Genetic diversity and conservation units: dealing with the species-population continuum in the age of genomics

DJ Coates, M Byrne, C Moritz - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Current approaches to biodiversity conservation are largely based on geographic areas,
ecosystems, ecological communities, and species, with less attention on genetic diversity …

Comparison of methods for molecular species delimitation across a range of speciation scenarios

A Luo, C Ling, SYW Ho, CD Zhu - Systematic Biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of
various operational criteria. There has been growing use of molecular approaches for …

Phylogenomic subsampling: a brief review

SV Edwards - Zoologica Scripta, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenomic subsampling is a method for studying the stability of phylogenetic analyses
by taking random or ordered subsamples of loci and comparing phylogenetic analyses of …

Reticulation, divergence, and the phylogeography–phylogenetics continuum

SV Edwards, S Potter, CJ Schmitt… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Phylogeography, and its extensions into comparative phylogeography, have their roots in
the layering of gene trees across geography, a paradigm that was greatly facilitated by the …

Coalescent-based species delimitation is sensitive to geographic sampling and isolation by distance

NA Mason, NK Fletcher, BA Gill, WC Funk… - Systematics and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Species are a fundamental unit of biodiversity that are delimited via genetic data and
coalescent-based methods with increasing frequency. Despite the widespread use of …

A framework for resolving cryptic species: a case study from the lizards of the Australian wet tropics

S Singhal, CJ Hoskin, P Couper, S Potter… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
As we collect range-wide genetic data for morphologically-defined species, we increasingly
unearth evidence for cryptic diversity. Delimiting this cryptic diversity is challenging, both …

Life in the “dead heart” of Australia: The geohistory of the Australian deserts and its impact on genetic diversity of arid zone lizards

M Pepper, JS Keogh - Journal of Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Australian deserts are home to a remarkable diversity of taxa that might
appear to have evolved in the absence of topographic and physical barriers to dispersal. In …

Phenotypic and genetic structure support gene flow generating gene tree discordances in an Amazonian floodplain endemic species

G Thom, FRD Amaral, MJ Hickerson, A Aleixo… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Before populations become independent evolutionary lineages, the effects of micro
evolutionary processes tend to generate complex scenarios of diversification that may affect …

Phylogenomics uncovers confidence and conflict in the rapid radiation of Australo-Papuan rodents

EJ Roycroft, A Moussalli, KC Rowe - Systematic biology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The estimation of robust and accurate measures of branch support has proven challenging
in the era of phylogenomics. In data sets of potentially millions of sites, bootstrap support for …

Sequence capture from historical museum specimens: maximizing value for population and phylogenomic studies

E Roycroft, C Moritz, KC Rowe, A Moussalli… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The application of high-throughput, short-read sequencing to degraded DNA has greatly
increased the feasibility of generating genomic data from historical museum specimens …