Molecular Systematics of Hystricognath Rodents: Evidence from the Mitochondrial 125 rRNA Gene

Cryptic lineage divergence in marine environments: genetic differentiation at multiple spatial and temporal scales in the widespread intertidal goby Gobiosoma bosc

“…Much more surprising is the deep phylogeographic break found on either side of the Apalachicola River estuary, with over 5% divergence among mtDNA lineages on either side. The Apalachicola River is a well-known barrier to gene flow for terrestrial organisms (Donovan, Semlitsch, & Routman, 2000;Pauly, Piskurek, & Shaffer, 2007) and freshwater fish (Bagley, Sandel, Travis, Lozano Vilano, & Johnson, 2013;Bermingham & Avise, 1986;Nedbal, Allard, & Honeycutt, 1994;Wooten & Lydeard, 1990), but this is to our knowledge the first reported case for a similar phylogeographic break in a marine fish, although at least one marine mollusk, the arrow squid (Loligo plei), was found to show a break there as well (Herke & Foltz, 2002).…”

African Mole-rats (Bathyergidae): A Complex Radiation in Tropical Soils

“…Bathyergids have been the subject of numerous phylogenetic studies incorporating data from morphology (Wood 1985), allozyme data Filippucci et al 1994Filippucci et al , 1997Janecek et al 1992), mitochondrial restriction fragment analysis (Honeycutt et al 1987), nuclear Transthyretin (TTR) sequence data (Walton et al 2000), the nuclear von Willebrand Factor gene (Huchon and Douzery 2001), mitochondrial 12S rRNA (12S) (Honeycutt et al 1987;Allard and Honeycutt 1992;Nedbal et al 1994) and mitochondrial cytochrome b (cyt b) sequence data (Faulkes et al 1997). Systematic overviews of the Bathyergidae by Jarvis and Bennett (1990) and Honeycutt et al (1991) provided the basis for more recent studies on intergeneric and intrageneric relationships (Faulkes et al 2004;Ingram et al 2004).…”

“…Systematic overviews of the Bathyergidae by Jarvis and Bennett (1990) and Honeycutt et al (1991) provided the basis for more recent studies on intergeneric and intrageneric relationships (Faulkes et al 2004;Ingram et al 2004). The Bathyergidae are the most species rich of the four monophyletic families that constitute the Phiomorpha (the African clade of Hystricomorph rodents; Nedbal et al 1994). At the subfamilial level, groupings based on morphology are not corroborated by molecular evidence (Walton et al 2000).…”

Female space use is the best predictor of monogamy in mammals

“…We used phylogenies of mammalian orders for which the existence of monogamy has been documented (table 2). We analysed alternative phylogenies presented for Carnivora (Wayne et al1989;Wozencraft 1989;Szalay et al1993;Garland & Janis 1993), for Rodentia (Avise et al 1979;Rogers et al 1984;Anderson 1985;Hartenberger 1985;Sarich 1985;Rogers & Engstrom 1992;Catze£is et al 1993;Nedbal et al 1994), for Primates (Sille¨n-Tullberg & MÖller 1993;Purvis 1995), for Artiodactyla (Garland & Janis 1993;S×ther & Gordon 1994;Gentry 1992), for Macroscelidea (Corbet 1995), and for Lagomorpha (Dene et al 1982). References: (1) Table 2.…”