Protein‐encoding ultraconserved elements provide a new phylogenomic perspective of Oestroidea flies (Diptera: Calyptratae)

E Buenaventura, MW Lloyd… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The diverse superfamily Oestroidea with more than 15 000 known species includes among
others blow flies, flesh flies, bot flies and the diverse tachinid flies. Oestroidea exhibit …

Systematics and biogeography of the Boana albopunctata species group (Anura, Hylidae), with the description of two new species from Amazonia

A Fouquet, P Marinho, A Réjaud… - Systematics and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The outstanding species richness of Amazonia has fascinated biologists for centuries.
However, the records of actual numbers and distribution of species forming its ecosystems …

FrogCap: A modular sequence capture probe‐set for phylogenomics and population genetics for all frogs, assessed across multiple phylogenetic scales

CR Hutter, KA Cobb, DM Portik… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the prevalence of high‐throughput sequencing in phylogenetics, many relationships
remain difficult to resolve because of conflicting signal among genomic regions. Selection of …

The ability to sequester the alkaloid epibatidine is widespread among dendrobatid poison frogs

KR Waters, MB Dugas, T Grant, RA Saporito - Evolutionary Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Dendrobatid poison frogs sequester alkaloids from an arthropod diet and use them in
chemical defense. Alkaloid defenses vary considerably within and among species, with …

Late Neogene megariver captures and the Great Amazonian biotic interchange

JS Albert, MJ Bernt, AH Fronk, JP Fontenelle… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently published time-calibrated molecular phylogenies have brought to light a large-
scale biotic interchange between the Western and Eastern Amazon basins, associated with …

Phylogenomics of Tetraopes longhorn beetles unravels their evolutionary history and biogeographic origins

N Gutiérrez-Trejo, MH Van Dam, AW Lam… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Tetraopes longhorn beetles are known for their resistance to milkweed plant toxins and their
coevolutionary dynamics with milkweed plants (Asclepias). This association is considered a …

Systematics of the New World bats Eptesicus and Histiotus suggest trans-marine dispersal followed by Neotropical cryptic diversification

X Yi, EK Latch - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
Biodiversity can be boosted by colonization of new habitats such as remote islands and
separated continents. Molecular studies have suggested that recently evolved organisms …

Dose‐dependent alkaloid sequestration and N‐methylation of decahydroquinoline in poison frogs

AM Jeckel, SK Bolton, KR Waters… - … Zoology Part A …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sequestration of chemical defenses from dietary sources is dependent on the availability of
compounds in the environment and the mechanism of sequestration. Previous experiments …

A new method for integrating ecological niche modeling with phylogenetics to estimate ancestral distributions

WX Guillory, JL Brown - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ancestral range estimation and projection of niche models into the past have both become
common in evolutionary studies where the ancient distributions of organisms are in …

Phylogenomic analysis of evolutionary relationships in Ranitomeya poison frogs (Family Dendrobatidae) using ultraconserved elements

MR Muell, G Chávez, I Prates, WX Guillory… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of genome-scale data in phylogenetics has enabled recent strides in determining
the relationships between taxa that are taxonomically problematic because of extensive …