The field of phylogeography continues to grow in terms of power and accessibility. Initially
uniting population genetics and phylogenetics, it now spans disciplines as diverse as …

Behavioral ecologists have long studied the role of coloration as a defense against natural
enemies. Recent reviews of defensive coloration have emphasized that these visual signals …

Understanding the effects of landscape heterogeneity on spatial genetic variation is a
primary goal of landscape genetics. Ecological and geographic variables can contribute to …

Marine ecosystems are suffering severe depletion of apex predators worldwide [1–4]; shark
declines are principally due to conservative life-histories and fisheries overexploitation [5–8] …

Lower C entral A merica (LCA) provides a geologically complex and dynamic, richly
biodiverse model for studying the recent assembly and diversification of a N eotropical biota …

Hypotheses to explain phylogeographic structure traditionally invoke geographic features,
but often fail to provide a general explanation for spatial patterns of genetic variation …

Molecular markers offer a universal source of data for quantifying biodiversity. DNA
barcoding uses a standardized genetic marker and a curated reference database to identify …

Many tropical organisms show large genetic differences among populations, yet the
prevalent drivers of the underlying divergence processes are incompletely understood. We …

Some crepuscular and nocturnal animals are brightly marked yet the adaptive significance
of their colorful patterns in low light, as found at twilight and night, is poorly understood. This …

Phylogeographic congruence among co‐distributed taxa is regarded as an inherent
inference to vicariance events. Nonetheless, incongruent patterns of contemporary lineage …