One Extinct Turtle Species Less: Pelusios seychellensis Is Not Extinct, It Never Existed

Review of the distribution and conservation status of the terrestrial reptiles of the Cape Verde Islands

(2013) Raquel Vasconcelos et al.   ORYX

Phylogenetic position of Pelusios williamsi and a critique of current GenBank procedures (Reptilia: Testudines: Pelomedusidae)

(2012) Uwe Fritz et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Genetic rediscovery of an ‘extinct’ Galápagos giant tortoise species

(2012) Ryan C. Garrick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny of African hinge-back tortoises (Kinixys): implications for phylogeography and taxonomy (Testudines: Testudinidae)

(2012) Carolin Kindler et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

The legacy of Lonesome George

(2012) Henry Nicholls   NATURE

Weak divergence among African, Malagasy and Seychellois hinged terrapins (Pelusios castanoides, P. subniger) and evidence for human-mediated oversea dispersal

(2012) Uwe Fritz et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Island Evolution and Systematic Revision of Comoran Snakes: Why and When Subspecies Still Make Sense

(2012) Oliver Hawlitschek et al.   PLoS One

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Molecular phylogeny of Central and South American slider turtles: implications for biogeography and systematics (Testudines: Emydidae: Trachemys)

(2011) Uwe Fritz et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) NIKOS POULAKAKIS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Reconstructing the colonisation and diversification history of the endemic freshwater crab (Seychellum alluaudi) in the granitic and volcanic Seychelles Archipelago

(2011) Savel R. Daniels   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Eastward from Africa: palaeocurrent-mediated chameleon dispersal to the Seychelles islands

(2010) T. M. Townsend et al.   Biology Letters

When Indian crabs were not yet Asian - biogeographic evidence for Eocene proximity of India and Southeast Asia

(2010) Sebastian Klaus et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Deep genealogical lineages in the widely distributed African helmeted terrapin: Evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa subrufa)

(2010) Mario Vargas-Ramírez et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

(2010) A. W. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Age of Seychelles–India break-up

(2008) J.S. Collier et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Historical DNA analysis reveals living descendants of an extinct species of Galapagos tortoise

(2008) N. Poulakakis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA