Phenotypes in phylogeography: Species' traits, environmental variation, and vertebrate diversification

KR Zamudio, RC Bell, NA Mason - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - pnas.org
Almost 30 y ago, the field of intraspecific phylogeography laid the foundation for spatially
explicit and genealogically informed studies of population divergence. With new methods …

The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos

SGA Flantua, A O'Dea, RE Onstein… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To quantify the effect of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on habitat connectivity across
páramos in the Northern Andes. Location Northern Andes. Methods The unique páramos …

Toward a paradigm shift in comparative phylogeography driven by trait-based hypotheses

A Papadopoulou, LL Knowles - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2016 - pnas.org
For three decades, comparative phylogeography has conceptually and methodologically
relied on the concordance criterion for providing insights into the historical/biogeographic …

Testing the effect of palaeodrainages versus habitat stability on genetic divergence in riverine systems: study of a Neotropical fish of the Brazilian coastal Atlantic …

AT Thomaz, LR Malabarba, SL Bonatto… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Patterns of genetic variation within freshwater fish populations may reflect the historical
impact of climate change on either sea‐level or environmental conditions. Past sea‐level …

Integrative species delimitation reveals cryptic diversity in the southern Appalachian Antrodiaetus unicolor (Araneae: Antrodiaetidae) species complex

LG Newton, J Starrett, BE Hendrixson… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although species delimitation can be highly contentious, the development of reliable
methods to accurately ascertain species boundaries is an imperative step in cataloguing …

Genomic tests of the species-pump hypothesis: recent island connectivity cycles drive population divergence but not speciation in Caribbean crickets across the Virgin …

A Papadopoulou, LL Knowles - Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Harnessing the power of genomic scans, we test the debated “species pump” hypothesis
that implicates repeated cycles of island connectivity and isolation as drivers of divergence …

Mountain plant communities: Uncertain sentinels?

GP Malanson, LM Resler, DR Butler… - Progress in Physical …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Mountain plant communities are thought to be sensitive to climate change and, thus, able to
reveal its effects sooner than others. The status as sentinels of two plant communities are …

Species‐specific responses to island connectivity cycles: refined models for testing phylogeographic concordance across a M editerranean P leistocene A ggregate I …

A Papadopoulou, LL Knowles - Molecular Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The contribution of P leistocene sea level changes to diversification patterns in archipelagos
around the world, and specifically whether the repeated cycles of island connectivity and …

Utilizing RADseq data for phylogenetic analysis of challenging taxonomic groups: A case study in Carex sect. Racemosae

R Massatti, AA Reznicek… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Relationships among closely related and recently diverged taxa
can be especially difficult to resolve. Here we use both Sanger sequencing and next …

Colonization from divergent ancestors: glaciation signatures on contemporary patterns of genomic variation in Collared Pikas (Ochotona collaris)

HC Lanier, R Massatti, Q He, LE Olson… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the genetic structure of a species and the factors that drive it is an important first
step in modern population management, in part because populations evolving from …