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François-Joseph Lapointe
Researcher at Université de Montréal
Publications - 101
Citations - 3710
François-Joseph Lapointe is an academic researcher from Université de Montréal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Distance matrices in phylogeny & Population. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 97 publications receiving 3415 citations. Previous affiliations of François-Joseph Lapointe include University of the French West Indies and Guiana & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Modeling brain evolution from behavior: a permutational regression approach.
TL;DR: A phylogenetic tree, derived from marsupial brain morphology data, is compared to trees depicting the evolution of diet, sociability, locomotion, and habitat in these animals, as well as their taxonomy and geographical relationships.
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DNA-hybridisation Studies of Marsupials and their Implications for Metatherian Classification
TL;DR: Calibration of the 102-taxon tree and dating of the major dichotomies suggest that no extant marsupial lineage originated before the latest Cretaceous, and that all of them together with most South American and all Australasian fossils should be recognised as a monophyletic group contrasting with a largely Laurasian (if possibly paraphyletic) taxon.
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Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things
Eric Bapteste,Maureen A. O’Malley,Robert G. Beiko,Marc Ereshefsky,J. Peter Gogarten,Laura Franklin-Hall,François-Joseph Lapointe,John Dupré,Tal Dagan,Yan Boucher,William Martin +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was pointed out that the tree-of-life model is no longer the most scientifically productive position to hold, because of the plurality of evolutionary patterns and mechanisms involved, such as discontinuity of the process of evolution across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide.
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Impact of urban fragmentation on the genetic structure of the eastern red-backed salamander
TL;DR: The results indicate that allelic richness and heterozygosity are lower in the urban populations of the eastern red-backed salamander, which raises conservation concerns for these populations as well as for rare or threatened species inhabiting urban landscapes.
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Enrichment of beneficial bacteria in the skin microbiota of bats persisting with white-nose syndrome
TL;DR: The results are consistent with the hypothesis that Pd invasion leads to a shift in the skin microbiota of surviving bats and suggest the possibility that the microbiota plays a protective role for bats facing WNS.