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Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates

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Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation.

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Bayesian phylogenetic model selection using reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo

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Did genome duplication drive the origin of teleosts? A comparative study of diversification in ray-finned fishes

scientific article (publication date: 8 August 2009)
A Phylogenomic Perspective on the Radiation of Ray-Finned Fishes Based upon Targeted Sequencing of Ultraconserved Elements (UCEs)

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Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution.

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Diversity versus disparity and the radiation of modern cetaceans

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2010)
A novel comparative method for identifying shifts in the rate of character evolution on trees

scientific article published on 24 August 2011
Do reefs drive diversification in marine teleosts? Evidence from the pufferfishes and their allies (Order Tetraodontiformes).

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Clade age and species richness are decoupled across the eukaryotic tree of life

scientific article (publication date: August 2012)
geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees

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Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the reef fish family Labridae

scientific article published in August 2005
Explosive Pleistocene range expansion leads to widespread Amazonian sympatry between robust and gracile capuchin monkeys

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An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

scientific article published in Nature
Iterative ecological radiation and convergence during the evolutionary history of damselfishes (Pomacentridae).

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A Comparative Study in Ancestral Range Reconstruction Methods: Retracing the Uncertain Histories of Insular Lineages

scientific article (publication date: 16 October 2008)
The Posterior and the Prior in Bayesian Phylogenetics

scholarly article by Michael E. Alfaro & Mark Holder published December 2006 in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Local phylogenetic divergence and global evolutionary convergence of skull function in reef fishes of the family Labridae

scientific article published in May 2005
Does evolutionary innovation in pharyngeal jaws lead to rapid lineage diversification in labrid fishes?

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Testing for temporal variation in diversification rates when sampling is incomplete and nonrandom.

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Genome-wide ultraconserved elements exhibit higher phylogenetic informativeness than traditional gene markers in percomorph fishes

scientific article published on 12 June 2015
Do habitat shifts drive diversification in teleost fishes? An example from the pufferfishes (Tetraodontidae).

scientific article published on 15 March 2013
The influence of an innovative locomotor strategy on the phenotypic diversification of triggerfish (family: Balistidae).

scientific article published on 25 March 2011
Molecular systematics and evolution of Regina and the thamnophiine snakes.

scientific article published in December 2001
Adaptive evolution of facial colour patterns in Neotropical primates

scientific article published on 11 January 2012
Diversification in vipers: Phylogenetic relationships, time of divergence and shifts in speciation rates

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Comparative performance of Bayesian and AIC-based measures of phylogenetic model uncertainty

scientific article published in February 2006
The influence of model averaging on clade posteriors: an example using the triggerfishes (Family Balistidae).

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Dietary breadth is positively correlated with venom complexity in cone snails

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The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles

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Phylogenomic analysis of carangimorph fishes reveals flatfish asymmetry arose in a blink of the evolutionary eye

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Explosive diversification of marine fishes at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary

scientific article published on 12 March 2018
Phylogeny, evolutionary history, and biogeography of Oriental-Australian rear-fanged water snakes (Colubroidea: Homalopsidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

scientific article published on 21 November 2007
Spatial and temporal patterns of diversification on the Amazon: A test of the riverine hypothesis for all diurnal primates of Rio Negro and Rio Branco in Brazil

scientific article published on 5 October 2014
Replicated divergence in cichlid radiations mirrors a major vertebrate innovation

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Fitting models of continuous trait evolution to incompletely sampled comparative data using approximate Bayesian computation

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Relationships of the temperate Australasian labrid fish tribe Odacini (Perciformes; Teleostei).

scientific article published in August 2004
Biogeography of squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri): South-central Amazon origin and rapid pan-Amazonian diversification of a lowland primate

scientific article published on 8 October 2014
A multi-locus timetree of surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae, Percomorpha), with revised family taxonomy

scientific article published on 28 March 2013
The effect of habitat on modern shark diversification

scientific article published on 30 May 2014
Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis

scientific article published in Nature Communications
Elongation of the body in eels.

scientific article published on 16 June 2010
Cebus phylogenetic relationships: a preliminary reassessment of the diversity of the untufted capuchin monkeys

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Biogeography of the marmosets and tamarins (Callitrichidae).

scientific article published on 20 May 2014
Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of regulatory gene sequences in the parrotfishes

scientific article (publication date: October 2008)
Phylogenetic concordance analysis shows an emerging pathogen is novel and endemic

scientific article published on 10 September 2007
Convergence in trophic morphology and feeding performance among piscivorous natricine snakes

scientific article published on 6 April 2009
Phylotastic! Making tree-of-life knowledge accessible, reusable and convenient

scientific article (publication date: 13 May 2013)
Morphological convergence as a consequence of extreme functional demands: examples from the feeding system of natricine snakes.

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Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-monophyly of Characiformes

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