Background The aim of this study is to describe the major evolutionary historical events
among Leishmania, sandflies, and the associated animal reservoirs in detail, in accordance …

Amber is fossilised plant resin. It can be used to provide insights into the terrestrial
conditions at the time the original resin was exuded. Amber research thus can inform many …

The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest
concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living …

Deposits of fossilized tree resins, or amber, occur throughout the world and range in age
from Carboniferous to Holocene, produced by myriads of vascular plants. Small organisms …

Abstract In the Miocene (23–5 Ma), a large wetland known as the Pebas System
characterized western Amazonia. During the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (c. 17–15 …

New Caledonia has generally been considered a continental island, the biota of which
largely dates back to Gondwanan times owing to its geological origin and the presence of …

We provide a synopsis of~ 60 million years of life history in Neotropical lowlands, based on
a comprehensive survey of the Cenozoic deposits along the Quebrada Cachiyacu near …

Amazonia contains one of the world's richest biotas, but origins of this diversity remain
obscure. Onset of the Amazon River drainage at approximately 10.5 Ma represented a major …

Abstract The scenery of Western Amazonia once consisted of fluvial systems that originated
on the Amazonian Craton and were directed towards the sub-Andean zone and the …

A new pleosporalean family Tetraplosphaeriaceae is established to accommodate five new
genera; 1) Tetraplosphaeria with small ascomata and anamorphs belonging to Tetraploa s …