Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

A Antonelli, RJ Smith, AL Perrigo, A Crottini, J Hackel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Madagascar's biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We
review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar's past and current terrestrial and …

Madagascar as a model region of species diversification

M Vences, KC Wollenberg, DR Vieites… - Trends in ecology & …, 2009 - cell.com
Tropical biotas provide excellent settings in which to explore mechanisms of evolutionary
diversification, yet these processes remain poorly understood. Pioneering work on …

Biogeographic evolution of Madagascar's microendemic biota

L Wilmé, SM Goodman, JU Ganzhorn - science, 2006 - science.org
The endemic species richness on Madagascar, relative to landmass area, is unparalleled in
the world. Many organisms on the island have restricted geographical ranges. A …

The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow‐mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)

PLV Peloso, DR Frost, SJ Richards, MT Rodrigues… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite considerable progress in unravelling the phylogenetic relationships of microhylid
frogs, relationships among subfamilies remain largely unstable and many genera are not …

A necessarily complex model to explain the biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar

JL Brown, A Cameron, AD Yoder, M Vences - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Pattern and process are inextricably linked in biogeographic analyses, though we can
observe pattern, we must infer process. Inferences of process are often based on ad hoc …

DNA barcoding Madagascar's amphibian fauna

RGB Perl, ZT Nagy, G Sonet, F Glaw, KC Wollenberg… - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2014 - brill.com
We provide a DNA barcoding survey of Malagasy amphibians, including 251 of the 292
nominal species known to date, by complementing previous data with 280 newly determined …

Spatial biodiversity patterns of Madagascar's amphibians and reptiles

JL Brown, N Sillero, F Glaw, P Bora, DR Vieites… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Madagascar has become a model region for testing hypotheses of species diversification
and biogeography, and many studies have focused on its diverse and highly endemic …

Delimiting species without nuclear monophyly in Madagascar's mouse lemurs

DW Weisrock, RM Rasoloarison, I Fiorentino… - PLoS …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Speciation begins when populations become genetically separated through a
substantial reduction in gene flow, and it is at this point that a genetically cohesive set of …

[PDF][PDF] Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar PDF-29 MB

A Rakotoarison, M Scherz, F Glaw… - Vertebrate …, 2017 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
The genus Stumpffia BOETTGER, 1881 currently contains 15 named, small to miniaturized
frog species, classified in the endemic Malagasy subfamily Cophylinae of the family …

Rivaling the World's Smallest Reptiles: Discovery of Miniaturized and Microendemic New Species of Leaf Chameleons (Brookesia) from Northern Madagascar

F Glaw, J Köhler, TM Townsend, M Vences - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background One clade of Malagasy leaf chameleons, the Brookesia minima group, is known
to contain species that rank among the smallest amniotes in the world. We report on a …