Publications

2024

2024. Alarcón-Ríos, L., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Álvarez, D., Velo-Antón, G. Urban life affects differentiation and phenotypic variation but not asymmetry in a fully terrestrial salamander. Evolutionary Biology, in press.

2023

2023. Oxford-Smith, N., Ruta, M., Gao, A., Viaud-Martinez, K., Sabin, R., Herman, J., Ososky, J., Tajima, Y., Yamada, T.K., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Moura, A.E. Skull morphology of bottlenose dolphins worldwide and patterns of adaptation between coastal and offshore environments. Journal of Zoology, 322: 42-57.

2023. Reyes-Puig, C., Adams, D.C., Enríquez-Urzelai, U., Kaliontzopoulou, A. Rensch’s Rule: linking intraspecific to evolutionary allometry. Evolution, 77(12): 2576-2589.

2023. Bellvert, A., Adrián-Serrano, S., Maciás-Hernández, N., Toft, S., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Arnedo, M.A. The non-dereliction in evolution: Trophic specialisation drives convergence in the radiation of red devil spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands. Systematic Biology, in press.

2023. Lucchini, N., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Lourdais, O., Martínez-Freiría, F. Climatic adaptation explains responses to Pleistocene oscillations and diversification in European vipers. Journal of Biogeography, 50: 1838-1851.

2023. Oliveira, D., Halpern, B., Martínez-Freiría, F., Kaliontzopoulou, A. Head Shape Heritability in the Hungarian Meadow Viper Vipera ursinii rakosiensis. Animals, 13: 322.

2022

2022. Sánchez-Márquez, A., Navarro, J., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Farré, M., Taite, M., Escolar, O., Villanueva, R., Allcock, L., Fernández-Álvarez, F. A. Unravelling the phylogenetic and ecological drivers of beak shape variability in cephalopods. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 33: 221-239..

2022. Pinho, C., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Ferreira, C. A., Gama, J. Identification of morphologically cryptic species with computer vision models: wall lizards (Podarcis, Squamata: Lacertidae) as a case study. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press.

2022. Bellver, A., Roca-Cusacs, M., Tonzo, V., Arnedo, M.A., Kaliontzopoulou, A. The Vitruvian spider: segmenting and integrating over different body parts to describe eco-phenotypic variation. Journal of Morphology, 283(11): 1425-1438.

2022. Enríquez-Urzelai, U., Martínez-Freiría, F., Freitas, I., Perera, A., Martínez-Solano, I., Salvi, D., Velo-Antón, G., Kaliontzopoulou, A. Allopatric speciation, niche conservatism and gradual phenotypic evolution shaped the diversification of a circum-Mediterranean lizard clade. Journal of Biogeography,  49: 2193-2205.

2022. García-Porta, J., Sol, D., Pennell, M. W., Sayol, F., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Botero, C.A. Niche expansion and adaptive divergence in the global radiation of crows and ravens. Nature Communications, 13: 2086.

2022. Coelho, P., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Sousa, P., Stockmann, M., van der Meijden, A. Reevaluating scorpion ecomorphs using a naïve approach. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22: 17.

2022. Martínez-Gil, H., Martínez-Freiría, F., Perera, A., Enríquez-Urzelai, U., Martínez-Solano, I., Velo-Antón, G., Kaliontzopoulou, A. Morphological diversification of Mediterranean anurans: the roles of evolutionary history and climate. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135(3): 462-477.

2021

2021. Kiourtsoglou, A., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Poursanidis, D., Jablonski, D., Lymberakis, P., Poulakakis, N. Evidence of cryptic diversity in Podarcis peloponnesiacus and re-evaluation of its current taxonomy; insights from genetic, morphological and ecological data. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59: 2350-2370.

2021. Baken, E.K., Collyer, M.L, Kaliontzopoulou, A., Adams, D.C. geomorph v4.0 and gmShiny: enhanced analytics and a new graphical interface for a comprehensive morphometric experience. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12: 2355-2363.

2021. Yang, W., Feiner, N., Pinho, C., Kaliontzopoulou, A., While, G.M., Harris, D.J, Salvi, D., Uller, T. Extensive introgression and mosaic genomes of Mediterranean endemic lizards. Nature Communications, 12: 2762.

2021. Simbula, G., Vignoli, L., Carretero, M.A., Kaliontzopoulou, A. Fluctuating asymmetry as biomarker of pesticides exposure in the Italian wall lizards (Podarcis siculus). Zoology, 147: 125928.

2021. Galindo, J., Carvalho, J., Sotelo, G., Duvetorp, M., Costa, D., Kemppainen, P., Panova, M., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Johannesson, K., Faria, R. Genetic and morphological divergence between Littorina fabalis ecotypes in Northern Europe. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 34: 97 - 113.

2021. Martínez-Castro, A., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Freitas, I., Martínez-Freiría, F. Macroevolutionary variation and environmental correlates of scalation traits in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132(2): 318 - 327.

2021. Lucchini, N., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Aguado, G., Martinez-Freiría, F. Sources of intraspecific morphological variation in Vipera seoanei: allometry, sex, and colour phenotype. Amphibia-Reptilia, 42: 1-16.

2020

2020. Sillero, N., Argaña, E., Matos, C., Franch, M., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. Local segregation of realised niches in lizards. ISPRS, International Journal of Geo-Information, 9: 764.

2020. Caeiro-Dias, G., Brelsford, A., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Meneses-Ribeiro, M., Crochet, P.-A., Pinho, C. Variable levels of introgression between the endangered Podarcis carbonelli and highly divergent congeneric species. Heredity, 126(3). 463 - 476.

2020. Martínez-Freiría, F., Toyama-Campos, K., Freitas, I., Kaliontzopoulou, A. Thermal melanism explains macroevolutionary variation of dorsal pigmentation in Eurasian vipers. Scientific Reports, 10: 16122.

2020. Pujol-Buxó, E., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Unanue-Goikoetxea, G., Ambrós, B., Llorente, G.A. Geographical differences in competitive hierarchy in a native-invasive system. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(3): 632-646 .

2020. Adams, D.C., Glynne, E., Kaliontzopoulou, A. Interspecific allometry for sexual shape dimorphism: Macroevolution of multivariate sexual phenotypes with application to Rensch's Rule. Evolution, 74(9): 1908-1922.

2020. Gomes, V., Herrel, A., Carretero, M.A., Kaliontzopoulou, A.  New insights into bite performance: morphological trade-offs underlying the duration and magnitude of bite force. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 93(3): 175-184.

2020. Freitas, I., Ursenbacher, S., Mebert, K., Zinenko, O., Schweiger, S., Wüster, W., Brito, J. C., Crnobrnja-Isailović, J., Halpern, B.,  Fahd, S., Santos, X., Pleguezuelos, J. M., Joger, U., Orlov, N., Mizsei, E., Lourdais, O., Zuffi, M. A. L., Strugariu, A., Zamfirescu, S. R., Martínez-Solano, I., Velo-Antón, G., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Martínez-Freiría, F. Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae). Amphibia-Reptilia, 41(3): 285-311. 

2020. Alarcón-Ríos, L., Nicieza, A. G., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Buckley, D., Velo-Antón, G. Evolutionary history and not heterochronic modifications associated with viviparity drive head shape differentiation in a reproductive polymorphic species, Salamandra salamandra. Evolutionary Biology, 47: 43-55. 

2020. Costa, D., Sotelo, G., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carvalho, J., Butlin, R., Hollander, J., Faria, R. Hybridization patterns between two marine snails, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata. Ecology and Evolution, 10: 1158 - 1179.

2019

2019. Massetti, F., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Gomes, V. & Rato, C. Variation in morphology and functional performance across distinct evolutionary lineages of the Moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica) from the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 57: 431-444.

2018

2018. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Pinho, C. & Martínez-Freiría, F. Where does diversity come from? Linking geographical patterns of morphological, genetic, and environmental variation in wall lizards. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18: 124.

2018. Caeiro-Dias, G., Luís, C., Pinho, C., Crochet, P.-A., Sillero, N. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Lack of congruence of genetic and niche divergence in Podarcis hispanicus complex. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 56: 479-492.

2018. Gomes, V., Carretero, M.A & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Run for your life, but bite for your rights? How interactions between natural and sexual selection shape functional morphology across habitats. The Science of Nature, 105:9.

2017

2017. Lazić, M., Rödder, D. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. The ontogeny of developmental buffering in lizard head shape. Evolution & Development, 19: 244 - 252.

2017. Gomes, V., Carretero, M.A. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Instantaneous vs. interval speed estimates of maximum locomotor capacities for whole-organism performance studies. Evolutionary Biology, 44: 551-560.

2017. Massetti, F., Gomes, V., Perera, A., Rato, C. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Morphological and functional implications of sexual size dimorphism in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 122: 197-209.

2017. Nakamura, M., Godinho, R., Rio-Maior, H., Roque, S., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Bernardo, J., Castro, D., Lopes, R., Petrucci-Fonseca, F. & Álvares, F. Evaluating the predictive power of field variables for species and individual molecular identification on wolf noninvasive samples. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 63: 53.

2017. Žagar, A., Carretero, M.A., Vrezec, A., Drašler, C. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Towards a functional understanding of species coexistence: Ecomorphological variation in relation to whole-organism performance in two sympatric lizards. Functional Ecology, 31: 1780-1791.

2017. Lobo-Coelho, P., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Rasko, M. & van der Meijden, A. A “striking” relationship: scorpion defensive behavior and its relation to morphology and performance. Functional Ecology, 31: 1390-1404.

2017. Alarcón-Ríos, L., Velo-Antón, G. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. A non-invasive geometric morphometrics method for exploring variation in dorsal head shape in urodeles: sexual dimorphism and geographic variation in Salamandra salamandra. Journal of Morphology, 278: 475-485.

2017. Cortada, A., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Mendes, J. & Carretero, M.A. A case of limb regeneration in a wild adult Podarcis lilfordi lizard. Turkinsh Journal of Zoology, 41: 1069-1071.

2016

2016. Lazić, M., Carretero, M.A., Crnobrnja-Isailović, J. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Postnatal dynamics of developmental stability and canalization of lizard head shape under different environmental conditions. Evolutionary Biology, 43: 368-379.

2016. Gomes, V., Carretero, M.A. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. The relevance of morphology for habitat use and locomotion in two species of wall lizards. Acta Oecologica, 70: 87-95.

2016. Kaliontzopoulou, A. & Adams, D.C. Phylogenies, the comparative method and the conflation of tempo and mode. Systematic Biology, 65(1): 1-15.

2016. Dias, G., Luís, C., Pinho, C. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. A case of Podarcis carbonelli intake by Podarcis virescens. Herpetology Notes, 9: 105-108.

2015

2015. Carneiro, D., García-Muñoz, E., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Llorente, G. A. & Carretero, M. A. Comparing ecophysiological traits in two Podarcis wall lizards with overlapping ranges. Salamandra, 51: 335-344.

2015. San-Millán, M., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Rissech, C., Turbón, D. A geometric morphometric analysis of acetabular shape of the primate hip joint in relation to locomotor behaviour. Journal of Human Evolution, 83: 15-27.

2015. Enriquez-Urzelai, U., Montori, A., Llorente, G.A. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Locomotor mode and the evolution of the hindlimb in Western Mediterranean amphibians. Evolutionary Biology, 42: 199-209.

2015. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. & Adams, D.C. Ecomorphological variation in male and female wall lizards and the macroevolution of sexual dimorphism in relation to habitat use. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 28: 80-94.

2015. Lazić, M., Carretero, M.A., Crnobrnja-Isailović, J. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Effects of environmental disturbance on phenotypic variation: an integrated assessment of canalization, developmental stability, modularity and allometry in lizard head shape. American Naturalist 185: 44-58.

2014

2014. Militão, T., Gómez-Díaz, E., Kaliontzopoulou, A. & González-Solís, J.  Comparing multiple criteria for species identification in two recently diverged seabirds. PLoS ONE 9(12): e115650.

2013

2013. Lazić, M., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. & Crnobrnja-Isailović, J. Lizards from urban areas are more asymmetric: using fluctuating asymmetry to evaluate environmental disturbance. PLoS ONE 8(12): e84190.

2013. Salvi, D., Harris, D.J., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. & Pinho, C. Persistence across Pleistocene Ice Ages in Mediterranean and extra-Mediterranean refugia: phylogeographic insights from the common wall lizard. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13: 147.

2013. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Salvi, D., Gomes, V., Maia, J.P.M.C. & Kaliontzopoulos, P. Polydactyly in the Tyrrhenian wall lizard (Podarcis tiliguerta). Acta Herpetologica, 8: 75-78.

2013. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Bandeira, V. & Carretero, M.A. Sexual dimorphism in locomotor performance and its relation to morphology in Podarcis bocagei wall lizards. Journal of Zoology, 289: 294-302.

2012

2012. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Adams, D.C., van der Meijden, A., Perera, A. & Carretero, M.A. Relationships between head morphology, bite performance and ecology in two species of Podarcis wall lizards. Evolutionary Ecology, 26: 825-845.

2012. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. & Llorente, G.. Morphology of Podarcis wall lizards from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa: patterns of variation in a putative cryptic species complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 164: 173-193.

2011

2011. García-Muñoz, E., Ceacero, F., Pedrajas, L., Kaliontzopoulou, A. & Carretero, M. A. Tail tip removal for tissue sampling has no short-term effects on microhabitat selection by Podarcis bocagei, but induced autotomy does. Acta Herpetologica, 6 (2): 223-227.

2011. Kaliontzopoulou, A. Geometric morphometrics in herpetology: modern tools for enhancing the study of morphological variation in amphibians and reptiles. Basic & Applied Herpetology, 25: 5-32.

2011. Kaliontzopoulou, A.*, Pinho, C.*, Harris, D.J. & Carretero, M.A. When cryptic diversity blurs the picture: a cautionary tale from Iberian and North African Podarcis wall lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103: 779-800. * equal contributions

2011. Pinho, C., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Harris, D.J. & Ferrand, N. Recent evolutionary history of the Iberian endemic lizards Podarcis bocagei (Seoane 1884) and P. carbonelli Pérez-Mellado 1981 (Squamata: Lacertidae) revealed by allozyme and microsatellite markers. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162: 184-200.

2010

2010. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. & Llorente, G. Intraspecific ecomorphological variation: linear and geometric morphometrics reveal habitat-related patterns within Podarcis bocagei wall lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23: 1234-1244.

2010. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. & Sillero, N.. Geographic patterns of morphological variation in Podarcis carbonelli, a species with fragmented distribution. Herpetological Journal, 20: 41-50.

2010. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. & Llorente, G.A.. Sexual dimorphism in traits related to locomotion: ontogenetic patterns of variation in Podarcis wall lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 99: 530-543.

2009

2009. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Sillero, N., Martinez-Freiría, F., Carretero, M.A., Brito, J.C.. Podarcis hispânica* (North African wall lizard) arboreal behaviour. Herpetological Review, 40(2): 224-225.

2009. Bandeira, V., Azevedo, A., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. Podarcis bocagei (Bocage’s wall lizard). Spinal fracture. Herpetological Review, 40: 348-349.

2009. Navarro, J., Kaliontzopoulou, A., González-Solís, J. Sexual dimorphism in bill morphology and feeding ecology in Cory´s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea). Zoology, 112: 128-138.

2009. Pinho, C., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A., Harris, D.J. & Ferrand, N. Genetic admixture between the Iberian endemic lizards Podarcis bocagei and P. carbonelli: evidence for limited natural hybridization and a bimodal hybrid zone. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 47: 368-377.

2008

2008. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Brito, J.C., Carretero, M.A., Larbes, S., Harris, D.J. Modelling the partially unknown distribution of wall lizards Podarcis in North Africa: ecological affinities, potential areas of occurrence and methodological constraints. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 86 (9): 992-1001.

2008. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A., Llorente, G.A. Intersexual and interspecific variation of presacral vertebrae number in Podarcis bocagei and Podarcis carbonelli. Amphibia-Reptilia, 29: 288-292.

2008. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A., Llorente, G. Head shape allometry and proximate causes of head sexual dimorphism in Podarcis lizards: evidence from multivariate and geometric morphometrics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 93: 111-124.

2008. Lymberakis, P., Poulakakis, N., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Valakos, E. & Mylonas, M. Two new species of Podarcis (Squamata; Lacertidae) from Greece. Systematics and Biodiversity, 6: 307-318.

2008. Brito, J.C., Feriche, M., Herrera, T., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Martínez-Freiria, F., Nesbitt, D., Omolo, D., Ontiveros, D., Quiñoz, L., Pleguezuelos, J.M., Santos, X., Sillero, N. En los limites de la distribución: anfíbios y reptiles paleárcticos en el noroeste de Túnez. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española, 19: 75-82.

2008. Harris, D. J., Carretero, M. A., Brito, J. C., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Pinho, C., Perera, A., Vasconcelos, R., Barata, M., Barbosa, D., Batista, V., Carvalho, S., Fonseca, M. M., Pérez-Lanuza, G., Rato, C. Data on the distribution of the terrestrial herpetofauna of Morocco: records from 2001-2006. Herpetological Bulletin, 103: 19-28.

pre-2007

2007. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A., Llorente, G. Multivariate and geometric morphometrics in the analysis of sexual dimorphism variation in Podarcis lizards. Journal of Morphology, 268: 152-165.

2006. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A., Llorente, G.A., Santos, X., Llorente, C., 2006. Patterns of shape and size sexual dimorphism in a population of Podarcis hispanica* (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from NE Iberia. In: Corti, C., Lo Cascio, P. & Biaggini, M. (eds.). Mainland and insular lizards. A Mediterranean perspective. Firenze University Press, Florence. Pp. 73-89. 

2006. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A. Podarcis bocagei (Bocage’s Wall Lizard) abnormal scalation. Herpetological Review, 37 (4): 470.

2006. Carretero, M.A., Vasconcelos, R., Fonseca, M., Kaliontzopoulou, A., Brito, J.C., Harris, D.J., Perera, A. Escape tactics of two syntopic forms of the Lacerta perspicillata complex with different colour patterns. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 84(11): 1594-1603.

2005. Kaliontzopoulou, A., Carretero, M.A., Llorente, G.A. Differences in the pholidotic patterns of Podarcis bocagei and Podarcis carbonelli and possible implications for species determination. Revista Española de Herpetología, 19: 71-86.

2003. Lymberakis, P. & Kaliontzopoulou, A. Additions to the herpetofauna of Syria. Zoology in the Middle East, 29: 33-39.