Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome

AC Carnaval, E Waltari… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Phylogeographic endemism, the degree to which the history of recently evolved lineages is
spatially restricted, reflects fundamental evolutionary processes such as cryptic divergence …

High Levels of Diversity Uncovered in a Widespread Nominal Taxon: Continental Phylogeography of the Neotropical Tree Frog Dendropsophus minutus

M Gehara, AJ Crawford, VGD Orrico, A Rodriguez… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Species distributed across vast continental areas and across major biomes provide unique
model systems for studies of biotic diversification, yet also constitute daunting financial …

Species delimitation, patterns of diversification and historical biogeography of the Neotropical frog genus Adenomera (Anura, Leptodactylidae)

A Fouquet, C Santana Cassini… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim For many taxa, inaccuracy of species boundaries and distributions hampers inferences
about diversity and evolution. This is particularly true in the Neotropics where prevalence of …

Combined venomics, venom gland transcriptomics, bioactivities, and antivenomics of two Bothrops jararaca populations from geographic isolated regions within the …

L Gonçalves-Machado, D Pla, L Sanz, RJB Jorge… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Bothrops jararaca is a slender and semi-arboreal medically relevant pit viper species
endemic to tropical and subtropical forests in southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern …

Patterns of species and lineage diversity in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

EA Peres, R Pinto-da-Rocha, LG Lohmann… - … : patterns and processes, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Atlantic rainforest of Brazil harbors outstanding species richness and levels of
endemism, representing one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Yet, a lot is still …

Testing the effect of palaeodrainages versus habitat stability on genetic divergence in riverine systems: study of a Neotropical fish of the Brazilian coastal Atlantic …

AT Thomaz, LR Malabarba, SL Bonatto… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Patterns of genetic variation within freshwater fish populations may reflect the historical
impact of climate change on either sea‐level or environmental conditions. Past sea‐level …

Analysis in Proceratophrys boiei genome illuminates the satellite DNA content in a frog from the Brazilian Atlantic forest

M João Da Silva, T Gazoni, CFB Haddad… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Satellite DNAs (satDNAs) are one of the most abundant elements in genomes.
Characterized as tandemly organized sequences that can be amplified into multiple copies …

Pleistocene climatic instability drove the historical distribution of forest islands in the northeastern Brazilian Atlantic Forest

MHB Silveira, R Mascarenhas, D Cardoso… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
To investigate the past spatial dynamics of Atlantic Forest (AF)'island-like'enclaves in
northeastern Brazil, we employed ecological niche modeling (ENM) using a set of …

Effects of Pleistocene climate changes on species ranges and evolutionary processes in the Neotropical Atlantic Forest

GS Cabanne, L Calderón, N Trujillo Arias… - Biological Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The effects of global glaciations on the distribution of organisms is an essential element of
many diversification models. However, the empirical evidence supporting this idea is mixed …

Multilocus tests of Pleistocene refugia and ancient divergence in a pair of Atlantic Forest antbirds (Myrmeciza)

F Raposo do Amaral, PK Albers, SV Edwards… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Atlantic Forest (AF) harbours one of the most diverse vertebrate faunas of the
world, including 199 endemic species of birds. Understanding the evolutionary processes …