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A Divergent Articulavirus in an Australian Gecko Identified Using Meta-Transcriptomics and Protein Structure Comparisons

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

A Framework for Resolving Cryptic Species: A Case Study from the Lizards of the Australian Wet Tropics

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

A mitochondrial phylogeny of the rainforest skink genus Saproscincus, Wells and Wellington (1984).

scientific article

A molecular phylogeny of rainbow skinks (Scincidae: Carlia): taxonomic and biogeographic implications

scholarly article by Devi M. Stuart-Fox et al published 2002 in Australian Journal of Zoology

A multilocus perspective on colonization accompanied by selection and gene flow

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A multilocus perspective on refugial isolation and divergence in rainforest skinks (Carlia).

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A new genus to accommodate three skinks currently assigned to Proablepharus (Lacertilia: Scincidae).

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

A phylogeny for the genus Isoodon and a range extension for I. obesulus peninsulae based on mtDNA control region and morphology

scholarly article by Lisa Pope et al published 2001 in Australian Journal of Zoology

A vertebrate reproductive system involving three ploidy levels: hybrid origin of triploids in a contact zone of diploid and tetraploid palearctic green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup).

scientific article

Accounting for Uncertainty in Gene Tree Estimation: Summary-Coalescent Species Tree Inference in a Challenging Radiation of Australian Lizards

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Adaptation of rainbow fish to lake and stream habitats

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Adjusting to climate: acclimation, adaptation, and developmental plasticity in physiological traits of a tropical rainforest lizard

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

An Ancient Divide in a Contiguous Rainforest: Endemic Earthworms in the Australian Wet Tropics

scientific article

Analysis of Phylogenomic Tree Space Resolves Relationships Among Marsupial Families.

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Anthropogenic refugia ameliorate the severe climate-related decline of a montane mammal along its trailing edge

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2012)

Are Pheromones Key to Unlocking Cryptic Lizard Diversity?

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Asymmetric reproductive isolation between terminal forms of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii revealed by fine-scale genetic analysis of a hybrid zone

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Basking behavior predicts the evolution of heat tolerance in Australian rainforest lizards

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Better forecasts of range dynamics using genetic data

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Biodiversity analysis in the digital era

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Biodiversity hotspots and beyond: the need for preserving environmental transitions

scientific article published in 2001

Birds track their Grinnellian niche through a century of climate change

scientific article published on 15 September 2009

COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF A SIBLING PAIR OF RAINFOREST DROSOPHILA SPECIES (DROSOPHILA SERRATA AND D. BIRCHII).

scientific article

Chromosomal Speciation in the Genomics Era: Disentangling Phylogenetic Evolution of Rock-wallabies.

scientific article

Climate change refugia and habitat connectivity promote species persistence

Coalescent-based species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy

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Combining phylogeography with distribution modeling: multiple Pleistocene range expansions in a parthenogenetic gecko from the Australian arid zone

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2007)

Comparative assessment of range-wide patterns of genetic diversity and structure with SNPs and microsatellites: A case study with Iberian amphibians

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Comparative multi-locus phylogeography confirms multiple vicariance events in co-distributed rainforest frogs

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

Comparative phylogeography and speciation of dung beetles from the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest

scientific article published on 8 October 2007

Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges

scientific article published on 5 October 2022

Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Congruence and conflict in the higher-level phylogenetics of squamate reptiles: an expanded phylogenomic perspective

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Conservation Biology in the Antipodes

scientific article (publication date: February 1998)

Contrasting scales of local persistence between monsoonal and arid biomes in closely related, low‐dispersal vertebrates

scientific article published on 21 September 2019

Convergence across a continent: adaptive diversification in a recent radiation of Australian lizards.

scientific article published in June 2016

Correction: Lineage Range Estimation Method Reveals Fine-Scale Endemism Linked to Pleistocene Stability in Australian Rainforest Herpetofauna

scientific article published on 3 January 2017

Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Cryptic diversity in an endemic rainforest skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae)

scholarly article by Craig Moritz et al published August 1993 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Cryptic genetic diversity in Rattus of the San Francisco Bay region, California

scholarly article by Chris J. Conroy et al published 12 September 2012 in Biological Invasions

Current geography masks dynamic history of gene flow during speciation in northern Australian birds

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

DNA barcoding will often fail to discover new animal species over broad parameter space

scientific article

DNA barcoding: promise and pitfalls

scientific article

Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

scholarly article published in 2011

Defining ‘Evolutionarily Significant Units’ for conservation ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: October 1994)

Divergence of thermal physiological traits in terrestrial breeding frogs along a tropical elevational gradient.

scientific article

Diversification and persistence at the arid-monsoonal interface: australia-wide biogeography of the Bynoe's gecko (Heteronotia binoei; Gekkonidae).

scientific article

Diversification of the Alpine chipmunk, Tamias alpinus, an alpine endemic of the Sierra Nevada, California

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Dynamic refugia and species persistence: tracking spatial shifts in habitat through time

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Ecology. Are lizards toast?

scientific article published in May 2010

Erosion of refugia in the Sierra Nevada meadows network with climate change

scientific article published in 2017

Evaluating the performance of anchored hybrid enrichment at the tips of the tree of life: a phylogenetic analysis of Australian Eugongylus group scincid lizards

scientific article published on 11 April 2015

Evaluation of species distribution models by resampling of sites surveyed a century ago by Joseph Grinnell

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Evolution of mitochondrial relationships and biogeography of Palearctic green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup) with insights in their genomic plasticity

scientific article published on 2 June 2006

Evolutionary Distinctiveness and Status of the Endangered Lake Eacham Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia eachamensis)

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Evolutionary Relationships Within the Ensatina eschscholtzii Complex Confirm the Ring Species Interpretation

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Evolutionary biology for the 21st century

scientific article

Evolutionary biology in biodiversity science, conservation, and policy: a call to action

scientific article

Evolutionary history of Neotropical savannas geographically concentrates species, phylogenetic and functional diversity of lizards ⬇️

Exon capture phylogenomics: efficacy across scales of divergence.

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

GENETIC STRUCTURE AND MALE-MEDIATED GENE FLOW IN THE GHOST BAT (MACRODERMA GIGAS).

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Gene flow despite complex Robertsonian fusions among rock-wallaby (Petrogale) species.

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Genetic analyses of historic and modern marbled murrelets suggest decoupling of migration and gene flow after habitat fragmentation

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Genetic analysis of complex demographic scenarios: spatially expanding populations of the cane toad, Bufo marinus

scientific article published in September 2004

Genetic consequences of sequential founder events by an island-colonizing bird ⬇️

scientific article

Genetic diversity and population structure of Tasmanian devils, the largest marsupial carnivore

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Genetic effects of forest fragmentation on a rainforest restricted lizard (Scincidae: Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae)

scholarly article by Michael Cunningham & Craig Moritz published January 1998 in Biological Conservation

Genetic population structure of the Greater Bilby Macrotis lagotis, a marsupial in decline ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1997

Genome of an iconic Australian bird: High-quality assembly and linkage map of the superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus)

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates

Geographic restriction, genetic divergence, and morphological disparity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forests: Insights from Leposoma lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Squamata)

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Habitat history improves prediction of biodiversity in rainforest fauna

scientific article published on 9 January 2006

Habitat preference modulates trans-oceanic dispersal in a terrestrial vertebrate

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Heat hardening in a tropical lizard: geographic variation explained by the predictability and variance in environmental temperatures

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Heritability of climate-relevant traits in a rainforest skink

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

High Genetic Diversity Despite the Potential for Stepping-Stone Colonizations in an Invasive Species of Gecko on Moorea, French Polynesia ⬇️

scientific article published on November 2, 2011

INTEGRATING PHYLOGENETICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE MODELS TO EXPLORE SPECIATION MECHANISMS IN DENDROBATID FROGS

scholarly article by Catherine H. Graham et al published 2004 in Evolution

Impact of a century of climate change on small-mammal communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

scientific article

Insights into Platypus Population Structure and History from Whole-Genome Sequencing.

scientific article published in May 2018

Integrating phylogenetics and environmental niche models to explore speciation mechanisms in dendrobatid frogs

scientific article published on August 2004

Integrating phylogeography and physiology reveals divergence of thermal traits between central and peripheral lineages of tropical rainforest lizards

scientific article

Intraspecific variation in climate-relevant traits in a tropical rainforest lizard

scholarly article by John Llewelyn et al published 9 August 2016 in Diversity and Distributions

Isolation and characterization of 15 polymorphic microsatellites in the Plethodontid salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii.

scientific article

Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates

scientific article published in June 2011

Limited effect of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation on molecular diversity in a rain forest skink, Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae

scientific article published in February 2004

Lineage range estimation method reveals fine-scale endemism linked to Pleistocene stability in Australian rainforest herpetofauna

scientific article

Microevolution in island forms: the roles of drift and directional selection in morphological divergence of a passerine bird

scientific article published on 01 October 2002

Molecular Systematics

scholarly article by Debra S. Moore et al published 27 December 1996 in Copeia

Molecular phylogeny and morphometric analyses reveal deep divergence between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest species of Dendrophryniscus

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Molecular population genetics of the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus): mtDNA variation ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1998

Monitoring movement into and through a newly planted rainforest corridor using genetic analysis of natal origin

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Montane refugia predict population genetic structure in the Large-blotched Ensatina salamander

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Multilocus phylogenetics of a rapid radiation in the genus Thomomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae).

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Multiple origins and rapid evolution of duplicated mitochondrial genes in parthenogenetic geckos (Heteronotia binoei; Squamata, Gekkonidae).

scientific article published on 5 October 2007

New approaches to cataloguing and understanding evolutionary diversity: a perspective from Australian herpetology

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New developments in museum-based informatics and applications in biodiversity analysis

scientific article published in September 2004

New polymorphic microsatellite markers and development of mitotyping primers for West Mediterranean green toad species (Bufo viridis subgroup).

scientific article

Novel hepaci- and pegi-like viruses in native Australian wildlife and non-human primates

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data

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PARTHENOGENESIS IN THE TROPICAL GEKKONID LIZARD, NACTUS ARNOUXII (SAURIA: GEKKONIDAE).

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Palaeoclimate change drove diversification among isolated mountain refugia in the Australian arid zone

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Patterns of genetic variations in the Little Spiderhunter (Arachnothera longirostra) in Southeast Asia ⬇️

scientific article published in 2010

Patterns of persistence and isolation indicate resilience to climate change in montane rainforest lizards

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Persistence in peripheral refugia promotes phenotypic divergence and speciation in a rainforest frog

scientific article

Philopatry of male marine turtles inferred from mitochondrial DNA markers ⬇️

scientific article published on August 5, 1997

Phylogenetic Relationships between Oviparous and Viviparous Populations of an Australian Lizard (Lerista bougainvillii,Scincidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Phylogenetic Relationships within the Australasian Venomous Snakes of the Genus Pseudechis

Phylogenomics at the tips: inferring lineages and their demographic history in a tropical lizard, Carlia amax

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Phylogenomics of a rapid radiation: the Australian rainbow skinks.

scientific article

Phylogeographic lineages and species comparisons in conservation analyses: a case study of california herpetofauna

scientific article published on 4 April 2006

Pleistocene climatic changes drive diversification across a tropical savanna

scientific article

Population genetics of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

scholarly article

Prediction of phylogeographic endemism in an environmentally complex biome

scientific article

Putting indigenous conservation policy into practice delivers biodiversity and cultural benefits

article published in 2016

Range instability leads to cytonuclear discordance in a morphologically cryptic ground squirrel species complex

scientific article

Range-wide genomic scans and tests for selection identify non-neutral spatial patterns of genetic variation in a non-model amphibian species (Pelobates cultripes)

scientific article published in 2022

Real-world conservation planning for evolutionary diversity in the Kimberley, Australia, sidesteps uncertain taxonomy

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Recent and rapid speciation with limited morphological disparity in the genus Rattus

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Recent speciation and limited phylogeographic structure in Mixophyes frogs from the Australian Wet Tropics

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Reconciling paleodistribution models and comparative phylogeography in the Wet Tropics rainforest land snail Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis (Brazier 1875).

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Reinforcement drives rapid allopatric speciation

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Reproductive isolation between phylogeographic lineages scales with divergence

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2013)

Resources for phylogenomic analyses of Australian terrestrial vertebrates.

scientific article

Reticulation, divergence, and the phylogeography-phylogenetics continuum

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Revisiting the vanishing refuge model of diversification

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Sequence capture using PCR-generated probes: a cost-effective method of targeted high-throughput sequencing for nonmodel organisms.

scientific article

Sharing: lessons from natural history's success story

scientific article published in November 2009

Shrinking forest shrinks skink: morphological change in response to rainforest fragmentation in the prickly forest skink (Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae)

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Simultaneous Mendelian and clonal genome transmission in a sexually reproducing, all-triploid vertebrate

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Spatial conservation prioritization of biodiversity spanning the evolutionary continuum

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

Spatially heterogeneous impact of climate change on small mammals of montane California

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Speciation on the rocks: integrated systematics of the Heteronotia spelea species complex (Gekkota; Reptilia) from Western and Central Australia.

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Species delimitation in the Gehyra nana (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex: cryptic and divergent morphological evolution in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics, with the description of four new species

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Spontaneous speciation by ploidy elevation: laboratory synthesis of a new clonal vertebrate

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Stability predicts genetic diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot

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Strategies to protect biological diversity and the evolutionary processes that sustain it.

scientific article

Strong selection against hybrids at a hybrid zone in the Ensatina ring species complex and its evolutionary implications

scientific article published in June 2005

Strong selection against hybrids maintains a narrow contact zone between morphologically cryptic lineages in a rainforest lizard

scientific article

Synchronicity in elevation range shifts among small mammals and vegetation over the last century is stronger for omnivores

scientific article published in 2014

Systematics of a small Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland: description of a new range restricted species ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 9 February 2017)

Systematics of small Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia: redescription of G. kimberleyi Börner & Schüttler, 1983 and description of a new restricted range species

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THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF PARTHENOGENETIC CNEMIDOPHORUS LEMNISCATUS (SAURIA, TEIIDAE). I. EVIDENCE FOR A HYBRID ORIGIN.

scientific article

Temporal genomic contrasts reveal rapid evolutionary responses in an alpine mammal during recent climate change

scientific article published on 03 May 2019

Testing hypotheses for genealogical discordance in a rainforest lizard

scientific article

The California Hotspots Project: identifying regions of rapid diversification of mammals

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The Origin and Evolution of Parthenogenesis in Heteronotia binoei (Gekkonidae): Genetic Diversity among Bisexual Populations

scientific article published on 27 June 1990

The Oz Mammals Genomics (OMG) initiative: developing genomic resources for mammal conservation at a continental scale

scientific article published in January 2020

The future of species under climate change: resilience or decline?

scientific article

The genetic structure of Australasian green turtles (Chelonia mydas): exploring the geographical scale of genetic exchange.

scientific article published on November 2006

The genus Coleodactylus (Sphaerodactylinae, Gekkota) revisited: a molecular phylogenetic perspective

scientific article published on 7 June 2008

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

scientific article published on 22 February 2024

The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes

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The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges

scientific article published on 6 August 2012

The relative influence of change in habitat and climate on elevation range limits in small mammals in Yosemite National Park, California, U.S.A

Thermal physiological traits in tropical lowland amphibians: Vulnerability to climate warming and cooling

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Thermoregulatory behaviour explains countergradient variation in the upper thermal limit of a rainforest skink

scholarly article by John Llewelyn et al published 2 November 2016 in Oikos

Towards an Understanding of Vertebrate Biodiversity in the Australian Wet Tropics

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Transcriptome-based exon capture enables highly cost-effective comparative genomic data collection at moderate evolutionary scales

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Tropical specialist vs. climate generalist: Diversification and demographic history of sister species of Carlia skinks from northwestern Australia.

scientific article

Unlocking the vault: next-generation museum population genomics

scientific article

Validation and description of two new north-western Australian Rainbow skinks with multispecies coalescent methods and morphology

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Variable responses of skinks to a common history of rainforest fluctuation: concordance between phylogeography and palaeo-distribution models

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Waves of parthenogenesis in the desert: evidence for the parallel loss of sex in a grasshopper and a gecko from Australia

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When vicars meet: a narrow contact zone between morphologically cryptic phylogeographic lineages of the rainforest skink, Carlia rubrigularis

scientific article published on July 2004

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