromatism ... -
Sky, sea, and forest islands: diversification in the African leaf‐folding frog Afrixalus paradorsalis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) of the Lower Guineo‐Congolian rain forest
Charles, Kristin L.; Burger, Marius; Bell, Rayna C.; Blackburn, David C.; Fujita, Matthew K. (Wiley, 2018)Aim To investigate how putative barriers, forest refugia, and ecological gradients across the lower Guineo‐Congolian rain forest shape genetic and phenotypic divergence in the leaf‐folding frog Afrixalus paradorsalis, and ... -
Two new Phrynobatrachus species (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the Republic of the Congo
Rödel, Mark-Oliver; Burger, Marius; Zassi-Boulou, Ange Ghislain; Emmrich, Mike; Penner, Johannes (Magnolia Press, 2015)We describe two new species of puddle frogs, genus Phrynobatrachus, from the south-western Republic of the Congo. One of them, P. horsti sp. nov., occurs also in neighbouring Gabon and is morphologically most similar to ... -
Two new species of long-fingered frogs of the genus Cardioglossa (Anura: Arthroleptidae) from Central African rainforests
Hirschfeld, Mareike; Burger, Marius; Blackburn, David C.; Greenbaum, Eli; Zassi-Boulou, Ange-Ghislain (Taylor & Francis, 2015)We describe two new frog species of Cardioglossa (Family Arthroleptidae) from Central Africa. The new species are found in the rainforests of western-central Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo ...