Ability of Current Phylogenetic Clustering to Detect Speciation History
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Phylogenetic diversity aims to quantify the evolutionary relatedness among the species comprising a community, using the phylogenetic tree as the metric of the evolutionary relationships.
Athanasios S. Kallimanis +4 more
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Prolonging the past counteracts the pull of the present: protracted speciation can explain observed slowdowns in diversification. [PDF]
, 2012 Phylogenetic trees show a remarkable slowdown in the increase of number of lineages towards the present, a phenomenon which cannot be explained by the standard birth-death model of diversification with constant speciation and extinction rates.
Etienne, RS, Rosindell, J
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Brain metal homeostasis is altered in neurodegenerative diseases and the concentration, the localization and/or the chemical speciation of the elements can be modified compared to healthy individuals.
Asuncion Carmona +13 more
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Frequency-dependent selection predicts patterns of radiations and biodiversity. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2010 Most empirical studies support a decline in speciation rates through time, although evidence for constant speciation rates also exists. Declining rates have been explained by invoking pre-existing niches, whereas constant rates have been attributed to ...
Carlos J Melián +4 more
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The fossilized birth-death model for the analysis of stratigraphic range data under different speciation concepts [PDF]
, 2018 A birth-death-sampling model gives rise to phylogenetic trees with samples from the past and the present. Interpreting "birth" as branching speciation, "death" as extinction, and "sampling" as fossil preservation and recovery, this model -- also referred
Drummond, Alexei +5 more
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Solid state differentiation of plasma thiols using a centrifugally activated mercaptobenzothiazole disulfide exchange indicator [PDF]
, 2006 The solid state interaction of mono and macromolecular thiols at a disulphide heterocycle is shown to provide a versatile pathway for their ...
Callum Livingstone +18 more
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Concentrations of Essential Trace Metals in the Brain of Animal Species—A Comparative Study
Brain Sciences, 2020 The essential trace metals iron, zinc, and copper have a significant physiological role in healthy brain development and function. Especially zinc is important for neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, synaptic transmission and plasticity, and neurite outgrowth.
Chiara Alessia DeBenedictis +5 more
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Divergent preference functions generate directional selection in a jumping spider
Scientific Reports, 2023 Sexual selection has long been thought to promote speciation, but this possibility still remains a topic of controversy. Many theoretical models have been developed to understand the relationship between sexual selection and speciation, but such ...
Leonardo Braga Castilho
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Reproductive isolation between two populations of Aglaoctenus lagotis , a funnel-web wolf spider [PDF]
, 2015 Aglaoctenus lagotis (Lycosidae: Sosippinae) is a spider that, in contrast to the predominant wandering habit of the family, constructs funnel webs.
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Secondary sympatry caused by range expansion informs on the dynamics of microendemism in a biodiversity hotspot. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Islands are bounded areas where high endemism is explained either by allopatric speciation through the fragmentation of the limited amount of space available, or by sympatric speciation and accumulation of daughter species.
Romain Nattier +6 more
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