abstract：:Ichneumonoidea is one of the most diverse lineages of animals on the planet with >48,000 described species and many more undescribed. Parasitoid wasps of this superfamily are mostly beneficial insects that attack and kill other arthropods and are important for understanding diversification and the evolution of life hi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Sharanowski BJ,Ridenbaugh RD,Piekarski PK,Broad GR,Burke GR,Deans AR,Lemmon AR,Moriarty Lemmon EC,Diehl GJ,Whitfield JB,Hines HM

更新日期：2021-03-01 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：:Islands are separated by natural barriers that prevent gene flow between terrestrial populations and promote allopatric diversification. Birds in the South Pacific are an excellent model to explore the interplay between isolation and gene flow due to the region's numerous archipelagos and well-characterized avian comm...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Mapel XM,Gyllenhaal EF,Modak TH,DeCicco LH,Naikatini A,Utzurrum RB,Seamon JO,Cibois A,Thibault JC,Sorenson MD,Moyle RG,Barrow LN,Andersen MJ

更新日期：2021-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With 59 Recent species, Bursidae, known as «frog shells», are a small but widely distributed group of tropical and subtropical gastropods that are most diverse in the Indo-West Pacific. The present study is aimed at reconstructing phylogenetic relationships of bursid gastropods based on extensive and representative ta...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Sanders MT,Merle D,Laurin M,Bonillo C,Puillandre N

更新日期：2021-03-01 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

abstract：:East Asia has highly diverse and endemic biota due to its complex geological and climatic history and its diversified topography. The continental and insular distributions of land snail genus Acusta in East Asia provide a good opportunity to compare the evolutionary processes in this group under different biogeographi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Hwang CC,Zhou WC,Ger MJ,Guo Y,Qian ZX,Wang YC,Tsai CL,Wu SP

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plate tectonics constitute one of the main mechanisms of biological diversification on Earth, often being associated with cladogenetic events at different phylogenetic levels, as well as with exchange of faunas and floras across previously isolated biogeographic regions. North Africa and Arabia share a complex geologi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Machado L,Salvi D,James Harris D,Brito JC,Crochet PA,Geniez P,Ahmadzadeh F,Carranza S

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new paradigm has slowly emerged regarding the diversification of bryophytes, with inferences from molecular data highlighting a dynamic evolution of their genome. However, comparative studies of expressed genes among closely related taxa is so far missing. Here we contrast the dimensions of the vegetative transcript...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Rahmatpour N,Perera NV,Singh V,Wegrzyn JL,Goffinet B

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peniculids comprise a large order of ciliated protists in Class Oligohymenophorea having many unresolved evolutionary relationships. Herein, we report 27 new sequences, including 18S rRNA, ITS1-5.8S- ITS2 rRNA, 28S rRNA and the mitochondrial cox1 genes of eight peniculids. We conducted phylogenetic analyses based on e...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Sun M,Li Y,Cai X,Liu Y,Chen Y,Pan X

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salamander genus Salamandra is widespread across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East and is renowned for its conspicuous and polymorphic colouration and diversity of reproductive modes. The phylogenetic relationships within the genus, and especially in the highly polymorphic species S. salamandra, have been ve...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Burgon JD,Vences M,Steinfartz S,Bogaerts S,Bonato L,Donaire-Barroso D,Martínez-Solano I,Velo-Antón G,Vieites DR,Mable BK,Elmer KR

更新日期：2020-12-31 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：:Scolecophidia (worm snakes) are a vertebrate group with high ecomorphological conservatism due to their burrowing lifestyle. The Eurasian or Greek blindsnake Xerotyphlops vermicularis is their only European representative, a species-complex with an old diversification history. However, its systematics and taxonomy has...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kornilios P,Jablonski D,Sadek RA,Kumlutaş Y,Olgun K,Avci A,Ilgaz C

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptic species are present throughout the tree of life. They are especially prevalent in ferns, because of processes such hybridization, polyploidy, and reticulate evolution. In addition, the simple morphology of ferns limits phenotypic variation and makes it difficult to detect cryptic species. The model fern genus ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kinosian SP,Pearse WD,Wolf PG

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Macrobiotidae is one of the most speciose and diverse groups among tardigrades. Although there have been attempts to reconstruct the phylogeny of this family, the evolutionary relationships within Macrobiotidae are only superficially determined as available genetic data cover only a small fraction of this v...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Stec D,Vecchi M,Calhim S,Michalczyk Ł

更新日期：2020-10-12 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 large and enigmatic New Guinean pythons in the genus Leiopython are harvested from the wild to supply the international trade in pets. Six species are currently recognized (albertisii, biakensis, fredparkeri, huonensis, meridionalis, montanus) but the taxonomy of this group has been controversial. We combined anal...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Natusch DJD,Esquerré D,Lyons JA,Hamidy A,Lemmon AR,Lemmon EM,Riyanto A,Keogh JS,Donnellan S

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogeographical evidence, both, for and against the "regional endemism paradigm" hypothesis has been uncovered across the Greater Sunda Region (Sundaland) of Southeast Asia. Additionally, there are competing hypotheses regarding how Pleistocene forests may have impacted biological patterns and processes in Sumatra. Us...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Shaney KJ,Maldonado J,Smart U,Thammachoti P,Fujita M,Hamidy A,Kurniawan N,Harvey MB,Smith EN

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central Andean rainforests and the Atlantic Forest are two similar biomes that are fully isolated by xerophytic and open-vegetation regions (the Chaco and Cerrado, respectively). Even though there is evidence suggesting that these rainforests have been connected in the past, their dynamics of connection, the geogr...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Trujillo-Arias N,Rodríguez-Cajarville MJ,Sari E,Miyaki CY,Santos FR,Witt CC,Barreira AS,Gómez I,Naoki K,Tubaro PL,Cabanne GS

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snakes are one of the most diverse groups of terrestrial vertebrates, with approximately 3500 extant species. A robust phylogeny and taxonomy of snakes is crucial for us to know, study and protect them. For a large group such as snakes, broad-scale phylogenetic reconstructions largely rely on data integration. Increas...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Li JN,Liang D,Wang YY,Guo P,Huang S,Zhang P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New world coralsnakes of the genus Micrurus are a diverse radiation of highly venomous and brightly colored snakes that range from North Carolina to Argentina. Species in this group have played central roles in developing and testing hypotheses about the evolution of mimicry and aposematism. Despite their diversity an...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Reyes-Velasco J,Adams RH,Boissinot S,Parkinson CL,Campbell JA,Castoe TA,Smith EN

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication plays a decisive role in organismal diversification and in the appearance of novel structures. In plants the megagametophyte covered by the integuments, which after fertilization becomes the seed constitutes a novel structure: the ovule. In Arabidopsis thaliana, genetic mechanisms regulating ovule dev...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Zumajo-Cardona C,Ambrose BA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While polyploidization is recognized as a major evolutionary driver for ferns and angiosperms, little is known about its impact in gymnosperms, where polyploidy is much less frequent. We explore Ephedra to evaluate (i) the extent of genome size diversity in the genus and the influence polyploidy has had on the evoluti...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Ickert-Bond SM,Sousa A,Min Y,Loera I,Metzgar J,Pellicer J,Hidalgo O,Leitch IJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The walnut family Juglandaceae was widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere while several extant genera now exhibit intercontinental disjunctions. Recent progress in the systematics of Juglandaceae has greatly broadened our knowledge about its origin and evolution. However, there are still uncertainties about the...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Mu XY,Tong L,Sun M,Zhu YX,Wen J,Lin QW,Liu B

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognizing species-level diversity is important for studying evolutionary patterns across biological disciplines and is critical for conservation efforts. However, challenges remain in delimiting species-level diversity, especially in cryptic radiations where species are genetically divergent but show little morpholo...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Freitas ES,Miller AH,Reynolds RG,Siler CD

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Understanding geographic patterns of interaction between hosts and parasites can provide useful insight into the evolutionary history of the organisms involved. However, poor taxon sampling often hinders meaningful phylogenetic descriptions of groups of parasites. Trypanosome parasites that constitute the Trypanosoma ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Clément L,Dietrich M,Markotter W,Fasel NJ,Monadjem A,López-Baucells A,Scaravelli D,Théou P,Pigeault R,Ruedi M,Christe P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a moss samples collected on Madagascar two populations of Paramacrobiotus experimentalis sp. nov. were found. Paramacrobiotus experimentalis sp. nov. with the presence of a microplacoid and areolatus type of eggs is similar to Pam. danielae, Pam. garynahi, Pam. hapukuensis, Pam. peteri, Pam. rioplatensis and Pam. s...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kaczmarek Ł,Roszkowska M,Poprawa I,Janelt K,Kmita H,Gawlak M,Fiałkowska E,Mioduchowska M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthoptera is the most diverse order of polyneopterans, and the forewing and hindwing of its members exhibit extremely variability from full length to complete loss in many groups; thus, this order provides a good model for studying the effects of insect flight ability on the evolutionary constraints on and evolutiona...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Chang H,Qiu Z,Yuan H,Wang X,Li X,Sun H,Guo X,Lu Y,Feng X,Majid M,Huang Y

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Madagascar's biota is characterized by a high degree of microendemism at different taxonomic levels, but how colonization and in-situ speciation contribute to the assembly of local species communities has rarely been studied on this island. Here we analyze the phylogenetic relationships of riparian frogs of the Mantid...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Rasolonjatovo SM,Scherz MD,Hutter CR,Glaw F,Rakotoarison A,Razafindraibe JH,Goodman SM,Raselimanana AP,Vences M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main drivers of diversification of freshwater fishes in Cuba are not yet well understood. For example, salt tolerance was thought as the main factor involved in the diversification of Gambusia punctata species group in this archipelago. However, evidence from a recent DNA barcoding survey suggested the presence of...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： García-Machado E,Ponce de Léon JL,Gutiérrez-Costa MA,Michel-Salzat A,Germon I,Casane D

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leeches of the family Erpobdellidae are important members of benthic freshwater environments, where they are voracious predators of other invertebrates and an important source of nutrition for several species of vertebrates. Beset by a lack of reliable diagnostic morphological characters and destructive identification...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Anderson K,Braoudakis G,Kvist S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cirrhopetalum alliance is a loosely circumscribed species-rich group within the mega-diverse genus Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae). The monophyletic status of the alliance has been challenged by previous studies, although established sectional classifications have yet to be tested in a phylogenetic context. We used max...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Hu AQ,Gale SW,Liu ZJ,Suddee S,Hsu TC,Fischer GA,Saunders RMK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In several sawfly taxa strong mitonuclear discordance has been observed, with nuclear genes supporting species assignments based on morphology, whereas the barcode region of the mitochondrial COI gene suggests different relationships. As previous studies were based on only a few nuclear genes, the causes and the degre...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Prous M,Lee KM,Mutanen M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here a combined mitogenome gene order dataset totalling 62% of the known genera of East Asian potamiscine freshwater crabs that includes first-time mitogenome data for 14 species and gene order data from 37 other species of potamiscines. A surprisingly high number of mitogenome gene order rearrangements wer...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Zhang Z,Xing Y,Cheng J,Pan D,Lv L,Cumberlidge N,Sun H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition of cryptic species concealed in traditionally established species may reveal new biogeographical patterns and alter the understanding of how biodiversity is geographically distributed. This is particularly relevant for marine ecosystems where the incidence of cryptic species is high and where species d...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Cerca J,Meyer C,Purschke G,Struck TH

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cape flora is compositionally biased, being dominated by a few fynbos clades (such as Iridaceae, Ericaceae, Proteaceae and Restionaceae) that make up major part of the distinct heathland vegetation in the Cape Floristic Region. Uncertainty exists concerning what excluded the subtropical to tropical palm-dominated ...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： van Santen M,Linder HP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust phylogeny is prerequisite to understand the evolution and biogeography of organisms. However, ancient and recent evolutionary radiations occurred in many plant lineages, which pose great challenges for phylogenetic analysis, especially for conifers characterized by large effective population sizes and long ge...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Shao CC,Shen TT,Jin WT,Mao HJ,Ran JH,Wang XQ

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-resolved phylogeny would facilitate study of adaptation to nocturnality in the avian superorder Strisores, a group that includes both nocturnal and diurnal lineages. Based on previous estimates, it could be hypothesized that there were multiple independent origins of nocturnality in this group. In order to refi...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： White ND,Braun MJ

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:The morphological diversity of African ticks of the genus Rhipicephalus and subgenus Boophilus have been studied in detail. However, their taxonomy remains poorly resolved with limited molecular studies performed to improve inter-species discrimination. Herein, ribosomal cytochrome c oxidase I (COI), 12S ribosomal DNA...

journal_title：Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

authors： Kanduma EG,Bishop RP,Githaka NW,Skilton RA,Heyne H,Mwacharo JM

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00