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History and Geography of Neotropical Tree Diversity
(Annual Reviews, 2019-11-04)
Early botanical explorers invoked biogeographic history to explain the remarkable tree diversity of Neotropical forests. In this context, we review the history of Neotropical tree diversity over the past 100 million years, ...
Six new species of Tetrapterys (Malpighiaceae)
(2017-03)
Six new species of the Neotropical genus Tetrapterys (Malpighiaceae) are described and illustrated: T. amazonica C.E.Anderson (Brazil, Colombia and Peru), T. andersonii C.E.Anderson (Mexico), T. callejasii W.R.Anderson ...
Combination of Mascagnia and Triopterys (Malpighiaceae)
(2013-11-15)
The most recent phylogenetic analysis of Malpighiaceae shows the small Caribbean genus Triopterys to be nested within the larger continental genus Mascagnia. The morphology of Triopterys is consistent with that of Mascagnia, ...
Target sequence capture in the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae): marker selection and in silico capture from genome skimming data
(2019-06)
Reconstructing species trees from multi-loci datasets is becoming a standard practice in phylogenetics. Nevertheless, access to high-throughput sequencing may be costly, especially with studies of many samples. The potential ...
Circumscription and nomenclature of Hiraea barclayana, H. reclinata, and H. ternifolia (Malpighiaceae), and of seven species misassigned to them.
(2016-08-08)
A review of collections from Mexico to northern South America that had been primarily determined as H. barclayana, H. reclinata, and H. ternifolia, or synonyms, showed them to include ten species. Misinterpretations were ...
Tangled banks: A landscape genomic evaluation of Wallace's Riverine barrier hypothesis for three Amazon plant species
(Wiley, 2019-04-02)
Wallace's Riverine Barrier hypothesis is one of the earliest biogeographic explanations for Amazon speciation, but it has rarely been tested in plants. In this study, we used three woody Amazonian plant species to evaluate ...
Fine-scale niche structure of Neotropical forests reflects a legacy of the Great American Biotic Interchange
(MacMillan Publishers, 2013-08-13)
The tendency of species to retain their ancestral niches may link processes that determine community assembly with biogeographic histories that span geological time scales. Biogeo- graphic history is likely to have had a ...
The effects of read length, quality and quantity on microsatellite discovery and primer development: from Illumina to PacBio
(John Wiley and Sons, 2014-09)
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has transformed the way microsatellites are isolated for ecological and evolutionary investigations. Recent attempts to employ NGS for microsatellite discovery ...
The emerging field of geogenomics: constraining geological problems with genetic data.
(Elsevier, 2014-04)
The development of a genomics-derived discipline within geology is timely, as a result of major advances in acquiring and processing geologically relevant genetic data. This paper articulates the emerging field of ...
Survival near ice sheet margins for some, but not all, North American trees
(2019-04-08)
Temperate species experienced dramatic range reductions during the Last Glacial Maximum, yet refugial populations from which modern populations are descended have never been precisely located. Climate-based models identify ...