Integrating statistical genetic and geospatial methods brings new power to phylogeography

LM Chan, JL Brown, AD Yoder - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2011 - Elsevier
The field of phylogeography continues to grow in terms of power and accessibility. Initially
uniting population genetics and phylogenetics, it now spans disciplines as diverse as …

Phylogeography and biogeography of the lower C entral A merican N eotropics: diversification between two continents and between two seas

JC Bagley, JB Johnson - Biological Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Lower C entral A merica (LCA) provides a geologically complex and dynamic, richly
biodiverse model for studying the recent assembly and diversification of a N eotropical biota …

[HTML][HTML] Ongoing collapse of coral-reef shark populations

WD Robbins, M Hisano, SR Connolly, JH Choat - Current Biology, 2006 - cell.com
Marine ecosystems are suffering severe depletion of apex predators worldwide [1–4]; shark
declines are principally due to conservative life-histories and fisheries overexploitation [5–8] …

Comparative phylogeography of pitvipers suggests a consensus of ancient Middle American highland biogeography

TA Castoe, JM Daza, EN Smith, MM Sasa… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We used inferences of phylogenetic relationships and divergence times for three
lineages of highland pitvipers to identify broad‐scale historical events that have shaped the …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular studies and phylogeography of Amazonian tetrapods and their relation to geological and climatic models

A Antonelli, A Quijada-Mascareñas… - … and species evolution …, 2010 - academia.edu
Explaining the origins and evolution of Amazonian biodiversity continues to be an
outstanding question in evolutionary biology. A plethora of mechanisms for promoting …

Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography in neotropical forest lizards

I Prates, AT Xue, JL Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We apply a comparative framework to test for concerted demographic changes in response
to climate shifts in the neotropical lowland forests, learning from the past to inform …

Using regional comparative phylogeographic data from snake lineages to infer historical processes in Middle America

JM Daza, TA Castoe, CL Parkinson - Ecography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how historical processes have either similarly, or differentially, shaped the
evolution of lineages or biotic assemblages is important for a broad spectrum of fields …

The great American biotic interchange in frogs: multiple and early colonization of Central America by the South American genus Pristimantis (Anura: Craugastoridae)

NR Pinto-Sánchez, R Ibáñez, S Madriñán… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2012 - Elsevier
The completion of the land bridge between North and South America approximately 3.5–3.1
million years ago (Ma) initiated a tremendous biogeographic event called the Great …

Testing the role of ecology and life history in structuring genetic variation across a landscape: A trait‐based phylogeographic approach

A Paz, R Ibáñez, KR Lips, AJ Crawford - Molecular Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hypotheses to explain phylogeographic structure traditionally invoke geographic features,
but often fail to provide a general explanation for spatial patterns of genetic variation …

Rapid color evolution in an aposematic species: a phylogenetic analysis of color variation in the strikingly polymorphic strawberry poison-dart frog

IJ Wang, HB Shaffer - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Aposematism is one of the great mysteries of evolutionary biology. The evolution of
aposematic coloration is poorly understood, but even less understood is the evolution of …