Environmental heterogeneity and not vicariant biogeographic barriers generate community‐wide population structure in desert‐adapted snakes

EA Myers, AT Xue, M Gehara, CL Cox… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic structure can be influenced by local adaptation to environmental heterogeneity and
biogeographic barriers, resulting in discrete population clusters. Geographic distance …

Both traits and phylogenetic history influence community structure in snakes over steep environmental gradients

FT Burbrink, EA Myers - Ecography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Assemblages of closely related organisms are generated on axes of deep time
diversification, biogeographic processes related to dispersal and habitat filtering, and …

Asynchronous diversification of snakes in the North American warm deserts

EA Myers, MJ Hickerson… - Journal of Biogeography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We quantify the degree to which co‐distributed snakes across the Cochise Filter Barrier
(CFB) have a shared history of population divergence and estimate the timing of divergence …

Ecological correlates of population genetic structure: a comparative approach using a vertebrate metacommunity

MK Manier, SJ Arnold - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Identifying ecological factors associated with population genetic differentiation is important
for understanding microevolutionary processes and guiding the management of threatened …

Discordant patterns of population structure for two co‐distributed snake species across a fragmented Ontario landscape

MF DiLeo, JR Row, SC Lougheed - Diversity and Distributions, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The goal of our study was to investigate the effects of a fragmented landscape on the
genetic population structure of two sympatric snake species that differ in habitat preference …

Ecological and evolutionary determinants of species richness and phylogenetic diversity for island snakes

RA Pyron, FT Burbrink - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Island biogeography predicts positive relationships between area and species richness
resulting from the ecological processes of colonization in smaller areas and the evolutionary …

Genotyping‐in‐thousands by sequencing reveals marked population structure in Western Rattlesnakes to inform conservation status

DA Schmidt, P Govindarajulu, KW Larsen… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Delineation of units below the species level is critical for prioritizing conservation actions for
species at‐risk. Genetic studies play an important role in characterizing patterns of …

Population genetic analysis identifies source–sink dynamics for two sympatric garter snake species (Thamnophis elegans and Thamnophis sirtalis)

MK Manier, SJ Arnold - Molecular ecology, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Population genetic structure can be shaped by multiple ecological and evolutionary factors,
but the genetic consequences of these factors for multiple species inhabiting the same …

Combining genetic and demographic monitoring better informs conservation of an endangered urban snake

DA Wood, JP Rose, BJ Halstead, RE Stoelting… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Conversion and fragmentation of wildlife habitat often leads to smaller and isolated
populations and can reduce a species' ability to disperse across the landscape. As a …

Similarity of contemporary and historical gene flow among highly fragmented populations of an endangered rattlesnake

JE Chiucchi, HL Gibbs - Molecular Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Populations of endangered taxa in recently fragmented habitats often show high levels of
genetic structure, but the role that contemporary versus historical processes play in …