Thomas F. Duda

TL;DR: The findings reported here provide the first molecular evidence from multiple groups that part of the present-day diversity of shallow-water gastropods in the IWP arose from a rapid pulse of speciation when new habitats became available in the Late Oligocene to Early Miocene.

TL;DR: Both the molecular phylogeny of alleles and F-statistics indicated very strong differentiation between populations from the western Indian Ocean and western Pacific, implying that the Indo-Australian Archipelago represents a biogeographic break between populations in the Ind-West Pacific.

TL;DR: A large-scale molecular phylogeny that includes 320 of the 761 recognized valid species of the cone snails (Conus), one of the most diverse groups of marine molluscs, based on three mitochondrial genes, is presented, the first phylogeny of the taxon to employ concatenated sequences of several genes.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that extensive and continuous gene duplication facilitates rapid evolution and drastic divergence in venom compositions among species, processes that may be associated with evolutionary responses to predator-prey interactions.

TL;DR: This work presents genetic evidence of hybridization of two large-bodied species of neotropical primates that diverged ∼3 MYA and shows that hybridization and subsequent backcrosses are directionally biased and that the only likely cross between parental species produces fertile hybrid females, but fails to produce viable or fertile males.