Animals that occupy temperate and polar regions have specialized traits that help them
survive in harsh, highly seasonal environments. One particularly important adaptation is …

The colonisation of freshwater and marine ecosystems by land vertebrates has repeatedly
occurred in amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals over the course of 300 million years …

Knowledge of mammalian diversity is still surprisingly disparate, both regionally and
taxonomically. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status …

A key question in predicting responses to anthropogenic climate change is: how quickly can
species adapt to different climatic conditions? Here, we take a phylogenetic approach to this …

Background Although it has proven to be an important foundation for investigations of
carnivoran ecology, biology and evolution, the complete species-level supertree for …

Comparative biologists often attempt to draw inferences about tempo and mode in evolution
by comparing the fit of evolutionary models to phylogenetic comparative data consisting of a …

The mammalian order Carnivora has attracted the attention of scientists of various
disciplines for decades, leading to intense interest in defining its supra-familial relationships …

We analyzed a concatenated (8492bp) nuclear–mitochondrial DNA data set from 44
musteloids (including the first genetic data for Lyncodon patagonicus) with parsimony …

Comparative whole-genome analyses hold great power to illuminate commonalities and
differences in the evolution of related species that share similar ecologies. The mustelid …

Adaptive radiation is hypothesized to be a primary mechanism that drives the remarkable
species diversity and morphological disparity across the Tree of Life. Tests for adaptive …