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Phylogenetics and phylogeography

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This section considers studies in the phylogeny and phylogeography of organisms.

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  1. Copepods are key components of aquatic ecosystems and can help regulate the global carbon cycle. Much attention has been paid to the species diversity of copepods worldwide, but the phylogeography and genetic ...

    Authors: Yijun Ni, Chike Chukwuenyem Ebido, Elijah Chibueze Odii, Jinhui Wang, Chinemerem Hodges Orakwelu, Francis Chukwuemeka Abonyi, Chinedu Innocent Ngene, Joseph Onyekwere Okoro, Patience Obiageli Ubachukwu, Wei Hu and Mingbo Yin

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:45

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  2. The Mexican hand tree or Canac (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon) is a temperate tree species of cloud and pine-oak forests of southern Mexico and Guatemala. Its characteristic hand-shaped flower is used in folk me...

    Authors: Diana Gabriela Hernández-Langford, María Elena Siqueiros-Delgado and Eduardo Ruíz-Sánchez

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:44

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:94

  3. Advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have reduced the cost of whole transcriptome analyses, allowing characterization of non-model species at unprecedented levels. The rapid pace of transcriptom...

    Authors: Dustin J. Wcisel, J. Thomas Howard III, Jeffrey A. Yoder and Alex Dornburg

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:41

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  4. Most cinquefoils (Potentilla L., Rosaceae) are polyploids, ranging from tetraploid (4x) to dodecaploid (12x), diploids being a rare exception. Previous studies based on ribosomal and chloroplast data indicated th...

    Authors: Nannie L. Persson, Torsten Eriksson and Jenny E. E. Smedmark

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:38

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  5. Various ecological groups of earthworms very likely constitute sharply isolated niches that might permit speciation of their symbiotic ciliates, even though no distinct morphological features appear to be reco...

    Authors: Tomáš Obert and Peter Vďačný

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:37

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  6. The family Aegisthidae is known as typical component of deep-sea hyperbenthic waters that gradually colonized other marine environments. The phylogenetic relationships within this family have been examined her...

    Authors: Sahar Khodami, Nancy F. Mercado-Salas and Pedro Martìnez Arbizu

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:36

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  7. In recent years, Ecuador and other South American countries have experienced an increase in arboviral diseases. A rise in dengue infections was followed by introductions of chikungunya and Zika, two viruses ne...

    Authors: Irina Maljkovic Berry, Wiriya Rutvisuttinunt, Rachel Sippy, Efrain Beltran-Ayala, Katherine Figueroa, Sadie Ryan, Abhinaya Srikanth, Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra, Timothy Endy and Richard G. Jarman

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:31

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  8. Crocidura, the most speciose mammalian genus, occurs across much of Asia, Europe and Africa. The taxonomy of Chinese representatives has been studied primarily based on cursory morphological comparisons and their...

    Authors: Shunde Chen, Jiao Qing, Zhu Liu, Yang Liu, Mingkun Tang, Robert W. Murphy, Yingting Pu, Xuming Wang, Keyi Tang, Keji Guo, Xuelong Jiang and Shaoying Liu

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:29

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  9. Climatic variation and geologic change both play significant roles in shaping species distributions, thus affecting their evolutionary history. In Sahara-Sahel, climatic oscillations shifted the desert extent ...

    Authors: Ana Filipa Moutinho, Nina Serén, Joana Paupério, Teresa Luísa Silva, Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Graciela Sotelo, Rui Faria, Tapio Mappes, Paulo Célio Alves, José Carlos Brito and Zbyszek Boratyński

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:26

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  10. The flat periwinkles, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata, are two sister species widely distributed throughout the Northern Atlantic shores with high potential to inform us about the process of ecological speciati...

    Authors: Graciela Sotelo, Mårten Duvetorp, Diana Costa, Marina Panova, Kerstin Johannesson and Rui Faria

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:23

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  11. Polyplacophora, or chitons, have long fascinated malacologists for their distinct and rather conserved morphology and lifestyle compared to other mollusk classes. However, key aspects of their phylogeny and ev...

    Authors: Iker Irisarri, Juan E. Uribe, Douglas J. Eernisse and Rafael Zardoya

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:22

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  12. The current Brazilian population is the product of centuries of admixture between intercontinental founding groups. Although previous results have revealed a heterogeneous distribution of mitochondrial lineage...

    Authors: Ana Paula Schaan, Leonor Gusmão, Juliana Jannuzzi, Antonio Modesto, Marcos Amador, Diego Marques, Silvia Helena Rabenhorst, Raquel Montenegro, Thayson Lopes, France Keiko Yoshioka, Giovanny Pinto, Sidney Santos, Lorenna Costa, Vivian Silbiger and Ândrea Ribeiro-dos-Santos

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:15

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  14. Early Cambrian Lagerstätten from China have greatly enriched our perspective on the early evolution of animals, particularly arthropods. However, recent studies have shown that many of these early fossil arthr...

    Authors: Cédric Aria, Fangchen Zhao, Han Zeng, Jin Guo and Maoyan Zhu

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:4

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  15. The biodiversity and distributions of terrestrial snails at local and regional scales are influenced by their low vagility and microhabitat specificity. The accessibility of large-bodied species and their char...

    Authors: Z. W. Dempsey, C. P. Goater and T. M. Burg

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:3

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  16. Regions within the nuclear ribosomal operon are a major tool for inferring evolutionary relationships and investigating diversity in fungi. In spite of the prevalent use of ribosomal markers in fungal research...

    Authors: Michael Bradshaw, Felix Grewe, Anne Thomas, Cody H. Harrison, Hanna Lindgren, Lucia Muggia, Larry L. St. Clair, H. Thorsten Lumbsch and Steven D. Leavitt

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:2

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  17. African annual killifishes (Nothobranchius spp.) are adapted to seasonally desiccating habitats (ephemeral pools), surviving dry periods as dormant eggs. Given their peculiar life history, geographic aspects of t...

    Authors: Veronika Bartáková, Béla Nagy, Matej Polačik, Radim Blažek, Hieromin Lamtane and Martin Reichard

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2020 20:1

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  18. Mesoamerica is a remarkable region with a high geological and ecological complexity. Within northern Mesoamerica, the biotic province of the Sierra Madre del Sur (SMS) in southwestern Mexico harbors exceptiona...

    Authors: Alberto Rocha-Méndez, Luis A. Sánchez-González, Clementina González and Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:237

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  19. Understanding the phylogenetic relationships among species is one of the main goals of systematic biology. Simultaneously, credible phylogenetic hypotheses are often the first requirement for unveiling the evo...

    Authors: Russell J. S. Orr, Marianne N. Haugen, Björn Berning, Philip Bock, Robyn L. Cumming, Wayne K. Florence, Masato Hirose, Emanuela Di Martino, Mali H. Ramsfjell, Maja M. Sannum, Abigail M. Smith, Leandro M. Vieira, Andrea Waeschenbach and Lee Hsiang Liow

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:235

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  20. Attributes of pest species like host range are frequently reported as being evolutionarily constrained and showing phylogenetic signal. Because these attributes in turn could influence the abundance and impact...

    Authors: Peng-Yu Jin, Jing-Tao Sun, Ary Hoffmann, Yan-Fei Guo, Jin-Cheng Zhou, Yu-Xi Zhu, Lei Chen and Xiao-Yue Hong

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:223

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  21. The coincidence of long distance dispersal (LDD) and biome shift is assumed to be the result of a multifaceted interplay between geographical distance and ecological suitability of source and sink areas. Here,...

    Authors: Michael D. Pirie, Martha Kandziora, Nicolai M. Nürk, Nicholas C. Le Maitre, Ana Mugrabi de Kuppler, Berit Gehrke, Edward G. H. Oliver and Dirk U. Bellstedt

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:222

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  22. Phylogenetic species trees are widely used in inferring evolutionary relationships. Existing software and algorithms mainly focus on phylogenetic inference. However, less attention has been paid to intermediat...

    Authors: Yang Fang, Chengcheng Liu, Jiangyi Lin, Xufeng Li, Kambiz N. Alavian, Yi Yang and Yulong Niu

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:219

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  23. Despite decades of research, the horse domestication scenario in East Asia remains poorly understood.

    Authors: Tiao Ning, Yinghui Ling, Shaoji Hu, Arman Ardalan, Jing Li, Bikash Mitra, Tapas Kumar Chaudhuri, Weijun Guan, Qianjun Zhao, Yuehui Ma, Peter Savolainen and Yaping Zhang

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:217

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  24. The flood of genomic data to help build and date the tree of life requires automation at several critical junctures, most importantly during sequence assembly and alignment. It is widely appreciated that autom...

    Authors: Yan Du, Shaoyuan Wu, Scott V. Edwards and Liang Liu

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:203

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  25. Understanding the origin of genetic variation is the key to predict how species will respond to future climate change. The genus Quercus is a species-rich and ecologically diverse woody genus that dominates a wid...

    Authors: Mengxiao Yan, Ruibin Liu, Ying Li, Andrew L. Hipp, Min Deng and Yanshi Xiong

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:202

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  26. Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that infects the human stomach, has high genetic diversity. Because its evolution is parallel to human, H. pylori is used as a tool to trace human migration. However, there are fe...

    Authors: Takaaki Ono, Modesto Cruz, José A. Jiménez Abreu, Hiroyuki Nagashima, Phawinee Subsomwong, Celso Hosking, Seiji Shiota, Rumiko Suzuki and Yoshio Yamaoka

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:197

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  27. Genetic processes shape the modern-day distribution of genetic variation within and between populations and can provide important insights into the underlying mechanisms of evolution. The resulting genetic var...

    Authors: Endre Gy Tóth, Francine Tremblay, Johann M. Housset, Yves Bergeron and Christopher Carcaillet

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:190

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  28. Studying site-specific amino acid frequencies by eye can reveal biologically significant variability and lineage-specific adaptation. This so-called ‘sequence gazing’ often informs bioinformatics and experimen...

    Authors: Christopher Monit, Richard A. Goldstein and Greg J. Towers

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:186

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  29. Silkmoths and their relatives constitute the ecologically and taxonomically diverse superfamily Bombycoidea, which includes some of the most charismatic species of Lepidoptera. Despite displaying spectacular f...

    Authors: C. A. Hamilton, R. A. St Laurent, K. Dexter, I. J. Kitching, J. W. Breinholt, A. Zwick, M. J. T. N. Timmermans, J. R. Barber and A. Y. Kawahara

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:182

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  30. Marine invertebrates are abundant and diverse on the continental shelf in Antarctica, but little is known about their parasitic counterparts. Endoparasites are especially understudied because they often posses...

    Authors: Kara K. S. Layton, Greg W. Rouse and Nerida G. Wilson

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:180

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  32. The Old World insectivorous bat genus Rhinolophus is highly speciose. Over the last 15 years, the number of its recognized species has grown from 77 to 106, but knowledge of their interrelationships has not kept ...

    Authors: Terrence C. Demos, Paul W. Webala, Steven M. Goodman, Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Michael Bartonjo and Bruce D. Patterson

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:166

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  33. Artiopodan euarthropods represent common and abundant faunal components in sites with exceptional preservation during the Cambrian. The Chengjiang biota in South China contains numerous taxa that are exclusive...

    Authors: Xiaohan Chen, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Joanna M. Wolfe, Dayou Zhai, Xianguang Hou, Ailin Chen, Huijuan Mai and Yu Liu

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:165

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  34. Ancestral character states computed from the combination of phylogenetic trees with extrinsic traits are used to decipher evolutionary scenarios in various research fields such as phylogeography, epidemiology,...

    Authors: François Chevenet, Guillaume Castel, Emmanuelle Jousselin and Olivier Gascuel

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:163

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  35. Geological events and climatic changes played important roles in shaping population differentiation and distribution within species. In China, populations in many species have contracted and expanded respondin...

    Authors: Jiande Li, Gang Song, Naifa Liu, Yongbin Chang and Xinkang Bao

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:161

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  36. Flathead fishes of the genus Platycephalus are economically important demersal fishes that widely inhabit the continental shelves of tropical and temperate sea waters. This genus has a long history of taxonomic r...

    Authors: Jie Cheng, Zhiyang Wang, Na Song, Takashi Yanagimoto and Tianxiang Gao

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:159

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  37. With an ever-growing number of published genomes, many low levels of the Tree of Life now contain several species with enough molecular data to perform shallow-scale phylogenomic studies. Moving away from usin...

    Authors: Kevin Debray, Jordan Marie-Magdelaine, Tom Ruttink, Jérémy Clotault, Fabrice Foucher and Valéry Malécot

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:152

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  38. Allopatric speciation has played a particularly important role in archipelagic settings where populations evolve in isolation after colonizing different islands. The Indo-Australasian island realm is an unpara...

    Authors: Per G. P. Ericson, Yanhua Qu, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Mozes P. K. Blom, Frank E. Rheindt and Martin Irestedt

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:151

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  39. China is an important biogeographical zone in which the genetic legacies of the Tertiary and Quaternary periods are abundant, and the contemporary geography environment plays an important role in species distr...

    Authors: Liufu Wang, Hang Zhuang, Yingying Zhang and Wenzhi Wei

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:145

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  41. The ancient Lake Baikal is characterized by an outstanding diversity of endemic faunas with more than 350 amphipod species and subspecies. We determined the genetic diversity within the endemic littoral amphip...

    Authors: Anton Gurkov, Lorena Rivarola-Duarte, Daria Bedulina, Irene Fernández Casas, Hendrik Michael, Polina Drozdova, Anna Nazarova, Ekaterina Govorukhina, Maxim Timofeyev, Peter F. Stadler and Till Luckenbach

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:138

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  42. Nuclear progesterone receptor (nPR) is an evolutionary innovation in vertebrates that mediates genomic responses to progesterone. Vertebrates also respond to progesterone via membrane progesterone receptors (m...

    Authors: Jianfeng Ren, Yu-Wen Chung-Davidson, Liang Jia and Weiming Li

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:136

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  43. Speciation with gene flow is an alternative to the nascence of new taxa in strict allopatric separation. Indeed, many taxa have parapatric distributions at present. It is often unclear if these are secondary c...

    Authors: Xuejing Wang, Pinjia Que, Gerald Heckel, Junhua Hu, Xuecong Zhang, Chung-Yu Chiang, Nan Zhang, Qin Huang, Simin Liu, Jonathan Martinez, Emilio Pagani-Núñez, Caroline Dingle, Yu Yan Leung, Tamás Székely, Zhengwang Zhang and Yang Liu

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:135

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  44. The classification of the family Psilotrichidae, a curious group of ciliated protists with unique morphological and ontogenetic features, is ambiguous and poorly understood particularly due to the lack of mole...

    Authors: Xiaotian Luo, Jie A. Huang, Lifang Li, Weibo Song and William A. Bourland

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:125

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  45. Nematodes are among the most diverse and abundant metazoans on Earth, but research on them has been biased toward parasitic taxa and model organisms. Free-living nematodes, particularly from the clades Enoplia...

    Authors: Ashleigh B. Smythe, Oleksandr Holovachov and Kevin M. Kocot

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:121

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  46. The evolution of male pregnancy is the most distinctive characteristic of syngnathids, and their specialized life history traits make syngnathid species excellent model species for many issues in biological ev...

    Authors: Xin Wang, Yanhong Zhang, Huixian Zhang, Geng Qin and Qiang Lin

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:119

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  47. There is a biogeographic break located at 30°S in the southeast Pacific, in a coastal area of strong environmental discontinuities. Several marine benthic taxa with restricted dispersal have a coincident phylo...

    Authors: Pilar A. Haye, Nicolás I. Segovia, Andrea I. Varela, Rodrigo Rojas, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira and Martin Thiel

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:118

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  48. Our ability to investigate processes shaping the evolutionary diversification of corals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) is limited by a lack of understanding of species boundaries. Discerning species of corals has been c...

    Authors: Andrea M. Quattrini, Tiana Wu, Keryea Soong, Ming-Shiou Jeng, Yehuda Benayahu and Catherine S. McFadden

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:116

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  49. The Taklimakan Desert in China is characterized by unique geological and historical dynamics and endemic flora and fauna, but the influence of historical climate oscillations on the evolutionary history of end...

    Authors: Brawin Kumar, Jilong Cheng, Deyan Ge, Lin Xia and Qisen Yang

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2019 19:113

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