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Biogeographic history and cryptic diversity of saxicolous Tropiduridae lizards ...
Werneck, F. P.; Leite, Rafael N.; Geurgas, Silvia Rodrigues; Rodrigues, Miguel TrefautBackground: Phylogeographic research has advanced in South America, with increasing efforts on taxa from the dry diagonal biomes. However, the diversification of endemic fauna from the semiarid Caatinga biome in northeastern Brazil is still poorly known. Here we targeted saxicolous lizards of the Tropidurus semitaeniatus species group to better understand the evolutionary history of these endemic taxa and the C...
Quantifying the biodiversity value of tropical primary, secondary, and plantati...
Barlow, Jos; Gardner, Toby Alan; Araújo, Ivanei Souza; Ávila-Pires, Teresa Cristina Sauer; Bonaldo, Alexandre Bragio; Costa, Joana E.Biodiversity loss from deforestation may be partly offset by the expansion of secondary forests and plantation forestry in the tropics. However, our current knowledge of the value of these habitats for biodiversity conservation is limited to very few taxa, and many studies are severely confounded by methodological shortcomings. We examined the conservation value of tropical primary, secondary, and plantation fo...
In the wake of invasion: Tracing the historical biogeography of the South Ameri...
Leite, Rafael N.; Kolokotronis, Sergios-Orestis; Almeida, Francisca Cunha; Werneck, F. P.; Rogers, Duke S.; Marcelo, Weksler,The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) was greatly influenced by the completion of the Isthmus of Panama and impacted the composition of modern faunal assemblages in the Americas. However, the contribution of preceding events has been comparatively less explored, even though early immigrants in the fossil records are evidence for waif dispersals. The cricetid rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae are a c...
The role of Pleistocene climate change in the genetic variability, distribution...
Silva, Cláudia Regina; Ribas, Camila Cherem; Silva, Maria Nazareth Ferreira da; Leite, Rafael N.; Catzeflis, François M.; Rogers, Duke S.The spiny rats, genus Proechimys, have the highest species richness within the Echimyidae family, as well as species with high genetic variability. The genus distribution includes tropical South America and Central America south to Honduras. In this study, we evaluate the phylogeographic histories of Proechimys guyannensis and P. cuvieri using cytochrome b, in a densely sampled area in northeastern Amazon where...
Mammal collections of the Western Hemisphere: A survey and directory of collect...
Dunnum, Jonathan L.; McLean, Bryan S.; Dowler, Robert C.; Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul; Bradley, Jeff E.; Bradley, Robert D.; Carraway, Leslie N.As a periodic assessment of the mammal collection resource, the Systematic Collections Committee (SCC) of the American Society of Mammalogists undertakes decadal surveys of the collections held in the Western Hemisphere. The SCC surveyed 429 collections and compiled a directory of 395 active collections containing 5,275,155 catalogued specimens. Over the past decade, 43 collections have been lost or transferred...
Biogeographic history and cryptic diversity of saxicolous Tropiduridae lizards ...
Werneck, Fernanda de Pinho; Leite, Rafael N.; Geurgas, Silvia R.; Rodrigues, Miguel TrefautBackground: Phylogeographic research has advanced in South America, with increasing efforts on taxa from the dry diagonal biomes. However, the diversification of endemic fauna from the semiarid Caatinga biome in northeastern Brazil is still poorly known. Here we targeted saxicolous lizards of the Tropidurus semitaeniatus species group to better understand the evolutionary history of these endemic taxa and the C...