Acknowledging more biodiversity without more species

C Dufresnes, N Poyarkov… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Delimiting and naming biodiversity is a vital step toward wildlife conservation and research.
However, species delimitation must be consistent across biota so that the limited resources …

Population genomics meets the taxonomy of cyanobacteria

P Dvořák, E Jahodářová, A Stanojković, S Skoupý… - Algal Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of cyanobacterial species (speciation) is driven by mutation, selection, gene
flow, and geographical and ecological isolation. Population genomics explores the process …

Exon capture museomics deciphers the nine-banded armadillo species complex and identifies a new species endemic to the Guiana Shield

M Barthe, L Rancilhac, MC Arteaga, A Feijó… - Systematic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) is the most widespread xenarthran
species across the Americas. Recent studies have suggested it is composed of 4 …

An inordinate fondness for inconspicuous brown frogs: Integration of phylogenomics, archival DNA analysis, morphology, and bioacoustics yields 24 new taxa in the …

MD Scherz, A Crottini, C Hutter, A Hildenbrand… - Megataxa, 2022 - flore.unifi.it
Malagasy frogs of the subgenus Brygoomantis in the mantellid frog genus Mantidactylus
currently comprise 14 described species of mostly brown, riparian frogs. Data from DNA …

The global speciation continuum of the cyanobacterium Microcoleus

A Stanojković, S Skoupý, H Johannesson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Speciation is a continuous process driven by genetic, geographic, and ecological barriers to
gene flow. It is widely investigated in multicellular eukaryotes, yet we are only beginning to …

Next‐generation species delimitation and taxonomy: Implications for biogeography

M Vences, A Miralles, C Dufresnes - Journal of Biogeography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An accurate species‐level taxonomy is paramount for biogeographical research, and
conversely, biogeographical data are of importance for species delimitation. We here review …

Delimiting phylogeographic diversity in the genomic era: application to an Iberian endemic frog

C Dufresnes, J Ambu, P Galán… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The rich genetic and phenotypic diversity of species complexes is best recognized through
formal taxonomic naming, but one must first assess the evolutionary history of …

Mechanisms of reproductive isolation among cryptic species in monogonont rotifers

A Kordbacheh, H Rahimian, D Fontaneto - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
The advent of molecular techniques has resulted in the discovery of previously unknown
cryptic species in many organisms, including rotifers, allowing researchers to perform …

High genomic differentiation and limited gene flow indicate recent cryptic speciation within the genus Laspinema (cyanobacteria)

A Stanojković, S Skoupý, P Škaloud… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The sympatric occurrence of closely related lineages displaying conserved morphological
and ecological traits is often characteristic of free-living microbes. Gene flow, recombination …

Diversity, Phylogenetic Relationships and Distribution of Marsh Frogs (the Pelophylax ridibundus complex) from Kazakhstan and Northwest China

D Ualiyeva, OA Ermakov, SN Litvinchuk, X Guo… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
In order to study the diversity, phylogenetic relationships and distribution of marsh frogs of
the Pelophylax ridibundus complex in Kazakhstan and northwest China, we conducted …