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Miguel A. Carretero

Miguel A. Carretero

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
7506
World Ranking
4873
National Ranking
36

Overview

Miguel A. Carretero is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Environmental Science, with substantial contributions in several related subfields.

The main subfields of Carretero's work include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Genetics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of themes such as:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genetic Diversity and Population Structure
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Among recent publications by Miguel A. Carretero are:

  • "Getting ahead: exploitative competition by an invasive lizard," 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "A worldwide and annotated database of evaporative water loss rates in squamate reptiles," 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Geographic patterns of stress in insular lizards reveal anthropogenic and climatic signatures," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Pleistocene climate fluctuations as the major driver of genetic diversity and distribution patterns of the Caspian green lizard, Lacerta strigata Eichwald, 1831," 2021, Ecology and Evolution
  • "Population Genomics of Wall Lizards Reflects the Dynamic History of the Mediterranean Basin," 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of researchers including:

  • Anamarija Žagar
  • Rodrigo Megía-Palma
  • Catarina Rato
  • Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza
  • Nina Serén

Miguel A. Carretero's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • BioInvasions Records

Best Publications

  • Regulatory changes in pterin and carotenoid genes underlie balanced color polymorphisms in the wall lizard.

    Pedro Andrade;Catarina Pinho;Guillem Pérez i. de Lanuza;Sandra Afonso

  • Multivariate and geometric morphometrics in the analysis of sexual dimorphism variation in Podarcis lizards

    Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Miguel A. Carretero;Gustavo A. Llorente

  • Environmental temperatures shape thermal physiology as well as diversification and genome-wide substitution rates in lizards

    Joan Garcia-Porta;Iker Irisarri;Martin Kirchner;Ariel Rodríguez

  • When cryptic diversity blurs the picture: a cautionary tale from Iberian and North African Podarcis wall lizards

    Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Catarina Pinho;D. James Harris;Miguel A. Carretero

  • Cryptic Speciation Patterns in Iranian Rock Lizards Uncovered by Integrative Taxonomy

    Faraham Ahmadzadeh;Morris Flecks;Miguel A. Carretero;Omid Mozaffari

  • Complex estimates of evolutionary relationships in Tarentola mauritanica (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) derived from mitochondrial DNA sequences

    D. James Harris;Vasco Batista;Petros Lymberakis;Miguel A. Carretero

  • Relationships between head morphology, bite performance and ecology in two species of Podarcis wall lizards

    Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Dean C. Adams;Arie van der Meijden;Ana Perera

  • Persistence across Pleistocene ice ages in Mediterranean and extra-Mediterranean refugia: phylogeographic insights from the common wall lizard.

    Daniele Salvi;D James Harris;Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Miguel A Carretero

  • Intraspecific ecomorphological variation: linear and geometric morphometrics reveal habitat-related patterns within Podarcis bocagei wall lizards.

    Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;M A Carretero;G A Llorente

  • Effects of environmental disturbance on phenotypic variation: an integrated assessment of canalization, developmental stability, modularity, and allometry in lizard head shape.

    Marko M. Lazić;Miguel A. Carretero;Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović;Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou

  • From set menu to a la carte. Linking issues in trophic ecology of Mediterranean lacertids

    Miguel A. Carretero

  • Lizards from urban areas are more asymmetric: using fluctuating asymmetry to evaluate environmental disturbance.

    Marko M. Lazić;Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Miguel A. Carretero;Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović

  • Head shape allometry and proximate causes of head sexual dimorphism in Podarcis lizards: joining linear and geometric morphometrics

    Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Miguel A. Carretero;Gustavo A. Llorente

  • Biodiversity and Land uses at a regional scale: Is agriculture the biggest threat for reptile assemblages?

    Raquel Ribeiro;Xavier Santos;Neftali Sillero;Miguel A. Carretero

  • Conflicting patterns of nucleotide diversity between mtDNA and nDNA in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica.

    Catarina Rato;Salvador Carranza;Ana Perera;Miguel A. Carretero

  • The pond network: can structural connectivity reflect on (amphibian) biodiversity patterns?

    Raquel Ribeiro;Raquel Ribeiro;Miguel A. Carretero;Neftalí Sillero;Gonzalo Alarcos

  • N-mixture models reliably estimate the abundance of small vertebrates.

    Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Benedetta Barzaghi;Andrea Melotto;Martina Muraro

  • Rapid lizard radiation lacking niche conservatism: ecological diversification within a complex landscape

    Faraham Ahmadzadeh;Morris Flecks;Miguel A. Carretero;Wolfgang Böhme

  • The Balearic herpetofauna: a species update and a review on the evidence

    Samuel Pinya;Miguel A. Carretero

  • An integrated Assessment of a group with complex systematics: the Iberomaghrebian lizard genus Podarcis (Squamata, Lacertidae).

    Miguel A. Carretero

  • Deciphering patterns of transoceanic dispersal: the evolutionary origin and biogeography of coastal lizards (Cryptoblepharus) in the Western Indian Ocean region

    Sara Rocha;Miguel A. Carretero;Miguel Vences;Frank Glaw

Frequent Co-Authors

D. James Harris
D. James Harris University of Porto
Xavier Santos
Xavier Santos University of Porto
José Carlos Brito
José Carlos Brito University of Porto
Enrique Font
Enrique Font University of Valencia
Wolfgang Böhme
Wolfgang Böhme Leibniz Association
Leif Andersson
Leif Andersson Texas A&M University
Dennis Rödder
Dennis Rödder Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Amadeu M.V.M. Soares
Amadeu M.V.M. Soares University of Aveiro
Geoffrey M. While
Geoffrey M. While University of Tasmania

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