Testing Convergence Versus History: Convergence Dominates Phenotypic Evolution for over 150 Million Years in Frogs [0.03%]
趋同战胜了历史：在1.5亿多年的进化史上，两栖动物表型演化中的趋同占主导地位
Daniel S Moen,Hélène Morlon,John J Wiens
Daniel S Moen
Striking evolutionary convergence can lead to similar sets of species in different locations, such as in cichlid fishes and Anolis lizards, and suggests that evolution can be repeatable and predictable across clades. Yet, most examples of c...
Lindell Bromham,Xia Hua,Marcel Cardillo
Lindell Bromham
Phylogenetic analyses have lent support to the concept of lineage selection: that biological lineages can have heritable traits that influence their capacity to persist and diversify, and thereby affect their representation in biodiversity....
Rumbling Orchids: How To Assess Divergent Evolution Between Chloroplast Endosymbionts and the Nuclear Host [0.03%]
摇曳的兰花：如何评估叶绿体内共生生物与细胞核宿主之间的分歧进化
Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar,Juan Antonio Balbuena,Marc Gottschling
Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar
Phylogenetic relationships inferred from multilocus organellar and nuclear DNA data are often difficult to resolve because of evolutionary conflicts among gene trees. However, conflicting or "outlier" associations (i.e., linked pairs of "op...
Processes Driving the Adaptive Radiation of a Tropical Tree (Diospyros, Ebenaceae) in New Caledonia, a Biodiversity Hotspot [0.03%]
驱动生物多样性热点新喀里多尼亚岛上一棵热带树(Diospyros，Ebenaceae)适应辐射的过程
Ovidiu Paun,Barbara Turner,Emiliano Trucchi et al.
Ovidiu Paun et al.
Due to its special geological history, the New Caledonian Archipelago is a mosaic of soil types, and in combination with climatic conditions this results in a heterogeneous environment across relatively small distances. A group of over 20 e...
Thu-Hien To,Matthieu Jung,Samantha Lycett et al.
Thu-Hien To et al.
Phylogenies provide a useful way to understand the evolutionary history of genetic samples, and data sets with more than a thousand taxa are becoming increasingly common, notably with viruses (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)). Dati...
Jean-François Flot
Jean-François Flot
Helen K Alexander,Amaury Lambert,Tanja Stadler
Helen K Alexander
Several ecological factors that could play into species extinction are expected to correlate with species age, i.e., time elapsed since the species arose by speciation. To date, however, statistical tools to incorporate species age into lik...
A Robust Semi-Parametric Test for Detecting Trait-Dependent Diversification [0.03%]
一种鲁棒的半参数检验法用于检测性状依赖分化
Daniel L Rabosky,Huateng Huang
Daniel L Rabosky
Rates of species diversification vary widely across the tree of life and there is considerable interest in identifying organismal traits that correlate with rates of speciation and extinction. However, it has been challenging to develop met...
Enlarged Multilocus Data set Provides Surprisingly Younger Time of Origin for the Plethodontidae, the Largest Family of Salamanders [0.03%]
扩大的多基因位点数据集表明大型蝾螈科 plethodontidae 的起源时间较晚
Xing-Xing Shen,Dan Liang,Meng-Yun Chen et al.
Xing-Xing Shen et al.
Deep phylogenetic relationships of the largest salamander family Plethodontidae have been difficult to resolve, probably reflecting a rapid diversification early in their evolutionary history. Here, data from 50 independent nuclear markers ...
Geometric Morphometrics on Gene Expression Patterns Within Phenotypes: A Case Example on Limb Development [0.03%]
几何形态计量学在表型内基因表达模式研究中的应用——肢体发育的一个实例研究
Neus Martínez-Abadías,Roger Mateu,Martina Niksic et al.
Neus Martínez-Abadías et al.
How the genotype translates into the phenotype through development is critical to fully understand the evolution of phenotypes. We propose a novel approach to directly assess how changes in gene expression patterns are associated with chang...