The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution buffered ants against extinction

C Jouault, FL Condamine, F Legendre… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
With~ 14,000 extant species, ants are ubiquitous and of tremendous ecological importance.
They have undergone remarkable diversification throughout their evolutionary history …

Explanations for latitudinal diversity gradients must invoke rate variation

EE Saupe - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - pnas.org
The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) describes the pattern of increasing numbers of
species from the poles to the equator. Although recognized for over 200 years, the …

Global impact and selectivity of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction among sharks, skates, and rays

G Guinot, FL Condamine - Science, 2023 - science.org
The Cretaceous-Paleogene event was the last mass extinction event, yet its impact and long-
term effects on species-level marine vertebrate diversity remain largely uncharacterized. We …

Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous

JT Flannery-Sutherland, CD Crossan, CE Myers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Palaeontologists have long sought to explain the diversification of individual clades to whole
biotas at global scales. Advances in our understanding of the spatial distribution of the fossil …

The rise of pelagic sharks and adaptive evolution of pectoral fin morphology during the Cretaceous

PC Sternes, L Schmitz, TE Higham - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The emergence and subsequent evolution of pectoral fins is a key point in vertebrate
evolution, as pectoral fins are dominant control surfaces for locomotion in extant fishes. 1, 2 …

Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration

T Park, G Burin, D Lazo-Cancino, JPG Rees, JP Rule… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, walruses, and their fossil relatives) are one of the most
successful mammalian clades to live in the oceans. Despite a well-resolved molecular …

Drivers of diversification in sharks and rays (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii)

JH Gayford, PL Jambura - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) are a charismatic lineage of unquestionable ecological
importance in past and present marine ecosystems. Represented by over 1200 species …

Sequential trait evolution did not drive deep-time diversification in sharks

AFP Marion, FL Condamine, G Guinot - Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Estimating how traits evolved and impacted diversification across the tree of life represents a
critical topic in ecology and evolution. Although there has been considerable research in …

The rise and fall of notoungulates: How Andean uplift, available land area, competition, and depredation driven its diversification dynamics

A Solórzano, M Núñez-Flores… - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Unraveling the biotic and abiotic drivers likely influencing clades' diversification dynamics
(differential speciation and extinction rates) is crucial for understanding life on Earth. Here …