The evolution of animal domestication

G Larson, DQ Fuller - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The domestication of plants and animals over the past 11,500 years has had a significant
effect not just on the domesticated taxa but also on human evolution and on the biosphere …

Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules

F Ghiselli, A Gomes-dos-Santos… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The first animal mitochondrial genomes to be sequenced were of several vertebrates and
model organisms, and the consistency of genomic features found has led to a 'textbook …

Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg's and resident ecotypes deserve species status

PA Morin, ML McCarthy, CW Fung… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are currently recognized as a single ecologically and
morphologically diverse, globally distributed species. Multiple morphotypes or ecotypes …

Reconstructing mitochondrial genomes directly from genomic next-generation sequencing reads—a baiting and iterative map** approach

C Hahn, L Bachmann, B Chevreux - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present an in silico approach for the reconstruction of complete mitochondrial genomes
of non-model organisms directly from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data …

The magnitude of global marine species diversity

W Appeltans, ST Ahyong, G Anderson, MV Angel… - Current biology, 2012 - cell.com
Background The question of how many marine species exist is important because it
provides a metric for how much we do and do not know about life in the oceans. We have …

stratag: An r package for manipulating, summarizing and analysing population genetic data

FI Archer, PE Adams… - Molecular Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce the r package stratag as a user‐friendly population genetics toolkit. stratag
provides easy access to a suite of standard genetic summaries as well as the ability to …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological knowledge, leadership, and the evolution of menopause in killer whales

LJN Brent, DW Franks, EA Foster, KC Balcomb… - Current biology, 2015 - cell.com
Classic life-history theory predicts that menopause should not occur because there should
be no selection for survival after the cessation of reproduction [1]. Yet, human females …

Applications of next-generation sequencing to phylogeography and phylogenetics

JE McCormack, SM Hird, AJ Zellmer… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
This is a time of unprecedented transition in DNA sequencing technologies. Next-generation
sequencing (NGS) clearly holds promise for fast and cost-effective generation of multilocus …

The origins of tropical marine biodiversity

BW Bowen, LA Rocha, RJ Toonen, SA Karl - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013 - cell.com
Recent phylogeographic studies have overturned three paradigms for the origins of marine
biodiversity.(i) Physical (allopatric) isolation is not the sole avenue for marine speciation …

[КНИГА][B] The evolutionary strategies that shape ecosystems

JP Grime, S Pierce - 2012 - books.google.com
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …