The colonisation of Madagascar by land‐bound vertebrates

JR Ali, SB Hedges - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite discussions extending back almost 160 years, the means by which Madagascar's
iconic land vertebrates arrived on the island remains the focus of active debate. Three …

A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species

LFK Kuderna, H Gao, MC Janiak, M Kuhlwilm, JD Orkin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an
informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental …

SlicerMorph: An open and extensible platform to retrieve, visualize and analyse 3D morphology

S Rolfe, S Pieper, A Porto, K Diamond… - Methods in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Large‐scale digitization projects such as# ScanAllFishes and oVert are generating high‐
resolution microCT scans of vertebrates by the thousands. Data from these projects are …

[图书][B] Primate behavioral ecology

KB Strier - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

The importance of scale in comparative microbiome research: new insights from the gut and glands of captive and wild lemurs

LK Greene, SL Bornbusch… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research on animal microbiomes is increasingly aimed at determining the evolutionary and
ecological factors that govern host–microbiome dynamics, which are invariably intertwined …

Extant species fail to estimate ancestral geographical ranges at older nodes in primate phylogeny

AL Wisniewski, GT Lloyd… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A clade's evolutionary history is shaped, in part, by geographical range expansion,
sweepstakes dispersal and local extinction. A rigorous understanding of historical …

A 50-million-year-old, three-dimensionally preserved bat skull supports an early origin for modern echolocation

SJ Hand, J Maugoust, RMD Beck, MJ Orliac - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Bats are among the most recognizable, numerous, and widespread of all mammals. But
much of their fossil record is missing, and bat origins remain poorly understood, as do the …

A parapithecid stem anthropoid of African origin in the Paleogene of South America

ER Seiffert, MF Tejedor, JG Fleagle, NM Novo… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Phylogenetic evidence suggests that platyrrhine (or New World) monkeys and caviomorph
rodents of the Western Hemisphere derive from source groups from the Eocene of Afro …

[HTML][HTML] Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches

RMD Beck, D de Vries, MC Janiak, IB Goodhead… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
There have been multiple published phylogenetic analyses of platyrrhine primates (New
World monkeys) using both morphological and molecular data, but relatively few that have …

A total-group phylogenetic metatree for Cetacea and the importance of fossil data in diversification analyses

GT Lloyd, GJ Slater - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic trees provide a powerful framework for testing macroevolutionary hypotheses,
but it is becoming increasingly apparent that inferences derived from extant species alone …