Diel activity correlates with colour pattern morphology of heterobranch sea slugs
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.The authors show that daytime activity fundamentally shapes the appearance of prey animals to potential predators and that colour pattern phenotypes likely associated with visual signalling are predominantly found in diurnal species of sea slugs. This study showcases novel methodology combining comparative phylogenetic analyses, animal vision modelling,
Cedric P. van den Berg +5 more
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Phylogenetic relationships of African Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences [PDF]
, 2003 Africa (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae.
Duellman W.E. +14 more
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Demographic history of the Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus) in Southeast Asia
Ecological Research, EarlyView.Malayan tapirs in Southeast Asia can be distinguished into 3 geographical groups, based on genetic structure analysis in 11 whole genomes. The effective population size (Ne) of tapirs shows a general decreasing trend, as suggested by the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent analysis, with population expansion or structuring during late Early ...
Qi Luan Lim +3 more
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Phylogenetic analysis of the Camaenidae (Mollusca: Stylommatophora) with special emphasis on the american taxa [PDF]
, 2003 The monophyly of the land snail family Camaenidae has been in doubt due to a disjunct bihemispheric distributional pattern and to the lack of morphological synapomorphies.
Cuezzo, Maria Gabriela
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.The habitat generalist familiar chat was not affected by climate change in southern Africa due to long‐term stable habitats. The Malawi population is distinct from the southern African population, and the latter shows no evidence of the geographic partitioning that has been shown for species occupying more restricted habitat types.
Gary VOELKER +5 more
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Common lizards break Dollo’s law of irreversibility: genome-wide phylogenomics support a single origin of viviparity and re-evolution of oviparity [PDF]
, 2018 Dollo’s law of irreversibility states that once a complex trait has been lost in evolution, it cannot be regained. It is thought that complex epistatic interactions and developmental constraints impede the re-emergence of such a trait.
Elmer, Kathryn R. +2 more
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Molecular Ecology Resources, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The bestRAD technique is a reduced genome representation approach with high‐capacity sample multiplexing and physical isolation of biotin‐labelled target DNA fragments using streptavidin beads, which should reduce total cost and genotyping errors. While we here formalise the relevance of this approach within the HTS landscape, our foremost aim
Emeline Charbonnel +7 more
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Uncovered variability in olive moth (Prays oleae) questions species monophyly.
PLoS ONE, 2018 The olive moth -Prays oleae Bern.- remains a significant pest of olive trees showing situation dependent changes in population densities and in severity of damages.
Tânia Nobre +2 more
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Phylogenetic Relationships Within Arctornis (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) Based on COI Gene Sequences
Hayati Journal of Biosciences, 2015 Genus Arctornis is one of Tussock moths which are most diverse in tropics, particularly in Sundaland. Several species associate with cultivated plants and have potential to become pests. The systematic of this genus is still in dispute, especially on the
HARI SUTRISNO
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Error, bias, and long-branch attraction in data for two chloroplast photosystem genes in seed plants [PDF]
, 2000 Sequences of two chloroplast photosystem genes, psaA and psbB, together comprising about 3,500 bp, were obtained for all five major groups of extant seed plants and several outgroups among other vascular plants.
Brady, Siobhan +4 more
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