Evolutionary processes of diversification in a model island archipelago

RM Brown, CD Siler, CH Oliveros… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Long celebrated for its spectacular landscapes and strikingly high levels of endemic
biodiversity, the Philippines has been studied intensively by biogeographers for two …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic partitioning of the third-largest vertebrate genus in the world, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia; Squamata; Gekkonidae) and its relevance to …

LL Grismer, PL Wood… - Vertebrate …, 2021 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
The gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is the third most speciose vertebrate genus in the world,
containing well over 300 species that collectively range from South Asia to Melanesia across …

[HTML][HTML] The amphibians and reptiles of Mindanao Island, southern Philippines, II: the herpetofauna of northeast Mindanao and adjacent islands

MB Sanguila, KA Cobb, CD Siler, AC Diesmos… - ZooKeys, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We summarize all available amphibian and reptile species distribution data from the
northeast Mindanao faunal region, including small islands associated with this subcenter of …

Evolution of habitat preference in 243 species of Bent‐toed geckos (Genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827) with a discussion of karst habitat conservation

LL Grismer, PL Wood Jr, MD Le, ESH Quah… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the processes that underpin adaptive evolutionary shifts within major
taxonomic groups has long been a research directive among many evolutionary biologists …

Phylogeny of bent-toed geckos (Cyrtodactylus) reveals a west to east pattern of diversification

PL Wood Jr, MP Heinicke, TR Jackman… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Asian/Pacific genus Cyrtodactylus is the most diverse and among the most widely
distributed genera of geckos, and more species are continually being discovered. Major …

Did geckos ride the Palawan raft to the Philippines?

CD Siler, JR Oaks, LJ Welton, CW Linkem… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We examine the genetic diversity within the lizard genus Gekko in the Philippine islands
to understand the role of geography and geological history in shaping species diversity in …

The biogeography of bent-toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

LL Grismer, NA Poyarkov, ESH Quah, JL Grismer… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
The gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is the third largest vertebrate genus on the planet with
well over 300 species that range across at least eight biogeographic regions from South …

Evidence for climate-driven diversification? A caution for interpreting ABC inferences of simultaneous historical events

JR Oaks, J Sukumaran, JA Esselstyn, CW Linkem… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is rapidly gaining popularity in population
genetics. One example, msBayes, infers the distribution of divergence times among pairs of …

Genomic analysis of Bornean geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) reveals need for updated taxonomy

HR Davis, I Nashriq, KS Woytek… - Zoologica …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Using molecular genetic data, recognised diversity within the gecko genus Cyrtodactylus
has more than doubled, with many lineages that were once thought to be wide‐ranging …

The comparative biogeography of Philippine geckos challenges predictions from a paradigm of climate-driven vicariant diversification across an island archipelago

JR Oaks, CD Siler, RM Brown - Evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
A primary goal of biogeography is to understand how large-scale environmental processes,
like climate change, affect diversification. One often-invoked but seldom tested process is …