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Arrival and diversification of mabuyine skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the Neotropics based on a fossil-calibrated timetree [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Background The evolution of South American Mabuyinae skinks holds significant biogeographic interest because its sister lineage is distributed across the African continent and adjacent islands.
Anieli Guirro Pereira, Carlos G. Schrago
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“Into and Out of” the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau and the Himalayas: Centers of origin and diversification across five clades of Eurasian montane and alpine passerine birds

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Encompassing some of the major hotspots of biodiversity on Earth, large mountain systems have long held the attention of evolutionary biologists. The region of the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau (QTP) is considered a biogeographic source for multiple colonization
Martin Päckert, Adrien Favre, Jan Schnitzler, Jochen Martens, Yue‐Hua Sun, Dieter Thomas Tietze, Frank Hailer, Ingo Michalak, Patrick Strutzenberger   +8 more
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An exploration of the complex biogeographical history of the Neotropical banner-wing damselflies (Odonata: Polythoridae)

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020
Background The New World Tropics has experienced a dynamic landscape across evolutionary history and harbors a high diversity of flora and fauna. While there are some studies addressing diversification in Neotropical vertebrates and plants, there is ...
Melissa Sánchez-Herrera, Christopher D. Beatty, Renato Nunes, Camilo Salazar, Jessica L. Ware   +4 more
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Historical dynamics and current environmental effects explain the spatial distribution of species richness patterns of New World monkeys [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Background Why biodiversity is not uniformly distributed on the Earth is a major research question of biogeography. One of the most striking patterns of disparity in species distribution are the biodiversity hotspots, which generally do not fit with the ...
Paulo Vallejos-Garrido, Reinaldo Rivera, Oscar Inostroza-Michael, Enrique Rodríguez-Serrano, Cristián E. Hernández   +4 more
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And the twain shall meet at the end: a phylogeny of Myrcianthes (Myrtaceae, Myrteae) with phytogeographic and morphological insights [PDF]

Plant Ecology and Evolution
Background and aims – Myrcianthes is a New World genus of Myrtaceae with 36 species, diverse in the Andes, and often dominant in montane forests. It is found from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from sea level to 3729 m, and its total latitudinal range is ...
Carolyn Elinore Barnes Proença, Jair Eustáquio Quintino de Faria, Marla Ibrahim Uehbe de Oliveira, Julia Sonsin-Oliveira, Gustavo Hiroaki Shimizu, Vanessa Graziele Staggemeier   +5 more
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The relative roles of in situ diversification and lineage dispersal underlying diversity patterns at the assemblage level

Oikos, EarlyView.
Speciation, extinction, and dispersal are the historical processes influencing the spatial distribution of lineages and strongly influence diversity patterns. Here, we apply a recently developed methodological approach to quantify the relative legacies in situ diversification history (i.e.
Arthur Vinicius Rodrigues, Gabriel Nakamura, Leandro Duarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive evolutionary analysis of the Anthroherpon radiation (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Leptodirini).

PLoS ONE, 2018
The genus Anthroherpon Reitter, 1889 exhibits the most pronounced troglomorphic characters among Coleoptera, and represents one of the most spectacular radiations of subterranean beetles.
Iva Njunjić, Adrien Perrard, Kasper Hendriks, Menno Schilthuizen, Michel Perreau, Vincent Merckx, Michel Baylac, Louis Deharveng   +7 more
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Rethinking areas of endemism and barriers: perspectives for a causal historical biogeography and a critique of Schultz and Cracraft (2024)

Cladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Historical biogeography faces a persistent conceptual and methodological dilemma concerning the nature of its central analytical units. Using the recent proposal by Schultz and Cracraft (Cladistics 40, 653) as a catalyst, this article critiques the argument that causal inference necessitates the replacement of areas of endemism with barriers ...
Augusto Ferrari
wiley   +1 more source

Dispersal probabilities and geography input for BioGeoBEARS

, 2021
Lily Shapiro
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Plastid and nuclear phylogenomics of Cyphostemma (Vitaceae) provide new insights into genome size evolution across sub‐Saharan Africa

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.
Some African Cyphostemma species evolved much larger genomes as they adapted to dry, rocky habitats. These expansions are linked to succulent traits and specialization on nutrient‐rich limestone outcrops. The findings show how climate‐driven aridification shaped plant evolution and highlight broader genome‐environment patterns across flowering plants ...
Rindra M. Ranaivoson, Romer N. Rabarijaona, Jin‐Ren Yu, Yi‐Chen You, Russell L. Barrett, Ju Zhou, Bing Liu, Wyckliffe Omondi Omollo, Chuan‐Yu Du, Da‐Ming Zhang, Mijoro Rakotoarinivo, Jie Cheng, Chao‐Bin Li, Yang Dong, Ilia J. Leitch, Alexandre Antonelli, Jun Wen, Zhi‐Duan Chen, Li‐Min Lu   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source