Relative roles of Neogene vicariance and Quaternary climate change on the historical diversification of bunchgrass lizards (Sceloporus scalaris group) in Mexico

Gene Duplication, Population Genomics, and Species-Level Differentiation within a Tropical Mountain Shrub

“…These genetic patterns support the hypothesis that B. alpina populations were able to survive in situ through several Pleistocene climate fluctuations. Similar conclusions have been reached for animal taxa of the TMVB using more traditional population genetic and phylogeographic approaches (e.g., McCormack et al 2008; Bryson et al 2011, 2012). …”

“…This is particularly useful for plants, where population genetic studies have often struggled to obtain sufficient resolution from DNA sequence data with traditional Sanger sequencing approaches. For example, several plant phylogeographic studies (e.g., Tovar-Sánchez et al 2008; Gugger et al 2011; Mastretta-Yanes et al 2011) have been substantially less informative than studies that have used comparable sequencing effort in animal taxa within the same geographic region (e.g., McCormack et al 2008; Bryson et al 2011, 2012; Ornelas et al 2013). By applying GBS techniques sufficient nucleotide variation can be harnessed within plant species to address evolutionary questions, such as genetic association of adaptive traits (Parchman et al 2012) and genomic divergence of hybridizing tree species (Stölting et al 2013).…”

Nine new species of the Eremobates scaber species group of the North American camel spider genus Eremobates (Solifugae, Eremobatidae)

“…Mexico is a biologically rich country (Mittermeier & Goetsch 1997;Bryson et al 2012, Graham et al 2014 having several distinct physiographic regions, each with its own evolutionarily distinct biota intersecting within the confines of the state borders (Morrone 2006). Material from the Chihuahuan Desert suggests that the solifuge fauna of this region is diverse.…”

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico

“…A number of species found in the archipelago have been included in studies of DNA phylogeography, e.g., the Ambystoma tigrinum complex (see Shaffer and McKnight, 1996), Anaxyrus punctatus (see Bryson et al, 2012a), Craugastor augusti (see Goldberg et al, 2004a), Gastrophryne mazatlanensis (see Streicher et al, 2012), Hyla arenicolor (see Bryson et al, 2010;Klymus and Gerhardt, 2012), Hyla wrightorum (see Gergus et al, 2004), Lithobates chiricahuensis (see Goldberg et al, 2004b), Phrynosoma hernandesi (see Zamudio et al, 1997), Sceloporus slevini (see Bryson et al, 2012b), the Sceloporus undulatus complex (see Leaché and Reeder, 2002), Sceloporus virgatus (see Tennessen and Zamudio, 2008), Xantusia bezyi (see Sinclair et al, 2004), Crotalus cerberus (see Douglas et al, 2006); Crotalus willardi (see Holycross and Douglas, 2007); Lampropeltis pyromelana (see Burbrink et al, 2011), and Thamnophis rufipunctatus (see Wood et al, 2011). in the majority of these studies, the mountain ranges in the archipelago were too sparsely sampled to evaluate the potential of the gene segments and populations to shed light on the historical biogeography of the region.…”