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Integrating phylogeography and physiology reveals divergence of thermal traits between central and peripheral lineages of tropical rainforest lizardsCraig Moritz
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:1680-7. 2012..The results suggest that long-isolated populations in peripheral rainforests harbour genotypes that confer resilience to future warming, emphasizing the need to protect these as well as larger central habitats...- Identification and dynamics of a cryptic suture zone in tropical rainforestC Moritz
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proc Biol Sci 276:1235-44. 2009..As arenas for evolutionary experimentation, suture zones merit special attention for conservation... 
Impact of a century of climate change on small-mammal communities in Yosemite National Park, USACraig Moritz
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Science 322:261-4. 2008..Elevational replacement among congeners changed because species' responses were idiosyncratic. Though some high-elevation species are threatened, protection of elevation gradients allows other species to respond via migration...- Stability predicts genetic diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspotAna Carolina Carnaval
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Science 323:785-9. 2009..This sets new priorities for conservation in Brazil and establishes a validated approach to biodiversity prediction in other understudied, species-rich regions... - Habitat history improves prediction of biodiversity in rainforest faunaCatherine H Graham
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:632-6. 2006..These results clearly demonstrate that spatially explicit analyses of the historical processes of persistence and colonization are both effective and necessary for understanding observed patterns of biodiversity... 
The California Hotspots Project: identifying regions of rapid diversification of mammalsEdward Byrd Davis
University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Mol Ecol 17:120-38. 2008..Choosing which land to closely protect and/or purchase will always require close coordination between agencies...- Comparative multi-locus phylogeography confirms multiple vicariance events in co-distributed rainforest frogsRayna C Bell
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:991-9. 2012.... - Patterns of persistence and isolation indicate resilience to climate change in montane rainforest lizardsRayna C Bell
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Mol Ecol 19:2531-44. 2010..These results highlight the biodiversity value of isolated montane populations and support the general hypothesis that tropical montane regions harbour high levels of narrow-range taxa because of their resilience to past climate change... - A vertebrate reproductive system involving three ploidy levels: hybrid origin of triploids in a contact zone of diploid and tetraploid palearctic green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup)Matthias Stöck
University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building 3160, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Evolution 64:944-59. 2010.... - Asymmetric reproductive isolation between terminal forms of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii revealed by fine-scale genetic analysis of a hybrid zoneThomas J Devitt
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
BMC Evol Biol 11:245. 2011.... - Diversification and persistence at the arid-monsoonal interface: australia-wide biogeography of the Bynoe's gecko (Heteronotia binoei; Gekkonidae)Matthew K Fujita
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Evolution 64:2293-314. 2010.... - Testing hypotheses for genealogical discordance in a rainforest lizardSonal Singhal
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Mol Ecol 21:5059-72. 2012..This study offers a framework for testing sources of genealogical discordance and suggests that historical introgression can be an important force shaping the genetic diversity of species and their populations... - Recent speciation and limited phylogeographic structure in Mixophyes frogs from the Australian Wet TropicsAnuja U Oza
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 62:407-13. 2012..The results further emphasize the heterogeneity of species' responses to climate change and suggest that species dependent on multiple habitat types could be especially vulnerable... - DNA barcoding will often fail to discover new animal species over broad parameter spaceMichael J Hickerson
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Syst Biol 55:729-39. 2006.... - Evolution of mitochondrial relationships and biogeography of Palearctic green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup) with insights in their genomic plasticityMatthias Stöck
Department of Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology MVZ, University of California Berkeley, 3101 Valley of Life Sciences Building 3160, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 41:663-89. 2006..surdus) and earliest fossils occur in Asia. We delineate ranges, contact and hybrid zones. Phylogeography, including one of the first non-avian datasets from Central Asian high mountains, reflects Quaternary climate and glaciation... - Anthropogenic refugia ameliorate the severe climate-related decline of a montane mammal along its trailing edgeToni Lyn Morelli
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, 3101 Valley Life Sciences, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proc Biol Sci 279:4279-86. 2012..beldingi's southwestern range to 2080 climates (Hadley and CCCMA A2). Our study suggests the strong impacts of climate change on montane species at their trailing edge and how anthropogenic refugia may mitigate these effects... - Multiple origins and rapid evolution of duplicated mitochondrial genes in parthenogenetic geckos (Heteronotia binoei; Squamata, Gekkonidae)Matthew K Fujita
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mol Biol Evol 24:2775-86. 2007..These results demonstrate that, despite their long-term stasis in gene content and arrangement in some lineages, vertebrate mitochondrial genomes can be evolutionary dynamic even at short timescales... - Strong selection against hybrids maintains a narrow contact zone between morphologically cryptic lineages in a rainforest lizardSonal Singhal
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3160, USA
Evolution 66:1474-89. 2012.... - Strong selection against hybrids at a hybrid zone in the Ensatina ring species complex and its evolutionary implicationsJoão Alexandrino
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Science Building 3160, Berkeley, California 94720 3160, USA
Evolution 59:1334-47. 2005.... - Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate changeMorgan W Tingley
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and Integrative Biology, and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:19637-43. 2009.... - A multilocus perspective on colonization accompanied by selection and gene flowErica Bree Rosenblum
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Evolution 61:2971-85. 2007..Our analyses are consistent with a demographic cost of adaptation to novel environments and show that it is possible to infer aspects of the historical demography of local adaptation even in the presence of ongoing gene flow... - Integrating phylogenetics and environmental niche models to explore speciation mechanisms in dendrobatid frogsCatherine H Graham
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Evolution 58:1781-93. 2004..Further, the method outlined in this paper will be increasingly useful as knowledge of distribution and phylogeny of tropical species increases... - Population genetics of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidisJess A T Morgan
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:13845-50. 2007..Recombination raises the possibility of resistant sporangia and a mechanism for rapid spread as well as persistence that could greatly complicate global control of the pathogen... - Multilocus phylogenetics of a rapid radiation in the genus Thomomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae)Natalia M Belfiore
13101 VLSB 3160, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Syst Biol 57:294-310. 2008..This comparison underscores the risks of overreliance on results from concatenation, and ignoring the properties of coalescence, especially in cases of recent, rapid radiations... - Transcriptome-based exon capture enables highly cost-effective comparative genomic data collection at moderate evolutionary scalesKe Bi
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
BMC Genomics 13:403. 2012..We developed a novel strategy for designing array-based exon capture in chipmunks (Tamias) based on de novo transcriptome assemblies. We evaluated the performance of our approach across specimens from four chipmunk species... - Montane refugia predict population genetic structure in the Large-blotched Ensatina salamanderThomas J Devitt
Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Mol Ecol 22:1650-65. 2013..These results provide evidence for the role of recent climatic change in shaping patterns of population persistence and connectivity within the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges, an evolutionary hotspot... - New polymorphic microsatellite markers and development of mitotyping primers for West Mediterranean green toad species (Bufo viridis subgroup)Caroline Colliard
Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, University of Palermo, Via Archirafi, 18, 90123 Palermo, Italy, Department of Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology MVZ, University of California, Berkeley, 3101 Valley of Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Mol Ecol Resour 9:1138-40. 2009..boulengeri, ranged from low to high (two to 10 alleles). Mitotyping primers, specific to the control region, which allow fast screening of parapatric Sicilian endemic B. siculus and Italian mainland-origin B. balearicus, were developed... - Strategies to protect biological diversity and the evolutionary processes that sustain itCraig Moritz
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Syst Biol 51:238-54. 2002..These concepts are illustrated with recent results from analysis of a rainforest fauna from northeast Australia... - Recent and rapid speciation with limited morphological disparity in the genus RattusKevin C Rowe
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 3160, USA
Syst Biol 60:188-203. 2011..However, rapid lineage accumulation occurred even when morphological disparity within lineages was low suggesting that future studies consider other phenotypes in the diversification of Rattus... - Phylogeographic lineages and species comparisons in conservation analyses: a case study of california herpetofaunaLeslie J Rissler
Department of Biological Sciences, Box 870345, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
Am Nat 167:655-66. 2006..Several areas of very high conservation value for lineages were not evident in the species-level analysis. These observations illustrate the importance of considering multiple levels of biodiversity in conservation assessments... - Reconciling paleodistribution models and comparative phylogeography in the Wet Tropics rainforest land snail Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis (Brazier 1875)Andrew Hugall
Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:6112-7. 2002..In general, this multifaceted approach, combining spatially explicit paleoclimatological models and comparative phylogeography, provides a powerful approach to locating historical refugia and understanding species' responses to them... - The genetic structure of Australasian green turtles (Chelonia mydas): exploring the geographical scale of genetic exchangeKiki E M Dethmers
School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072, Australia
Mol Ecol 15:3931-46. 2006.... - A mitochondrial phylogeny of the rainforest skink genus Saproscincus, Wells and Wellington (1984)Adnan Moussalli
Department of Zoology and Entomology, Cooperative Research Center for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 34:190-202. 2005..These results suggest that while vicariance has played a prominent role in diversification and historical biogeography of Saproscincus, divergent selection may also be important... - Limited effect of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation on molecular diversity in a rain forest skink, Gnypetoscincus queenslandiaeJoanna Sumner
Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Rainforest CRC, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Mol Ecol 13:259-69. 2004..The results also illustrate the inherent difficulty in detecting genetic consequences of recent habitat fragmentation, even in genetically variable species, and especially when effective population size and dispersal rates are low... - When vicars meet: a narrow contact zone between morphologically cryptic phylogeographic lineages of the rainforest skink, Carlia rubrigularisBen L Phillips
Department of Zoology and Entomology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4067 Australia
Evolution 58:1536-48. 2004..Nonetheless, we caution against the use of mtDNA phylogeography as a sole criterion for defining species boundaries... - DNA barcoding: promise and pitfallsCraig Moritz
PLoS Biol 2:e354. 2004 - Waves of parthenogenesis in the desert: evidence for the parallel loss of sex in a grasshopper and a gecko from AustraliaMichael Kearney
Department of Zoology, Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
Mol Ecol 15:1743-8. 2006..In each species, parthenogenesis evolved twice and appears to have expanded in parallel waves across the desert, suggesting a highly general selective force against sex... - Genetic analysis of complex demographic scenarios: spatially expanding populations of the cane toad, Bufo marinusArnaud Estoup
Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Campus International de Baillarguet CS 30 016 34988, Montferrier sur Lez, France
Evolution 58:2021-36. 2004..It also provides the basis for investigating the interplay between population dynamics, drift, and selection in invasive species... - Reinforcement drives rapid allopatric speciationConrad J Hoskin
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Nature 437:1353-6. 2005..Thus we show the potential for reinforcement to drive rapid allopatric speciation... - A multilocus perspective on refugial isolation and divergence in rainforest skinks (Carlia)Gaynor Dolman
School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Evolution 60:573-82. 2006..Overall the results suggest contrasting responses to long-term fluctuations in rainforest habitats, leading to varying opportunities for speciation... - Comparative phylogeography and speciation of dung beetles from the Australian Wet Tropics rainforestKaren L Bell
Department of Zoology and Entomology, School of Life Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia
Mol Ecol 16:4984-98. 2007..We suggest that rapid evolution of genitalia may facilitate geographic speciation in rainforest beetles... - Genetic diversity and population structure of Tasmanian devils, the largest marsupial carnivoreMenna E Jones
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia
Mol Ecol 13:2197-209. 2004..Marsupial carnivores appear to have stronger population subdivisions than their placental counterparts... - Microevolution in island forms: the roles of drift and directional selection in morphological divergence of a passerine birdSonya M Clegg
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
Evolution 56:2090-9. 2002.... - Genetic consequences of sequential founder events by an island-colonizing birdSonya M Clegg
Department of Biological Sciences and Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:8127-32. 2002....