Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Between the Cape Fold Mountains and the deep blue sea: Comparative phylogeography of selected codistributed ectotherms reveals asynchronous cladogenesis

AM Myburgh, SR Daniels - Evolutionary Applications, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We compare the phylogeographic structure of 13 codistributed ectotherms including four
reptiles (a snake, a legless skink and two tortoise species) and nine invertebrates (six …

Footprints of local adaptation span hundreds of linked genes in the Atlantic silverside genome

AP Wilder, SR Palumbi, DO Conover… - Evolution …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The study of local adaptation in the presence of ongoing gene flow is the study of natural
selection in action, revealing the functional genetic diversity most relevant to contemporary …

Sequential diversification with Miocene extinction and Pliocene speciation linked to mountain uplift explains the diversity of the African rain forest clade Monodoreae …

LPMJ Dagallier, FL Condamine… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Throughout the Cenozoic, Africa underwent several climatic
and geological changes impacting the evolution of tropical rain forests (TRFs). African TRFs …

Phylogenomics, introgression, and demographic history of South American true toads (Rhinella)

D Rivera, I Prates, TJ Firneno Jr… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of genetic introgression on species boundaries and how they affect species'
integrity and persistence over evolutionary time have received increased attention. The …

Evidence for ecotone speciation across an African rainforest‐savanna gradient

AH Freedman, RJ Harrigan, Y Zhen… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerating climate change and habitat loss make it imperative that plans to conserve
biodiversity consider species' ability to adapt to changing environments. However, in biomes …

Comparative phylogeography of West African amphibians and reptiles

AD Leaché, JR Oaks, C Ofori-Boateng, MK Fujita - Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Comparative phylogeographic studies often support shared divergence times for co-
distributed species with similar life histories and habitat specializations. During the late …

Genome-Scale Data Reveal Deep Lineage Divergence and a Complex Demographic History in the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) throughout the …

N Finger, K Farleigh, JT Bracken… - Genome biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The southwestern and central United States serve as an ideal region to test alternative
hypotheses regarding biotic diversification. Genomic data can now be combined with …

From sub-Saharan Africa to China: Evolutionary history and adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster revealed by population genomics

J Chen, C Liu, W Li, W Zhang, Y Wang, AG Clark… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Drosophila melanogaster is a widely used model organism for studying environmental
adaptation. However, the genetic diversity of populations in Asia is poorly understood …

Giant Tree Frog diversification in West and Central Africa: Isolation by physical barriers, climate, and reproductive traits

KE Jaynes, EA Myers, V Gvoždík… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Secondary sympatry amongst sister lineages is strongly associated with genetic and
ecological divergence. This pattern suggests that for closely related species to coexist in …