Competition is a major determinant of where species occur and how species interact.
Among carnivorans, interspecific competition is particularly apparent, as many of these …

Adaptive radiation is an evolutionary process that has been promulgated in some clades as
an explanation for species richness and disparity in morphological forms across ecological …

The order Carnivora, which currently includes 296 species classified into 16 families, is
distributed across all continents. The phylogeny and the timing of diversification of members …

The evolutionary histories of major clades, including mammals, often comprise changes in
their diversification dynamics, but how these changes occur remains debated. We combined …

Phylogenetic trees provide a powerful framework for testing macroevolutionary hypotheses,
but it is becoming increasingly apparent that inferences derived from extant species alone …

Introgressive hybridization can pose a serious threat to endangered species which have an
overlap** distribution such as in the case of two polecat species, Mustela eversmanii and …

Competition shapes animal communities, but the strength of the interaction varies spatially
depending on the availability and aggregation of resources and competitors. Among …

Size and shape are often considered important variables that lead to variation in
performance. In studies of feeding, size‐corrected metrics of the skull are often used as …

A brief review of the phylogeny and nomenclature of the weasels, genus Mustela Linnaeus,
1758 in the broad sense, indicates continuing confusion over the appropriate name for the …

Living true seals (phocids) are the most widely dispersed semi-aquatic marine mammals,
and comprise geographically separate northern (phocine) and southern (monachine) …