Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera

JM De Vos, H Augustijnen… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Changes in chromosome numbers may strongly affect reproductive barriers, because
individuals heterozygous for distinct karyotypes are typically expected to be at least partially …

The global biogeography of polyploid plants

A Rice, P Šmarda, M Novosolov, M Drori… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Deciphering the global distribution of polyploid plants is fundamental for understanding
plant evolution and ecology. Many factors have been hypothesized to affect the uneven …

[HTML][HTML] An open and continuously updated fern tree of life

JH Nitta, E Schuettpelz, S Ramírez-Barahona… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ferns, with about 12,000 species, are the second most diverse lineage of vascular plants
after angiosperms. They have been the subject of numerous molecular phylogenetic studies …

Space use of invertebrates in terrestrial habitats: Phylogenetic, functional and environmental drivers of interspecific variations

G Auger, J Pottier, J Mathieu… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We present the first global database of movement patterns of terrestrial invertebrates,
focusing on active dispersal and foraging movements. We depict interspecific variations in …

Beyond pollen: ovule ratios: evolutionary consequences of pollinator dependence and pollination efficiency for pollen and ovule production in angiosperms

LD Harder, SD Johnson - American Journal of Botany, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Premise The relative per‐flower production of ovules and pollen varies broadly with
angiosperm mating systems, with outcrossing types commonly producing more pollen grains …

PloiDB: the plant ploidy database

K Halabi, A Shafir, I Mayrose - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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The tree reconstruction game: phylogenetic reconstruction using reinforcement learning

D Azouri, O Granit, M Alburquerque… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The computational search for the maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree is an NP-hard
problem. As such, current tree search algorithms might result in a tree that is the local …

Model adequacy tests for probabilistic models of chromosome‐number evolution

A Rice, I Mayrose - New Phytologist, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chromosome number is a central feature of eukaryote genomes. Deciphering patterns of
chromosome‐number change along a phylogeny is central to the inference of whole …

PhyloToL: a taxon/gene-rich phylogenomic pipeline to explore genome evolution of diverse eukaryotes

MA Cerón-Romero, XX Maurer-Alcalá… - Molecular biology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Estimating multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) and inferring phylogenies are essential for
many aspects of comparative biology. Yet, many bioinformatics tools for such analyses have …

Speciation across the Earth driven by global cooling in terrestrial orchids

JB Thompson, KE Davis, HO Dodd… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Although climate change has been implicated as a major catalyst of diversification, its effects
are thought to be inconsistent and much less pervasive than localized climate or the …