Explosive evolution of an ancient group of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida: Opiliones) in the Balkan Peninsula

J Murienne, I Karaman, G Giribet - Journal of Biogeography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… to explosive radiation, refers to an explosive diversification without change in morphology.
In the case of Cyphophthalmus, we can correlate the explosive evolution of the group with the …

Explosive evolution in Tertiary birds and mammals

A Feduccia - Science, 1995 - science.org
… picture of bird evolution is emerging. It illustrates that birds, like many other groups, underwent
… This explosive evolution paralleled that of mammals, producing all the modem lineages of …

The soft explosive model of placental mammal evolution

MJ Phillips, C Fruciano - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018 - Springer
evolutionary rates among large, long-lived mammals. This results in several-fold divergence
underestimates in groups … We refer to this as the “soft explosive” model of placental evolution

Evolutionary explosions and the phylogenetic fuse

A Cooper, R Fortey - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1998 - cell.com
groups have a prolonged but poorly known period of evolution during the Mesozoic when
many `archaic' groups … saw the appearance of many of the ancient sister-groups of the kinds of …

Evolution of the tribe Tropheini from Lake Tanganyika: synchronized explosive speciation producing multiple evolutionary parallelism

C Sturmbauer, U Hainz, S Baric, E Verheyen… - Aquatic Biodiversity: A …, 2003 - Springer
… V was resolved as sister group to the remaining four lineages. sister group to a clade
containing … Contribution of homoplasy and of ancient polymorphism to the evolution of genes in …

The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation

MD McGee, SR Borstein, JI Meier, DA Marques… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
… We discuss one of the ancient ecology-associated regions … indel polymorphisms, the hybrid
origin 24 and the explosive … of the evolutionary history of Lake Victoria cichlids, as evolution

Birds in a bush: five genes indicate explosive evolution of avian orders

S Poe, AL Chubb - Evolution, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… of an explosive and potentially unresolvable evolutionary … Here we examine the predictions
of the explosive radiation … testing for polytomies of evolutionary lineages, perform likelihood-…

The Cambrian evolutionary 'explosion'recalibrated

RA Fortey, DEG Briggs, MA Wills - BioEssays, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
… major groups of invertebrate animals are extremely ancient. … It has long been recognised
that these groups have no … the Cambrian to allow the major animal groups to diverge. The first …

Waking the undead: Implications of a soft explosive model for the timing of placental mammal diversification

MS Springer, CA Emerling, RW Meredith… - … and Evolution, 2017 - Elsevier
… Support for the explosive model, which posits both … Phillips (2016) proposed a soft explosive
model that allows for the … , but otherwise agrees with the explosive model in positing the …

Explosive radiations and the reliability of molecular clocks: island endemic radiations as a test case

L Bromham, M Woolfit - Systematic Biology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… detect any influence of explosive radiation on the rate of molecular evolution. Island endemic
… It is not necessary for the island and mainland lineages to be sister groups for this analysis. …