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Twenty years of phylogeography: the state of the field and the challenges for the Southern HemisphereLuciano B Beheregaray
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Mol Ecol 17:3754-74. 2008..I expect the information and views presented here will assist in promoting international collaborative work in phylogeography and in guiding research efforts at both regional and global levels...
Genes record a prehistoric volcano eruption in the GalápagosLuciano B Beheregaray
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8106, USA
Science 302:75. 2003
Giant tortoises are not so slow: rapid diversification and biogeographic consensus in the GalápagosLuciano B Beheregaray
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8106, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:6514-9. 2004..The endangered giant Galápagos tortoises represent a rapid allopatric radiation and further exemplify evolutionary processes in one of the world's greatest natural laboratories of evolution...- Cryptic biodiversity in a changing worldLuciano B Beheregaray
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
J Biol 6:9. 2007..Two new studies challenge paradigms about cryptic biodiversity and highlight the importance of adding a historical and biogeographic dimension to biodiversity research... - Genetic structure of a recent climate change-driven range extensionSam C Banks
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2109 NSW, Australia
Mol Ecol 19:2011-24. 2010..Thus, ocean circulation changes have improved the climatic suitability of novel habitat for C. rodgersii and provided the supply of recruits necessary for colonization... - Phylogeographic history and gene flow among giant Galápagos tortoises on southern Isabela IslandClaudio Ciofi
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Genetics 172:1727-44. 2006..These genetic studies illuminate taxonomic distinctions as well as provide guidance to possible repatriation programs aimed at countering the rapid population declines of these spectacular animals... - Historical DNA analysis reveals living descendants of an extinct species of Galápagos tortoiseNikos Poulakakis
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:15464-9. 2008.... - A recent shark radiation: molecular phylogeny, biogeography and speciation of wobbegong sharks (family: Orectolobidae)Shannon Corrigan
Molecular Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 52:205-16. 2009..The most recent scenario was influenced by changes in oceanography and the emergence of biogeographic barriers related to Pleistocene glacial cycles in Australian waters... - Oceanic variability and coastal topography shape genetic structure in a long-dispersing sea urchinSam C Banks
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Ecology 88:3055-64. 2007..If proven consistent across species, our findings suggest that the optimal scale for fisheries management and reserve design should vary among localities in relation to regional oceanographic variability and coastal geography... - Evolution of seahorses' upright posture was linked to Oligocene expansion of seagrass habitatsPeter R Teske
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Biol Lett 5:521-3. 2009.... - A rapid fish radiation associated with the last sea-level changes in southern Brazil: the silverside Odontesthes perugiae complexLuciano B Beheregaray
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 269:65-73. 2002..These features were related to a marine-estuarine origin of the radiation. To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first molecular phylogeographic survey of a coastal radiation in South America... - The use of carcasses for the analysis of cetacean population genetic structure: a comparative study in two dolphin speciesKerstin Bilgmann
Marine Mammal Research Group, Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e20103. 2011..This can lead to a failure in identifying management units for conservation. Therefore, this risk should be carefully assessed when planning population genetic studies of cetaceans... - Islands of water in a sea of dry land: hydrological regime predicts genetic diversity and dispersal in a widespread fish from Australia's arid zone, the golden perch (Macquaria ambigua)Leanne K Faulks
Molecular Ecology Laboratory, Macquarie University, Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Mol Ecol 19:4723-37. 2010..This study contributes to our understanding of the influence of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on population and landscape processes... - Male reproductive success increases with alliance size in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)Joanna Wiszniewski
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
J Anim Ecol 81:423-31. 2012..5. Together, our genetic and behavioural analyses demonstrate that alliance formation between male dolphins is a successful strategy to enhance reproductive output... - Tri-locus sequence data reject a "Gondwanan origin hypothesis" for the African/South Pacific crab genus HymenosomaPeter R Teske
Molecular Ecology Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 53:23-33. 2009.... - Influences of past climatic changes on historical population structure and demography of a cosmopolitan marine predator, the common dolphin (genus Delphinus)Ana R Amaral
Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749 016, Lisbon, Portugal
Mol Ecol 21:4854-71. 2012.... - Divergent natural selection with gene flow along major environmental gradients in Amazonia: insights from genome scans, population genetics and phylogeography of the characin fish Triportheus albusGeorgina M Cooke
Molecular Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Mol Ecol 21:2410-27. 2012..In addition, they have important implications for measures of biodiversity and evolutionary potential in one of the world's most diverse and iconic ecosystems... - Five cryptic species in the amazonian catfish Centromochlus existimatus identified based on biogeographic predictions and genetic dataGeorgina M Cooke
Molecular Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e48800. 2012..Our findings suggest that the diversity of Amazonian ichthyofauna is vastly underestimated and highlight the relevance of biogeographic predictions to guide sampling efforts in ecologically complex and under-studied ecosystems... - Hybridization of Southern Hemisphere blue whale subspecies and a sympatric area off Antarctica: impacts of whaling or climate change?Catherine R M Attard
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Mol Ecol 21:5715-27. 2012..Our findings challenge the current knowledge about the breeding behaviour of the world's largest animal and provide key information that can be incorporated into management and conservation practices for this endangered species... - Species tree of a recent radiation: the subfamily Delphininae (Cetacea, Mammalia)Ana R Amaral
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Campo Grande, Lisbon, Portugal
Mol Phylogenet Evol 64:243-53. 2012..This study further illustrates how methods of species-tree inference can be very sensitive both to the characteristics of the dataset and the evolutionary processes affecting the evolution of the group under study... - Genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal in resident bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)Luciana M Möller
Marine Mammal Research Group, Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
Mol Ecol 13:1607-12. 2004..Our genetic data contradict the hypothesis of bisexual philopatry to natal site and suggest that these bottlenose dolphins are not unusual amongst mammals, with females being the more philopatric and males the more dispersing sex... - Microsatellite markers for the roman, Chrysoblephus laticeps (Teleostei: Sparidae), an overexploited seabream from South AfricaPeter R Teske
Molecular Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
Mol Ecol Resour 9:1162-4. 2009..The markers will be useful to detect whether populations resident in MPAs along the South African coast are genetically connected, and whether there is spillover of recruits into adjacent exploited areas... - Intron-spanning primers for the amplification of the nuclear ANT gene in decapod crustaceansPeter R Teske
Molecular Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Mol Ecol Resour 9:774-6. 2009..While the intron is suitable for phylogeographical/population genetic studies and to identify cryptic speciation, the second exon region is sufficiently long to provide signal at both the phylogeographical and phylogenetic levels... - Lonesome George is not alone among Galápagos tortoisesMichael A Russello
Curr Biol 17:R317-8. 2007