Monthly Archives: August 2021

In the 1970s Jozef F. Schmidtler noticed that crested newts in the Berchtesgadener Land, in the extreme southeast of Germany, show morphological characteristics of the Italian crested newt (Triturus carnifex). A particular striking feature was the bright yellow stripe along … Continue reading →

A beautiful banded newt because why not (Michael Fahrbach) A follow-up study on the evolution of the immune system in salamanders, again led by Gemma Palomar and Wiesław Babik, is just out in Molecular Biology and Evolution. We conduct an … Continue reading →