Evolutionary origins of major reptile lineages: Case studies on phylogenetic incongruence and the importance of fossils.Phylogenetics -- the discipline of inferring the evolutionary history of organisms -- has become central to the study of biology and its related fields. In light of the myriad ...
Phylogenetic footprint of the plant clock system in angiosperms: evolutionary processes of Pseudo-Response Regulators clock-associated PRR genes, the partner of the LHY/CCA1 genes, and to clarify the evolutionary history of the plant clock system in angiosperm lineages... N Takata,S Saito,CT Sait...
Evolutionary biology is the study of the history of evolution and the elucidation of its mechanisms. Comparative biology is the comparison of a trait or traits in selected taxa, and may be, but need not be, evolutionary in approach. A phylogenetic hypothesis is necessary for reconstruction of ...
And yet, we know little about the long evolutionary history of their family—the Culicidae—nor how so many species of these insects came to be our enduring enemies. Perhaps surprisingly, given the medical importance of certain mosquito genera, relationships between major groups remain largely ...
Our analyses indicate that eastern China represents a floristic museum, and western China an evolutionary cradle, for herbaceous genera; eastern China has served as both a museum and a cradle for woody genera. These results identify areas of high species richness and phylogenetic diversity, and ...
In this study, we sequenced the TLR2 gene of both Dromedary and Bactrian camels to better understand the history of their evolution and to provide a resource for research into the immune system of camels. Material and methods All animal experiments were performed according to protocols approved ...
American biologists in the late nineteenthcentury pioneered the descriptive-comparativestudy of all cell divisions from zygote togastrulation – the cell lineage. Data fromcell lineages were crucial to evolutionary anddevelopmental questions of the day. One of themain questions was the ultimate causation...
history of this widespread genus in New Zealand. Abstract The contrasting evolutionary histories of endemic versus related cosmopolitan species provide avenues to understand the spatial drivers and limitations of biodiversity. Here, we investigated the evolutionary history of three New Zealand endemic...
The Persian squirrel (Sciurus anomalus) is limited to the Irano-Anatolian region of western Asia. The evolutionary history and phylogenetic status of the Persian squirrel are ambiguous. Here, we present a molecular phylogeny using mitochondrial and nuclear genes (D-loop noncoding region, Cyt b, ...
To unravel the evolutionary history of the Arctic flora, we selected 32 clades and 3626 species, of which 548 are distributed in the Arctic and 40 are restricted to the Arctic. Although it offers the most comprehensive evolutionary analysis of the Arctic tundra to date, this study only covers...