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Nikos Poulakakis

Nikos Poulakakis

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
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3639
World Ranking
6982
National Ranking
23

Overview

Nikos Poulakakis is affiliated with the University of Crete in Greece. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their work is distributed across multiple subfields including Genetics, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

Their research addresses various topics such as genetic diversity and population structure, amphibian and reptile biology, species distribution and climate change, genomics and phylogenetic studies, turtle biology and conservation, forensic and genetic research, and identification and quantification in food.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Colonization history of Galapagos giant tortoises: Insights from mitogenomes support the progression rule, 2020, Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
  • Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean, 2022, Current Biology
  • Population Genomics of Wall Lizards Reflects the Dynamic History of the Mediterranean Basin, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Dispersal versus vicariance in the Aegean: combining molecular and morphological phylogenies of eastern MediterraneanDendarus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) sheds new light on the phylogeography of the Aegean area, 2020, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Mitochondrial sequences of the extinct Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus confirm its phylogenetic placement, 2021, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Petros Lymberakis
  • Nikolaos Psonis
  • Alexandros Stamatakis
  • Daniel Jablonski
  • Aglaia Antoniou

Poulakakis has frequently published in these venues:

  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Zoologica Scripta
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial phylogeography of Rana (Pelophylax) populations in the Eastern Mediterranean region

    P. Lymberakis;N. Poulakakis;N. Poulakakis;G. Manthalou;G. Manthalou;C.S. Tsigenopoulos

  • Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the wall-lizard Podarcis erhardii (Squamata: Lacertidae)

    N. Poulakakis;P. Lymberakis;A. Antoniou;D. Chalkia

  • Historical DNA analysis reveals living descendants of an extinct species of Galápagos tortoise

    Nikos Poulakakis;Scott Glaberman;Michael Russello;Michael Russello;Luciano B. Beheregaray

  • Phylogeography of Balkan wall lizard (Podarcis taurica) and its relatives inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences.

    N. Poulakakis;P. Lymberakis;Efstratios D. Valakos;P. Pafilis

  • A review of phylogeographic analyses of animal taxa from the Aegean and surrounding regions

    Nikos Poulakakis;Nikos Poulakakis;Paschalia Kapli;Paschalia Kapli;Petros Lymberakis;Apostolos Trichas

  • Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Podarcis species from the Balkan Peninsula, by bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of mitochondrial DNA sequences

    N Poulakakis;Petros Lymberakis;Efstratios D. Valakos;E Zouros

  • Unravelling the peculiarities of island life: vicariance, dispersal and the diversification of the extinct and extant giant Galápagos tortoises

    Nikos Poulakakis;Nikos Poulakakis;Michael Russello;Dennis Geist;Adalgisa Caccone

  • Critical role for a stage-specific actin in male exflagellation of the malaria parasite

    Elena Deligianni;Rhiannon N. Morgan;Lucia Bertuccini;Taco W. A. Kooij

  • Three Continents Claiming an Archipelago: The Evolution of Aegean's Herpetofaunal Diversity

    Petros Lymberakis;Nikos Poulakakis

  • Giant tortoise genomes provide insights into longevity and age-related disease

    Víctor Quesada;Sandra Freitas-Rodríguez;Joshua Miller;José G. Pérez-Silva

  • Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of snake-eyed skink Ablepharus kitaibelii (Sauria: Scincidae).

    N. Poulakakis;P. Lymberakis;C.S. Tsigenopoulos;A. Magoulas

  • Tail shedding in island lizards [Lacertidae, Reptilia]: decline of antipredator defenses in relaxed predation environments.

    Panayiotis Pafilis;Johannes Foufopoulos;Nikos Poulakakis;Petros Lymberakis

  • Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Anatolian lizard Apathya (Squamata, Lacertidae).

    Paschalia Kapli;Dimitra Botoni;Dimitra Botoni;Çetin Ilgaz;Yusuf Kumlutaş

  • Digestive performance in five Mediterranean lizard species: effects of temperature and insularity

    P. Pafilis;J. Foufopoulos;N. Poulakakis;P. Lymberakis

  • Description of a New Galapagos Giant Tortoise Species (Chelonoidis; Testudines: Testudinidae) from Cerro Fatal on Santa Cruz Island

    Nikos Poulakakis;Danielle L. Edwards;Ylenia Chiari;Ryan C. Garrick

  • Mitochondrial DNA reveals the genealogical history of the snake-eyed lizards (Ophisops elegans and O. occidentalis) (Sauria: Lacertidae)

    P. Kyriazi;N. Poulakakis;N. Poulakakis;A. Parmakelis;A. Parmakelis;P. A. Crochet

  • Phylogeography of the ocellated skink Chalcides ocellatus (Squamata, Scincidae), with the use of mtDNA sequences: a hitch-hiker's guide to the Mediterranean.

    P. Kornilios;P. Kyriazi;N. Poulakakis;N. Poulakakis;Y. Kumlutaş

  • Genetic rediscovery of an ‘extinct’ Galápagos giant tortoise species

    Ryan C. Garrick;Edgar Benavides;Michael A. Russello;James P. Gibbs

  • Ancient DNA forces reconsideration of evolutionary history of Mediterranean pygmy elephantids

    Nikos Poulakakis;Aris Parmakelis;Aris Parmakelis;Petros Lymberakis;Moysis Mylonas;Moysis Mylonas

  • Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in Kotschy's gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi: Hidden diversity and cryptic species.

    Panayiota Kotsakiozi;Panayiota Kotsakiozi;Daniel Jablonski;Çetin Ilgaz;Yusuf Kumlutaş

Frequent Co-Authors

Petros Lymberakis
Petros Lymberakis University of Crete
Adalgisa Caccone
Adalgisa Caccone Yale University
Michael A. Russello
Michael A. Russello University of British Columbia
Claudio Ciofi
Claudio Ciofi University of Florence
Luciano B. Beheregaray
Luciano B. Beheregaray Flinders University
Panayiotis Pafilis
Panayiotis Pafilis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Eleftherios Zouros
Eleftherios Zouros University of Crete
James P. Gibbs
James P. Gibbs SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Christos Louis
Christos Louis University of Crete

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