Quartet sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life

JB Pease, JW Brown, JF Walker… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Phylogenetic support has been difficult to evaluate within the green
plant tree of life partly due to a lack of specificity between conflicted versus poorly informed …

Phylogenetic analysis as a forensic tool in HIV transmission investigations

AB Abecasis, M Pingarilho, AM Vandamme - Aids, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Because HIV is a fast-evolving virus, HIV genomic sequences of several individuals can be
used to investigate whether they belong to a transmission network. Since the infamous …

Conflicting Evolutionary Histories of the Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genomes in New World Myotis Bats

RN Platt, BC Faircloth, KAM Sullivan… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The rapid diversification of Myotis bats into more than 100 species is one of the most
extensive mammalian radiations available for study. Efforts to understand relationships …

Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data

JE O'Reilly, MN Puttick, D Pisani… - Palaeontology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fossil taxa are critical to inferences of historical diversity and the origins of modern
biodiversity, but realizing their evolutionary significance is contingent on restoring fossil …

Mitochondrial phylogenomics, the origin of swallowtail butterflies, and the impact of the number of clocks in B ayesian molecular dating

FL Condamine, B Nabholz, AL CLAMENS… - Systematic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Swallowtail butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) have been instrumental in
understanding many foundational concepts in biology; despite this, a resolved and robust …

Plastome sequences and exploration of tree-space help to resolve the phylogeny of riceflowers (Thymelaeaceae: Pimelea)

CSP Foster, MJ Henwood, SYW Ho - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Data sets comprising small numbers of genetic markers are not always able to resolve
phylogenetic relationships. This has frequently been the case in molecular systematic …

Geographic range dynamics drove ancient hybridization in a lineage of angiosperms

RA Folk, CJ Visger, PS Soltis, DE Soltis… - The American …, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
Elucidating the dynamic distribution of organismal lineages has been central to biology
since the nineteenth century, yet the difficulty of combining biogeographic methods with …

[PDF][PDF] A distinct new species of riparian rock-dwelling gecko (genus: Hemidactylus) from the southern Western Ghats

AN Srikanthan, P Swamy, AV Mohan, S Pal - Zootaxa, 2018 - researchgate.net
We describe a new species of rock-dwelling gecko, Hemidactylus paaragowlipaaragowli sp.
nov., from the Agastyamalai Hill Range, in the southern Western Ghats. Morphological and …

Phylogenetic systematics of the shelled sea slug genus Oxynoe Rafinesque, 1814 (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa), with integrative descriptions of seven new species

PJ Krug, JS Berriman, Á Valdés - Invertebrate Systematics, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
An integrative approach to investigate the species-level diversity in Oxynoe (Mollusca,
Heterobranchia, Sacoglossa) revealed the existence of 11 distinct taxa. Oxynoe viridis …

Cryptic speciation yields remarkable mimics: A new genus of sea slugs that masquerade as toxic algae (Caulerpa spp.)

PJ Krug, NLWS Wong, MR Medina… - Zoologica …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Cryptic” can refer to species that match their background through camouflage or
disruptive colouration, or in taxonomy to externally similar but unrecognized congeners. In …