Molecular phylogenetics and character evolution of the "sacaca" clade: novel relationships of Croton section Cleodora (Euphorbiaceae).

abstract：:Sequences of the cytochrome b (cyt b) mitochondrial gene show that the spiny mouse Acomys from Crete, known as the endemic species A. minous, is composed of two distinct maternal lineages ("A" and "B"). Group "A" sequences cluster with A. nesiotes (Cyprus) and group "B" sequences cluster with A. cilicicus (Turkey), wh...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Barome PO,Lymberakis P,Monnerot M,Gautun JC

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleaner fishes remove and consume ectoparasites and are often categorized by whether they perform this behavior: (1) predominately as juveniles, (2) facultatively throughout ontogeny, or (3) obligately. Through a literature search, we confirmed that with at least 58 species exhibiting cleaning behavior, the Labridae (...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Baliga VB,Law CJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superfamily Conoidea is one of the most speciose groups of marine mollusks, with estimates of about 340 recent valid genera and subgenera, and 4000 named living species. Previous classifications were based on shell and anatomical characters, and clades and phylogenetic relationships are far from well assessed. Bas...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Puillandre N,Samadi S,Boisselier MC,Sysoev AV,Kantor YI,Cruaud C,Couloux A,Bouchet P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of five late genes from 18 isolates of P2-like bacteriophages showed that these are at least 96% identical to the genes of phage P2. A maximum-parsimony phylogenetic analysis of these genes showed excess homoplasy of a magnitude three to six times higher than that expected. Examination of the distribution o...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Nilsson AS,Haggård-Ljungquist E

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fern family Polypodiaceae plays an important role in Neotropical epiphyte diversity. Most of its American representatives are assembled in a monophyletic clade that, apart from the grammitids, nearly exclusively comprises species restricted to the New World. The phylogenetic relationships of these ferns are still ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Otto EM,Janssen T,Kreier HP,Schneider H

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomy and biogeographic history of the bivalve family Margaritiferidae are controversial because previous molecular studies did not provide a well-resolved phylogenetic framework for these enigmatic freshwater mussels that have extensive but disjunct distribution in North America, Eurasia and North Africa. In t...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Bolotov IN,Vikhrev IV,Bespalaya YV,Gofarov MY,Kondakov AV,Konopleva ES,Bolotov NN,Lyubas AA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the results of a species level phylogenetic study of Cephaloleia beetles designed to clarify relationships and patterns of host plant taxon and tissue use among species. Our study is based on up to 2088bp of mtDNA sequence data. Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian methods of phylogeneti...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： McKenna DD,Farrell BD

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sika deer (Cervus nippon Temminck) are endemic to mainland and insular Asia. Numerous subspecies have been named, but they are not quantitatively well defined. Portions of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (450 bp) and control region (512 bp) were sequenced from 28 individuals belonging to five sika subspecies and t...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Cook CE,Wang Y,Sensabaugh G

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral taxonomy and systematics continue to be plagued by a host of problems. Due to high phenotypic variability within species, morphological approaches have often failed to recognize natural taxa, and molecular techniques have yet to be applied to many groups. Here, we summarize the levels of paraphyly found for scle...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Huang D,Meier R,Todd PA,Chou LM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a molecular re-assessment of the classification of the nightjars which draws conclusions that are strongly at odds with the traditional, morphology-based classifications. We used maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods to compare the cytochrome b gene for 14 species from seven of the 15 genera of the Caprimu...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Larsen C,Speed M,Harvey N,Noyes HA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of species accumulation of African terrestrial vertebrates over time remains underexplored in comparison with those in the New World, despite Africa hosting about 25% of the world's avian diversity. This lack of knowledge hampers our understanding of the fundamental processes that drive biodiversity and t...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Fuchs J,Pons JM,Bowie RC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western Europe is a reinvasion zone for the riverine dragonfly genus Calopteryx (Insecta: Odonata). Reinvasion may have been from central West Asia or from the West Mediterranean refugium. Phylogenetic relationships of West Mediterranean and West European taxa of the genus Calopteryx from different localities were inf...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Weekers PH,De Jonckheere JF,Dumont HJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of Rhogeessa are hypothesized to have undergone speciation via chromosomal rearrangements in a model termed speciation by monobrachial centric fusions. Recently, mitochondrial cytochrome-b sequence data tentatively supported this hypothesis but could not explicitly test the model's expectations regarding inter...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Baird AB,Hillis DM,Patton JC,Bickham JW

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic landscape of the European flora and fauna was shaped by the ebb and flow of populations with the shifting ice during Quaternary climate cycles. While this has been well demonstrated for lowland species, less is known about high altitude taxa. Here we analyze the phylogeography of the leaf beetle Oreina elo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Borer M,Alvarez N,Buerki S,Margraf N,Rahier M,Naisbit RE

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the most comprehensive time-calibrated, species-level hypothesis of the timing of Acanthuridae (surgeonfishes and allies) evolution based on 76% of the extant diversity and nine genes. We recover two major acanthurid clades, Nasinae and Acanthurinae, and infer a much more recent Nasinae crown age (17 Ma) co...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Sorenson L,Santini F,Carnevale G,Alfaro ME

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemidactylus geckos are a species-rich component of many tropical lizard assemblages. We sampled deeply among tropical Asian, and especially South Asian, taxa and used a multi-gene approach to establish the affinities of Indian and Sri Lankan Hemidactylus and to evaluate the monophyly of previously proposed taxa withi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Bauer AM,Jackman TR,Greenbaum E,Giri VB,de Silva A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high biodiversity of tropical marine hotspots has long intrigued evolutionary biologists and biogeographers. The genus Haemulon (grunts) is one of the most important (numerically, ecologically, and economically) reef fish groups in the New World and an excellent candidate to test hypotheses of speciation and diver...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Rocha LA,Lindeman KC,Rocha CR,Lessios HA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Brazilian Atlantic Forest (BAF) is recognized as one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, with even more species per unit of area than the Amazon, however the mechanisms that led to such astonishing diversity are yet to be fully understood. In this study, we investigate the diversification of two co-distributed f...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Firkowski CR,Bornschein MR,Ribeiro LF,Pie MR

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of vast numbers of molecular phylogenetic studies has contributed to huge knowledge gains in the evolutionary history of birds. This permits subsequent analyses of avian diversity, such as how and why diversification varies across the globe and among taxonomic groups. However, available genetic data f...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Reddy S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic hypotheses generated from cladistic analysis of organismal and molecular data are shown to be generally congruent and/or complementary for comparisons of unicellular and colonial green algae in the Chlorophyceae. Cladistic analysis of organismal character data corroborates the alliance of colonial Stephan...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Buchheim MA,McAuley MA,Zimmer EA,Theriot EC,Chapman RL

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracica thoracica), an endemic subspecies of south China, distributes in mountainous areas that were affected by climate changes throughout the Pleistocene. We investigated the potential impact of cyclical Pleistocene climate changes on phylogeographic patterns using 1140 nucleo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Huang Z,Liu N,Liang W,Zhang Y,Liao X,Ruan L,Yang Z

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Montane barriers influence the evolutionary history of lineages by promoting isolation of populations. The effects of these historical processes are evident in patterns of differentiation among extant populations, which are often expressed as genetic and behavioral variation between populations. We investigated the ef...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ortiz-Ramírez MF,Andersen MJ,Zaldívar-Riverón A,Ornelas JF,Navarro-Sigüenza AG

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A species-level phylogeny is presented for Triglochin, the largest genus of Juncaginaceae (Alismatales) comprising about 30 species of annual and perennial herbs. Triglochin has an almost cosmopolitan distribution with Australia as centre of species diversity. Trans-Atlantic and trans-African disjunctions exist in the...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： von Mering S,Kadereit JW

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A portion of the arylphorin gene from 11 silkmoth species belonging to the families Saturniidae and Bombycidae was amplified by a polymerase chain reaction. Approximately 460 bp corresponding to the third exon, the third intron, and the fourth exon were successfully amplified, sequenced, and compared. Sequences corres...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Shimada T,Kurimoto Y,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bombacoideae (Malvaceae) is a clade of deciduous trees with a marked dominance in many forests, especially in the Neotropics. The historical lack of a well-resolved phylogenetic framework for Bombacoideae hinders studies in this ecologically important group. We reexamined phylogenetic relationships in this clade based...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Carvalho-Sobrinho JG,Alverson WS,Alcantara S,Queiroz LP,Mota AC,Baum DA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess phylogenetic relationships among the higher ruminants (infraorder Pecora, order Artiodactyla), we analyzed K-casein DNA sequences, including 434 nucleotides of the fourth exon. The higher ruminant families Bovidae, Cervidae, Giraffidae, and Antilocapridae each have monophyletic K-casein sequences. Maximum pa...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Cronin MA,Stuart R,Pierson BJ,Patton JC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Viverridae (Mammalia, Carnivora), one of the least studied groups of carnivorans, include two subfamilies of Asian palm civets: Hemigalinae and Paradoxurinae. The relationships between and within these two subfamilies have never been thoroughly tested using an extensive molecular sample set. In this study, we gath...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Patou ML,Debruyne R,Jennings AP,Zubaid A,Rovie-Ryan JJ,Veron G

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene duplication in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been reported in diverse bird taxa so far. Although many phylogenetic and population genetic analyses of cranes were carried out based on mtDNA diversity, whether mtDNA contains duplicated regions is unknown. To address the presence or absence of gene duplication i...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Akiyama T,Nishida C,Momose K,Onuma M,Takami K,Masuda R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Argonaute proteins (AGOs) are mediators of gene silencing via recruitment of small regulatory RNAs to induce translational regression or degradation of targeted molecules. Platyhelminths have been reported to express microRNAs but the diversity of AGOs in the phylum has not been explored. Phylogenetic relationships of...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Zheng Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large parts of the Sahara Desert and Arabia are covered by sand seas and sand dunes, which are inhabited by specialized animal communities. For example, many lizards have developed adaptations to life in loose sand, including sand-swimming behavior. The best-known sand swimmers of the Saharo-Arabia are the sandfish sk...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Šmíd J,Uvizl M,Shobrak M,Salim AFA,AlGethami RHM,Algethami AR,Alanazi ASK,Alsubaie SD,Busais S,Carranza S

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00