Power of Bayesian and Heuristic Tests to Detect Cross-Species Introgression with Reference to Gene Flow in the Tamias quadrivittatus Group of North American …

J Ji, DJ Jackson, AD Leaché, Z Yang - Systematic Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the past two decades, genomic data have been widely used to detect historical gene flow
between species in a variety of plants and animals. The Tamias quadrivittatus group of North …

Supervised machine learning reveals introgressed loci in the genomes of Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia

DR Schrider, J Ayroles, DR Matute, AD Kern - PLoS genetics, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Hybridization and gene flow between species appears to be common. Even though it is
clear that hybridization is widespread across all surveyed taxonomic groups, the magnitude …

Diversification, Introgression, and Rampant Cytonuclear Discordance in Rocky Mountains Chipmunks (Sciuridae: Tamias)

BAJ Sarver, ND Herrera, D Sneddon… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Evidence from natural systems suggests that hybridization between animal species is more
common than traditionally thought, but the overall contribution of introgression to standing …

Do mismatched genitalia promote mechanical isolation in syntopic species of Phalloceros fishes (Poeciliidae)?

WB Jennings, ICA Souto-Santos… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The elucidation of mechanisms responsible for the reproductive isolation of species is a
fundamental part of speciation research. South American poeciliid fishes in the genus …

Whole mitochondrial genomes provide increased resolution and indicate paraphyly in deer mice

KAM Sullivan, RN Platt, RD Bradley, DA Ray - BMC Zoology, 2017 - Springer
Background Recent phylogenies of deer mice, genus Peromyscus, have relied heavily on
mitochondrial markers. These markers provided resolution at and below the level of species …

No evidence for phylosymbiosis in western chipmunk species

K Grond, KC Bell, JR Demboski… - FEMS microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Phylosymbiosis refers to a congruent pattern between the similarity of microbiomes of
different species and the branching pattern of the host phylogeny. Phylosymbiosis has been …

Divergent mitochondrial lineages arose within a large, panmictic population of the Savannah sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)

PM Benham, ZA Cheviron - Molecular Ecology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Unusual patterns of mtDNA diversity can reveal interesting aspects of a species' biology.
However, making such inferences requires discerning among the many alternative …

Developing mitochondrial DNA field-compatible tests

BC Dhar, CE Roche, JF Levine - Critical Reviews in Environmental …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Nucleic acid-based molecular detection of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used for
the detection of eukaryotic pathogens, genetic markers, and biomedical studies in humans …

Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks

ND Herrera, KC Bell, CM Callahan, E Nordquist… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Discovery of cryptic species is essential to understand the process of speciation and
assessing the impacts of anthropogenic stressors. Here, we used genomic data to test for …

New insights from RADseq data on differentiation in the Hottentot golden mole species complex from South Africa

S Mynhardt, NC Bennett, P Bloomer - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Golden moles (Family Chrysochloridae) are small subterranean mammals,
endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, and many of the 21 species are listed as threatened on the …