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1. A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of spoon worms (Echiura, Annelida): Implications for morphological evolution, the origin of dwarf males, and habitat shifts

Author:
Goto, Ryutaro
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 247-260
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Annelida; color; genes; habitats; males; mitochondria; phylogeny; proboscis; sediments; sexual dimorphism; topology
Abstract:
... Echiurans (spoon worms) are derived annelids that have secondarily lost segmentation. Recently, two molecular phylogenetic studies were performed to resolve the interfamily relationship of echiurans. However, the tree topologies were incongruent and taxon sampling was limited in both the studies. Thus, the phylogenetic relationships within echiurans remain contentious. In this study, I reevaluated ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.003

2. A multilocus molecular phylogeny of Fasciolariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea)

Author:
Couto, Diogo R.; Bouchet, Philippe; Kantor, Yuri I.; Simone, Luiz R.L.; Giribet, Gonzalo
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 309-322
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Neogastropoda; Tulipa; cytochrome-c oxidase; data collection; fossils; genes; genetic markers; histones; mitochondria; monophyly; ribosomal RNA; taxonomic revisions
Abstract:
... The neogastropod family Fasciolariidae Gray, 1853 – tulips, horse-conchs, spindles, etc., comprises important representatives of tropical and subtropical molluscan assemblages, with over 500 species in the subfamilies Fasciolariinae Gray, 1853, Fusininae Wrigley, 1927 and Peristerniinae Tryon, 1880. Fasciolariids have had a rather complicated taxonomical history, with several genus names for a lon ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.025

3. Biogeography and diversification of Brassicales: A 103million year tale

Author:
Cardinal-McTeague, Warren M.; Sytsma, Kenneth J.; Hall, Jocelyn C.
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 204-224
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Arabidopsis thaliana; Capparaceae; Cleomaceae; Forchhammeria; age determination; biogeography; evolution; fossils; genes; mitochondria; Australia; Europe; North America; Northern Africa
Abstract:
... Brassicales is a diverse order perhaps most famous because it houses Brassicaceae and, its premier member, Arabidopsis thaliana. This widely distributed and species-rich lineage has been overlooked as a promising system to investigate patterns of disjunct distributions and diversification rates. We analyzed plastid and mitochondrial sequence data from five gene regions (>8000bp) across 151 taxa to ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.021

4. Circum-Mediterranean phylogeography of a bat coupled with past environmental niche modeling: A new paradigm for the recolonization of Europe?

Author:
Bilgin, Raşit; Gürün, Kanat; Rebelo, Hugo; Puechmaille, Sebastien J.; Maracı, Öncü; Presetnik, Primoz; Benda, Petr; Hulva, Pavel; Ibáñez, Carlos; Hamidovic, Daniela; Fressel, Norma; Horáček, Ivan; Karataş, Ayşegül; Karataş, Ahmet; Allegrini, Benjamin; Georgiakakis, Panagiotis; Gazaryan, Suren; Nagy, Zoltan L.; Abi-Said, Mounir; Lučan, Radek K.; Bartonička, Tomáš; Nicolaou, Haris; Scaravelli, Dino; Karapandža, Branko; Uhrin, Marcel; Paunović, Milan; Juste, Javier
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 323-336
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Chiroptera; basins; coasts; evolution; fossils; genetic variation; models; phylogeography; Egypt; Iberian Peninsula; Israel; Lebanon; Middle East; Syria; Turkey (country)
Abstract:
... The isolation of populations in the Iberian, Italian and Balkan peninsulas during the ice ages define four main paradigms that explain much of the known distribution of intraspecific genetic diversity in Europe. In this study we investigated the phylogeography of a wide-spread bat species, the bent-winged bat, Miniopterus schreibersii around the Mediterranean basin and in the Caucasus. Environment ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.024

5. Cryptic diversity and symbiont interactions in rock-posy lichens

Author:
Leavitt, Steven D.; Kraichak, Ekaphan; Vondrak, Jan; Nelsen, Matthew P.; Sohrabi, Mohammad; Perez-Ortega, Sergio; St Clair, Larry L.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 261-274
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Parmeliaceae; Trebouxia; ecological zones; ecosystems; lichens; microhabitats; models; species diversity; symbionts; symbiosis
Abstract:
... Identifying factors that influence species interactions is central to research in symbiotic systems. While lichens represent iconic models of symbiosis and play important roles in understanding the biology of symbiotic interactions, patterns of interactions in lichen symbionts and mechanisms governing these relationships are not well characterized. This is due, in part to the fact that current tax ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.030
Chorus Open Access:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.030

6. Cryptic diversity in Afro-tropical lowland forests: The systematics and biogeography of the avian genus Bleda

Author:
Huntley, Jerry W.; Voelker, Gary
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 297-308
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
DNA; allopatric speciation; biogeography; birds; genes; genetic variation; habitat fragmentation; haplotypes; loci; lowland forests; mitochondria; monophyly; montane forests; phenotypic variation; researchers; secondary contact; Central Africa; Western Africa
Abstract:
... Recent investigations of distributional patterns of Afro-tropical lowland forest species have demonstrated to some degree our overall lack of understanding involving historical diversification patterns. Traditionally, researchers have relied upon two hypotheses, each of which views the lowland forest of Africa in differing roles. The Pleistocene Forest Refuge Hypothesis (PFRH) posits that biogeogr ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.002

7. Diverse sampling of East African haemosporidians reveals chiropteran origin of malaria parasites in primates and rodents

Author:
Lutz, Holly L.; Patterson, Bruce D.; Kerbis Peterhans, Julian C.; Stanley, William T.; Webala, Paul W.; Gnoske, Thomas P.; Hackett, Shannon J.; Stanhope, Michael J.
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 7-15
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Chiroptera; Plasmodium; Primates; birds; disease outbreaks; hosts; malaria; monophyly; parasites; rodents
Abstract:
... Phylogenies of parasites provide hypotheses on the history of their movements between hosts, leading to important insights regarding the processes of host switching that underlie modern-day epidemics. Haemosporidian (malaria) parasites lack a well resolved phylogeny, which has impeded the study of evolutionary processes associated with host-switching in this group. Here we present a novel phylogen ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.004

8. Evolutionary history of the river frog genus Amietia (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) reveals extensive diversification in Central African highlands

Author:
Larson, Thornton R.; Castro, Delilah; Behangana, Mathias; Greenbaum, Eli
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 168-181
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Anura; frogs; genes; global cooling; highlands; lentic systems; monophyly; new species; phylogeography; rivers; Burundi; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Southern Africa; Uganda
Abstract:
... The African river frog genus Amietia is found near rivers and other lentic water sources throughout central, eastern, and southern Africa. Because the genus includes multiple morphologically conservative species, taxonomic studies of river frogs have been relatively limited. We sampled 79 individuals of Amietia from multiple localities in and near the Albertine Rift (AR) of Burundi, Democratic Rep ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.017
PubMed:
27026115
PubMed Central:
PMC4898062

9. 187-gene phylogeny of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa reveals a new class (Cutosea) of deep-branching, ultrastructurally unique, enveloped marine Lobosa and clarifies amoeba evolution

Author:
Cavalier-Smith, Thomas; Chao, Ema E.; Lewis, Rhodri
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 275-296
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Acanthamoeba; Centramoebida; Himatismenida; Thecamoebida; Tubulinea; branching; cytoskeleton; endosymbionts; monophyly; new genus; paraphyly; ribosomal DNA; transcriptome
Abstract:
... Monophyly of protozoan phylum Amoebozoa, and subdivision into subphyla Conosa and Lobosa each with different cytoskeletons, are well established. However early diversification of non-ciliate lobose amoebae (Lobosa) is poorly understood. To clarify it we used recently available transcriptomes to construct a 187-gene amoebozoan tree for 30 species, the most comprehensive yet. This robustly places ne ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.023

10. Genetic divergence in the common bush-tanager Chlorospingus ophthalmicus (Aves: Emberizidae) throughout Mexican cloud forests: The role of geography, ecology and Pleistocene climatic fluctuations

Author:
Maldonado-Sánchez, Denisse; Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Carla; Ornelas, Juan Francisco
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 76-88
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Emberizidae; climatic factors; gene flow; genetic variation; microsatellite repeats; mitochondria; mitochondrial DNA; models; mountains; niches; phylogeography; population growth; tropical montane cloud forests; Mexico
Abstract:
... By integrating mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), microsatellites and ecological niche modelling (ENM), we investigated the phylogeography of Mexican populations of the common bush-tanager Chlorospingus ophthalmicus to examine the relative role of geographical and ecological features, as well as Pleistocene climatic oscillations in driving the diversification. We sequenced mtDNA of individuals collected t ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.014

11. Gondwanian relicts and oceanic dispersal in a cosmopolitan radiation of euedaphic ground beetles

Author:
Andújar, Carmelo; Faille, Arnaud; Pérez-González, Sergio; Zaballos, Juan P.; Vogler, Alfried P.; Ribera, Ignacio
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 235-246
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Carabidae; eyes; fossils; genes; indigenous species; islands; mitochondria; monophyly; tectonics; wings; Arctic region; New Caledonia; New Zealand
Abstract:
... Anillini are a tribe of minute, euedaphic ground beetles (Carabidae) characterized by the loss of eyes, loss of wings and high levels of local endemism. Despite their presumed low dispersal, they have a nearly cosmopolitan distribution, including isolated islands such as New Zealand and New Caledonia. We used a time calibrated molecular phylogeny to test, first, if the tribe as currently understoo ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.013

12. Latin-American-Mediterranean lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Human traces across pathogen’s phylogeography

Author:
Mokrousov, Igor; Vyazovaya, Anna; Iwamoto, Tomotada; Skiba, Yuriy; Pole, Ilva; Zhdanova, Svetlana; Arikawa, Kentaro; Sinkov, Viacheslav; Umpeleva, Tatiana; Valcheva, Violeta; Alvarez Figueroa, Maria; Ranka, Renate; Jansone, Inta; Ogarkov, Oleg; Zhuravlev, Viacheslav; Narvskaya, Olga
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 133-143
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis; demographic statistics; drug resistance; humans; loci; minisatellite repeats; pathogens; phylogeny; phylogeography; Brazil; Eurasia; Japan; Mediterranean region; North America; South Africa
Abstract:
... Currently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of Latin-American Mediterranean (LAM) family may be detected far beyond the geographic areas that coined its name 15years ago. Here, we established the framework phylogeny of this geographically intriguing and pathobiologically important mycobacterial lineage and hypothesized how human demographics and migration influenced its phylogeography. Phylogen ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.020

13. Macroevolutionary dynamics in the early diversification of Asteraceae

Author:
Panero, Jose L.; Crozier, Bonnie S.
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 116-132
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Asteraceae; Calyceraceae; Goodeniaceae; genome; geographical distribution; temporal variation; Africa; South America
Abstract:
... Spatial and temporal differences in ecological opportunity can result in disparity of net species diversification rates and consequently uneven distribution of taxon richness across the tree of life. The largest eudicotyledonous plant family Asteraceae has a global distribution and at least 460 times more species than its South American endemic sister family Calyceraceae. In this study, diversific ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.007

14. Multilocus phylogeny and phylogenomics of Eriochrysis P. Beauv. (Poaceae–Andropogoneae): Taxonomic implications and evidence of interspecific hybridization

Author:
Welker, Cassiano A.D.; Souza-Chies, Tatiana T.; Longhi-Wagner, Hilda M.; Peichoto, Myriam Carolina; McKain, Michael R.; Kellogg, Elizabeth A.
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 155-167
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
sequence analysis; grasses; hybrids; biodiversity; tetraploidy; Eulalia; Bayesian theory; genes; monophyly; molecular cloning; interspecific hybridization; Angiospermae; polyphyly
Abstract:
... Species delimitation is a vital issue concerning evolutionary biology and conservation of biodiversity. However, it is a challenging task for several reasons, including the low interspecies variability of markers currently used in phylogenetic reconstructions and the occurrence of reticulate evolution and polyploidy in many lineages of flowering plants. The first phylogeny of the grass genus Erioc ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.022

15. Phylogenetic distribution and evolutionary pattern of an α-proteobacterial small RNA gene that controls polyhydroxybutyrate accumulation in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Author:
Lagares, Antonio; Roux, Indra; Valverde, Claudio
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 182-193
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Ensifer meliloti; Northern blotting; RNA; Rhizobium etli; Rhizobium leguminosarum; Rickettsiales; Sinorhizobium fredii; bacteria; covariance; genes; models; new family; open reading frames; phylogeny; polyhydroxybutyrate
Abstract:
... It has become clear that sRNAs play relevant regulatory functions in bacteria. However, a comprehensive understanding of their biological roles considering evolutionary aspects has not been achieved for most of them. Thus, we have characterized the evolutionary and phylogenetic aspects of the Sinorhizobium meliloti mmgR gene encoding the small RNA MmgR, which has been recently reported to be invol ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.026

16. Phylogenomics of ‘Discosea’: A new molecular phylogenetic perspective on Amoebozoa with flat body forms

Author:
Tekle, Yonas I.; Anderson, O. Roger; Katz, Laura A.; Maurer-Alcalá, Xyrus X.; Romero, Mario Alberto Cerón; Molestina, Robert
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 144-154
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Dactylopodida; Himatismenida; Thecamoebida; genes; monophyly; morphs; sequence analysis; taxonomy
Abstract:
... The majority of amoeboid lineages with flattened body forms are placed under a taxonomic hypothetical class ‘Discosea’ sensu Smirnov et al. (2011), which encompasses some of the most diverse morphs within Amoebozoa. However, its taxonomy and phylogeny is poorly understood. This is partly due to lack of support in studies that are based on limited gene sampling. In this study we use a phylogenomic ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.029

17. Phylogeny and biogeography of hogfishes and allies (Bodianus, Labridae)

Author:
Santini, Francesco; Sorenson, Laurie; Alfaro, Michael E.
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 1-6
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Bodianus; Semicossyphus; basins; biogeography; phylogeny; Indian Ocean
Abstract:
... Bodianus wrasses comprise one of the most diverse genera of labrids. Also known as hogfishes due to the presence of a large pig-like snout, Bodianus species are found in warm waters across the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To this date no densely sampled molecular phylogeny is available for this group, and a single morphological study did not include two genera (Clepticus and Semicossyphus) ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.011

18. Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae)

Author:
Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Lobos, Simón E.; Venegas, Pablo J.; Chávez, Germán; Aguirre-Peñafiel, Vanessa; Zurita, Daniel; Echevarría, Lourdes Y.
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 63-75
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Squamata; biogeography; genes; lizards; mitochondria; monophyly; paraphyly; taxonomy; tropics; Andes region; Ecuador; Peru
Abstract:
... Nearly 50% of the diversity of the speciose Neotropical lizard clade Gymnophthalmidae is nested within the subclade Cercosaurinae. The taxonomy of Cercosaurinae lizards has been historically confusing because many diagnostic characters of those clades traditionally ranked as genera do not represent true diagnostic apomorphies. Even though molecular phylogenies of several ‘genera’ have been present ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.006

19. Population genetic structure and long-distance dispersal of a recently expanding migratory bird

Author:
Ramos, Raül; Song, Gang; Navarro, Joan; Zhang, Ruiying; Symes, Craig T.; Forero, Manuela G.; Lei, Fumin
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 194-203
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Apoidea; Merops; Nosema; apiculture; biodiversity; breeding; breeding sites; flocks; genes; genetic variation; global change; microsatellite repeats; migratory birds; mitochondria; mixing; morphometry; parasites
Abstract:
... Long-distance dispersal events and their derivable increases of genetic diversity have been highlighted as important ecological and evolutionary determinants that improve performances of range-expanding species. In the context of global environmental change, specific dispersal strategies have to be understood and foreseen if we like to prevent general biodiversity impoverishment or the spread of a ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.015

20. Species phylogeny and diversification process of Northeast Asian Pungitius revealed by AFLP and mtDNA markers

Author:
Takahashi, Hiroshi; Møller, Peter R.; Shedko, Sergei V.; Ramatulla, Temirbekov; Joen, Sang-Rin; Zhang, Chun-Guang; Sideleva, Valentina G.; Takata, Keisuke; Sakai, Harumi; Goto, Akira; Nishida, Mutsumi
Source:
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2016 v.99 pp. 44-52
ISSN:
1055-7903
Subject:
Platygaster; Pungitius; allopatry; amplified fragment length polymorphism; brackish water; freshwater; gene flow; indigenous species; introgression; loci; mitochondrial DNA; monophyly; species diversity; sympatry; taxonomy; Japan
Abstract:
... Pungitius is a highly diversified genus of sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae) occurring widely in northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Several ecologically and genetically divergent types that are largely isolated reproductively but occasionally hybridize in sympatry have been discovered in Northeast Asia, although the taxonomy and evolutionary relationships among them remain unclear. We used amp ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.022