Comprehensive sampling clarifies phylogeography and historical biogeography of slimy salamanders west of the Mississippi River

ML Meacham, KJ Irwin, DB Shepard - Herpetologica, 2024 - meridian.allenpress.com
Accurate knowledge of species distributions is necessary for research and conservation.
Slimy Salamanders (Plethodon glutinosus complex) are similar in appearance, tend toward …

Songbirds of the Americas show uniform morphological evolution despite heterogeneous diversification

TS Imfeld, FK Barker - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Studying the relationship between diversification and functional trait evolution among
broadly co‐occurring clades can shed light on interactions between ecology and …

Revisiting a cryptic species complex: Interspecific gene flow among woodland salamanders in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia, USA

TW Pierson, CD Camp, J Cross… - Biological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The complex topography of mountainous landscapes can create biogeographical barriers
and promote allopatric speciation—even among morphologically cryptic species. However …

Species Delimitation of Slimy Salamanders, Plethodon kisatchie and Plethodon mississippi, across the Lower Mississippi River

BH Stevenson - 2024 - digitalcommons.latech.edu
Species are fundamental units of biodiversity yet delimiting species can be challenging.
Slimy Salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus species complex are a classic example of …

Variation in Head Shape and Color at the Range Boundary of Gulf Coastal Slimy Salamanders (Plethodon glutinosus Complex), USA

C Guyer, S Goetz, B Folt, K Joyce, M Hayes - Copeia, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Taxonomists currently recognize 16 cryptic species within the Plethodon glutinosus complex
revealed by allozyme analysis but that typically do not differ in morphology or color pattern …