Glon, Heather Quattrini, Andrea Rodríguez, Estefanía Titus, Benjamin M Daly, Marymegan
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Genome-level sequencing is the next step in understanding species-level relationships within Anthozoa (soft corals, anemones, stony corals, and their kin) as morphological and PCR-directed (single-locus) sequencing methods often fall short of differentiating species. The sea anemone genus Metridium is a common northern temperate sea anemone whose s...
Bakkes, Deon K Ropiquet, Anne Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia Matloa, Dikeledi E Apanaskevich, Dmitry A Horak, Ivan G Mans, Ben J Matthee, Conrad A
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Rhipicephalus are a species-diverse genus of ticks, mainly distributed in the Afrotropics with some species in the Palearctic and Oriental regions. Current taxonomic consensus comprise nine informal species groups/lineages based on immature morphology. This work integrates biogeographic, ecological and molecular lines of evidence to better understa...
Goto, Ryutaro Takano, Tsuyoshi Eernisse, Douglas J Kato, Makoto Kano, Yasunori
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
The molluscan class Gastropoda includes over 5,000 parasitic species whose evolutionary origins remain poorly understood. Marine snails of the genus Caledoniella (Caledoniellidae) are obligate parasites that live on the abdominal surface of the gonodactylid mantis shrimps. They have highly modified morphological characteristics specialized to the e...
Zhang, Can-Yu Low, Shook Ling Song, Yi-Gang Nurainas, Kozlowski, Gregor Li, Lang Zhou, Shi-Shun Tan, Yun-Hong Cao, Guan-Long Zhou, Zhuo
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Liu, Sukuan Smith, Stacey D
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Heliamphora is a genus of carnivorous pitcher plants endemic to the Guiana Highlands with fragmented distributions. We present a well resolved, time-calibrated, and comprehensive Heliamphora phylogeny estimated using Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood based on nuclear genes (26S, ITS, and PHYC) and secondary calibration. We used stochastic m...
Alström, Per van Linschooten, Jip Donald, Paul F Sundev, Gombobaatar Mohammadi, Zeinolabedin Ghorbani, Fatemeh Shafaeipour, Arya van den Berg, Arnoud Robb, Magnus Aliabadian, Mansour
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Species delimitation has advanced from a purely phenotypic exercise to a branch of science that integrates multiple sources of data to identify independently evolving lineages that can be treated as species. We here test species limits in the avian Lesser Short-toed Lark Alaudala rufesens-Sand Lark A. raytal complex, which has an intricate taxonomi...
Ma, Zhi-Yao Nie, Ze-Long Ren, Chen Liu, Xiu-Qun Zimmer, Elizabeth A Wen, Jun
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
The grape family consists of 16 genera and ca. 950 species. It is best known for the economically important fruit crop - the grape Vitis vinifera. The deep phylogenetic relationships and character evolution of the grape family have attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. We herein reconstruct the phylogenomic relationships within Vi...
Rahmatpour, Nasim Perera, Neranjan V Singh, Vijender Wegrzyn, Jill L Goffinet, Bernard
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
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 transcriptome of Funaria hygrometrica and...
Chen, Jun Zeng, Yan-Fei Zhang, Da-Yong
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Hybridization has played an important role in plant evolution. Less attention has been paid, however, to its role in dispersal. In this study, historical divergence and hybridization were investigated in two closely related Chinese oaks, Quercus mongolica and Q. liaotungensis, to estimate the role that hybridization played in their dispersal. We ge...
Sun, Meng Li, Yuan Cai, Xinglong Liu, Yongqiang Chen, Ying Pan, Xuming
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Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
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 each these markers and on a four...
