Mesozoic origin and 'out-of-India'radiation of ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae)

K Yamahira, S Ansai, R Kakioka… - Biology …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Indian subcontinent has an origin geologically different from Eurasia, but many
terrestrial animal and plant species on it have congeneric or sister species in other parts of …

The amphibian tree of life

DR Frost, T Grant, J Faivovich, RH Bain, A Haas… - Bulletin of the American …, 2006 - BioOne
The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is
discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and …

The Out-of-India hypothesis: What do molecules suggest?

A Datta-Roy, K Praveen Karanth - Journal of Biosciences, 2009 - Springer
The remarkable geological and evolutionary history of peninsular India has generated much
interest in the patterns and processes that might have shaped the current distributions of its …

[图书][B] The fruit, the tree, and the serpent: Why we see so well

LA Isbell - 2009 - degruyter.com
The global prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep
connection to them—but why, when few of us have firsthand experience? The answer, Isbell …

Biogeographic and evolutionary implications of a diverse paleobiota in amber from the early Eocene of India

J Rust, H Singh, RS Rana, T McCann… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
For nearly 100 million years, the India subcontinent drifted from Gondwana until its collision
with Asia some 50 Ma, during which time the landmass presumably evolved a highly …

Diversification of rhacophorid frogs provides evidence for accelerated faunal exchange between India and Eurasia during the Oligocene

JT Li, Y Li, S Klaus, DQ Rao… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The accretion of the Indian subcontinent to Eurasia triggered a massive faunal and floral
exchange, with Gondwanan taxa entering into Asia and vice versa. The traditional view on …

Dispersal and vicariance: the complex evolutionary history of boid snakes

BP Noonan, PT Chippindale - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2006 - Elsevier
Since the early 1970s, boine snakes (Boidae: Boinae) have served as a prime example of a
group whose current distribution was shaped by vicariant events associated with the …

Evolution of cranial shape in caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

E Sherratt, DJ Gower, CP Klingenberg, M Wilkinson - Evolutionary Biology, 2014 - Springer
Insights into morphological diversification can be obtained from the ways the species of a
clade occupy morphospace. Projecting a phylogeny into morphospace provides estimates of …

A biogeographic synthesis of the amphibians and reptiles of Indochina

RH Bain, MM Hurley - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2011 - BioOne
ABSTRACT Indochina (Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) houses over 600 species of
amphibians and reptiles, roughly a quarter of which has been described within the last 15 …

Freshwater paths across the ocean: molecular phylogeny of the frog Ptychadena newtoni gives insights into amphibian colonization of oceanic islands

G John Measey, M Vences, RC Drewes… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Amphibians are a model group for studies of the biogeographical origins of salt‐
intolerant taxa on oceanic islands. We used the Gulf of Guinea islands to explore the …