abstract：:Helleria brevicornis has a disjunct, peri-Tyrrhenian distribution that mirrors that of several organisms, for which geographic vicariance is invoked, due to the geological events started with the Oligocene split of the Sardo-Corsican microplate from the Pyrenees, and successive separation between Sardinia and Corsica....

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Gentile G,Campanaro A,Carosi M,Sbordoni V,Argano R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high diversity of Cyprinid fish in Ethiopia's Lake Tana appears to be an example of ecological differentiation and assortative mating leading to rapid sympatric speciation. Lake Tana's Labeobarbus species flock consists of 15 morphological and ecological distinct species. This is the first attempt to determine the...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： de Graaf M,Megens HJ,Samallo J,Sibbing F

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calocidae constitute a hypothesised monophyletic group of caddisflies (Trichoptera) being geographically restricted to New Zealand (one genus) and Australia (five genera). This analysis tests the monophyly of the family based on sequences from five different molecular genes. The complete data set includes 29 species a...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Johanson KA,Malm T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleistocene climatic fluctuations played a principal role for range formation and population history of many biota, including regions not directly affected by glaciations, such as the arid habitats of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. Specifically, drought-adapted species are expected to have persist...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Rebernig CA,Weiss-Schneeweiss H,Schneeweiss GM,Schönswetter P,Obermayer R,Villaseñor JL,Stuessy TF

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Characidae is a group of freshwater bony fishes that exhibits high species-level diversity and whose members inhabit parts of Texas, Mexico, and Central and South America. Thus far, morphological data have been of limited use in discerning relationships among subfamilies and incertae sedis genera of the fam...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Javonillo R,Malabarba LR,Weitzman SH,Burns JR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiny lizards (genus Sceloporus) represent one of the most diverse and species rich clades of squamate reptiles in continental North America. Sceloporus contains 90+ species, which are partitioned into 21 species groups containing anywhere from one to 15 species. Despite substantial progress towards elucidating the ph...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Leaché AD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the relatively few terrestrial leeches known worldwide, only two (Haemopis terrestris, Haemopis septagon) are described from North America. Here we report a third terrestrial leech collected from the southern part of New Jersey, USA. Tissue samples were obtained from 14 individuals representing three populations...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wirchansky BA,Shain DH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Labeonini (sensu Rainboth, 1991) is a tribe of the subfamily Cyprininae, the largest subfamily of Cypriniformes. With around 400 species in 34 genera, this tribe is widely distributed in the freshwaters of tropical Africa and Asia. Most species are adapted to fast-flowing streams and rivers, and exhibit unique mor...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Yang L,Mayden RL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied phylogenetic relationships of the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus species group to infer colonization and diversification patterns in this endemic radiation of terrestrial frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus in the largest of the Greater Antilles, Cuba. An initial screening of genetic diversity based on part...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Rodríguez A,Vences M,Nevado B,Machordom A,Verheyen E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subfamily Cynopterinae comprises ca. 24 species of pteropodid bats (Family Pteropodidae) distributed exclusively in South and Southeast Asia. Although some studies have supported monophyly of the subfamily, molecular analyses have produced contradictory results and there has been little agreement on relationships ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Almeida FC,Giannini NP,DeSalle R,Simmons NB

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few species have been of more disputed affinities than the red or lesser panda (Ailurus fulgens), an endangered endemic Southeast Asian vegetarian member of the placental mammalian order Carnivora. This peculiar carnivoran has mostly been classified with raccoons (Procyonidae) or bears (Ursidae), grouped with the gian...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Sato JJ,Wolsan M,Minami S,Hosoda T,Sinaga MH,Hiyama K,Yamaguchi Y,Suzuki H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the Gentianaceae-Exaceae, the most species-rich genus Sebaea has received very little attention in terms of phylogenetic or karyological investigations. As a result, the exact number of species remains vague and the relationships with the other members of the Exaceae poorly understood. In this paper, we provide...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kissling J,Yuan YM,Küpfer P,Mansion G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic analyses of representative species from the five genera of Winteraceae (Drimys, Pseudowintera, Takhtajania, Tasmannia, and Zygogynum s.l.) were performed using ITS nuclear sequences and a combined data-set of ITS+psbA-trnH+rpS16 sequences (sampling of 30 and 15 species, respectively). Indel informativity ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Marquínez X,Lohmann LG,Salatino ML,Salatino A,González F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As circumscribed by Drude, the umbellifer subfamily Hydrocotyloideae posed a major hindrance to resolving the phylogeny of order Apiales. Previous studies have suggested its polyphyly, but have not had sufficient sampling to address the issue fully. To put an end to the out-dated concept of Hydrocotyloideae, we invest...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Nicolas AN,Plunkett GM

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:We used Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism markers (AFLP) and breeding system studies to investigate the population structure and reproductive biology of Hypochaeris angustifolia (Asteraceae: Cichorieae). This species is endemic to altiplanos of the Atlas Mountains (Morocco) where it occurs in scattered population...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Terrab A,Ortiz MA,Talavera M,Ariza MJ,Moriana Mdel C,García-Castaño JL,Tremetsberger K,Stuessy TF,Baeza CM,Urtubey E,Ruas Cde F,Casimiro-Soriguer R,Balao F,Gibbs PE,Talavera S

更新日期：2009-10-01 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

abstract：:We explored variation in mitochondrial ND2 gene sequences from 171 stonechats (Saxicola torquata complex) collected from 27 Eurasian and 3 African localities. We found that two widespread neighboring Eurasian subspecies of Siberian stonechat, Saxicola maura maura and S. m. stejnegeri, although very similar in appearan...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Zink RM,Pavlova A,Drovetski S,Wink M,Rohwer S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence alignments of multiple genes are routinely used to infer phylogenetic relationships among species. The analysis of their concatenation is more likely to give correct results under an assumption of homotachy (i.e., the evolutionary rates within lineages in each of the concatenated genes are constant during evo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Som A,Fuellen G

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American mink's relationship to the weasels in Mustela has been uncertain. Karyological, morphological, and phylogenetic comparisons to Eurasian Mustela support placing the mink outside the genus as Neovison vison. However, genetic comparisons that incorporate other endemic American Mustela suggest the interpretat...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Harding LE,Smith FA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We entirely sequenced two new hymenopteran mitochondrial genomes (Cephus cinctus and Orussus occidentalis), and a substantial portion of another three hymenopterans (Schlettererius cinctipes, Venturia canescens, and Enicospilus). We analyze them together with nine others reported in the literature. We establish that t...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Dowton M,Cameron SL,Austin AD,Whiting MF

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acestrorhynchus is the sole genus of the family Acestrorhynchidae which includes 14 species currently recognized as valid. Species of Acestrorhynchus comprise small-to-medium sized piscivorous fishes and have been traditionally grouped on the basis of well-defined color patterns. A recent phylogeny, based on morpholog...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Pretti VQ,Calcagnotto D,Toledo-Piza M,de Almeida-Toledo LF

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Many large secreted gel-forming mucins contain multiple copies of a "naked" cysteine-enriched domain (CYS domain) that interrupt or are adjacent to mucin domains (Ser/Thr/Pro regions). There is less similarity of homologous CYS sequences between species than there is across CYS repeats within species. These ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Desseyn JL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) are widely distributed in China. We used mitochondrial DNA control-region data to investigate the origin and past demographic changes in 139 ring-necked pheasants (P. colchicus) sampled from the species' distribution range. A total of 1078 nucleotides from the control re...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Qu J,Liu N,Bao X,Wang X

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bryozoa is one of the most puzzling phyla in the animal kingdom and little is known about their evolutionary history. Its phylogenetic position among the Metazoa remains unsettled, as well as its intra-phylum relationships. Here, we present the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Bryozoa based on the mitochondr...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Fuchs J,Obst M,Sundberg P

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cpDNA of Welwitschia mirabilis (the only species of Welwitschiales) was recently reported to be the most reduced and compact among photosynthetic land plants. However, cpDNAs of the other two gnetophyte lineages (viz. Ephedrales and Gnetales) have not yet been studied. It remains unclear what underlining mechanism...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wu CS,Lai YT,Lin CP,Wang YN,Chaw SM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The damselfishes (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) are an important family of marine reef fishes that occupy a range of ecological positions in the world's oceans. In order to determine the evolutionary pattern of their radiation, we used multiple methods to examine molecular data from 104 species representing all extant g...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： James Cooper W,Smith LL,Westneat MW

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The continental distributions of freshwater fishes in the family Notopteridae (Osteoglossomorpha) across Africa, India, and Southeast Asia constitute a long standing and enigmatic problem of freshwater biogeography. The migrational pathway of the Asian notopterids has been discussed in light of two competing schemes: ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Inoue JG,Kumazawa Y,Miya M,Nishida M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A species flock of the freshwater isopod genus Eophreatoicus Nicholls lives in seeps, springs and perched aquifers at the base of the Arnhem Plateau and associated sandstone outliers in Australia's Northern Territory. These species have been found to have surprisingly high levels of genetic divergence and narrow range...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Wilson GD,Humphrey CL,Colgan DJ,Gray KA,Johnson RN

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alangiaceae, in the basal Asterid clade Cornales, consists of only one genus, Alangium. The genus has approximately 24 species distributed mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World and is well represented in the Tertiary fossil record of the northern hemisphere. We conducted phylogenetic and biogeogr...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Feng CM,Manchester SR,Xiang QY

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diversification of the California icthyofauna has been greatly influenced by a complex geomorphological history and past fluctuations in climate regimes. This complex history has resulted in areas of high endemism for a number of taxa. Here we present data on the two species in the genus Lavinia, the California roach ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Aguilar A,Jones WJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomy of the African dwarf crocodile (genus Osteolaemus) has been disputed since a novel morphotype was discovered in the early 20th Century. Because this poorly-known reptile is widely hunted throughout the forests of Central and West Africa, resolving the existence and extent of taxonomic units has important ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Eaton MJ,Martin A,Thorbjarnarson J,Amato G

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular studies have enlightened our understanding of freshwater zooplankton biogeography, yet questions remain regarding the scale and commonality of geographic speciation. Here, we present a mtDNA-based phylogenetic hypothesis for 92 Daphnia species from all seven continents, with a focus on North and South Americ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Adamowicz SJ,Petrusek A,Colbourne JK,Hebert PD,Witt JD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phylogenetic analysis of all 17 extant species of the clawed lobster genus Metanephrops based on mitochondrial 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA and cytochrome c oxidase I, and nuclear histone H3 gene sequences supports the morphological groupings of two of the traditional groups of the genus (the binghami and japonicus groups) bu...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Chan TY,Ho KC,Li CP,Chu KH

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Phylogenetic analyses based on mitochondrial DNA have yielded widely differing relationships among members of the arthropod lineage Arachnida, depending on the nucleotide coding schemes and models of evolution used. We enhanced taxonomic coverage within the Arachnida greatly by sequencing seven new arachnid mitochondr...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Masta SE,Longhorn SJ,Boore JL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relationships among the species of Northern Hemisphere smelts (family Osmeridae) have long been debated in the fish systematics literature. Eight independent studies based on morphological characters failed to reach any consensus on osmerid interrelationships. We reconstruct the osmerid phylogeny based on DNA sequence...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ilves KL,Taylor EB

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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