The evolution of comparative phylogeography: putting the geography (and more) into comparative population genomics

SV Edwards, VV Robin, N Ferrand… - Genome Biology and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Comparative population genomics is an ascendant field using genomic comparisons
between species to draw inferences about forces regulating genetic variation. Comparative …

How important is sexual isolation to speciation?

KL Shaw, CR Cooney… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
A central role for sexual isolation in the formation of new species and establishment of
species boundaries has been noticed since Darwin and is frequently emphasized in the …

River network rearrangements promote speciation in lowland Amazonian birds

LJ Musher, M Giakoumis, J Albert, G Del-Rio… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Large Amazonian rivers impede dispersal for many species, but lowland river networks
frequently rearrange, thereby altering the location and effectiveness of river barriers through …

Phylogenomic analysis of the parrots of the world distinguishes artifactual from biological sources of gene tree discordance

BT Smith, J Merwin, KL Provost, G Thom… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gene tree discordance is expected in phylogenomic trees and biological processes are
often invoked to explain it. However, heterogeneous levels of phylogenetic signal among …

New Guinea uplift opens ecological opportunity across a continent

E Roycroft, PH Fabre, AJ MacDonald, C Moritz… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Sahul unites the world's largest and highest tropical island and the oldest and most arid
continent on the backdrop of dynamic environmental conditions. Massive geological uplift in …

Notes from the taxonomic disaster zone: Evolutionary drivers of intractable species boundaries in an Australian lizard clade (Scincidae: Ctenotus)

I Prates, MN Hutchinson, S Singhal, C Moritz… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Genomic‐scale datasets, sophisticated analytical techniques, and conceptual advances
have disproportionately failed to resolve species boundaries in some groups relative to …

Complex histories of gene flow and a mitochondrial capture event in a nonsister pair of birds

MJ Andersen, JM McCullough, EF Gyllenhaal… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization, introgression, and reciprocal gene flow during speciation, specifically the
generation of mitonuclear discordance, are increasingly observed as parts of the speciation …

Killer whale genomes reveal a complex history of recurrent admixture and vicariance

AD Foote, MD Martin, M Louis, G Pacheco… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstruction of the demographic and evolutionary history of populations assuming a
consensus tree‐like relationship can mask more complex scenarios, which are prevalent in …

DILS: Demographic inferences with linked selection by using ABC

C Fraïsse, I Popovic, C Mazoyer… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present DILS, a deployable statistical analysis platform for conducting demographic
inferences with linked selection from population genomic data using an Approximate …

Comparative genomics approach to evolutionary process connectivity

PA Gagnaire - Evolutionary Applications, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of species life history traits and historical demography on contemporary
connectivity is still poorly understood. However, these factors partly determine the …