The importance of morphology in the phylogenomic era has recently gained attention, but
relatively few studies have combined both types of information when inferring phylogenetic …

An updated and extensively revised checklist of the arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican
Republic and Haiti) is presented 11 years after the publication of the original in 2008. It …

The rainforests, wet sclerophyll forests and temperate heathlands of the Australian mesic
zone are home to a diverse and highly endemic biota, including numerous old endemic …

Background The immense geologic and ecological complexity of the Caribbean has created
a natural laboratory for interpreting when and how organisms disperse through time and …

The Caribbean islands harbor rich biodiversity with high levels of single island endemism.
Stretches of ocean between islands represent significant barriers to gene-flow. Yet some …

The Caribbean region includes a geologically complex mix of islands, which have served as
a backdrop for some significant studies of biogeography, mostly with vertebrates. Here, we …

The phylogeny of the spider family Sparassidae is comprehensively investigated using four
molecular markers (mitochondrial COI and 16S; nuclear H3 and 28S). Sparassidae was …

Dispersal ability can affect levels of gene flow thereby shaping species distributions and
richness patterns. The intermediate dispersal model of biogeography (IDM) predicts that in …

Cryptogenic species are those whose native and introduced ranges are unknown. The
extent and long history of human migration rendered numerous species cryptogenic …

Island systems provide excellent arenas to test evolutionary hypotheses pertaining to gene
flow and diversification of dispersal-limited organisms. Here we focus on an orbweaver …