Phylogeographical patterns shed light on evolutionary process in S outh A merica

AC Turchetto‐Zolet, F Pinheiro, F Salgueiro… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The S outh A merican continent is composed of several biogeographical regions harbouring
the highest biodiversity on the globe, encompassing five of the world's biodiversity 'hot …

Populations of monarch butterflies with different migratory behaviors show divergence in wing morphology

S Altizer, AK Davis - Evolution, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The demands of long-distance flight represent an important evolutionary force operating on
the traits of migratory species. Monarchs are widespread butterflies known for their annual …

Geographic variation in the songs of neotropical singing mice: testing the relative importance of drift and local adaptation

P Campbell, B Pasch, JL Pino, OL Crino, M Phillips… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Patterns of geographic variation in communication systems can provide insight into the
processes that drive phenotypic evolution. Although work in birds, anurans, and insects …

Ecological speciation along an elevational gradient in a tropical passerine bird?

LM Caro, PC Caycedo‐Rosales… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Local adaptation of populations along elevational gradients is well known, but conclusive
evidence that such divergence has resulted in the origin of distinct species in parapatry …

Diversification in Adelomyia hummingbirds follows Andean uplift

JA Chaves, JT Weir, TB Smith - Molecular Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Andes are known to have influenced speciation patterns in many taxa, yet whether
species diversification occurred simultaneously with their uplift or only after uplift was …

Unraveling the interplay of community assembly processes acting on multiple niche axes across spatial scales

CH Trisos, OL Petchey, JA Tobias - The American Naturalist, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
How the relative importance of community assembly processes varies with spatial scale is
the focus of intensive debate, in part because inferring the scales at which specific niche …

Diverse avian malaria and other haemosporidian parasites in Andean house wrens: evidence for regional co‐diversification by host‐switching

SC Galen, CC Witt - Journal of Avian Biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has revealed well over 1000 mtDNA lineages of avian haemosporidian
parasites, but the extent to which this diversity is caused by host–parasite coevolutionary …

Mapping evolutionary process: a multi‐taxa approach to conservation prioritization

HA Thomassen, T Fuller, W Buermann… - Evolutionary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐induced land use changes are causing extensive habitat fragmentation. As a result,
many species are not able to shift their ranges in response to climate change and will likely …

Multilocus phylogeography of the Wedge-billed Woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus (Aves, Furnariidae) in lowland Amazonia: Widespread cryptic diversity and …

AM Fernandes, J Gonzalez, M Wink, A Aleixo - … phylogenetics and evolution, 2013 - Elsevier
Amazonian rivers function as important barriers to dispersal of Amazonian birds. Studying
population genetics of lineages separated by rivers may help us to uncover the dynamics of …

The geographic scale of diversification on islands: genetic and morphological divergence at a very small spatial scale in the Mascarene grey white-eye (Aves …

B Milá, BH Warren, P Heeb, C Thébaud - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010 - Springer
Background Oceanic islands provide unique scenarios for studying the roles of geography
and ecology in driving population divergence and speciation. Assessing the relative …