Genetic diversity and conservation units: dealing with the species-population continuum in the age of genomics

DJ Coates, M Byrne, C Moritz - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Current approaches to biodiversity conservation are largely based on geographic areas,
ecosystems, ecological communities, and species, with less attention on genetic diversity …

Understanding explosive diversification through cichlid fish genomics

W Salzburger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Owing to their taxonomic, phenotypic, ecological and behavioural diversity and propensity
for explosive diversification, the assemblages of cichlid fish in the East African Great Lakes …

Phenotypes in phylogeography: Species' traits, environmental variation, and vertebrate diversification

KR Zamudio, RC Bell… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Almost 30 y ago, the field of intraspecific phylogeography laid the foundation for spatially
explicit and genealogically informed studies of population divergence. With new methods …

Empirical and philosophical problems with the subspecies rank

FT Burbrink, BI Crother, CM Murray… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species‐level taxonomy derives from empirical sources (data and techniques) that assess
the existence of spatiotemporal evolutionary lineages via various species “concepts.” These …

The utility of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data in phylogenetics

AD Leaché, JR Oaks - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Resolving the genealogy of life—the phylogenetic relationships that describe the
evolutionary history of species—remains one of the great challenges of systematic biology …

Bat biology, genomes, and the Bat1K project: to generate chromosome-level genomes for all living bat species

EC Teeling, SC Vernes, LM Dávalos… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Bats are unique among mammals, possessing some of the rarest mammalian adaptations,
including true self-powered flight, laryngeal echolocation, exceptional longevity, unique …

Genomewide SNP markers breathe new life into phylogeography and species delimitation for the problematic short‐necked turtles (Chelidae: Emydura) of eastern …

A Georges, B Gruber, GB Pauly, D White… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the evolutionary history of diversifying lineages and the delineation of
evolutionarily significant units and species remains major challenges for evolutionary …

Gene flow creates a mirage of cryptic species in a Southeast Asian spotted stream frog complex

KO Chan, CR Hutter, PL Wood Jr, LL Grismer… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Most new cryptic species are described using conventional tree‐and distance‐based
species delimitation methods (SDMs), which rely on phylogenetic arrangements and …

Bryophyte biogeography

J Patiño, A Vanderpoorten - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Genomic phylogeography illuminates deep cyto-nuclear discordances in midwife toads (Alytes)

J Ambu, Í Martínez-Solano, T Suchan… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The advent of genomic methods allows us to revisit the evolutionary history of organismal
groups for which robust phylogenies are still lacking, particularly in species complexes that …