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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2019 The current classification of angiosperms is based primarily on concatenated plastid markers and maximum likelihood (ML) inference. This approach has been justified by the assumption that plastid DNA (ptDNA) is inherited as a single locus and that its ...
Deise J P Gonçalves +4 more
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Floristic response to urbanization: Filtering of the bioregional flora in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA [PDF]
, 2017 PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Globally, urban plant populations are becoming increasingly important, as these plants play a vital role in ameliorating effects of ecosystem disturbance and climate change.
Aronson, Myla F.J. +2 more
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Little ecological divergence associated with speciation in two African rain forest tree genera [PDF]
, 2011 Background: The tropical rain forests (TRF) of Africa are the second largest block of this biome after the Amazon and exhibit high levels of plant endemism and diversity.
Chatrou, Lars +3 more
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Phylogenetic diversity of stress signalling pathways in fungi [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Abstract Background Microbes must sense environmental stresses, transduce these signals and mount protective responses to survive in hostile environments. In this study we have tested the hypothesis that fungal stress signalling pathways have evolved rapidly in a niche-specific fashion that is independent of phylogeny.
Nikolaou, Elissavet +5 more
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Form-function relationships in dragonfly mandibles under an evolutionary perspective [PDF]
, 2017 © 2017 The Author(s). Functional requirements may constrain phenotypic diversification or foster it. For insect mouthparts, the quantification of the relationship between shape and function in an evolutionary framework remained largely unexplored.
Blanke, Alexander +4 more
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Phylogenetic signal in predator–prey body-size relationships [PDF]
Ecology, 2011 Body mass is a fundamental characteristic that affects metabolism, life history, and population abundance and frequently sets bounds on who eats whom in food webs. Based on a collection of topological food webs, Ulrich Brose and colleagues presented a general relationship between the body mass of predators and their prey and analyzed how mean predator ...
Naisbit, Russell E. +3 more
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Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in echolocating mammals [PDF]
, 2013 Evolution is typically thought to proceed through divergence of genes, proteins, and ultimately phenotypes(1-3). However, similar traits might also evolve convergently in unrelated taxa due to similar selection pressures(4,5).
A Schneider +64 more
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Measuring avian specialization
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Measuring the extent to which a species is specialized is a major challenge in ecology, with important repercussions for fundamental research as well as for applied ecology and conservation.
Federico Morelli +3 more
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phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal
Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Phylogenetic signal is the tendency for closely related species to display similar trait values as a consequence of their phylogenetic proximity. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are becoming increasingly interested in studying the phylogenetic ...
F. Keck, F. Rimet, A. Bouchez, A. Franc
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Genetic structure and evolution of the Leishmania genus in Africa and Eurasia: what does MLSA tell us [PDF]
, 2013 Leishmaniasis is a complex parasitic disease from a taxonomic, clinical and epidemiological point of view. The role of genetic exchanges has been questioned for over twenty years and their recent experimental demonstration along with the identification ...
Berry, Vincent +7 more
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