[HTML][HTML] Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics

CJ Raxworthy, BT Smith - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Historical DNA (hDNA), obtained from museum and herbarium specimens, has yielded
spectacular new insights into the history of organisms. This includes documenting historical …

Insights from genomes into the evolutionary importance and prevalence of hybridization in nature

SA Taylor, EL Larson - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Hybridization is an evolutionary phenomenon that has fascinated biologists for centuries.
Prior to the advent of whole-genome sequencing, it was clear that hybridization had played …

Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies

DM Leigh, CB van Rees, KL Millette, MF Breed… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapidly emerging field of macrogenetics focuses on analysing publicly accessible
genetic datasets from thousands of species to explore large-scale patterns and predictors of …

[HTML][HTML] Climate-driven shifts in marine species ranges: scaling from organisms to communities

ML Pinsky, RL Selden, ZJ Kitchel - Annual review of marine …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The geographic distributions of marine species are changing rapidly, with leading range
edges following climate poleward, deeper, and in other directions and trailing range edges …

Museum genomics

DC Card, B Shapiro, G Giribet, C Moritz… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene

EK Meineke, TJ Davies, BH Daru… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global change has become a central focus of modern biology. Yet, our knowledge of how
anthropogenic drivers affect biodiversity and natural resources is limited by a lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomics reveals the history of host use in mosquitoes

J Soghigian, C Sither, SA Justi, G Morinaga… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mosquitoes have profoundly affected human history and continue to threaten human health
through the transmission of a diverse array of pathogens. The phylogeny of mosquitoes has …

[HTML][HTML] Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

WD Kissling, R Walls, A Bowser, MO Jones… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global
biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs …

Using herbaria to study global environmental change

PLM Lang, FM Willems, JF Scheepens… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
During the last centuries, humans have transformed global ecosystems. With their temporal
dimension, herbaria provide the otherwise scarce long‐term data crucial for tracking …

Phenotypes in phylogeography: Species' traits, environmental variation, and vertebrate diversification

KR Zamudio, RC Bell… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Almost 30 y ago, the field of intraspecific phylogeography laid the foundation for spatially
explicit and genealogically informed studies of population divergence. With new methods …