New perspectives on the origin and diversification of Africa's forest avifauna

J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie - African Journal of Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The use of DNA sequence data in systematic studies has brought about a revolution in our
understanding of avian relationships and when combined with digitized distributional data …

Comparative phylogeography: designing studies while surviving the process

TA Gutiérrez-García, E Vázquez-Domínguez - BioScience, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Comparative phylogeography (CP) can be defined as the study of the effects of evolutionary
history and biogeography on the distribution of genetic variation of codistributed species. CP …

Molecular evolution of viruses of the family Filoviridae based on 97 whole-genome sequences

SA Carroll, JS Towner, TK Sealy, LK McMullan… - Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Viruses in the Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus genera (family Filoviridae) have been
associated with large outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in human and nonhuman primates …

[图书][B] Snakes: ecology and conservation

SJ Mullin, RA Seigel - 2009 - degruyter.com
Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused
population declines or even extinction of many of the world's approximately 2,600 snake …

New Caledonia–Australian connections: biogeographic patterns and geology

PY Ladiges, D Cantrill - Australian Systematic Botany, 2007 - CSIRO Publishing
A review is presented of current knowledge of the tectonic rifting of eastern Gondwana in the
context of possible land continuity between Australia and New Caledonia and the dating of …

Uncovering cryptic diversity and refugial persistence among small mammal lineages across the Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot

TC Demos, JCK Peterhans, B Agwanda… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Afromontane region of Africa is characterized by striking levels of
endemism and species richness accompanied by significant conservation threat, a pattern …

Historical environmental change in Africa drives divergence and admixture of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes: a precursor to successful worldwide colonization?

KL Bennett, F Shija, YM Linton, G Misinzo… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing globalization has promoted the spread of exotic species, including disease
vectors. Understanding the evolutionary processes involved in such colonizations is both of …

The roles of rivers and Pleistocene refugia in shaping genetic diversity in Praomys misonnei in tropical Africa

V Nicolas, AD Missoup, C Denys… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim This study aims to elucidate the phylogeography of the murid rodent Praomys misonnei
and to document whether or not rain forest refugia and rivers structure patterns of diversity …

A mitochondrial phylogeographic scenario for the most widespread African rodent, Mastomys natalensis

P Colangelo, E Verheyen, H Leirs… - Biological Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In order to evaluate the contribution of geological, environmental, and climatic changes to
the spatial distribution of genetic variation of Mastomys natalensis, we analysed cytochrome …

The phylogeny of the African wood mice (Muridae, Hylomyscus) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and five nuclear genes reveals their evolutionary history …

V Nicolas, PH Fabre, J Bryja, C Denys… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wood mice of the genus Hylomyscus, are small-sized rodents widely distributed in lowland
and montane rainforests in tropical Africa, where they can be locally abundant. Recent …