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Molecular phylogenetics of the African horseshoe bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae): expanded geographic and taxonomic sampling of the Afrotropics

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019
Background The Old World insectivorous bat genus Rhinolophus is highly speciose. Over the last 15 years, the number of its recognized species has grown from 77 to 106, but knowledge of their interrelationships has not kept pace.
Terrence C. Demos, Paul W. Webala, Steven M. Goodman, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Michael Bartonjo, Bruce D. Patterson   +5 more
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Mito-nuclear coevolution and phylogenetic artifacts: the case of bivalve mollusks

Scientific Reports, 2022
Mito-nuclear phylogenetic discordance in Bivalvia is well known. In particular, the monophyly of Amarsipobranchia (Heterodonta + Pteriomorphia), retrieved from mitochondrial markers, contrasts with the monophyly of Heteroconchia (Heterodonta ...
Alessandro Formaggioni, Federico Plazzi, Marco Passamonti   +2 more
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Coalescent histories for lodgepole species trees

, 2015
Coalescent histories are combinatorial structures that describe for a given gene tree and species tree the possible lists of branches of the species tree on which the gene tree coalescences take place. Properties of the number of coalescent histories for
Disanto, Filippo, Rosenberg, Noah A.
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Coalescent-based species delimitation in the sand lizards of the Liolaemus wiegmannii complex (Squamata: Liolaemidae) [PDF]

, 2019
Coalescent-based algorithms coupled with the access to genome-wide data have become powerful tools forassessing questions on recent or rapid diversification, as well as delineating species boundaries in the absence of reciprocal monophyly.
Abdala, Adam D. Leaché, Agapow, Arley Camargo, Avila, Avila, Avila, Avila, Avila, Avila, Avila, Battey, Bauer, Bickford, Bouckaert, Breitman, Breitman, Breitman, Breitman, Bryant, Cabrera, Camargo, Catchen, Chifman, Corl, D'Elía, Darriba, Drummond, Drummond, Díaz-Arce, Etheridge, Etheridge, Filatov, Fontanella, Fujita, Fujita, Gibbs, Grummer, Heled, Helyar, Herrera, Hoelzer, Hudson, Hung, Iriondo, Jack W. Sites, Joaquín Villamil, Jombart, Kapli, Kass, Kozlov, Larkin, Leaché, Leaché, Leaché, Leaché, Leaché, Lee, Lobo, Luciano J. Avila, Maddison, Mariana Morando, Martinez, Medina, Medina, Morando, Morando, Morando, Morin, Nei, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Noguerales, Noonan, O'Connell, O'Connell, Oaks, Olave, Olave, Olave, Ortiz, Palumbi, Pante, Pante, Peterson, Pfenninger, Pincheira-Donoso, Pons, Portik, R Core Team, Rabassa, Rannala, Raúl Maneyro, Reyes-Velasco, Rokas, Rozas, Ruane, Schliep, Schulte, Soibelzon, Stamatakis, Stellatelli, Struck, Sukumaran, Swofford, Tamura, Tonni, Townsend, Troncoso-Palacios, Uetz, Vega, Verrastro, Verrastro, Villamil, Wagner, Wang, Yang, Yang, Yang, Zhang   +118 more
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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
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Hindlimb functional morphology and locomotor biomechanics of the small Late Triassic pseudosuchian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum (Archosauria: Gracilisuchidae)

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
A three‐dimensional biomechanical model of the musculoskeletal system is used to analyse the potential locomotor functions of the small (~1 kg) Late Triassic archosaurian reptile Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum. The study finds that, potentially like the ancestral archosaur, this taxon was probably quadrupedal, plantigrade and neither strongly sprawling ...
Agustina Lecuona, Emily Keeble, Yuting Lin, John R. Hutchinson   +3 more
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Species concepts and relationships in wild and cultivated potatoes [PDF]

Wild and cultivated potatoes (Solanum section Petota) present challenges to taxonomists arising from lack of clearly defined morphological character differences among many species, phenotypic plasticity, a range of ploidy levels from diploid to hexaploid,
Berg, R.G., van den, Brandenburg, W.A., Bryan, G.J., Spooner, D.M.   +3 more
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A New Genus of Miniaturized and Pug-Nosed Gecko from South America (Sphaerodactylidae: Gekkota) [PDF]

, 2011
Sphaerodactyl geckos comprise five genera distributed across Central and South America and the Caribbean. We estimated phylogenetic relationships among sphaerodactyl genera using both separate and combined analyses of seven nuclear genes.
Bauer, Aaron M., Colli, Guarino R., Daza, Juan D., Gamble, Tony, Vitt, Laurie J.   +4 more
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Benthoplanidae, a new family of benthic ctenophores (Platyctenida), based on morphological and genetic data

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
The benthic ctenophore Benthoplana meteoris (adults left and bottom, planktonic juveniles to the top right), type species for the genus, which in turn is type for the newly erected family: Benthoplanidae (Ctenophora, Platyctenida). Abstract We present a phylogenetic analysis of benthic ctenophores of the order Platyctenida, sampling all but one genus ...
Nicholas Bezio, Gustav Paulay, Allen Collins   +2 more
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Assessing the potential of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within species radiations: The fly genus Chiastocheta (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) as a case study [PDF]

, 2017
Determining phylogenetic relationships among recently diverged species has long been a challenge in evolutionary biology. Cytoplasmic DNA markers, which have been widely used, notably in the context of molecular barcoding, have not always proved ...
Alvarez, Nadir, Arrigo, Nils, Dessimoz, Christophe, Emerson, Brent C., Espíndola, Anahí, Gori, Kevin, Ronikier, Michał, Rutschmann, Sereina, Suchan, Tomasz   +8 more
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