Biogeographic Insights Into the Late Miocene Diversification of the Giant Deep‐Ocean Amphipod Eurythenes [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMechanisms driving the spatial and temporal patterns of species distribution in the Earth's largest habitat, the deep ocean, remain largely enigmatic. The late Miocene to the Pliocene (~23–2.58 Ma) is a period that was marked by significant geological ...
Carolina E. González +5 more
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Bridging Evolutionary History and Conservation of New World Vultures [PDF]
Animals, 2023 The New World Vultures (Cathartidae) include seven species of obligate scavengers that, despite their ecological relevance, present critical information gaps around their evolutionary history and conservation.
Daniela Cortés-Díaz +4 more
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Rise of the king: Gondwanan origins and evolution of megaraptoran dinosaurs [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceLate Cretaceous Earth was dominated by theropods such as tyrannosauroids and megaraptorans; however, it is unclear how these clades diversified and grew to massive proportions.
Cassius Morrison +9 more
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography of Subtribe Ecliptinae (Asteraceae, Heliantheae) [PDF]
PlantsWe present a molecular phylogeny for the subtribe Ecliptinae (Asteraceae, Heliantheae) based on three plastid (matK, psbA-trnH, and trnQ-rps16) and two nuclear (nrITS and nrETS) markers.
Rafael Felipe de Almeida +5 more
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Reconstruction of the evolutionary biogeography reveals the origin and diversification of Arisaema (Araceae) [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2022 Explaining where plants originated and how plants migrated between eastern Asia and other Northern Hemisphere regions is still challenging. The genus Arisaema is considered a good example to illuminate this process, due to its wide distribution in both ...
Van Tien Tran +6 more
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The biogeographic history of neosuchian crocodiles and the impact of saltwater tolerance variability
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Extant neosuchian crocodiles are represented by only 24 taxa that are confined to the tropics and subtropics. However, at other intervals during their 200 Myr evolutionary history the clade reached considerably higher levels of species-richness, matched ...
Sebastian S. Groh +3 more
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Diversity, 2021 Event-based biogeographic methods, such as dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis, have become increasingly popular for attempting to reconstruct the biogeographic history of organisms.
Ivan L. F. Magalhaes +2 more
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Transoceanic origin of microendemic and flightless New Caledonian weevils [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The origin of the astonishing New Caledonian biota continues to fuel a heated debate among advocates of a Gondwanan relict scenario and defenders of late oceanic dispersal.
Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint +3 more
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Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification patterns of side-necked turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Pleurodires or side-necked turtles are today restricted to freshwater environments of South America, Africa–Madagascar and Australia, but in the past they were distributed much more broadly, being found also on Eurasia, India and North America, and ...
Gabriel S. Ferreira +3 more
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Diversity, 2022 A detailed phylogeny of bumblebees is urgently needed to understand speciation and biogeographic diversification in the Neotropical region. We sequenced autosomal and mtDNA loci from nine Brazilian bumblebee species and compiled it with the data already ...
José Eustáquio Santos Júnior +7 more
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