Analysis of ultraconserved elements supports African origins of narrow-mouthed frogs.

abstract：:Phylogenetic analyses of Polytrichales were conducted using morphology and sequence data from the chloroplast genes rbcL and rps4 plus the trnL-F gene region, part of the mitochondrial nad5 and the nuclear-encoded 18S rDNA. Our analyses included 46 species representing all genera of Polytrichales. Phylogenetic trees w...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Hyvönen J,Koskinen S,Merrill GL,Hedderson TA,Stenroos S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assayed the mtDNA phylogeography [196 base pairs (bp) of the cytochrome b] and population structure (n = 680) in the estuarine fish, Ethmalosa fimbriata, from its whole distribution range: 14 locations along the West African coasts were sampled. Specifically, we considered Pleistocene glaciations as well as the hyd...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Durand JD,Tine M,Panfili J,Thiaw OT,Laë R

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using new and existing 18S rRNA sequence data, we show that at least five species of glomalean fungi lie outside the previously defined families and diverged very early in the evolution of that group. These five fungi would have been missed by many previous ecological studies because their sequences are not well match...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Redecker D,Morton JB,Bruns TD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open-habitat chats (genera Myrmecocichla, Cercomela, Oenanthe and relative) are a morphologically and ecologically cohesive group of genera with unclear phylogenetic relationships. They are distributed mostly in open, arid and/or rocky habitats of Africa and Eurasia. Here, we present the most comprehensive molecular p...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Aliabadian M,Kaboli M,Förschler MI,Nijman V,Chamani A,Tillier A,Prodon R,Pasquet E,Ericson PG,Zuccon D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect order Hymenoptera presents marvelous morphological and ecological diversity. Higher-level hymenopteran relationships remain controversial, even after recent phylogenomic analyses, as their taxon sampling was limited. To shed light on the origin and diversification of Hymenoptera, in particular the poorly st...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Tang P,Zhu JC,Zheng BY,Wei SJ,Sharkey M,Chen XX,Vogler AP

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Higher-level relationships within, and the root of Placentalia, remain contentious issues. Resolution of the placental tree is important to the choice of mammalian genome projects and model organisms, as well as for understanding the biogeography of the eutherian radiation. We present phylogenetic analyses of 63 speci...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Amrine-Madsen H,Koepfli KP,Wayne RK,Springer MS

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The apparent inter-lake morphological similarity among East African Great Lakes' cichlid species/genera has left evolutionary biologists asking whether such similarity is due to sharing of common ancestor or mere convergent evolution. In order to answer such question, we first used Geometric Morphometrics, GM, to quan...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kassam D,Seki S,Horic M,Yamaoka K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the proliferation of species-tree methods, empiricists now have to confront the daunting task of method choice. Such decisions might be made based on theoretical considerations alone. However, the messiness of real data means that theoretical ideals may not hold in practice (e.g., with convergence of complicated ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Knowles LL,Lanier HC,Klimov PB,He Q

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Urera Gaudich, s.l.. is a pantropical genus comprising c. 35 species of trees, shrubs, and vines. It has a long history of taxonomic uncertainty, and is repeatedly recovered as polyphyletic within a poorly resolved complex of genera in the Urticeae tribe of the nettle family (Urticaceae). To provide generic delimitati...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wells T,Maurin O,Dodsworth S,Friis I,Cowan R,Epitawalage N,Brewer G,Forest F,Baker WJ,Monro AK

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent generalisations about polyploidy in plants have been largely based on studies of angiosperms. A compelling group to compare with angiosperms is ferns, because of their high polyploidy. The bi-parental inheritance of nuclear DNA sequence markers makes them advantageous for investigating polyploid complexes, but ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Shepherd LD,Perrie LR,Brownsey PJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiroxiphia and Antilophia manakins are recognized as closely related genera. Nonetheless, Chiroxiphia has been recovered as paraphyletic in some studies with limited taxonomic coverage. This genus currently comprises five species, although this arrangement is still unsettled. Chiroxiphia pareola is the most widesprea...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Silva SM,Agne CE,Aleixo A,Bonatto SL

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analyses of new DNA sequence data from the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene in xantusiid lizards support the intergeneric relationships obtained previously (S.B. Hedges, R.L. Bezy, and L.B. Maxson, 1991, Mol. Biol. Evol. 8:767-780) with data from the 12S rRNA and cytochrome b (cyt b) genes. The total data set ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Hedges SB,Bezy RL

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships among the trichomycterid catfishes are investigated for the first time using molecular sequence data. Data derived from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences for representatives of 17 genera were analyzed to test previous hypotheses of relationships among trichomycterid subfamilies, the mo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Fernández L,Schaefer SA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 (family Scorpionidae Latreille, 1802) was considered monotypic for over a century, and comprised a single species, Scorpio maurus Linnaeus, 1758, with 19 subspecies, distributed from West Africa, throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East, to Iran. Two parapatric subspecies, Scorpio maurus fuscu...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Talal S,Tesler I,Sivan J,Ben-Shlomo R,Muhammad Tahir H,Prendini L,Snir S,Gefen E

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the evolutionary history of snow voles, genus Chionomys, we studied the phylogeography of Chionomysnivalis across its range and investigated its relationships with two congeneric species, Chionomysgud and Chionomysroberti, using independent molecular markers. Analyses were based on mitochondrial (~940 bp ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Yannic G,Burri R,Malikov VG,Vogel P

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Trichomycteridae is the second most diverse family of the order Siluriformes, its members are widely distributed through the freshwaters of Central and South America, exhibiting an exceptional ecological and phenotypic disparity. The most diverse subfamily, Trichomycterinae, represented mainly by the genus Trichomycte...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ochoa LE,Roxo FF,DoNascimiento C,Sabaj MH,Datovo A,Alfaro M,Oliveira C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tassel-eared squirrel, Sciurus aberti, is separated into six subspecies which occupy restricted and comparable habitats in ponderosa pine forests in the south-western United States and Mexico. These forests and squirrel populations are currently isolated by large arid areas and, as such, S. aberti appears to offer...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wettstein PJ,Strausbauch M,Lamb T,States J,Chakraborty R,Jin L,Riblet R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequencing (cytochrome oxidase I; 82 sequences; 25 locations) of a species complex of Australian six-rayed sea-stars (genus Patiriella) reveals four well-supported mtDNA clades, corresponding to P. oriens, P. occidens, P. medius, and P. gunnii. These clades have non-random geographic distributions along an east to...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Waters JM,O'Loughlin PM,Roy MS

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The matK gene has been among the most useful loci for resolving plant phylogenetic relationships at different evolutionary time-scales, but much less is known about the phylogenetic utility of the flanking trnK intron, especially for deep level phylogenetics. We compared the relative performance of matK and trnK intro...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Hilu KW,Black C,Diouf D,Burleigh JG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using molecular data from three protein encoding genes and 49 taxa (98 specimens from 20 African countries), we provide an extended phylogeny of Ceratitis and investigate the evolution of stenophagy across clades. Bayesian tree reconstructions support previously proposed monophyletic lineages (Pardalaspis, Pterandrus ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Erbout N,Virgilio M,Lens L,Barr N,De Meyer M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data sets comprising small numbers of genetic markers are not always able to resolve phylogenetic relationships. This has frequently been the case in molecular systematic studies of plants, with many analyses being based on sequence data from only two or three chloroplast genes. An example of this comes from the ricef...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Foster CSP,Henwood MJ,Ho SYW

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host-shift speciation and cospeciation are the two major processes driving symbiont macroevolutionary diversification. Cospeciation is expected to be frequent in vertically transmitted and host-specific symbionts, and leads to congruent host-symbiont phylogenies. However, the cophylogenetic dynamics of many groups of ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Doña J,Sweet AD,Johnson KP,Serrano D,Mironov S,Jovani R

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of angiosperms produce hermaphrodite flowers, while a lesser number (20-30%) produce unisexual flowers. Little is known about the molecular biology of sex-determination in angiosperms, however, a few sex-determining genes have been cloned from the model system Zea mays. One of these genes is Tasselseed2 (...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kinney MS,Columbus JT,Friar EA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complicated phylogenetic histories benefit from diverse sources of inference. Pseudacris crucifer (spring peeper) spans most of eastern North America and comprises six mtDNA lineages that form multiple contact zones. The putative Miocene or early Pliocene origins of the oldest lineages within Pseudacris crucifer imply...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Cairns NA,Cicchino AS,Stewart KA,Austin JD,Lougheed SC

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic triterpenoids, such as sterols and hopanoids, are essential components of plasmatic membrane in eukaryotic organisms. Although it is generally assumed that ciliates do not synthesize sterols, and many of them are indeed auxotrophic, a large set of annotated genomic sequences and experimental data from recen...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Tomazic ML,Poklepovich TJ,Nudel CB,Nusblat AD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zanclea divergens is a tropical hydrozoan living in symbiotic association with bryozoans and currently reported from Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Maldives. Here, we used an integrative approach to assess the morpho-molecular diversity of the species across the Indo-Pacific. Phylogenetic and species delimitation an...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Maggioni D,Schiavo A,Ostrovsky AN,Seveso D,Galli P,Arrigoni R,Berumen ML,Benzoni F,Montano S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Potomida genus (Bivalvia, Unionida) has a Circum-Mediterranean distribution and like other freshwater mussel species, its populations have suffered dramatic declines. Although this genus is currently considered as monotypic, it has a long history of taxonomic revisions and presently many aspects of its systematics...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Froufe E,Prié V,Faria J,Ghamizi M,Gonçalves DV,Gürlek ME,Karaouzas I,Kebapçi Ü,Şereflişan H,Sobral C,Sousa R,Teixeira A,Varandas S,Zogaris S,Lopes-Lima M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repeated sea-level fluctuations during and prior to the Pleistocene had a dramatic effect on the distribution of land and connection among islands between the Asian and Australian continents. These cycles of connection and isolation have long been recognized as an important factor determining the distribution and orga...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Esselstyn JA,Brown RM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00