Identification of sex‐specific molecular markers using restriction site‐associated DNA sequencing

T Gamble, D Zarkower - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A major barrier to evolutionary studies of sex determination and sex chromosomes has been
a lack of information on the types of sex‐determining mechanisms that occur among different …

Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography in neotropical forest lizards

I Prates, AT Xue, JL Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We apply a comparative framework to test for concerted demographic changes in response
to climate shifts in the neotropical lowland forests, learning from the past to inform …

Barcoding blood meals: new vertebrate-specific primer sets for assigning taxonomic identities to host DNA from mosquito blood meals

LE Reeves, JL Gillett-Kaufman… - PLoS neglected …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The transmission dynamics of mosquito-vectored pathogens are, in part, mediated by
mosquito host-feeding patterns. These patterns are elucidated using blood meal analysis, a …

Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and reptiles

SB Hedges, R Powell, RW Henderson, S Hanson… - 2019 - bvearmb.do
To facilitate biological study we define “Caribbean Islands” as a biogeographic region that
includes the Antilles, the Bahamas, and islands bordering Central and South America …

A mid‐P leistocene rainforest corridor enabled synchronous invasions of the A tlantic F orest by A mazonian anole lizards

I Prates, D Rivera, MT Rodrigues… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in the geographic distribution of habitats over time can promote dispersal and
vicariance, thereby influencing large‐scale biogeographic patterns and ecological …

The mobilome of reptiles: Evolution, structure, and function

S Boissinot, Y Bourgeois, JD Manthey… - … and genome research, 2019 - karger.com
Transposable elements (TE) constitute one of the most variable genomic features among
vertebrates, impacting genome size, structure, and composition. Despite their important role …

Cryptic lineages and diversification of an endemic anole lizard (Squamata, Dactyloidae) of the Cerrado hotspot

CE Guarnizo, FP Werneck, LG Giugliano… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Cerrado is a wide Neotropical savanna with tremendously high endemic diversity. Yet, it
is not clear what the prevalent processes leading to such diversification are. We used the …

Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei), an emerging model species

AJ Geneva, S Park, DG Bock, PLH de Mello… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid technological improvements are democratizing access to high quality, chromosome-
scale genome assemblies. No longer the domain of only the most highly studied model …

Asynchronous demographic responses to Pleistocene climate change in Eastern Nearctic vertebrates

FT Burbrink, YL Chan, EA Myers, S Ruane… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Pleistocene climatic cycles altered species distributions in the Eastern Nearctic of North
America, yet the degree of congruent demographic response to the Pleistocene among …

Local adaptation in mainland anole lizards: Integrating population history and genome–environment associations

I Prates, A Penna, MT Rodrigues… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental gradients constrain physiological performance and thus species' ranges,
suggesting that species occurrence in diverse environments may be associated with local …