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Sympatric competitors have driven the evolution of temporal activity patterns in Cnemaspis geckos in Southeast Asia.
Scientific reports - 8 Jan 2020
Nguyen Hung Ngoc, Hung Chih-Ming, Yang Ming-Yuan, Lin Si-Min
Abstract excerpt
It is often assumed that animals' temporal activity patterns are highly conserved throughout evolution. While most geckos are nocturnal, the species in the Cnemaspis genus are mostly diurnal (only a few are nocturnal). This raises a question about the evolution of a diel niche in the Cnemaspis genus. Cnemaspis geckos are distributed across Southeast Asia and are often sympatric with Cyrtodactylus, another...
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