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Williams D.M., Ebach M.C. 2016. What is intuitive taxonomic practice? Sys. Biol. (in press) DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syw094. (Source: Systematic Biology)
Source: Systematic Biology - April 27, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Extinction vs. Rapid Radiation: The Juxtaposed Evolutionary Histories of Coelotine Spiders Support the Eocene –Oligocene Orogenesis of the Tibetan Plateau
AbstractEvolutionary biology has long been concerned with how changing environments affect and drive the spatiotemporal development of organisms. Coelotine spiders (Agelenidae: Coelotinae) are common species in the temperate and subtropical areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Their long evolutionary history and the extremely imbalanced distribution of species richness suggest that Eurasian environments, especially since the Cenozoic, are the drivers of their diversification. We use phylogenetics, molecular dating, ancestral area reconstructions, diversity, and ecological niche analyses to investigate the spatiotemporal evolu...
Source: Systematic Biology - April 20, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Likelihood of Tree Topologies with Fossils and Diversification Rate Estimation
AbstractSince the diversification process cannot be directly observed at the human scale, it has to be studied from the information available, namely the extant taxa and the fossil record. In this sense, phylogenetic trees including both extant taxa and fossils are the most complete representations of the diversification process that one can get. Such phylogenetic trees can be reconstructed from molecular and morphological data, to some extent. Among the temporal information of such phylogenetic trees, fossil ages are by far the most precisely known (divergence times are inferences calibrated mostly with fossils). We propo...
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Systematic Biology Volume 66, Number 3 May 2017 - Back Cover
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Systematic Biology Volume 66, Number 3 May 2017 - Front Cover
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Inference of Evolutionary Jumps in Large Phylogenies using L évy Processes
AbstractAlthough it is now widely accepted that the rate of phenotypic evolution may not necessarily be constant across large phylogenies, the frequency and phylogenetic position of periods of rapid evolution remain unclear. In his highly influential view of evolution, G. G. Simpson supposed that such evolutionary jumps occur when organisms transition into so-called new adaptive zones, for instance after dispersal into a new geographic area, after rapid climatic changes, or following the appearance of an evolutionary novelty. Only recently, large, accurate and well calibrated phylogenies have become available that allow te...
Source: Systematic Biology - March 27, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Why Do Phylogenomic Data Sets Yield Conflicting Trees? Data Type Influences the Avian Tree of Life more than Taxon Sampling
AbstractPhylogenomics, the use of large-scale data matrices in phylogenetic analyses, has been viewed as the ultimate solution to the problem of resolving difficult nodes in the tree of life. However, it has become clear that analyses of these large genomic data sets can also result in conflicting estimates of phylogeny. Here, we use the early divergences in Neoaves, the largest clade of extant birds, as a “model system” to understand the basis for incongruence among phylogenomic trees. We were motivated by the observation that trees from two recent avian phylogenomic studies exhibit conflicts. Those studies used diffe...
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Society for the Study of Systematic Biology symposium: Frontiers in Parametric Biogeography
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Systematic Biology Volume 66, Number 2 March 2017 - Back Cover
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