Abstract Background The Pleistocene closure of Isthmus of Panama, separating the basins
of the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, created a unique natural experiment that …

Elopomorpha is one of the three main clades of living teleost fishes and includes a range of
disparate lineages including eels, tarpons, bonefishes, and halosaurs. Elopomorphs were …

The completion of the Panamanian Isthmus is one of the greatest natural experiments in
evolution, sending multiple species pairs from a broad range of taxonomic groups on …

Phylogenetic relationships among angelfishes (Pomacanthidae) and their putative sister
taxon, the butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae), were examined using 12S and 16S …

Aim To create a molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the closely related serranid genera
Alphestes Bloch and Schneider and Dermatolepis Gill and assess the role of the …

This study develops the random phylogenies rate test (RAPRATE), a likelihood method that
simulates morphological evolution along randomly generated phylogenies, and uses it to …

The high diversity of Neotropical fishes has been attributed to major South American
palaeogeographic events, such as Andean uplift, rise of the Isthmus of Panama and marine …

The closure of the Isthmus of Panama has long been considered to be one of the best
defined biogeographic calibration points for molecular divergence-time estimation …

Ecological opportunity is often proposed as a driver of accelerated diversification, but
evidence has been largely derived from either contemporary island radiations or the fossil …

The marine faunas of tropical America underwent substantial evolutionary turnover in the
past 3 to 4 million years in response to changing environmental conditions associated with …