Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace's Line

A Skeels, LM Boschman, IR McFadden, EM Joyce… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Faunal turnover in Indo-Australia across Wallace's Line is one of the most recognizable
patterns in biogeography and has catalyzed debate about the role of evolutionary and …

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversification

RW Meredith, JE Janečka, J Gatesy, OA Ryder… - science, 2011 - science.org
Previous analyses of relations, divergence times, and diversification patterns among extant
mammalian families have relied on supertree methods and local molecular clocks. We …

[HTML][HTML] Macroevolutionary dynamics and historical biogeography of primate diversification inferred from a species supermatrix

MS Springer, RW Meredith, J Gatesy, CA Emerling… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and patterns of biogeographic descent among
primate species are both complex and contentious. Here, we generate a robust molecular …

The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives

RW Dennell, J Louys, HJ O'Regan… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The finding of archaeological evidence predating 1 Ma and a small hominin species (Homo
floresiensis) on Flores, Indonesia, has stimulated much research on its origins and ancestry …

[HTML][HTML] A mitogenomic phylogeny of living primates

K Finstermeier, D Zinner, M Brameier, M Meyer… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Primates, the mammalian order including our own species, comprise 480 species in 78
genera. Thus, they represent the third largest of the 18 orders of eutherian mammals …

Species delimitation, phylogenomics, and biogeography of Sulawesi flying lizards: a diversification history complicated by ancient hybridization, cryptic species, and …

JA Mcguire, X Huang, SB Reilly, DT Iskandar… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The biota of Sulawesi is noted for its high degree of endemism and for its substantial levels
of in situ biological diversification. While the island's long period of isolation and dynamic …

West to east dispersal and subsequent rapid diversification of the mega‐diverse genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in the Malesian archipelago

DC Thomas, M Hughes, T Phutthai… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The complex palaeogeography of the Malesian archipelago, characterized by the
evolution of an ever‐changing mosaic of terrestrial and marine areas throughout the …

Adaptive Radiation and Ecological Opportunity in Sulawesi and Philippine Fanged Frog (Limnonectes) Communities

MI Setiadi, JA McGuire, RM Brown… - The American …, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
Because island communities are derived from mainland communities, they are often less
diverse by comparison. However, reduced complexity of island communities can also …

Remarkable ancient divergences amongst neglected lorisiform primates

L Pozzi, KAI Nekaris, A Perkin… - Zoological Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Lorisiform primates (Primates: Strepsirrhini: Lorisiformes) represent almost 10% of
the living primate species and are widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and South/South …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequence of the basal haplorrhine primate Tarsius syrichta reveals unusual insertions

J Schmitz, A Noll, CA Raabe, G Churakov… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Tarsiers are phylogenetically located between the most basal strepsirrhines and the most
derived anthropoid primates. While they share morphological features with both groups, they …