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Contrasting phylogenetic signals and evolutionary rates in floral traits of Neotropical lianas
(WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2011)
The diversity of floral forms has long been considered a prime example of radiation through natural selection. However, little is still known about the evolution of floral traits, a critical piece of evidence for the ...
Geographical distribution and ecological diversification of South American octodontid rodents
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2013-02)
Caviomorph rodents represent one of the most distinctive groups of mammals in southern South America drylands; they colonized South America from Africa via trans-oceanic dispersions in the Eocene (40-50 Ma) and underwent ...
Ancestral character estimation under the threshold model from quantitative genetics
Evolutionary biology is a study of life's history on Earth. In researching this history, biologists are often interested in attempting to reconstruct phenotypes for the long extinct ancestors of living species. Various ...
Evolution of the strikingly diverse submandibular muscles in Anura
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2021-02)
The most ventral muscles of the head (the mm. submentalis, intermandibularis, and interhyoideus) provide support to the gular region and lift the buccal floor during ventilation and feeding. These muscles show limited ...
Morphological divergence in a continental adaptive radiation: South American ovenbirds of the genus Cinclodes
(American Ornithologists’ Union, 2015)
Cinclodes is an ecologically diverse genus of South American passerine birds and represents a case of continental
adaptive radiation along multiple axes. We investigated morphological diversification in Cinclodes using ...
Two new graphical methods for mapping trait evolution on phylogenies
Modern phylogenetic comparative biology uses data from the relationships between species (phylogeny) combined with comparative information for phenotypic traits to draw model?based statistical inferences about the evolutionary ...
Resolution of deep nodes yields an improved backbone phylogeny and a new basal lineage to study early evolution of Asteraceae
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2014-11)
A backbone phylogeny that fully resolves all subfamily and deeper nodes of Asteraceae was constructed using 14 chloroplast DNA loci. The recently named genus Famatinanthus was found to be sister to the Mutisioideae-Asteroideae ...
A new basal lineage and resolution of deep nodes yields an improved backbone phylogeny to study early evolution of Asteraceae
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2014-11)
A backbone phylogeny that fully resolves all subfamily and deeper nodes of Asteraceae was constructed using 14 chloroplast DNA loci. The recently named genus Famatinanthus was found to be sister to the Mutisioideae?Asteroideae ...
Species tree phylogeny, character evolution, and biogeography of the patagonian genus Anarthrophyllum Benth. (Fabaceae)
(Springer Heidelberg, 2018-03)
Geologic events promoting the aridization of southern South America contributed to lineage divergences and species differentiation through geographic (allopatric divergence) and biotic and abiotic factors (ecological ...
Inflorescence diversity in subtribe Eleusininae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae)
(Elsevier Gmbh, 2017-03)
We studied the inflorescences of 112 members of tribe Chloridoideae subtribe Eleusininae from a morphological and evolutionary perspective to identify the most frequent types and to explore the evolutionary history of ...