Adam D Leaché

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Phylogenetic relationships of horned lizards (Phrynosoma) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data: evidence for a misleading mitochondrial gene tree
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 39:628-44. 2006
  2. ncbi Hybridization between multiple fence lizard lineages in an ecotone: locally discordant variation in mitochondrial DNA, chromosomes, and morphology
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Mol Ecol 16:1035-54. 2007
  3. ncbi Two waves of diversification in mammals and reptiles of Baja California revealed by hierarchical Bayesian analysis
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Biol Lett 3:646-50. 2007
  4. ncbi Phylogeny, divergence times and species limits of spiny lizards (Sceloporus magister species group) in western North American deserts and Baja California
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Mol Ecol 16:5216-33. 2007
  5. ncbi Are unequal clade priors problematic for Bayesian phylogenetics?
    Matthew C Brandley
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3160, USA
    Syst Biol 55:138-46; author reply 147-51. 2006
  6. ncbi Species trees for spiny lizards (genus Sceloporus): identifying points of concordance and conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial data
    Adam D Leaché
    Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 54:162-71. 2010
  7. ncbi Quantifying ecological, morphological, and genetic variation to delimit species in the coast horned lizard species complex (Phrynosoma)
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12418-23. 2009
  8. ncbi Species tree discordance traces to phylogeographic clade boundaries in North American fence lizards (Sceloporus)
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Syst Biol 58:547-59. 2009
  9. ncbi The accuracy of species tree estimation under simulation: a comparison of methods
    Adam D Leaché
    Genome Center and Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Syst Biol 60:126-37. 2011
  10. ncbi Homoplasy and clade support
    Matthew C Brandley
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Syst Biol 58:184-98. 2009

Detail Information

Publications11

  1. ncbi Phylogenetic relationships of horned lizards (Phrynosoma) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data: evidence for a misleading mitochondrial gene tree
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 39:628-44. 2006
    ..modestum, P. platyrhinos, and P. goodei); and (4) Brevicauda, containing two viviparous species with extremely short tails that lack blood-squirting (P. braconnieri and P. taurus)...
  2. ncbi Hybridization between multiple fence lizard lineages in an ecotone: locally discordant variation in mitochondrial DNA, chromosomes, and morphology
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Mol Ecol 16:1035-54. 2007
    ..tristichus having diagnostic mtDNA, morphology, karyotypes, and dorsal colour patterns, and secondary contact between these and a distantly related yet morphologically cryptic mtDNA lineage (S. cowlesi)...
  3. ncbi Two waves of diversification in mammals and reptiles of Baja California revealed by hierarchical Bayesian analysis
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Biol Lett 3:646-50. 2007
    ....
  4. ncbi Phylogeny, divergence times and species limits of spiny lizards (Sceloporus magister species group) in western North American deserts and Baja California
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Mol Ecol 16:5216-33. 2007
    ..Based on the nonexclusivity of mtDNA haplotypes, nuclear gene flow among populations and wide zones of phenotypic intergradation, S. magister appears to represent a single geographically variable and widespread species...
  5. ncbi Are unequal clade priors problematic for Bayesian phylogenetics?
    Matthew C Brandley
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3160, USA
    Syst Biol 55:138-46; author reply 147-51. 2006
  6. ncbi Species trees for spiny lizards (genus Sceloporus): identifying points of concordance and conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial data
    Adam D Leaché
    Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 54:162-71. 2010
    ..The points of concordance and conflict between the nuclear and mtDNA data are discussed, and arguments for preferring the species trees estimated from the multilocus nuclear data are presented...
  7. ncbi Quantifying ecological, morphological, and genetic variation to delimit species in the coast horned lizard species complex (Phrynosoma)
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:12418-23. 2009
    ....
  8. ncbi Species tree discordance traces to phylogeographic clade boundaries in North American fence lizards (Sceloporus)
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Syst Biol 58:547-59. 2009
    ....
  9. ncbi The accuracy of species tree estimation under simulation: a comparison of methods
    Adam D Leaché
    Genome Center and Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
    Syst Biol 60:126-37. 2011
    ..In general, the correlation between the phylogenetic accuracy and the posterior probability values obtained from BEST is high, although posterior probabilities are overestimated when the prior distribution for is misspecified...
  10. ncbi Homoplasy and clade support
    Matthew C Brandley
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
    Syst Biol 58:184-98. 2009
    ..These results may be especially relevant to "deep" phylogenetic problems, such as reconstructing the tree of life, as they represent the largest possible extremes of time and evolutionary rates, 2 factors that cause homoplasy...
  11. ncbi Bayesian species delimitation in West African forest geckos (Hemidactylus fasciatus)
    Adam D Leaché
    Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Biol Sci 277:3071-7. 2010
    ..We describe a new statistic for summarizing the posterior distribution of species delimitation models, called speciation probabilities, which summarize the posterior support for each speciation event on the starting guide tree...