The influence of climatic changes occurring since the late Miocene on Australia's eastern
mesic ecosystems has received significant attention over the past 20 years. In particular, the …

Exotic reptile and amphibian species have the potential to have ecological or economic
impacts in New Zealand. Tony Whitaker, the consultant herpetologist for the New Zealand …

Hybrid zones are geographic regions where differentiated taxa meet and potentially
exchange genes. Increasingly, genomic analyses have demonstrated that many hybrid …

A key goal in the study of animal personalities is to determine their adaptive potential and
importance for behavioral evolution. Behavioral syndromes are evolutionarily intriguing …

Aim Our aims were to identify centres of endemism and to infer whether these areas have
functioned as refugia for subtropical rain forest plants through historical climate fluctuations …

Diversifying selection between populations that inhabit different environments can promote
lineage divergence within species and ultimately drive speciation. The mitochondrial …

Invasive species represent a select subset of organisms that have successfully transitioned
through each stage of the introduction process (transportation, establishment, and spread) …

Areas of suitable habitat for species and communities have arisen, shifted, and disappeared
with Pleistocene climate cycles, and through this shifting landscape, current biodiversity has …

Across a range of taxa, individuals within a species differ in suites of correlated traits. These
trait complexes, known as syndromes, can have dramatic evolutionary consequences as …

Background High-throughput sequencing using targeted enrichment and transcriptomic
methods enables rapid construction of phylogenomic data sets incorporating hundreds to …