Charles Darwin's travels on HMS Beagle taught him that islands are an important source of
evidence for evolution. Because many islands are young and have relatively few species …

Lizards have been model organisms for ecological and evolutionary studies from individual
to community levels at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Here we highlight lizards as …

Methods developed over the past decade have made it possible to estimate molecular
demographic parameters such as effective population size, divergence time, and gene flow …

Aim In this study we present a molecular phylogenetic and phylogeographical analysis of
Peltophryne (Anura: Bufonidae), an endemic genus of Antillean toads, to investigate the …

Background A widely-used approach for screening nuclear DNA markers is to obtain
sequence data and use bioinformatic algorithms to estimate which two alleles are present in …

Nested clade phylogeographical analysis (NCPA) and approximate Bayesian computation
(ABC) have been used to test phylogeographical hypotheses. Multilocus NCPA tests null …

Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain the diversification of the Caatinga
biota. The riverine barrier hypothesis (RBH) claims that the São Francisco River (SFR) is a …

Background Islands have traditionally been the centre of evolutionary biological research,
but the dynamics of immigration and differentiation at continental islands have not been well …

Long neglected by classic island biogeographical theory, speciation within and among
islands is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to insular diversity. Although the …

It has been claimed that hundreds of researchers use nested clade phylogeographic
analysis (NCPA) based on what the method promises rather than requiring objective …