The Philippine archipelago hosts an exceptional diversity of murid rodents that have
diversified following several independent colonization events. Here, we report the discovery …

The development of meaningful models of species richness dynamics in island ecosystems
requires accurate measurement of existing biodiversity. To test the assumption that …

Diversity-dependent cladogenesis occurs when a colonizing lineage exhibits increasing
interspecific competition as it ecologically diversifies. Repeated colonization of a region by …

The murine genus Rhynchomys includes the large-bodied Philippine “shrew-rats,” highly
specialized members of the vermivorous clade of Philippine murids. Four species are …

Island radiations represent unique evolutionary histories in unique ecological contexts.
These radiations provide opportunities to investigate ecological diversification in groups that …

Islands are natural laboratories for studying patterns and processes of evolution. Research
on island endemic birds has revealed elevated speciation rates and rapid phenotypic …

Molecular phylogenetic approaches have greatly improved our knowledge of the pattern
and process of biological diversification across the globe; however, many regions remain …

Sulawesi is the largest, most topographically complex island in the Wallacean
biogeographic zone, and it has a rich fauna of endemic small mammals, dominated by …

The high diversity of native Philippine murid rodents includes an old endemic group, the
chrotomyines, which are the sister group of the Australasian hydromyines. Herein we detail …

Abstract The Philippine endemic genus Bullimus is currently considered to include three
species, one each from the Late Pleistocene islands of Greater Mindanao, Greater Luzon …