Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial …

N Watanabe, K Arai, M Otsubo, M Toda… - Progress in Earth and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial fauna of Miyako Jima and adjacent
islands (the Miyako Islands) in the southern Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, includes …

Diversification of mandarin citrus by hybrid speciation and apomixis

GA Wu, C Sugimoto, H Kinjo, C Azama… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The origin and dispersal of cultivated and wild mandarin and related citrus are poorly
understood. Here, comparative genome analysis of 69 new east Asian genomes and other …

Divergence With Gene Flow and Contrasting Population Size Blur the Species Boundary in Cycas Sect. Asiorientales, as Inferred From Morphology and RAD-Seq …

JT Chang, CT Chao, K Nakamura, HL Liu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The divergence process of incipient species is fascinating but elusive by incomplete lineage
sorting or gene flow. Species delimitation is also challenging among those morphologically …

Geographical and temporal origins of terrestrial vertebrates endemic to Taiwan

J He, Z Gao, Y Su, S Lin, H Jiang - Journal of Biogeography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Phylogeographical studies of Taiwan have advanced our knowledge of the
origins of its fauna, but the discrepancies raise issues related to the interpretation of single …

Islands as biological substrates: continental

JR Ali - Journal of Biogeography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Describe the main geo‐physical features of the various sorts of marine islands that are
associated with the continents and consider how the ontogenetic pathways of each …

Divergence before and after the isolation of islands: Phylogeography of the Bradybaena land snails on the Ryukyu Islands of Japan

T Hirano, Y Kameda, T Saito… - Journal of Biogeography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Vicariance events have been proposed as a major source of lineage divergence on
continental islands, whereas dispersal events followed by isolation have been proposed as …

Rafting on floating fruit is effective for oceanic dispersal of flightless weevils

HY Yeh, HY Tseng, CP Lin, CP Liao… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Terrestrial species, especially non-vagile ones (those unable to fly or swim), cannot cross
oceans without exploiting other animals or floating objects. However, the colonisation history …

Trans-marine dispersal inferred from the saltwater tolerance of lizards from Taiwan

MH Hsu, JW Lin, CP Liao, JY Hsu, WS Huang - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Dehydration and hypersalinity challenge non-marine organisms crossing the ocean. The
rate of water loss and saltwater tolerance thus determine the ability to disperse over sea and …

Patterns of diversification of the operculate land snail genus Cyclophorus (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) on the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

T Hirano, T Saito, PV von Oheimb… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ryukyu Islands, an island chain in southwestern Japan, originated from land
masses that separated from the Eurasian continent due to the formation of sea barriers …

Leap‐frog dispersal and mitochondrial introgression: Phylogenomics and biogeography of Limnonectes fanged frogs in the Lesser Sundas Archipelago of Wallacea

SB Reilly, AL Stubbs, BR Karin, K Bi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Lesser Sunda Islands are situated between the Sunda and Sahul Shelves,
with a linear arrangement that has functioned as a two‐way filter for taxa dispersing between …