Paschalia Kapli

Paschalia Kapli, zoologist.

• Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
• Science Group, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
• Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knosos Avenue, P.O. Box 2208, 71409 Irakleio, Crete, Greece.
• The Exelixis Lab, Scientific Computing Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Kapli, P., Lymberakis, P., Poulakakis, N., Mantziou, G., Parmakelis, A. & Mylonas, M. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of three Mesalina (Reptilia: Lacertidae) species (M. guttulata, M. brevirostris and M. bahaeldini) from North Africa and the Middle East: Another case of paraphyly? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(1): 102–110. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.06.016 Reference page. 

2011

• Kapli, P., Poulakakis, N., Lymberakis, P., & Mylonas, M. 2011. A re-analysis of the molecular phylogeny of Lacertidae with currently available data. Basic and Applied Herpetology 25: 97–104. DOI: 10.11160/bah.11010 Reference page. 

2015

• Kapli, P., Lymberakis, P., Crochet, P.-A., Geniez, P., Brito, J.C., Almutairi, M., Ahmadzadeh, F., Schmitz, A., Wilms, T., Pouyani, N.R. & Poulakakis, N. 2015. Historical biogeography of the lacertid lizard Mesalina in North Africa and the Middle East. Journal of Biogeography 42(2): 267–279. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12420 Reference page. 

2016

• Skourtanioti, E., Kapli, P., Ilgaz, C., Kumlutaş, Y., Avcı, A., Ahmadzadeh, F., Crnobrnja-Isailović́, J., Gherghel, I., Lymberakis, P. & Poulakakis, N. 2016. A reinvestigation of phylogeny and divergence times of the Ablepharus kitaibelii species complex (Sauria, Scincidae) based on mtDNA and nuDNA genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 199–214. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.005 Reference page. 

2017

• Šmíd, J., Moravec, J., Gvoždík, V., Štundl, J., Frynta, D., Lymberakis P., Kapli, P., Wilms, T., Schmitz, A., Shobrak, M., Yousefkhani, S.H., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Castilla, A.M., Els, J. & Mayer, W. 2017. Cutting the Gordian Knot: Phylogenetic and ecological diversification of the Mesalina brevirostris species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae). Zoologica Scripta 46(6): 649–664. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12254 Reference page. 

2020

• Kapli, P. & Telford, M.J. 2020. Topology-dependent asymmetry in systematic errors affects phylogenetic placement of Ctenophora and Xenacoelomorpha. Science Advances 6(50): eabc5162. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc5162 . Reference page. 

2021

• Kapli, P., Natsidis, P., Leite, D.J., Fursman, M., Jeffrie, N., Rahman, I.A., Philippe, H., Copley, R.R. & Telford, M.J. 2021. Lack of support for Deuterostomia prompts reinterpretation of the first Bilateria. Science Advances 7(12): eabe2741. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe2741 . Reference page. 

2025

• Silva, A.S., Natsidis, P., Piovani, L., Kapli, P. & Telford, M.J. 2025. Is the deuterostome clade an artifact? Current Biology 35(15): 3611–3623.e3. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.045 . Reference page.