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Phylogeography and Speciation of the Morphologically Variable, Widespread Species Bufo valliceps, Based on Molecular Evidence from mtDNA
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In this paper, the authors used mitochondrial DNA sequences to examine the phylogeography of Bufo valliceps and discovered the existence of two distinct clades: B. valli and B. nebulifer, and tested the current distribution of these species, based on a calibrated rate of evolution and the percent sequence divergence between the two species.About:
This article is published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.The article was published on 2000-11-01. It has received 101 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vicariance & Molecular clock.read more
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Phylogeny of South American Bufo (Anura: Bufonidae) inferred from combined evidence
TL;DR: The biogeographical results indicate that: (1) the origin of Bufo predates the fragmentation of Gondwana; (2) Central and North American species compose the sister group to a large, ‘derived’ clade of South American Bufe; and (3) Eurasian species form the sistergroup to the New World clade.
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Evolutionary history of the fish genus Astyanax Baird & Girard (1854) (Actinopterygii, Characidae) in Mesoamerica reveals multiple morphological homoplasies
TL;DR: The results support multiple, independent origins of morphological traits in Astyanax, whereby the morphotype associated with Bramocharax represents a recurrent trophic adaptation.
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Can you bank on GenBank
TL;DR: According to a new paper by Forster in the Annals of Human Genetics, more than half of all published human mtDNA studies contain mistakes, a level so high that geneticists could be drawing incorrect conclusions in population and evolutionary studies.
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Ever-Young sex chromosomes in European tree frogs
Matthias Stöck,Agnès Horn,Christine Grossen,Dorothea Lindtke,Dorothea Lindtke,Roberto Sermier,Caroline Betto-Colliard,Christophe Dufresnes,Emmanuel Bonjour,Zoé Dumas,Zoé Dumas,Emilien Luquet,Tiziano Maddalena,Helena Clavero Sousa,Iñigo Martínez-Solano,Nicolas Perrin +15 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that sex-chromosome homomorphy in these tree frogs does not result from a recent turnover but is maintained over evolutionary timescales by occasional X-Y recombination, a result at odds with the view that sex chromosomes necessarily decay until they are replaced.
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Phylogeography of the Western Lyresnake (Trimorphodon biscutatus): testing aridland biogeographical hypotheses across the Nearctic–Neotropical transition
TL;DR: The Western Lyresnake (Trimorphodon biscutatus) is a widespread, polytypic taxon inhabiting arid regions from the warm deserts of the southwestern United States southward along the Pacific versant of Mexico to tropical deciduous forests of Mesoamerica.
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Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual
TL;DR: Molecular Cloning has served as the foundation of technical expertise in labs worldwide for 30 years as mentioned in this paper and has been so popular, or so influential, that no other manual has been more widely used and influential.
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Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA.
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MacClade: Analysis of phylogeny and character evolution
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Molecular Markers, Natural History, and Evolution
TL;DR: A history of Molecular Phylogenetics and applications of individuality and Parentage, issues of Heterozygosity, and special Approaches to Phylageny Estimation are reviewed.
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Molecular Markers, Natural History and Evolution.
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