Late Pleistocene landscape changes and habitat specialization as promoters of population genomic divergence in Amazonian floodplain birds

LW Luna, LN Naka, G Thom, LL Knowles… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although vicariant processes are expected to leave similar genomic signatures among
codistributed taxa, ecological traits such as habitat and stratum can influence genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Amazonian birds in more dynamic habitats have less population genetic structure and higher gene flow

O Johnson, CC Ribas, A Aleixo, LN Naka… - Molecular …, 2023 - harveybirdlab.org
Understanding the factors that govern variation in genetic structure across species is key to
the study of speciation and population genetics. Genetic structure has been linked to several …

Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)

LJ Musher, G Del-Rio, RS Marcondes… - Systematic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Can knowledge about genome architecture inform biogeographic and phylogenetic
inference? Selection, drift, recombination, and gene flow interact to produce a genomic …

Amazonian avian biogeography: Broadscale patterns, microevolutionary processes, and habitat-specific models revealed by multidisciplinary approaches

JMG Capurucho, LJ Musher, A Lees, MA Rego… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Our understanding of Amazonian biogeography is quickly increasing, catalyzed by the
growing use of genomic datasets, improved knowledge of species distributions, and the …

Quartz OSL sensitivity from dating data for provenance analysis of pleistocene and holocene fluvial sediments from lowland Amazonia

PE Souza, FN Pupim, CEM Mazoca, I Del Río… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The properties of the quartz luminescence signal have been shown to be a useful tool for
sediment provenance analysis. These provenance studies are based on the sensitivity of the …

Implications of headwater contact zones for the riverine barrier hypothesis: a case study of the Blue-capped Manakin (Lepidothrix coronata)

AE Moncrieff, BC Faircloth, RC Remsen, AE Hiller… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Rivers frequently delimit the geographic ranges of species in the Amazon Basin. These
rivers also define the boundaries between genetic clusters within many species, yet river …

Habitat specialization predicts demographic response and vulnerability of floodplain birds in Amazonia

ED Schultz, G Thom, G Zuquim, MJ Hickerson… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The annual flooding cycle of Amazonian rivers sustains the largest floodplains on Earth,
which harbour a unique bird community. Recent studies suggest that habitat specialization …

Taxonomic and functional structure of understorey bird assemblages on Amazonian seasonally flooded river islands

P De Jesus Diniz, F Baccaro… - Biological Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The seasonal inundation of the floodplains of the Amazonian rivers is a natural and strong
environmental filter for biota. Its effects on the taxonomic and functional attributes of …

[HTML][HTML] The role of rivers in the origins, evolution, adaptation, and distribution of biodiversity

LN Naka, FP Werneck, N Rosser, MW Pil… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rivers represent ubiquitous landscape features and affect biodiversity in fundamental ways.
Not only do they provide the medium necessary to sustain aquatic life, but they also …

Whole genomes of the amazonian Cacajao reveal complex connectivity and fast differentiation driven by high environmental dynamism

N Hermosilla-Albala, FE Silva, S Cuadros-Espinoza… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Uakari monkeys (genus Cacajao) are endemic to the Amazon rainforest. These have been
divided into two main groups: bald and black, mainly based on phenotypic and ecological …