Publications
Staikou A, Sagonas K, Spanoudi O, Savvidou K, Nazli Z, Feidantsis K, Michaelidis B. 2024. Activities of antioxidant enzymes and Hsp levels in response to elevated temperature in land snail species with varied latitudinal distribution. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 269: 110908.
Daftsios T, Iakovidis D, Gogolos N, K Sagonas. 2024. First record of Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Piperi island, Northern Sporades, Greece. Herpetozoa 37, 227-229.
Daftsios T, Iakovidis D, Gogolos N, K Sagonas. 2024 First evidence of scavenging behaviour in Ichthyosaura alpestris (Wolterstorff, 1935). Herpetozoa 37, 137-140.
Daftsios T, Strachinis I, Iakovidis D, Gogolos N, K Sagonas. 2024. Εxtending the known vertical distribution of Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922). Herpetozoa 37, 107-110.
Kotsakiozi P, Antoniou A, Psonis N, Sagonas K, Karameta E, Ilgaz Ç, Kumlutaş Y, Avcı A, Daniel Jablonski, Darriba D, Stamatakis A, Lymberakis P, N. Poulakakis 2024. Cryptic diversity and phylogeographic patterns of Mediodactylus species in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 197, 108091.
Pafilis P, Adamopoulou C, Antonopoulos A, Deimezis-Tsikoutas A, Christopoulos A, K. Sagonas. 2024. Surviving on a Rock, but for How Long? Deviations in the Thermoregulatory Strategy of the Milos Wall Lizard (Podarcis milensis). Animals 14 (21), 308.
Thorburn D.M.J., Sagonas K., Binzer-Panchal M., Chain F.J.J, Feulner P.G.D, Bornberg-Bauer E., Reusch T.B.H, Samonte-Padilla I.E., Milinski M., Lenz T.L., Eizaguirre C., 2023. Origin Matters: How a Local Reference Genome Improve Measures of Population Genomics. Molecular Ecology Resources, 23(7):1706-1723.
Reppa A, Agori AF, Santikou P, Parmakelis A, Pafilis P, Valakos ED, Sagonas K. 2023. Small Island Effects on the Thermal Biology of the Endemic Mediterranean Lizard Podarcis gaigeae. Animals 13: 2965.
Sagonas K, Deimezis-Tsikoutas A, Reppa A, Domenikou I, Papafoti M, Synevrioti K, Polydouri I, Voutsela A, Bletsa A, Karambotsi N, Pafilis P, Valakos ED. 2021. Tail regeneration alters the digestive performance of lizards. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 34: 671-679.
Sagonas K., Karameta E., Kotsakiozi P., Poulakakis N., 2020. Cross-species testing of nuclear markers in Pelophylax water frogs in Greece and examination of their power to detect genetic admixture. Amphibia-Reptilia 41: 253-259.
Sagonas K, Meyer BS, Kaufmann J, Lenz TL, Häsler R, Eizaguirre C. 2020. Experimental Parasite Infection Causes Genome-Wide Changes in DNA Methylation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37: 2287-2299
Sagonas K., Pafilis P., Lymberakis P., Valakos E. D., 2019. Sexual maturation and reproduction of the Balkan green lizard Lacerta trilineata specimens in mainland and island populations from Greece. North-western Journal of Zoology 15: 55-61.
Sagonas, K., Runemark, A., Antoniou, A., Lymberakis, P., Pafilis, P., Valakos, E.D., Poulakakis N., Hansson B., 2019. Selection, drift, and introgression shape MHC polymorphism in lizards. Heredity 122: 468-484.
Rey O., Eizaguirre C., Angers B., Baltazar-Soares M., Sagonas K., Prunier J., Blanchet S., 2019. Linking epigenetics and biological conservation: Toward a conservation epigenetics perspective. Functional Ecology, 34: 414-427.
Itescu Y., Schwarz R., Donihue C.M., Slavenko1 A., Roussos S.A., Sagonas K., Valakos E.D., Foufopoulos J., Pafilis P., Meiri S., 2018. Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co‐occurring island reptiles. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 538-550.
Sagonas K., Valakos E. D., Lymberakis P., Pafilis P., 2018. Traits of reproduction and feeding of the european Green lizard, Lacerta viridis (Laurenti, 1768), at the southern edge of its distribution. Herpetozoa 30(3/4): 115-129.
Karameta E., Litsi-Mizan V., Sagonas K., Sfenthourakis S.M., Valakos E.D., Pafilis P., 2017. Ontogenetic shifts in the digestive efficiency of an insectivorous lizard. Salamandra 53(2): 321-326.
Sagonas K., Kapsalas G., Valakos E.D., Pafilis P., 2017. Living in sympatry: the effect of habitat partitioning on the thermoregulation of three Mediterranean lizards. Journal of Thermal Biology 65: 130-137.
Sagonas K., Karambotsi N., Bletsa A., Reppa A., Pafilis P., Valakos E.D., 2017. Tail regeneration affects the digestive performance of a Mediterranean lizard. The Science of Nature – Naturwissenschaften 104(3):22.
Pafilis P., Sagonas K., Kapsalas G., Foufopoulos J., Valakos E.D., 2017. Sex does not affect tail autotomy in lacertid lizards. Acta Herpetologica 12(1): 19-27.
Pafilis P., Maragou M., Sagonas K., Valakos E.D., 2017. Partitioning thermal habitat on a vertical rock, a herculean task. Journal of Thermal Biology 70: 54-60.
Mina D., Sagonas K., Fragopoulou A.F., Pafilis P., Skouroliakou A., Tsitsilonis O.E., Margaritis L.H., Valakos E.D., 2016. Immune responses of a wall lizard to whole-body exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation. International Journal of Radiation Biology 92(3):162-168.
Pafilis P., Meiri S., Sagonas K., Karakasi D., Kourelou E., Valakos E. D., 2016. Body size affects digestive performance in a Mediterranean lizard. Herpetological Journal 26: 201-207.
Sagonas K., Rota I. A., Pafilis, P., Tsitsilonis O. E., Valakos E. D., 2016. Infection risk dictates variable immune responses in a Mediterranean lizard. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29(9):1680-1688.
Pafilis P., Lymberakis P., Sagonas K., Valakos E. D., 2016. The particularities of a remote islet shape the thermoregulatory profile of an endemic Mediterranean lizard. Journal of Thermal Biology 61: 55-60.
Schwarz R., Gavriilidi I.A., Itescu Y., Jamison S., Sagonas K., Meiri S., Pafilis P., 2016. Mediodactylus kotschyi in the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece: distribution and habitat. Acta Herpetologica 11(2): 179-187.
Lymberakis P., Valakos E.D., Sagonas K., Pafilis P., 2016. The castaway: islet characteristics affect the ecology of the most isolated European lizard. Acta Herpetologica 11(2): 161-169.
Sagonas K., Pafilis P., Lymberakis P., Valakos E. D., 2015. Trends and patterns in the feeding ecology of the widespread Balkan lizard Lacerta trilineata (Squamata: Lacertidae) in insular and continental Greece. North-western Journal of Zoology 11(1): 117-126.
Runemark A., Sagonas K., E. Svensson., 2015. Ecological explanations to island gigantism: dietary niche divergence, predation, and size in an endemic lizard. Ecology 96(8):2077-2092.
Sagonas K., Pafilis P., Valakos E. D., 2015. Effects of insularity on digestive performance: living in islands induces shifts in physiological and morphological traits in a Mediterranean lizard? The Science of Nature - Naturwissenschaften 102(9-10):55-62.
Sagonas K., Poulakakis N., Lymberakis P., Parmakelis A., Pafilis P., Valakos E. D., 2014. Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of the green lizards (Lacerta) in Greece: Insights from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 76: 144-154.
Sagonas K., Pafilis P., Lymberakis P., Donihue C. M., Herrel A., Valakos E. D., 2014. Insularity affects head morphology, bite force and diet in a Mediterranean lizard. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 112: 469-484.
Sagonas K., Meiri S., Valakos E. D., Pafilis P., 2013. The effect of body size on the thermoregulation of lizards on hot, dry Mediterranean islands. Journal of Thermal Biology 38: 92-97.
Pafilis P., Anastasiou I., Sagonas K., Valakos E. D., 2013. Grazing by goats on islands affects the populations of an endemic Mediterranean lizard. Journal of Zoology 290: 255-264.
Sagonas K., Valakos E. D., Pafilis P., 2013. The impact of insularity on the thermoregulation of a Mediterranean lizard. Journal of Thermal Biology 38: 480-486.
Pafilis P., Foufopoulos J., Sagonas K., Runemark A., Svensson E., Valakos E. D., 2011. Reproductive biology of insular reptiles: Marine subsidies modulate expression of the “Island Syndrome”. Copeia 2011: 545-552.