Problems and cautions with sequence mismatch analysis and Bayesian skyline plots to infer historical demography

WS Grant - Journal of Heredity, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Sequence mismatch analysis (MMA) and Bayesian skyline plots (BSP) are commonly used
to reconstruct historical demography. A survey of 173 research articles (2009–2014), which …

A review of the processes of mammalian faunal assembly in Japan: insights from molecular phylogenetics

JJ Sato - Species diversity of animals in Japan, 2017 - Springer
To elucidate the origins of the Japanese mammalian fauna from the perspectives of
biogeography and community ecology, I reviewed molecular phylogenetic and …

Uncovering cryptic diversity and refugial persistence among small mammal lineages across the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot

TC Demos, JCK Peterhans, B Agwanda… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Afromontane region of Africa is characterized by striking levels of
endemism and species richness accompanied by significant conservation threat, a pattern …

The Beringian Coevolution Project: holistic collections of mammals and associated parasites reveal novel perspectives on evolutionary and environmental change in …

JA Cook, KE Galbreath, KC Bell, ML Campbell… - Arctic …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The Beringian Coevolution Project (BCP), a field program underway in the high northern
latitudes since 1999, has focused on building key scientific infrastructure for integrated …

[HTML][HTML] Breathing can be dangerous: Opportunistic fungal pathogens and the diverse community of the small mammal lung mycobiome

PS Salazar-Hamm, KN Montoya, L Montoya… - Frontiers in Fungal …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Human lung mycobiome studies typically sample bronchoalveolar lavage or sputum,
potentially overlooking fungi embedded in tissues. Employing ultra-frozen lung tissues from …

Phylogeography of a Holarctic rodent (Myodes rutilus): testing high‐latitude biogeographical hypotheses and the dynamics of range shifts

BA Kohli, VB Fedorov, E Waltari… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim We used the Holarctic northern red‐backed vole (Myodes rutilus) as a model
organism to improve our understanding of how dynamic, northern high‐latitude …

Predicted shifts in small mammal distributions and biodiversity in the altered future environment of Alaska: an open access data and machine learning perspective

AP Baltensperger, F Huettmann - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is acting to reallocate biomes, shift the distribution of species, and alter
community assemblages in Alaska. Predictions regarding how these changes will affect the …

Late Pleistocene and Holocene small mammal (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, Lagomorpha) remains from Medvezhyi Klyk Cave in the Southern Russian Far East

VE Omelko, YV Kuzmin, MP Tiunov, LL Voyta… - Труды Зоологического …, 2020 - elib.sbras.ru
rus: Впервые для позднего плейстоцена-голоцена Дальнего Востока России описаны
фаунистические комплексы мелких млекопитающих (Lipotyphla, Rodentia, и …

Predictive spatial niche and biodiversity hotspot models for small mammal communities in Alaska: applying machine-learning to conservation planning

AP Baltensperger, F Huettmann - Landscape Ecology, 2015 - Springer
Context Changing global environmental conditions, especially at northern latitudes, are
threatening to shift species distributions and alter wildlife communities. Objective We aimed …

Genetic drift drives rapid speciation of an Arctic insular endemic shrew (Sorex pribilofensis)

BJ Wiens, FJ Combe, B Dickerson, LM Divine… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Episodes of Quaternary environmental change shaped the genomes of extant species,
influencing their response to contemporary environments, which are changing rapidly …