Multi‐locus species delimitation in closely related animals and fungi: one marker is not enough

JR Dupuis, AD Roe, FAH Sperling - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Despite taxonomy's 250‐year history, the past 20 years have borne witness to remarkable
advances in technology and techniques, as well as debate. DNA barcoding has generated a …

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 …

The amphibian tree of life

DR Frost, T Grant, J Faivovich, RH Bain, A Haas… - Bulletin of the American …, 2006 - BioOne
The evidentiary basis of the currently accepted classification of living amphibians is
discussed and shown not to warrant the degree of authority conferred on it by use and …

[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] …

Phylogeography of endemic toads and post-Pliocene persistence of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

MTC Thomé, KR Zamudio, JGR Giovanelli… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Plio–Pleistocene refugia hypothesis recently gained support in explaining Brazilian
Atlantic Forest megadiversity from combined analyses of species paleodistributions and …

Hylid frog phylogeny and sampling strategies for speciose clades

JJ Wiens, JW Fetzner Jr, CL Parkinson… - Systematic …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
How should characters and taxa be sampled to resolve efficiently the phylogeny of ancient
and highly speciose groups? We addressed this question empirically in the treefrog family …

The impact of anchored phylogenomics and taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference in narrow‐mouthed frogs (Anura, Microhylidae)

PLV Peloso, DR Frost, SJ Richards, MT Rodrigues… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite considerable progress in unravelling the phylogenetic relationships of microhylid
frogs, relationships among subfamilies remain largely unstable and many genera are not …

[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 …

Revealing cryptic diversity using molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography in frogs of the Scinax ruber and Rhinella margaritifera species groups

A Fouquet, M Vences, MD Salducci, A Meyer… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2007 - Elsevier
Few studies to date have examined genetic variability of widespread tropical amphibian
species over their distributional range using different kinds of molecular markers. Here, we …

Asynchronous colonization of Madagascar by the four endemic clades of primates, tenrecs, carnivores, and rodents as inferred from nuclear genes

C Poux, O Madsen, E Marquard, DR Vieites… - Systematic …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Madagascar harbors four large adaptive radiations of endemic terrestrial mammals: lemurs,
tenrecs, carnivorans, and rodents. These rank among the most spectacular examples of …