Morphological Variation and Its Molecular Mechanism of Amphibians and Reptiles
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1052
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal ecology; animal ethology; evolutionary biology; animal genomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biostatistics; ecology; biodiversity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Amphibians and reptiles show large morphological variations including geographic and intersexual variation. Investigating these variations and the potential molecular mechanisms underlying these variations is very important for understanding their adaptation to different environmental and climate conditions. Here, we are concerned with the following topics:
- Morphological variation under climate and environmental change;
- Geographical variation in morphological traits;
- Morphological variation between sexes;
- Genetic base of morphological variation.
This Special Issue gives an overview of current research results on the morphological variation of amphibians and reptiles and discovers the interactions between the adaptive evolution of morphological traits and environmental and climate changes. We accept reviews as well as short and long research papers that cover the above topics.
Dr. Wei Chen
Dr. Buddhi Dayananda
Dr. Jie Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- morphological trait
- altitudinal variation
- latitudinal variation
- intersexual variation
- genetic mechanism
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