Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

A O'Dea, HA Lessios, AG Coates, RI Eytan… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The formation of the Isthmus of Panama stands as one of the greatest natural events of the
Cenozoic, driving profound biotic transformations on land and in the oceans. Some recent …

The biogeography of tropical reef fishes: endemism and provinciality through time

PF Cowman, V Parravicini, M Kulbicki… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The largest marine biodiversity hotspot straddles the I ndian and P acific O ceans, driven by
taxa associated with tropical coral reefs. Centred on the I ndo‐A ustralian A rchipelago (IAA) …

Comparative phylogeography of the ocean planet

BW Bowen, MR Gaither, JD DiBattista… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding how geography, oceanography, and climate have ultimately shaped marine
biodiversity requires aligning the distributions of genetic diversity across multiple taxa. Here …

Evidence of Sundaland's subsidence requires revisiting its biogeography

L Husson, FC Boucher, AC Sarr… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely accepted that sea level changes intermittently inundated the Sunda Shelf
throughout the Pleistocene, separating Java, Sumatra and Borneo from the Malay Peninsula …

Tethyan changes shaped aquatic diversification

Z Hou, S Li - Biological reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Tethys Ocean existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia
from the Triassic to the Pliocene. Analyses of multiple biogeographic and phylogenetic …

[HTML][HTML] Unexpected species diversity in electric eels with a description of the strongest living bioelectricity generator

CD De Santana, WGR Crampton, CB Dillman… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Is there only one electric eel species? For two and a half centuries since its description by
Linnaeus, Electrophorus electricus has captivated humankind by its capacity to generate …

Phylogenetic analyses of the subgenus Mollienesia (Poecilia, Poeciliidae, Teleostei) reveal taxonomic inconsistencies, cryptic biodiversity, and spatio-temporal …

M Palacios, G Voelker, LA Rodriguez, M Mateos… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
The subgenus Mollienesia is a diverse group of freshwater fishes, including species that
have served as important models across multiple biological disciplines. Nonetheless, the …

Spatiotemporal diversification of tree squirrels: is the South American invasion and speciation really that recent and fast?

EF Abreu-Jr, SE Pavan, MTN Tsuchiya… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tree squirrels (Sciurinae, Sciurini) represent a diverse radiation that successfully colonized
Europe, Asia and the Americas during the Miocene-Pliocene, but information on their …

Repeated invasions into the twilight zone: evolutionary origins of a novel assemblage of fishes from deep Caribbean reefs

L Tornabene, JL Van Tassell, DR Robertson… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mesophotic and deeper reefs of the tropics are poorly known and underexplored
ecosystems worldwide. Collectively referred to as the 'twilight zone', depths below~ 30–50 m …

Origins of the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus): Impacts of ice‐olation and introgression

RP Walter, D Roy, NE Hussey, B Stelbrink… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we use genetic data from 277 sleeper sharks to perform coalescent‐based modeling
to test the hypothesis of early Quaternary emergence of the Greenland shark (Somniosus …