Our call with @HerpetologyTra1 for integrating genomic evidence in #amphibian taxonomy is out in Science! Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Exactly 2 weeks ago the Taxon-Omics Annual Meeting with many exciting updates on the individual projects of our #SPP1991 #TaxonOmics took place at #RUB. Stay tuned for regular updates on our publications!

Glad to be back from an impromptu fieldtrip in northwestern Iberia to conclude a great 3-year sampling campaign of midwife toad hybrid zones with Johanna Ambu! Who would have thought so see so many amphibians around in October :)

Herpétologues, qui sont ces mordus de serpents 🐍? Christophe Dufresnes nous raconte son métier d’herpétologue et nous explique, en compagnie du naturaliste suisse Nicolas Rodrigues, comment observer, identifier et protéger reptiles 🦎 et amphibiens 🐸 radiofrance.fr/franceinter/po…

Congrats to Johanna Ambu for the publication of her first PhD chapter on the phylogenomics of midwife toads! dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympe…

Glad to have our perspective paper on species / subspecies delimitation out in PNAS with Daniel Jablonski and Nick Poyarkov, edited by David Hillis pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Hope it brings some interesting debates!

The journal Alytes is back in action and welcoming submissions! Check out our new webpages and keep an eye out for the upcoming volume: biotaxa.org/Alytes/index Thank you for considering Alytes for your amphibian research! Your editors Daniel Jablonski & Christophe Dufresnes

Introducing Alytes obstetricans lusitanicus ssp. nov. biotaxa.org/Alytes/article…

Una nueva especie introducida de anfibio en Madrid, a través del comercio de plantas. Cada vez veremos más casos: brill.com/view/journals/…

New species of crocodile newt discovered from Viet Nam just published in AlytesJournal Crocodile newts are rare jungle salamanders emblematic of the amazing biodiversity of Southeast Asia. Congrats to Nick Poyarkov and his international team for this discovery!

My PhD chapter on the French hybrid zone of midwife toads has been published ! It focuses on the distribution, hybridization and mating calls 🎵 of our two Alytes species 🐸 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Our phylogeography of Duttaphrynus melanostictus is finally out in Nature Communications ! Check out its fancy patterns, such as a new species from SE-Asia and suspicions of historical human-mediated dispersal across the Indian Ocean: nature.com/articles/s4146…

The long-awaited book "Status of Decline and Conservation of Amphibians of the Middle East" has just been released! Happy to have helped out for one chapter on Syrian amphibians by Ahmad Aidek, Mudar Salimeh, Yaman Omran and Daniel Jablonski link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

New PhD chapter published !! I am so happy with this one, resuming the distribution and genomic diversity of the lineages of the Alytes obstetricans complex, with insights on their conservation 🐸 Big thanks to my collaborators ! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Genetics or phenetics? Check out what best differentiates midwife toad taxa at various stage of the speciation continuum in a freshly squeezed article in Molecular Ecology with Johanna Ambu, Iñigo Martinez-Solano, Guillermo Velo-Antón and many others! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Sex, genes and speciation - Different chromosomes carrying famous genes determine males and females in common and spiny toads, driving their reproductive barriers. Hybrids, the battle of sex is on! doi.org/10.1093/molbev…