Francesco Carotenuto

TL;DR: This work evaluates species' distributional and co-occurrence patterns along with their phylogenetic structure using the fossil record, and applies a novel Bayesian framework on fossil occurrences to estimate diversification rates through time.

TL;DR: A complex but coherent pattern of size and shape differentiation in Cerdocyon groups is found, consistent with the effects of both competition and Bergmann's rule, which suggests that shape differences serve the goal of reducing competition between Cerdocytes and Lycalopex to the South, as size differences do to the North.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the evolution of ornament complexity is a by-product of Cope’s rule, and although sexual selection may control size in most ornaments, it does not influence their shape.

TL;DR: The RRphylo-noder implementation is particularly appropriate to study phenotypic evolution in the presence of complex phenotypes generated by different processes acting in different parts the tree, and when suitable information about fossil phenotypes is at hand.