Summary tests of introgression are highly sensitive to rate variation across lineages

LE Frankel, C Ané - Systematic Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The evolutionary implications and frequency of hybridization and introgression are
increasingly being recognized across the tree of life. To detect hybridization from multi-locus …

Ancient rapid radiation explains most conflicts among gene trees and well-supported phylogenomic trees of Nostocalean cyanobacteria

CJ Pardo-De la Hoz, N Magain, B Piatkowski… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Prokaryotic genomes are often considered to be mosaics of genes that do not necessarily
share the same evolutionary history due to widespread horizontal gene transfers (HGTs) …

The genus Cortinarius should not (yet) be split

B Gallone, TW Kuyper, J Nuytinck - IMA fungus, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The genus Cortinarius (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) is one of the most species-rich
fungal genera, with thousands of species reported. Cortinarius species are important …

Phylogenomic discordance is driven by wide-spread introgression and incomplete lineage sorting during rapid species diversification within rattlesnakes (Viperidae …

EA Myers, RM Rautsaw, M Borja, J Jones… - Systematic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract.—Phylogenomics allows us to uncover the historical signal of evolutionary
processes through time and estimate phylogenetic networks accounting for these signals …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean

CD Brownstein, KL Zapfe, S Lott, RC Harrington… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Major ecological transitions are thought to fuel diversification, but whether they are
contingent on the evolution of certain traits called key innovations 1 is unclear. Key …

Hybridization drives genetic erosion in sympatric desert fishes of western North America

TK Chafin, MR Douglas, BT Martin, ME Douglas - Heredity, 2019 - nature.com
Many species have evolved or currently coexist in sympatry due to differential adaptation in
a heterogeneous environment. However, anthropogenic habitat modifications can either …

Geographic destiny trumps taxonomy in the Roundtail Chub, Gila robusta species complex (Teleostei, Leuciscidae)

CR Suchocki, C Ka 'apu-Lyons, JM Copus… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The Gila robusta species complex in the lower reaches of the Colorado River includes three
nominal and contested species (G. robusta, G. intermedia, and G. nigra) originally defined …

Reticulate evolution as a management challenge: Patterns of admixture with phylogenetic distance in endemic fishes of western North America

MR Bangs, MR Douglas, PC Brunner… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Admixture in natural populations is a long‐standing management challenge, with population
genomic approaches offering means for adjudication. We now more clearly understand the …

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genomes of two Critically Endangered wedgefishes: Rhynchobatus djiddensis and Rhynchobatus australiae

MJ Groeneveld, JD Klein, RH Bennett… - … DNA Part B, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We present the complete mitochondrial genomes of the Critically Endangered whitespotted
wedgefish, Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775), and bottlenose wedgefish …

Genetic approaches reveal a healthy population and an unexpectedly recent origin for an isolated desert spring fish

BL Sidlauskas, S Mathur, H Aydoğan… - BMC Ecology and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Foskett Spring in Oregon's desert harbors a historically threatened population of
Western Speckled Dace (Rhinichthys klamathensis). Though recently delisted, the dace's …