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List of works by Brent Emerson

<b>BPEC</b>: An <i>R</i> Package for Bayesian Phylogeographic and Ecological Clustering

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

A Bayesian approach to phylogeographic clustering

scientific article published on 5 October 2011

A combined field survey and molecular identification protocol for comparing forest arthropod biodiversity across spatial scales

scientific article

A database of functional traits for spiders from native forests of the Iberian Peninsula and Macaronesia

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

A road map for molecular ecology

scientific article published on May 2013

A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

scholarly article by Jairo Patiño et al published 20 March 2017 in Journal of Biogeography

A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity reveals the mechanisms structuring ecological communities

scientific article published in 2021

Adaptation under a microscope

scientific article published in Nature

Age, origins and extinctions of the avifauna of Macaronesia: a synthesis of phylogenetic and fossil information

scholarly article by Juan Carlos Illera et al published September 2012 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Alarm bells for the molecular clock? No support for Ho et al.'s model of time-dependent molecular rate estimates

scientific article published in April 2007

An integrated model of population genetics and community ecology

scientific article published in 2019

An integrated model of population genetics and community ecology:

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Anagenesis, Cladogenesis, and Speciation on Islands

scientific article published on 03 May 2018

Apparent 'sympatric' speciation in ecologically similar herbivorous beetles facilitated by multiple colonizations of an island

scientific article published in September 2006

Assessing the potential of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within species radiations: The fly genus Chiastocheta (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) as a case study.

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Babies, Bathwater, and Straw Men? Not Quite: A Response to Meiri et al

scientific article published on 25 September 2018

Biodiversity in the Mexican highlands and the interaction of geology, geography and climate within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

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Biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA

scientific article published in 2021

Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring

scientific article published in 2012

Building a Robust, Densely-Sampled Spider Tree of Life for Ecosystem Research

scientific article published in 2020

Bulk de novo mitogenome assembly from pooled total DNA elucidates the phylogeny of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

scientific article

Chloroplast microsatellites reveal colonization and metapopulation dynamics in the Canary Island pine.

scientific article published in September 2006

Chloroplast microsatellites: measures of genetic diversity and the effect of homoplasy

scientific article published in April 2005

Climate drives community-wide divergence within species over a limited spatial scale: evidence from an oceanic island

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Collective and harmonised high throughput barcoding of insular arthropod biodiversity: toward a Genomic Observatories Network for islands

scientific article published in 2022

Collembola, the biological species concept and the underestimation of global species richness

scientific article

Colonization and diversification: towards a phylogeographic synthesis for the Canary Islands

scientific article published on 01 March 2000

Combining contemporary and ancient DNA in population genetic and phylogeographical studies ⬇️

scientific article published on 08 July 2010

Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: Towards bioinformatic harmonisation

scientific article published on 30 September 2021

Comment on Rieux and Balloux: calibration from tip-dating can compromise topological accuracy and evolutionary inference

scientific article published on 31 December 2016

Community assembly and diversification in a species-rich radiation of island weevils (Coleoptera: Cratopini)

scholarly article by James J. N. Kitson published in July 2018

Community assembly and metaphylogeography of soil biodiversity: Insights from haplotype‐level community<scp>DNA</scp>metabarcoding within an oceanic island

scientific article published on 21 June 2022

Community metabarcoding reveals the relative role of environmental filtering and spatial processes in metacommunity dynamics of soil microarthropods across a mosaic of montane forests

scientific article

Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

article by Alex Bush et al published 22 June 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Conservation status of chafer beetles Prodontria bicolorata and P. modesta: distribution and ecological observations

Corrigendum to “Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and speciation in the avian genus Saxicola” [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48 (2008) 1145–1154]

scholarly article by Juan Carlos Illera et al published April 2013 in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Cryptic choice of conspecific sperm controlled by the impact of ovarian fluid on sperm swimming behavior

scientific article published on 12 August 2013

Cryptic diversity in the Azorean beetle genus Tarphius Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae): An integrative taxonomic approach with description of four new species

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2017)

Cryptic or mystic? Glacial tree refugia in northern Europe.

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Deep phylogeographic divisions and long-term persistence of forest invertebrates (Hexapoda: Collembola) in the North-Western Mediterranean basin.

scientific article

Discordant patterns of geographic variation between mitochondrial and microsatellite markers in the Mexican black iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata) in a contact zone

Dispersal ability and its consequences for population genetic differentiation and diversification

scientific article published in 2022

Dispersal limitation: Evolutionary origins and consequences in arthropods

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Dispersal limitations and long‐term persistence drive differentiation from haplotypes to communities within a tropical sky‐island: Evidence from community metabarcoding

scientific article published in 2021

Distinguishing between hot-spots and melting-pots of genetic diversity using haplotype connectivity

scientific article

Diversification in the northern neotropics: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogeography of the iguana Ctenosaura pectinata and related species

scientific article

Elevated substitution rate estimates from ancient DNA: model violation and bias of Bayesian methods

scientific article published on 7 September 2009

Evidence for mega-landslides as drivers of island colonization

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Evidence for multiple founding lineages and genetic admixture in the evolution of species within an oceanic island weevil (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) super-radiation

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Evolution of host plant use and diversification in a species complex of parasitic weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

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Evolution underground: shedding light on the diversification of subterranean insects

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Experimental evolution exposes female and male responses to sexual selection and conflict in Tribolium castaneum.

scientific article published on 23 November 2010

Fission and fusion in island taxa--serendipity, or something to be expected?

scientific article published on November 2014

Flightlessness in insects enhances diversification and determines assemblage structure across whole communities

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

Functional variation in a disease resistance gene in populations of Arabidopsis thaliana.

scientific article published in November 2008

Gene conversion rapidly generates major histocompatibility complex diversity in recently founded bird populations

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

Gene duplication, population genomics, and species-level differentiation within a tropical mountain shrub

scientific article

Genetic characterization, distribution and prevalence of avian pox and avian malaria in the Berthelot's pipit (Anthus berthelotii) in Macaronesia

scientific article

Genomic signatures accompanying the dietary shift to phytophagy in polyphagan beetles

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Genomic variation, population history and within-archipelago adaptation between island bird populations

scientific article published on 03 February 2021

Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

Habitat filtering and inferred dispersal ability condition across‐scale species turnover and rarity in Macaronesian island spider assemblages

scientific article published in 2021

Hidden island endemic species and their implications for cryptic speciation within soil arthropods

scientific article published in 2022

Host-associated genetic differentiation in a seed parasitic weevil Rhinusa antirrhini (Coleptera: Curculionidae) revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data

scientific article

Inbreeding depresses sperm competitiveness, but not fertilization or mating success in male Tribolium castaneum

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Inbreeding promotes female promiscuity

scientific article

Is speciation driven by species diversity? (Reply)

scientific article published in Nature

Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite markers in the black spiny tailed iguana (Ctenosaura pectinata) and their cross-utility in otherCtenosaura

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Lack of support for Rensch's rule in an intraspecific test using red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) populations

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Lack of support for the time-dependent molecular evolution hypothesis

scientific article published in February 2015

Long-term cloud forest response to climate warming revealed by insect speciation history

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Long-term in situ persistence of biodiversity in tropical sky-islands revealed by landscape genomics.

scientific article

Metabarcoding for biodiversity inventory blind spots: A test case using the beetle fauna of an insular cloud forest

scientific article published in 2022

Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of European hedgehogs

scientific article published in September 1998

Mitochondrial DNA, ecology and morphology: interpreting the phylogeography of the Nesotes (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands).

scientific article published in February 2001

Mitochondrial Metagenomics Reveals the Ancient Origin and Phylodiversity of Soil Mites and Provides a Phylogeny of the Acari

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Model misspecification confounds the estimation of rates and exaggerates their time dependency

scientific article published in December 2015

Molecular characterization of trophic ecology within an island radiation of insect herbivores (Curculionidae: Entiminae: Cratopus).

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of archival tissue reveals the origin of a disjunct southern African-Palaearctic weevil radiation

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Molecular phylogeny and Holarctic diversification of the subtribe Calathina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Sphodrini).

scientific article published on 10 November 2009

Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the plant-specific seven-transmembrane MLO family

scientific article

MtDNA metagenomics reveals large-scale invasion of belowground arthropod communities by introduced species.

scientific article

MtDNA phylogeography and recent intra-island diversification among Canary Island Calathus beetles.

scientific article published in October 1999

Numts help to reconstruct the demographic history of the ocellated lizard (Lacerta lepida) in a secondary contact zone

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

Origin and maintenance of a broad-spectrum disease resistance locus in Arabidopsis

scientific article published on 21 May 2004

Phylogenetic analysis of community assembly and structure over space and time

scientific article published on 25 September 2008

Phylogenetic relationships of the Prodontria (Coleoptera; Scarabaeidae; subfamily Melolonthinae), derived from sequence variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase II gene.

scientific article published on December 1995

Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and speciation in the avian genus Saxicola

scientific article published on 20 May 2008

Phylogeny, phylogeography, phylobetadiversity and the molecular analysis of biological communities

scientific article (publication date: 27 August 2011)

Phylogeographic Ancestral Inference Using the Coalescent Model on Haplotype Trees ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Phylogeography and demographic history of Lacerta lepida in the Iberian Peninsula: multiple refugia, range expansions and secondary contact zones

scientific article

Phylogeography and molecular phylogeny of Macaronesian island Tarphius (Coleoptera: Zopheridae): why are there so few species in the Azores?

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Population history of Berthelot's pipit: colonization, gene flow and morphological divergence in Macaronesia

scientific article published in October 2007

Post-copulatory opportunities for sperm competition and cryptic female choice provide no offspring fitness benefits in externally fertilizing salmon

scientific article

Predominance of single paternity in the black spiny-tailed iguana: conservation genetic concerns for female-biased hunting

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PyroClean: denoising pyrosequences from protein-coding amplicons for the recovery of interspecific and intraspecific genetic variation

scientific article

Quantifying surface-area changes of volcanic islands driven by Pleistocene sea-level cycles: biogeographical implications for the Macaronesian archipelagos

scholarly article by Kenneth F. Rijsdijk et al published 22 May 2014 in Journal of Biogeography

RPW8 and resistance to powdery mildew pathogens in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata

scientific article published in June 2009

Reconciling gene trees with organism history: the mtDNA phylogeography of three Nesotes species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) on the western Canary Islands.

scientific article published in January 2001

Reliable, verifiable and efficient monitoring of biodiversity via metabarcoding

scientific article

Response to comments on Species diversity can drive speciation

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Restriction site-associated DNA sequencing, genotyping error estimation and de novo assembly optimization for population genetic inference.

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Revealing community assembly through barcoding: Mediterranean butterflies and dispersal variation

scientific article published in 2020

Revealing the demographic histories of species using DNA sequences

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Revision ofMecinus heydeniispecies complex (Curculionidae): integrative taxonomy reveals multiple species exhibiting host specialization

scientific article published in 2013

SPECIES DIVERSITY CAN DRIVE SPECIATION: REPLY

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Searching for speciation genes: molecular evidence for selection associated with colour morphotypes in the Caribbean reef fish genus Hypoplectrus

scientific article

Sexual selection protects against extinction

scientific article published on 18 May 2015

Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Signatures of volcanism and aridity in the evolution of an insular pine (Pinus canariensis Chr. Sm. Ex DC in Buch)

scientific article

Species delimitation 4.0: integrative taxonomy meets artificial intelligence ⬇️

scientific article published in 2024

Species diversity can drive speciation

scientific article

Testing phylogeographic predictions on an active volcanic island: Brachyderes rugatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on La Palma (Canary Islands).

scientific article published on February 2006

The discovery of Barretonus (Curculionidae: Cossoninae) in the Canary Islands: barcoding, morphology and description of new species ⬇️

The diversification of the genus Nesotes (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the Canary Islands: evidence from mtDNA.

scientific article published in November 2001

The imprint of geologic history on within-island diversification of woodlouse-hunter spiders (Araneae, Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

The limited spatial scale of dispersal in soil arthropods revealed with whole-community haplotype-level metabarcoding

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

Three new subterranean species of Baezia (Curculionidae, Molytinae) for the Canary Islands

scientific article

Unifying macroecology and macroevolution to answer fundamental questions about biodiversity

scientific article published on 6 November 2019

Vulnerability to cavitation, hydraulic efficiency, growth and survival in an insular pine (Pinus canariensis).

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

Why the COI barcode should be the community DNA metabarcode for the metazoa

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

ddradseqtools: a software package for in silico simulation and testing of double-digest RADseq experiments

scientific article

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