Henrique V. Figueiró

TL;DR: Findings indicate that post-speciation admixture has contributed genetic material that facilitated the adaptive evolution of big cat lineages.

TL;DR: It is concluded that existing phylogenomic approaches to infer the Tree of Life may be highly misleading without considering the genomic architecture of phylogenetic signal relative to recombination rate and its interplay with historical hybridization.

TL;DR: It is found that tracts of homozygosity are rarely shared among geographically isolated North American populations, suggesting that assisted gene flow would restore local genetic diversity, and that sustaining diversity in small and isolated populations will require either repeated translocations or restoration of landscape connectivity.

TL;DR: A high-quality mountain lion genome is assembled and a panel of resequenced individuals from across their geographic range is analyzed, finding strong geographical structure and signatures of severe inbreeding in all North American populations.

TL;DR: In this paper , a dataset comprising 24 genomes from all living otter species, 14 of which were newly sequenced, was used to infer phylogenetic relationships and divergence times, characterize patterns of genome-wide genealogical discordance, and investigate demographic history and current genomic diversity.