Phylogeographic evidence that the distribution of cryptic euryhaline species in the Gambusia punctata species group in Cuba was shaped by the archipelago geological history.

abstract：:Narrow-mouthed frogs (Anura: Microhylidae) are globally distributed and molecular data suggest the rapid evolution of multiple subfamilies shortly after their origin. Despite recent progress, several subfamilial relationships remain unexplored using phylogenomic data. We analysed 1,796 nuclear ultraconserved elements,...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Streicher JW,Loader SP,Varela-Jaramillo A,Montoya P,de Sá RO

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the close proximity of the African mainland, dispersal of plant lineages towards Madagascar remains intriguing. The composition of the Madagascan flora is rather mixed and shows besides African representatives, also floral elements of India, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Neotropics. Due to its proportiona...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Janssens SB,Groeninckx I,De Block PJ,Verstraete B,Smets EF,Dessein S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogenetic analysis of the family Lemuridae was accomplished using multiple gene partitions and morphological characters. The results of the study suggest that several nodes in the lemurid phylogeny can be robustly resolved; however, the relationships of the species within the genus Eulemur are problematically non...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wyner Y,DeSalle R,Absher R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly believed that gene duplications provide the raw material for morphological evolution. Both the number of genes and size of gene families have increased during the diversification of land plants. Several small proteins that regulate transcription factors have recently been identified in plants, including...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Floyd SK,Ryan JG,Conway SJ,Brenner E,Burris KP,Burris JN,Chen T,Edger PP,Graham SW,Leebens-Mack JH,Pires JC,Rothfels CJ,Sigel EM,Stevenson DW,Neal Stewart C Jr,Wong GK,Bowman JL

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：: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：:Oriental voles of the genus Eothenomys are predominantly distributed along the Southeastern shoulder of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Based on phylogenetic analyses of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (1143 bp) obtained from 23 specimens (eight species) of Oriental voles collected from this area, together with nucle...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Luo J,Yang D,Suzuki H,Wang Y,Chen WJ,Campbell KL,Zhang YP

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptic species occur within most of the major taxonomic divisions, and a current challenge is to determine why some lineages have more cryptic species than others. It is expected that cryptic species are more common in groups where there are life histories or genetic architectures that promote speciation in the absen...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Mills PJ,Cook LG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taxonomy and phyletic relationships of the European termites of the holarctic genus Reticulitermes are highly debated and poorly known. Sequencing analyses of the complete cytochrome oxidase subunit II and of a fragment of 16S rDNA mitochondrial genes were performed on 21 Italian and French populations. Distance, pars...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Marini M,Mantovani B

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 567-terminal analysis of atpB, rbcL, and 18S rDNA was used as an empirical example to test the use of amino acid vs. nucleotide characters for protein-coding genes at deeper taxonomic levels. Nucleotides for atpB and rbcL had 6.5 times the amount of possible synapomorphy as amino acids. Based on parsimony analyses...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Simmons MP,Ochoterena H,Freudenstein JV

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus infects a wide range of hosts including birds, humans, pigs, horses, and other mammals. Because hosts differ in immune system structure and demography, it is therefore expected that host populations leave different imprints on the viral genome. In this study, we investigated the evolutionary trajecto...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Fourment M,Wood JT,Gibbs AJ,Gibbs MJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Model species often provide initial hypotheses and tools for studies of development, genetics and molecular evolution in closely related species. Flour beetles of the genus Tribolium Macleay (1825) are one group with potential for such comparative studies. Tribolium castaneum (Herbst 1797) is an increasingly useful de...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Angelini DR,Jockusch EL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic utility of chloroplast (atpB-rbcL, petD, rps16, trnL-F) and nuclear (ETS, ITS) DNA regions was investigated for the tribe Spermacoceae of the coffee family (Rubiaceae). ITS was, despite often raised cautions of its utility at higher taxonomic levels, shown to provide the highest number of parsimony in...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kårehed J,Groeninckx I,Dessein S,Motley TJ,Bremer B

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The order Rodentia includes nearly half of all living mammalian species. Phylogenetic relationships among 22 species of rodents were investigated by use of a 1.2-kb region from exon 1 of the single-copy nuclear gene IRBP. IRBP has been extensively used for study of interordinal phylogeny in mammals, which allowed incl...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： DeBry RW,Sagel RM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of phylogenetics is changing rapidly with the application of high-throughput sequencing to non-model organisms. Cost-effective use of this technology for phylogenetic studies, which often include a relatively small portion of the genome but several taxa, requires strategies for genome partitioning and sequen...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Barrow LN,Ralicki HF,Emme SA,Lemmon EM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bigeye (Thunnus obesus) is a large, pelagic, and migratory species of tuna that inhabits tropical and temperate marine waters worldwide. Previous studies based on mitochondrial RFLP data have shown that bigeye tunas from the Atlantic Ocean are the most interesting from a genetic point of view. Two highly divergent mit...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Martínez P,González EG,Castilho R,Zardoya R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wrens (Aves: Troglodytidae) are a group of primarily New World insectivorous birds, the monophyly of which has long been recognized, but whose intergeneric relationships are essentially unknown. In order to test the monophyly of the group, and to attempt to resolve relationships among genera within it, sequences f...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Barker FK

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic position of cyclostomes, i.e., the relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates is an unresolved problem. Anatomical data support the paraphyly of cyclostomes, whereas nuclear genes data support monophyly of cyclostomes. Previous results obtained using mitochondrial DNA are ambiguo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Delarbre C,Gallut C,Barriel V,Janvier P,Gachelin G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that the classical river dolphins are not a natural group, but up to now the phylogenetic relationships among them are not very clear because different views have been referred from different studies. In the present study, we determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial (mt) genome...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Yan J,Zhou K,Yang G

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mountains of continental Greece are one of the main Mediterranean biodiversity hotspots, very rich in endemic species. The speciation in this area might have resulted from two main factors: a complex orography and its role as a refugium during past glaciations. We have investigated genetic diversity and population str...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： López-Vinyallonga S,López-Pujol J,Constantinidis T,Susanna A,Garcia-Jacas N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) are a highly diverse group of sap-sucking insects, many species of which specialize on grasses. Past attempts to examine the roles of host transfer or host plant coevolution in the diversification of leafhopper species using cladistic methods have been hindered by a paucity of discrete, phyl...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Dietrich CH,Whitcomb RF,Black WC

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated mitochondrial COII gene sequences of Japanese wood-feeding cockroaches (Salganea spp. and Panesthia angustipennis) in detail to investigate their biogeography. The transition (TI) numbers between each genus north and south of the Tokara Strait, which is a border of the Oriental and the Palaearctic faun...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Maekawa K,Matsumoto T

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotes encompass a remarkable variety of organisms and unresolved lineages. Different phylogenetic analyses have lead to conflicting conclusions as to the origin and associations between lineages and species. In this work, we investigated evolutionary relationship of a family of cation pumps exclusive for the secr...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Møller AB,Asp T,Holm PB,Palmgren MG

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent generic rearrangement of the circumtropical distributed skink genus 'Mabuya' has raised a lot of debate. According to this molecular phylogeny based rearrangement, the tropical Asian members of this genus have been assigned to Eutropis. However, in these studies the Asian members of 'Mabuya' were largely sample...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Datta-Roy A,Singh M,Srinivasulu C,Karanth KP

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platypodinae is a peculiar weevil subfamily of species that cultivate fungi in tunnels excavated in dead wood. Their geographical distribution is generally restricted, with genera confined to a single continent or large island, which provides a useful system for biogeographical research. This study establishes the fir...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Jordal BH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fireflies are one of the best-known examples of luminescent organisms. The limited geographic distribution and rarity of some firefly genera have hindered molecular phylogenetic analysis, resulting in uncertainty in regard to firefly phylogeny. Here, using genome skimming next-generation sequencing, we sequenced 23 As...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Chen X,Dong Z,Liu G,He J,Zhao R,Wang W,Peng Y,Li X

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reconstruct the phylogeny of the morphologically diagnosable subgenera Bicanestrinia, Beysehiria, and Cobitis sensu stricto of the genus Cobitis from Asia Minor and the Balkans. We used the complete cytochrome b gene of 65 specimens in order to infer their evolutionary history in this zoogeographically interesting ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Bohlen J,Perdices A,Doadrio I,Economidis PS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colour pattern diversity can be due to random processes or to natural or sexual selection. Consequently, similarities in colour patterns are not always correlated with common ancestry, but may result from convergent evolution under shared selection pressures or drift. Neolamprologus brichardi and Neolamprologus pulche...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Duftner N,Sefc KM,Koblmüller S,Salzburger W,Taborsky M,Sturmbauer C

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative multispecies studies allow contrasting the effect of past and present oceanographic processes on phylogeographic patterns. In the present study, a fragment of the COI gene was analyzed in seven decapod crustacean species from five families and with different bathymetric distributions. A total of 769 indivi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： García-Merchán VH,Robainas-Barcia A,Abelló P,Macpherson E,Palero F,García-Rodríguez M,Gil de Sola L,Pascual M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The description of cryptic gecko species worldwide has revealed both that many putative species are, in fact, conformed by a complex of morphologically conserved species that are genetically distinct and highly divergent, and that gecko species diversity could be underestimated. The taxonomy and species delimitation o...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ramírez-Reyes T,Piñero D,Flores-Villela O,Vázquez-Domínguez E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00