Ultraconserved elements improve the resolution of difficult nodes within the rapid radiation of Neotropical sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)

A Parada, J Hanson, G D'Eiía - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) represent the second largest
muroid subfamily and the most species-rich group of New World mammals, encompassing …

Habitat use, interspecific competition and phylogenetic history shape the evolution of claw and toepad morphology in Lesser Antillean anoles

ML Yuan, C Jung, MH Wake… - Biological Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Ecologically functional traits are the product of several, at times opposing, selective forces.
Thus, ecomorphological patterns can be disrupted locally by biotic interactions, such as …

Interspecific gene flow and mitochondrial genome capture during the radiation of Jamaican Anolis lizards (Squamata; Iguanidae)

EA Myers, DG Mulcahy, B Falk, K Johnson… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gene flow and reticulation are increasingly recognized as important processes in the
diversification of many taxonomic groups. With the increasing ease of collecting genomic …

Convergent developmental patterns underlie the repeated evolution of adhesive toe pads among lizards

AH Griffing, T Gamble, MJ Cohn… - Biological Journal of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
How developmental modifications produce key innovations, which subsequently allow for
rapid diversification of a clade into new adaptive zones, has received much attention …

Ecomorphological convergence in Eleutherodactylus frogs: a case of replicate radiations in the Caribbean

Á Dugo‐Cota, C Vilà, A Rodríguez… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Replicate radiations, the repeated multiplication of species associated with ecological
divergence, have attracted much attention and generated as much debate. Due to the few …

Phylogeographic and phenotypic outcomes of brown anole colonization across the Caribbean provide insight into the beginning stages of an adaptive radiation

RG Reynolds, JJ Kolbe, RE Glor… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Some of the most important insights into the ecological and evolutionary processes of
diversification and speciation have come from studies of island adaptive radiations, yet …

Parallel and non-parallel phenotypic responses to environmental variation across Lesser Antillean anoles

ML Yuan, C Jung, JH Frederick, C Fenton… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Species whose ranges encompass substantial environmental variation should experience
heterogeneous selection, potentially resulting in local adaptation. Repeated covariation …

Enhanced locomotor performance on familiar surfaces is uncoupled from morphological plasticity in Anolis lizards

N Feiner, KL Munch, ISC Jackson… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The radiation of Anolis lizards in the Caribbean is associated with a diversification of the
functional match between morphology, habitat use, and locomotor performance. It has been …

Biogeography, systematics, and ecomorphology of Pacific island anoles

JG Phillips, SE Burton, MM Womack, E Pulver… - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Anoles are regarded as important models for understanding dynamic processes in ecology
and evolution. Most work on this group has focused on species in the Caribbean Sea, and …

Biogeographic dating of phylogenetic divergence times using priors and processes

MJ Landis - The Molecular Evolutionary Clock: Theory and Practice, 2021 - Springer
Historical biogeographic processes shaped the distribution of life throughout space and
time. A species range might expand, contract, or subdivide throughout its evolutionary …