a National Science Foundation grant DEB-1556953/1830127 to S.A.P.and P.C.W.
Key inn ovations may allow lin eages access to new resources and facilitate the invasi on of new adaptive zon es,potentially influencing diversificati on patter ns.Many studies have focused on the impact of key inno v...
This work was supported by grants from the Narural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province to L-H.L.(LY17C030003);National Natural Science Foundation of China to L.-H,L.(31971414)and XJ(31470471);Finance Science and Technology Project of Hainan Province to Y.D.(ZDYF2018219).
Monitor lizards(Varanidae)inhabit both the mainland and islands of all geological types and have diversified into an exceptionally wide range of body sizes,thus providing an ideal model for examining the role of mainl...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31401969,31772480);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province(No.20161BAB214158).
Incomplete lineage sorting and introgression are 2 major and nonexclusive causes of specieslevel non-monophyly.Distinguishing between these 2 processes is notoriously difficult because they can generate similar geneti...
Cascade speciation and reinforcement can evolve rapidly when traits are pleiotropic and act as both signal/cue in nonrandom mating. Here, we examine the contribution of two key traits-assortative mating and self-ferti...
We sincerely thank Chuanying Dai for providing mtDNA sequences of the Aegithalos coneinnus. We also thanks Town Peterson for providing the analysis protocol for the ecological niche model, and Robert G. Moyle for the protocol of genetic analyses. This research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation of China (Nos 31471990, 31172064 to Y.Q. and 31330073, 30925008 to F.L.) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (MOST Grant No. 2011FY120200-3).
The Southwest Mountainous region of the eastern Himalayas is a hotspot with extraordinarily high biodiversity and endemism, but the processes that have driven this unique diversity are largely unknown. We evaluated pr...
Habitat shift is a key innovation that has contributed to the extreme diversification of insects. Most groups are well-adapted to more or less specific environments and shifts usually only happen between similar habit...
Acknowledgements We thank Zhi-Yun Jia for inviting us to submit this paper to a special column on phenotypic plasticity. Three anonymous reviewers provided valuable commentary that encouraged us to improve this work. We also wish to ac- knowledge the long term funding for plasticity research pro- vided by the U.S. National Science Foundation to DP, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Can- ada to BR. Finally, collaboration on this specific project was directly supported through a short-term fellowship to BR by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent; funded by NSF #EF-0905606).
Identifying the causes of diversification is central to evolutionary biology. The ecological theory of adaptive diversi- fication holds that the evolution of phenotypic differences between populations and species--and...
supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada;the K.E Molson Foundation;WWF Canada
Twenty-five characters or suites of characters from bats are considered in light of changes in bat classification. Thecharacters include some associated with flower-visiting (two), echolocation (12), roosting (six), r...