abstract：:Recent investigations on the evolutionary history of the common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) revealed high levels of geographically structured genetic diversity but also a situation where delineation of major historical lineages and resolution of their relationships are much more complex than previously thought....

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Gonçalves H,Maia-Carvalho B,Sousa-Neves T,García-París M,Sequeira F,Ferrand N,Martínez-Solano I

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The caddisfly subfamily Drusinae BANKS comprises roughly 100 species inhabiting mountain ranges in Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus. A 3-gene phylogeny of the subfamily previously identified three major clades that were corroborated by larval morphology and feeding ecologies: scraping grazers, omnivorous shredders ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Vitecek S,Graf W,Kučinić M,Oláh J,Bálint M,Previšić A,Keresztes L,Pauls SU,Waringer J

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Satellite DNAs (satDNA) are tandemly arrayed repeated sequences largely present in eukaryotic genomes, which play important roles in genome evolution and function, and therefore, their analysis is vital. Here, we describe the isolation of a novel satellite DNA family (PMSat) from the rodent Peromyscus eremicus (Cricet...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Louzada S,Vieira-da-Silva A,Mendes-da-Silva A,Kubickova S,Rubes J,Adega F,Chaves R

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) have become popular markers in phylogenomic studies because of their cost effectiveness and their potential to resolve problematic phylogenetic relationships. Although UCE datasets typically contain a much larger number of loci and sites than more traditional datasets of PCR-amplified, s...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Gilbert PS,Chang J,Pan C,Sobel EM,Sinsheimer JS,Faircloth BC,Alfaro ME

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence data are widely used to delimit species. However, owing to its strict maternal inheritance in most species, mtDNA tracks female dispersion and dispersal only. The accuracy of mtDNA-derived species delimitation is often not explicitly tested using other independent evidence, such as n...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wu Y,Murphy RW

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four genetically distinct clades were recently described under the name Dendropoma petraeum, a Mediterranean endemic vermetid gastropod. The aim of this work is to date the processes that drove to the diversification within this taxon and to relate them to the corresponding historical events occurred in the Mediterran...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Calvo M,Alda F,Oliverio M,Templado J,Machordom A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The charismatic tropical Polyura Nawab butterflies are distributed across twelve biodiversity hotspots in the Indomalayan/Australasian archipelago. In this study, we tested an array of species delimitation methods and compared the results to existing morphology-based taxonomy. We sequenced two mitochondrial and two nu...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Toussaint EF,Morinière J,Müller CJ,Kunte K,Turlin B,Hausmann A,Balke M

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:The status of subspecies in systematic zoology is the focus of controversy. Recent studies use DNA sequences to evaluate the status of subspecies within species complexes and to recognize and delimit species. Here, we assessed the phylogenetic relationships, the taxonomic status of the proposed subspecies, and the spe...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Zamudio-Beltrán LE,Hernández-Baños BE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The livebearing fish genus Brachyrhaphis (Poeciliidae) has become an increasingly important model in evolution and ecology research, yet the phylogeny of this group is not well understood, nor has it been examined thoroughly using modern phylogenetic methods. Here, we present the first comprehensive phylogenetic analy...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ingley SJ,Reina RG,Bermingham E,Johnson JB

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widely distributed groups of living animals, such as the predominantly marine fish family Sciaenidae, have always attracted the attention of biogeographers to document the origins and patterns of diversification in time and space. In this study, the historical biogeography of the global Sciaenidae is reconstructed wit...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Lo PC,Liu SH,Chao NL,Nunoo FK,Mok HK,Chen WJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distichus species group includes six species and 21 subspecies of trunk ecomorph anoles distributed across Hispaniola and its satellite islands as well as the northern Bahamas. Although this group has long served as a model system for studies of reproductive character displacement, adaptation, behavior and speciat...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Geneva AJ,Hilton J,Noll S,Glor RE

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from molecular phylogenetics were used to assess aspects of diversity and relationships in Brickellia, a large and widespread genus of Eupatorieae. The dataset included sequence data from nuclear ribosomal ITS, ETS, and plastid psbA-trnH regions. An initial question was to assess the monophyly of the genus and wh...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Schilling EE,Panero JL,Crozier BS,Scott RW,Dávila P

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most plant phylogeographic studies in subtropical China have stressed the importance of multiple refugia and limited admixture among refugia. Little attention has been paid to range expansion and recolonization routes in this region. In this study, we implemented a phylogeographic survey on Sargentodoxa cuneata, a wid...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Tian S,Lei SQ,Hu W,Deng LL,Li B,Meng QL,Soltis DE,Soltis PS,Fan DM,Zhang ZY

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau is characterized by complex topography and a discontinuous landscape, creating a sky island situation. However, the way topography shapes genetic structures and demographic histories of endemic species has not been well studied. We examined the phylogeographic pattern and...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Chen S,Sun Z,He K,Jiang X,Liu Y,Koju NP,Zhang X,Tu F,Fan Z,Liu S,Yue B

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a novel BLAST-Based Relative Distance (BBRD) method by Pearson's correlation coefficient to avoid the problems of tedious multiple sequence alignment and complicated outgroup selection. We showed its application on reconstructing reliable phylogeny for nucleotide and protein sequences as exemplified by th...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wang YC,Wang JD,Chen CH,Chen YW,Li C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on island biotas has greatly contributed to the development of modern evolutionary and biogeographic theories. Until now, most studies have suggested that continental islands received their biotas directly from the adjacent mainland. However, only a few studies have indicated that species on continental islan...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Chen D,Chang J,Li SH,Liu Y,Liang W,Zhou F,Yao CT,Zhang Z

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Mesoamerican spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi sensu lato) are widely distributed from Mexico to northern Colombia. This group of primates includes many allopatric forms with morphologically distinct pelage color and patterning, but its taxonomy and phylogenetic history are poorly understood. We explored the genetic re...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Morales-Jimenez AL,Cortés-Ortiz L,Di Fiore A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular data have converged on a consensus about the genus-level phylogeny of extant platyrrhine monkeys, but for most extinct taxa and certainly for those older than the Pleistocene we must rely upon morphological evidence from fossils. This raises the question as to how well anatomical data mirror molecular phylog...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kay RF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxozoa, a diverse group of morphologically simplified endoparasites, are well known fish parasites causing substantial economic losses in aquaculture. Despite active research, the phylogenetic position of Myxozoa remains ambiguous. After obtaining the genome and transcriptome data of the myxozoan Thelohanellus kitaue...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Feng JM,Xiong J,Zhang JY,Yang YL,Yao B,Zhou ZG,Miao W

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation genomic sequencing promises to quickly and cheaply resolve remaining contentious nodes in the Tree of Life, and facilitates species-tree estimation while taking into account stochastic genealogical discordance among loci. Recent methods for estimating species trees bypass full likelihood-based estimate...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Pyron RA,Hendry CR,Chou VM,Lemmon EM,Lemmon AR,Burbrink FT

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogeny of piranhas, pacus, and relatives (family Serrasalmidae) was inferred on the basis of DNA sequences from eleven gene fragments that include the mitochondrial control region plus 10 nuclear genes (two exons and eight introns). The new data were obtained for a representative sampling of 53 specimens, colle...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Thompson AW,Betancur-R R,López-Fernández H,Ortí G

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:The India-Asia collision profoundly influenced the climate, topography and biodiversity of Asia, causing the formation of the biodiverse Himalayas. The species-rich gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is an ideal clade for exploring the biological impacts of the India-Asia collision, as previous phylogenetic hypotheses sugge...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Agarwal I,Bauer AM,Jackman TR,Karanth KP

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eastern Afromontane Region (EAR) contains numerous endemic species, yet its reptile diversity remains relatively poorly understood. We used molecular data to examine species diversity of the Sub-Saharan chameleon genus Trioceros. In particular, we focus on establishing species boundaries for taxa with disjunct dis...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ceccarelli FS,Menegon M,Tolley KA,Tilbury CR,Gower DJ,Laserna MH,Kasahun R,Rodriguez-Prieto A,Hagmann R,Loader SP

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A backbone phylogeny that fully resolves all subfamily and deeper nodes of Asteraceae was constructed using 14 chloroplast DNA loci. The recently named genus Famatinanthus was found to be sister to the Mutisioideae-Asteroideae clade that represents more than 99% of Asteraceae and was found to have the two chloroplast ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Panero JL,Freire SE,Ariza Espinar L,Crozier BS,Barboza GE,Cantero JJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The butterfly tribe Melitaeini [Nymphalidae] contains numerous species that have been the subjects of a wide range of biological studies. Despite numerous taxonomic revisions, many of the evolutionary relationships within the tribe remain unresolved. Utilizing mitochondrial and nuclear gene regions, we produced a time...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Long EC,Thomson RC,Shapiro AM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lot is known about the evolution and architecture of plastid, mitochondrial, and nuclear genomes, but surprisingly little is known about their relative rates of mutation. Most available relative-rate data come from seed plants, which, with few exceptions, have a mitochondrial mutation rate that is lower than those o...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Smith DR,Jackson CJ,Reyes-Prieto A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lecanoromycetes is the largest class of lichenized Fungi, and one of the most species-rich classes in the kingdom. Here we provide a multigene phylogenetic synthesis (using three ribosomal RNA-coding and two protein-coding genes) of the Lecanoromycetes based on 642 newly generated and 3329 publicly available seque...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Miadlikowska J,Kauff F,Högnabba F,Oliver JC,Molnár K,Fraker E,Gaya E,Hafellner J,Hofstetter V,Gueidan C,Otálora MA,Hodkinson B,Kukwa M,Lücking R,Björk C,Sipman HJ,Burgaz AR,Thell A,Passo A,Myllys L,Goward T,Fern

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mediterranean trout populations display a diversity of phenotypes, representing a valuable model for the study of adaptation and a puzzling dilemma for taxonomists and biogeographers, which is further entangled by the widespread introgression of allochthonous genes. In this paper we analysed DNA polymorphism at multip...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Gratton P,Allegrucci G,Sbordoni V,Gandolfi A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sequenced COI and COII mitochondrial genes of 141 Neotropical woolly monkeys to provide new insights concerning their phylogeography and phylogenetic relationships. For the first time, eight individuals of the endemic and extremely rare Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey (flavicauda) were sequenced at these genes...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ruiz-García M,Pinedo-Castro M,Shostell JM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the importance for including multiple independent loci in phylogeographic studies is largely acknowledged, a majority of these still focus on a single species. We combine the study of multilocus DNA sequence variation (one mitochondrial and four unlinked nuclear fragments) at both the inter- and intraspecific le...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Quinzin MC,Mardulyn P

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Pteropodidae is a diverse Old World family of non-echolocating, frugivorous and nectarivorous bats that includes the flying foxes (genus Pteropus) and allied genera. The subfamily Pteropodinae includes the largest living bats and is distributed across an immense geographic range from islands in East Africa to the Cook...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Almeida FC,Giannini NP,Simmons NB,Helgen KM

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Fishes of the order Myctophiformes (Teleostei; Scopelomorpha) comprise over half of all deep-sea biomass, and are a critical component of marine ecosystems worldwide. Members of the family Myctophidae, within Myctophiformes, form the majority of species diversity within the order (∼250 species, 33 genera, 2 subfamilie...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Denton JS

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malacosporeans are a poorly known myxozoan clade that uniquely demonstrates a tissue level of organisation. Thus, when exploiting their invertebrate hosts (freshwater bryozoans) they occur as non-motile sacs or vermiform stages capable of active swimming. We combine phylogenetic analyses of SSU and LSU rDNA with morph...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Hartikainen H,Gruhl A,Okamura B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00