Using occupancy modelling to compare environmental DNA to traditional field methods for regional‐scale monitoring of an endangered aquatic species

MC Schmelzle, AP Kinziger - Molecular ecology resources, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring approaches promise to greatly improve detection of
rare, endangered and invasive species in comparison with traditional field approaches …

Automatic selection of partitioning schemes for phylogenetic analyses using iterative k-means clustering of site rates

PB Frandsen, B Calcott, C Mayer, R Lanfear - BMC evolutionary biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Model selection is a vital part of most phylogenetic analyses, and accounting for
the heterogeneity in evolutionary patterns across sites is particularly important. Mixture …

Assessing the geological and climatic forcing of biodiversity and evolution surrounding the Gulf of California

GA Dolby, SEK Bennett, A Lira-Noriega, BT Wilder… - Journal of the …, 2015 - JSTOR
For almost a century the Baja California peninsula (Pen of California (Gulf), and broader
Sonoran Desert region (fig drawn geologists and biologists alike to study its unique …

Biogeography of goby lineages (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei): origin, invasions and extinction throughout the Cenozoic

CE Thacker - Journal of Biogeography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To combine a time‐calibrated phylogeny with distributional, fossil and
geomorphological data to infer the patterns of lineage origins and biogeography among …

The radiation of the clownfishes has two geographical replicates

G Litsios, PB Pearman, D Lanterbecq… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The study of adaptive radiations provides an evolutionary perspective on the
interactions between organisms and their environment, and is necessary to understand …

Species selection favors dispersive life histories in sea slugs, but higher per-offspring investment drives shifts to short-lived larvae

PJ Krug, JE Vendetti, RA Ellingson… - Systematic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
For 40 years, paleontological studies of marine gastropods have suggested that species
selection favors lineages with short-lived (lecithotrophic) larvae, which are less dispersive …

Ecomorphological adaptation in three mudskippers (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Gobiidae) from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

G Polgar, M Ghanbarifardi, S Milli, A Agorreta… - Hydrobiologia, 2017 - Springer
We hypothesise that the body shapes of three mudskipper species (Boleophthalmus
dussumieri, Periophthalmus waltoni, and Scartelaos tenuis) are ecomorphological …

Rangewide tidewater goby occupancy survey using environmental DNA

M Sutter, AP Kinziger - Conservation genetics, 2019 - Springer
Rangewide monitoring of fish species is critical for determining status and trends in
distribution; however, implementations of large-scale distribution surveys have generally …

[HTML][HTML] Investigations into the ancestry of the Grape-eye Seabass (Hemilutjanus macrophthalmos) reveal novel limits and relationships for the Acropomatiformes …

WL Smith, MJ Ghedotti… - Neotropical …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
For 175 years, an unremarkable bass, the Grape-eye Seabass (Hemilutjanus
macrophthalmos), has been known from coastal waters in the Eastern Pacific. To date, its …

How sea level change mediates genetic divergence in coastal species across regions with varying tectonic and sediment processes

GA Dolby, RA Ellingson, LT Findley… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plate tectonics and sediment processes control regional continental shelf topography. We
examine the genetic consequences of how glacial‐associated sea level change interacted …