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Carvalho TR, Fouquet A, Lyra ML, Giaretta AA, Costa-Campos CE, Rodrigues MT, Haddad CFB, Ron SR. Species diversity and systematics of the Leptodactylus melanonotus group (Anura, Leptodactylidae): review of diagnostic traits and a new species from the Eastern Guiana Shield. SYST BIODIVERS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2089269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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- Thiago R. Carvalho
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Taxonomia e Evolução de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, AP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Fouquet A, Réjaud A, Rodrigues MT, Ron SR, Chaparro JC, Osorno M, Werneck FP, Hrbek T, Lima AP, Camacho-Badani T, Jaramillo-Martinez AF, Chave J. Diversification of the Pristimantis conspicillatus group (Anura: Craugastoridae) within distinct neotropical areas throughout the Neogene. SYST BIODIVERS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2130464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Antoine Fouquet
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Museo de Biodiversidad del Perú, Urbanización Mariscal Gamarra A-61, Zona 2, Cusco, Peru
- Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Paraninfo Universitario (Plaza de Armas s/n), Cusco, Perú
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- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas SINCHI, Sede enlace. Calle 20 # 5-44, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, 69080-971, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, 69080-900, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, 69080-971, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Av. Ipiranga 6681, Prédio 40, sala 110, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, RS, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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dos Santos MV, Prudente ALC, Rodrigues MT, Sturaro MJ. Correction to: The Role of Vicariance and Paleoclimatic Shifts in the Diversification of Uranoscodon superciliosus (Squamata, Tropiduridae) of the Amazonian Floodplains. Evol Biol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11692-022-09589-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Graboski R, Arredondo JC, Grazziotin FG, Guerra-Fuentes RA, Da Silva AAA, Prudente ALC, Pinto RR, Rodrigues MT, Bonatto SL, Zaher H. Revealing the cryptic diversity of the widespread and poorly known South American blind snake genus Amerotyphlops (Typhlopidae: Scolecophidia) through integrative taxonomy. Zool J Linn Soc 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
Abstract
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Morphological stasis is generally associated with relative constancy in ecological pressures throughout time, producing strong stabilizing selection that retains similar shared morphology. Although climate and vegetation are commonly the main key factors driving diversity and phenotypic diversification in terrestrial vertebrates, fossorial organisms have their morphology mostly defined by their fossorial lifestyle. Among these secretive fossorial organisms, blind snakes of the South American genus Amerotyphlops are considered poorly studied when compared to other taxa. Here, we evaluate the cryptic diversity of Amerotyphlops using phylogenetic and multivariate approaches. We based our phylogenetic analysis on a molecular dataset composed of 12 gene fragments (eight nuclear and four mitochondrial) for 109 species of Typhlopidae. The multivariate analysis was implemented using 36 morphological variables for 377 specimens of Amerotyphlops. Additionally, we contrast our phylogenetic result with the morphological variation found in cranial, external and hemipenial traits. Our phylogenetic results recovered with strong support the following monophyletic groups within Amerotyphlops: (1) a clade formed by A. tasymicris and A. minuisquamus; (2) a clade composed of A. reticulatus; (3) a north-eastern Brazilian clade including A. yonenagae, A. arenensis, A. paucisquamus and A. amoipira; and (4) a clade composed of A. brongersmianus and a complex of cryptic species. Based on these results we describe four new species of Amerotyphlops from north-eastern and south-eastern Brazil, which can be distinguished from the morphologically similar species, A. brongersmianus and A. arenensis.
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- Roberta Graboski
- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo , Avenida Nazaré, Caixa Postal 42494, CEP 04218-070, São Paulo, São Paulo , Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho , Avenida 24 A, Bela Vista, CEP 13506-900, Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , Avenida Perimetral, Terra Firme, Caixa Postal 399, CEP 66077-530, Belém, Pará , Brazil
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- Colecciones Biológicas de la Universidad CES (CBUCES), Facultad de Ciencias y Biotecnología, Universidad CES , Calle 10A, Medellín , Colombia
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- Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan , Avenida Vital Brasil, Butantã, São Paulo - SP, 05503-900 , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , Avenida Perimetral, Terra Firme, Caixa Postal 399, CEP 66077-530, Belém, Pará , Brazil
- Faculdade de Ciências Naturais, Campus Universitário do Tocantins-Cametá, Universidade Federal do Pará, Travessa Padre Antônio Franco , 2617, Bairro da Matinha, CEP 68400-000 Cametá, Pará , Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Programa de Coleções e Acervos Científicos , Avenida André de Araújo, CEP 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , Avenida Perimetral, Terra Firme, Caixa Postal 399, CEP 66077-530, Belém, Pará , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Diversidade de Anfíbios e Répteis, Museu de Arqueologia e Ciências Naturais da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco , Recife , Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia , Caixa Postal 11.461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul , Avenida Ipiranga, CEP 90619-900, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo , Avenida Nazaré, Caixa Postal 42494, CEP 04218-070, São Paulo, São Paulo , Brazil
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dos Santos MV, Prudente ALC, Rodrigues MT, Sturaro MJ. The Role of Vicariance and Paleoclimatic Shifts in the Diversification of Uranoscodon superciliosus (Squamata, Tropiduridae) of the Amazonian Floodplains. Evol Biol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11692-022-09583-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Novaes-e-Fagundes G, Lyra ML, Loredam VSA, Carvalho TR, Haddad CFB, Rodrigues MT, Baldo D, Barrasso DA, Loebmann D, Ávila RW, Brusquetti F, Prudente ALC, Wheeler WC, Goyannes Dill Orrico V, Peloso P. A tale of two bellies: systematics of the oval frogs (Anura: Microhylidae: Elachistocleis Parker, 1927). Zool J Linn Soc 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
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Oval frogs (Elachistocleis) have a broad geographic distribution covering nearly all of South America and parts of Central America. They also have a large inter- and intraspecific variation of the few morphological characters commonly used as diagnostic traits among species of the genus. Based on molecular data, we provide the most complete phylogeny of Elachistocleis to date, and explore its genetic diversity using distance-based and tree-based methods for putative species delimitation. Our results show that at least two of the most relevant traditional characters used in the taxonomy of this group (belly pattern and dorsal median white line) carry less phylogenetic information than previously thought. Based on our results, we propose some synonymizations and some candidate new species. This study is a first major step in disentangling the current systematics of Elachistocleis. Yet, a comprehensive review of morphological data is needed before any new species descriptions can be properly made.
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- Gabriel Novaes-e-Fagundes
- Tropical Herpetology Laboratory, PPG Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz , Ilhéus, Bahia , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Universidade Estadual Paulista , Rio Claro, São Paulo , Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Genética Evolutiva, Instituto de Biología Subtropical `Claudio Juan Bidau’ (CONICET-UNaM), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Misiones , Posadas, Misiones , Argentina
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- Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución Austral (IDEAus-CONICET) , Puerto Madryn, Chubut , Argentina
- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia `San Juan Bosco’ , Puerto Madryn, Chubut , Argentina
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- Laboratório de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande , Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia da UFC, Universidade Federal do Ceará , Fortaleza, Ceará , Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay , Del Escudo, Asunción , Paraguay
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , Belém, Pará , Brazil
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- Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History , New York, NY , USA
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- Tropical Herpetology Laboratory, PPG Zoologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz , Ilhéus, Bahia , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi , Belém, Pará , Brazil
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Costa JCL, Graboski R, Grazziotin FG, Zaher H, Rodrigues MT, Prudente ALDC. Corrigendum to the paper: Reassessing the systematics of
Leptodeira
(Serpentes, Dipsadidae) with emphasis in the South American species. ZOOL SCR 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- João C. L. Costa
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Belém Pará Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Belém Pará Brazil
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- Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas Instituto Butantan São Paulo City São Paulo Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo City São Paulo Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências São Paulo City São Paulo Brazil
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Vieira RAM, Rohem Júnior NM, Gomes RS, Oliveira TS, Bendia LCR, Azevedo FHV, Barbosa DL, Glória LS, Rodrigues MT. Corrigendum to "The ontogenetic allometry of body morphology and chemical composition in dairy goat wethers" [Animal 12(3) (2018) 538-553]. Animal 2022; 16:100507. [PMID: 35526459 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2022.100507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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- R A M Vieira
- Laboratório de Zootecnia, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Agropecuárias (CCTA), Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Av. Alberto Lamego 2000, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil.
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- Animal Science Graduate Program, CCTA/UENF, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil
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- Animal Science Graduate Program, CCTA/UENF, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil
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- Animal Science Graduate Program, CCTA/UENF, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil
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- Animal Science Graduate Program, CCTA/UENF, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil
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- Animal Science Graduate Program, CCTA/UENF, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil
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- Animal Science Graduate Program, CCTA/UENF, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Zootecnia, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Agropecuárias (CCTA), Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Av. Alberto Lamego 2000, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ CEP 28013-602, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zootecnia, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG CEP 36570-000, Brazil
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Costa JCL, Graboski R, Grazziotin FG, Zaher H, Rodrigues MT, Prudente ALDC. Reassessing the systematics of
Leptodeira
(Serpentes, Dipsadidae) with emphasis in the South American species. ZOOL SCR 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- João C. L. Costa
- Laboratório de Herpetologia Coordenação de Zoologia Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Belém Pará Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia Coordenação de Zoologia Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Belém Pará Brazil
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- Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas Instituto Butantan São Paulo City São Paulo Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo City São Paulo Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo City São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia Coordenação de Zoologia Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Belém Pará Brazil
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Fouquet A, Cornuault J, Rodrigues MT, Werneck FP, Hrbek T, Acosta-Galvis AR, Massemin D, J. R. Kok P, Ernst R. Diversity, biogeography and reproductive evolution in the genus Pipa (Amphibia: Anura: Pipidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2022; 170:107442. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Muell MR, Chávez G, Prates I, Guillory WX, Kahn TR, Twomey EM, Rodrigues MT, Brown JL. Phylogenomic analysis of evolutionary relationships in Ranitomeya poison frogs (Family Dendrobatidae) using ultraconserved elements. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2022; 168:107389. [PMID: 35026428 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 11/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
The use of genome-scale data in phylogenetics has enabled recent strides in determining the relationships between taxa that are taxonomically problematic because of extensive morphological variation. Here, we employ a phylogenomic approach to infer evolutionary relationships within Ranitomeya (Anura: Dendrobatidae), an Amazonian lineage of poison frogs consisting of 16 species with remarkable diversity in color pattern, range size, and parental care behavior. We infer phylogenies with all described species of Ranitomeya from ultraconserved nuclear genomic elements (UCEs) and also estimate divergence times. Our results differ from previous analyses regarding interspecific relationships. Notably, we find that R. toraro and R. defleri are not sister species but rather distantly related, contrary to previous analyses based on smaller genetic datasets. We recover R. uakarii as paraphyletic, designate certain populations formerly assigned to R. fantastica from Peru as R. summersi, and transfer the French Guianan and eastern Brazilian R. amazonica populations to R. variabilis. By clarifying both inter- and intraspecific relationships within Ranitomeya, our study paves the way for future tests of hypotheses on color pattern evolution and historical biogeography.
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- Morgan R Muell
- School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
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- Instituto Peruano de Herpetología, Lima, Perú; División de Herpetología - CORBIDI, Lima, Perú
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Species Survival Commission (SSC), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
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Martins LF, Choueri EL, Oliveira AFS, Domingos FMCB, Caetano GHO, Cavalcante VHGL, Leite RN, Fouquet A, Rodrigues MT, Carnaval AC, Colli GR, Werneck FP. Whiptail lizard lineage delimitation and population expansion as windows into the history of Amazonian open ecosystems. SYST BIODIVERS 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1953185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Lidia F. Martins
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 849900 Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), UMR5174, Bâtiment 4R1, 118 Route de Narbonne 31077, Toulouse, France
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- City College of New York and Biology Ph.D. Program, The Graduate Center City University of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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Rainha RN, Martinez PA, Moraes LJCL, Castro KMSA, Réjaud A, Fouquet A, Leite RN, Rodrigues MT, Werneck FP. Subtle environmental variation affects phenotypic differentiation of shallow divergent treefrog lineages in Amazonia. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Amazonia harbours a vast biotic and ecological diversity, enabling investigation of the effects of microevolutionary processes and environmental variation on species diversification. Integrative approaches combining phenotypic and genetic variation can improve our knowledge on diversification processes in megadiverse regions. Here, we investigate the influence of environmental and geographic variation on the genetic and morphological differentiation in the Amazonian Boana calcarata-fasciata (Anura: Hylidae) species complex. We analysed the variation of one mtDNA gene from individuals of different forest environments, and assessed their phylogenetic relationships and species limits to define the lineages to perform a phenotypic-environmental approach. We collected morphological data (head shape and size) using 3D models and investigated the phylogenetic signal, evolutionary model and influence of environmental variables on morphology. We verified associations between environmental and geographical distances with morphological and genetic variation using distance-based redundancy analyses and Mantel tests. We found an even higher cryptic diversity than already recognized within the species complex. Body size and head shape varied among specimens, but did not present phylogenetic signal, diverging under a selective evolutionary model. Our results show that diverse factors have influenced morphological and genetic variation, but environmental conditions such as vegetation cover, precipitation and climate change velocity influenced morphological diversification. Possible population-level mechanisms such as parallel morphological evolution or plastic responses to similar environments could account for such patterns in these typical Amazonian treefrogs.
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- Raíssa N Rainha
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Avenida André Araújo, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Pesquisas Integrativas em Biodiversidade, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Avenida Marechal Rondon, Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Avenida André Araújo, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Pesquisas Integrativas em Biodiversidade, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Avenida Marechal Rondon, Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR5174, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment, CNRS, IRD, Toulouse, France
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Avenida André Araújo, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Rua do Matão, travessa, nº. São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Avenida André Araújo, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Avenida André Araújo, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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Fouquet A, Leblanc K, Fabre AC, Rodrigues MT, Menin M, Courtois EA, Dewynter M, Hölting M, Ernst R, Peloso P, Kok PJ. Comparative osteology of the fossorial frogs of the genus Synapturanus (Anura, Microhylidae) with the description of three new species from the Eastern Guiana Shield. ZOOL ANZ 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2021.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Prates I, D'Angiolella AB, Rodrigues MT, Melo-Sampaio PR, de Queiroz K, Bell RC. Evolutionary drivers of sexual signal variation in Amazon Slender Anoles. Evolution 2021; 75:1361-1376. [PMID: 33860933 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Phenotypic variation among populations, as seen in the signaling traits of many species, provides an opportunity to test whether similar factors generate repeated phenotypic patterns in different parts of a species' range. We investigated whether genetic divergence, abiotic gradients, and sympatry with closely related species explain variation in the dewlap colors of Amazon Slender Anoles, Anolis fuscoauratus. To this aim, we characterized dewlap diversity in the field with respect to population genetic structure and evolutionary relationships, assessed whether dewlap phenotypes are associated with climate or landscape variables, and tested for nonrandom associations in the distributions of A. fuscoauratus phenotypes and sympatric Anolis species. We found that dewlap colors vary among but not within sites in A. fuscoauratus. Regional genetic clusters included multiple phenotypes, while populations with similar dewlaps were often distantly related. Phenotypes did not segregate in environmental space, providing no support for optimized signal transmission at a local scale. Instead, we found a negative association between certain phenotypes and sympatric Anolis species with similar dewlap color attributes, suggesting that interactions with closely related species promoted dewlap divergence among A. fuscoauratus populations. Amazon Slender Anoles emerge as a promising system to address questions about parallel trait evolution and the contribution of signaling traits to speciation.
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- Ivan Prates
- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, 20560.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, 20560
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, 20560.,Herpetology Department, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, 94118
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Fouquet A, Marinho P, Réjaud A, Carvalho TR, Caminer MA, Jansen M, Rainha RN, Rodrigues MT, Werneck FP, Lima AP, Hrbek T, Giaretta AA, Venegas PJ, Chávez G, Ron S. Systematics and biogeography of the Boana albopunctata species group (Anura, Hylidae), with the description of two new species from Amazonia. SYST BIODIVERS 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1873869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Antoine Fouquet
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratório de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31077, France
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Centro de Aquicultura, I.B., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Research Institute and Nature Museum Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Fouquet A, Leblanc K, Framit M, Réjaud A, Rodrigues MT, Castroviejo-Fisher S, Peloso PLV, Prates I, Manzi S, Suescun U, Baroni S, Moraes LJCL, Recoder R, de Souza SM, Dal Vecchio F, Camacho A, Ghellere JM, Rojas-Runjaic FJM, Gagliardi-Urrutia G, de Carvalho VT, Gordo M, Menin M, Kok PJR, Hrbek T, Werneck FP, Crawford AJ, Ron SR, Mueses-Cisneros JJ, Rojas Zamora RR, Pavan D, Ivo Simões P, Ernst R, Fabre AC. Species diversity and biogeography of an ancient frog clade from the Guiana Shield (Anura: Microhylidae: Adelastes, Otophryne, Synapturanus) exhibiting spectacular phenotypic diversification. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The outstanding biodiversity of the Guiana Shield has raised many questions about its origins and evolution. Frogs of the genera Adelastes, Otophryne and Synapturanus form an ancient lineage distributed mostly across this region. These genera display strikingly disparate morphologies and life-history traits. Notably, Synapturanus is conspicuously adapted to fossoriality and is the only genus within this group to have dispersed further into Amazonia. Moreover, morphological differences among Synapturanus species suggest different degrees of fossoriality that might be linked to their biogeographical history. Through integrative analysis of genetic, morphometric and acoustic data, we delimited 25 species in this clade, representing a fourfold increase. We found that the entire clade started to diversify ~55 Mya and Synapturanus ~30 Mya. Members of this genus probably dispersed three times out of the Guiana Shield both before and after the Pebas system, a wetland ecosystem occupying most of Western Amazonia during the Miocene. Using a three-dimensional osteological dataset, we characterized a high morphological disparity across the three genera. Within Synapturanus, we further characterized distinct phenotypes that emerged concomitantly with dispersals during the Miocene and possibly represent adaptations to different habitats, such as soils with different physical properties.
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- Antoine Fouquet
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Pará, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, R. Augusto Corrêa, 1, Guamá, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Bâtiment 4R1 31062 cedex 9, 118 Route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
- Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales, Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Sección de Herpetología, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Laboratório de Sistemática de Vertebrados/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução da Biodiversidade, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
- Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCB&C), Iquitos, Peru
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz, 1161, 63.105-000, Crato CE, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, 12/16 Banacha Str., Łódź, Poland
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Avenida André Araújo 2936, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Corporación para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Sur de la Amazonia-CORPOAMAZONIA, Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Ecosfera Consultoria e Pesquisa em Meio Ambiente LTDA. Rodovia BR-259 s/n, Fazenda Bela Vista, Itapina, ES, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego, S/N, Cidade Universitária, 50760-420, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- The Natural History Museum, London, UK
- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Bertoluci J, Famelli S, Rocha PLB, Rodrigues MT. Effects of the presence of litter on the composition of stream tadpoles' assemblages in an Atlantic Forest remnant of southeastern Brazil. Biota Neotrop 2021. [DOI: 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2020-1147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Abstract: Many tropical anurans use forest streams to deposit their eggs, but resource use and selection by tadpoles in tropical forests are poorly known. In the present research, we hypothesized that leaf litter and water depth affect tadpole assemblages due to adult habitat selection for oviposition and/or microhabitat selection by tadpoles. Fieldwork was carried out in the Estação Biológica de Boracéia, an Atlantic Rainforest reserve in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. We sampled tadpoles during a year using 40 double-entry funnel-traps distributed along four streams in the forest. Only leaf litter effects are species dependent. We discussed that habitat structure significance depends on the morphological and ecological adaptation to forage and avoid competition within the tadpole community.
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Oliveira TS, Rodrigues MT, Fernandes AM. Energy requirements and efficiency of Alpine goats in early lactation. Animal 2020; 15:100140. [PMID: 33573974 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2020.100140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Revised: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Dairy goats may rely heavily on body fat and protein reserves in early lactation. Therefore, we aimed to determine the energy requirement and estimate the efficiency of utilization the nutrients of tissues mobilized in the first 8 weeks of lactation for milk production using the comparative slaughter technique. The average initial body mass of 51 multiparous goats was 57.19 ± 8.38 kg and a body condition score of 3.0 ± 0.5. Three goats were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment to serve as baseline animals to estimate initial empty BW and initial body composition. We used a complete randomized design in which the factor was the day of lactation for slaughtering (the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, 35th, 42nd, 49th and 56th day), with six repeats, totalling 48 goats. No fasting before slaughtering. All animals received a single experimental diet. The efficiency of transferring energy from body reserves to milk was estimated using a multiple linear regression equation yielding a value of 0.76. The total energy stored in the empty body decreased over the eight lactation weeks, from 726.47 ± 26.19 to 316.18 ± 49.21 MJ, a 56.47% reduction, mainly because of a reduction in the energy from internal fat of 3.96 ± 1.98 MJ/day. In conclusion, the net energy required for maintenance is 60 ± 30 kJ/BW0.75 per day, and the net energy required for lactation decreases 70 ± 30 kJ/day during the first eight lactation weeks.
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- T S Oliveira
- Laboratory of Animal Science, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ 28013-602, Brazil.
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- Department of Animal Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG 36570-900, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Animal Science, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ 28013-602, Brazil
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Ramiro CN, Martín J, da Silva Junior PI, Pinto HBA, Magalhães Júnior AJC, Abrahão C, Rodrigues MT. Chemical characterization of the lipids in femoral gland secretions of wild male tegu lizards, Salvator merianae (Squamata, Teiidae) in comparison with captive-bred males. Z NATURFORSCH C 2020; 75:443-449. [PMID: 32598329 DOI: 10.1515/znc-2020-0005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Although chemical interactions play an essential role in lizard social behavior, the chemical composition of the femoral gland secretions that many lizards use for communication is known for only a few species, mainly European Lacertids. The tegu lizard, Salvator merianae, is the only species of the Teiidae family for which there is available information on lipids in femoral secretions, but only for captive bred males from Argentina. Here, based on mass spectra obtained by GC-MS, we found 69 lipophilic compounds in femoral gland secretions of wild males S. merianae from Brazil, including cholesterol and high amounts of saturated fatty acids (mainly hexadecanoic and octadecanoic). We found contrasting differences between wild and captive-bred males, which lack cholesterol but present high amount of 9,12-octadecadienoic acid. These within-species differences between wild and captive lizards strongly suggest the important influence of different diets on the chemical composition of the femoral gland secretion and suggest caution when interpreting results from captive animals, even in the same species.
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- Carolina N Ramiro
- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid, 28006, Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Répteis e Anfíbios, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação e Biodiversidade, Goiânia, Goiás, 74605-090, Brazil
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- Colegiado Acadêmico de Ciências da Natureza, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, São Raimundo Nonato, Piauí, 64770-000, Brazil
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- Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Répteis e Anfíbios, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação e Biodiversidade, Goiânia, Goiás, 74605-090, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-090, Brazil
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Vinhas A, Rodrigues MT, Gonçalves AI, Reis RL, Gomes ME. Magnetic responsive materials modulate the inflammatory profile of IL-1β conditioned tendon cells. Acta Biomater 2020; 117:235-245. [PMID: 32966921 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2020.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Tendinopathies represent half of all musculoskeletal injuries worldwide. Inflammatory events contribute to both tendon healing and to tendinopathy conditions but the cellular triggers leading to one or the other are unknown. In previous studies, we showed that magnetic field actuation modulates human tendon cells (hTDCs) behavior in pro-inflammatory environments, and that magnetic responsive membranes could positively influence inflammation responses in a rat ectopic model. Herein, we propose to investigate the potential synergistic action of the magnetic responsive membranes, made of a polymer blend of starch with polycaprolactone incorporating magnetic nanoparticles (magSPCL), and the actuation of pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF): 5 Hz, 4mT of intensity and 50% of duty cycle, in IL-1β-treated-hTDCs, and in the immunomodulatory response of macrophages. It was found that the expression of pro-inflammatory (TNFα, IL-6, IL-8, COX-2) and ECM remodeling (MMP-1,-2,-3) markers tend to decrease in cells cultured onto magSPCL membranes under PEMF, while the expression of TIMP-1 and anti-inflammatory genes (IL-4, IL-10) increases. Also, CD16++ and CD206+ macrophages were only found on magSPCL membranes with PEMF application. Magnetic responsive membranes show a modulatory effect on the inflammatory profile of hTDCs favoring anti-inflammatory cues which is also supported by the anti-inflammatory/repair markers expressed in macrophages. These results suggest that magnetic responsive magSPCL membranes can contribute for inflammation resolution acting on both resident cell populations and inflammatory cells, and thus significantly contribute to tendon regenerative strategies. Statement of significance Magnetically-assisted strategies have received great attention in recent years to remotely trigger and guide cell responses. Inflammation plays a key role in tendon healing but persistent pro-inflammatory molecules can contribute to tendon disorders, and therefore provide a therapeutic target for advanced treatments. We have previously reported that magnetic fields modulate the response of human tendon cells (hTDCs) conditioned to pro-inflammatory environments (IL-1β-treated-hTDCs), and that magnetic responsive membranes positively influence immune responses. In the present work, we combined pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) and magnetic responsive membranes to guide the inflammatory profile of IL-1β-treated-hTDCs and of macrophages. The results showed that the synergistic action of PEMF and magnetic membranes supports the applicability of magnetically actuated systems to regulate inflammatory events and stimulate tendon regeneration.
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- A Vinhas
- 3B's Research Group, I3Bs - Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017 Barco, Guimarães, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga, Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group, I3Bs - Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017 Barco, Guimarães, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga, Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group, I3Bs - Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017 Barco, Guimarães, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga, Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group, I3Bs - Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017 Barco, Guimarães, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga, Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group, I3Bs - Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, AvePark, Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia, Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017 Barco, Guimarães, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga, Guimarães, Portugal.
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Arredondo JC, Grazziotin FG, Scrocchi GJ, Rodrigues MT, Bonatto SL, Zaher HED. Erratum: Molecular phylogeny of the tribe Philodryadini Cope, 1886 (Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae): Rediscovering the diversity of the South American Racers. Pap Avulsos Zool 2020. [DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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It corrects the article: http://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.53
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Carvalho TRD, Moraes LJCL, Lima AP, Fouquet A, Peloso PLV, Pavan D, Drummond LO, Rodrigues MT, Giaretta AA, Gordo M, Neckel-Oliveira S, Haddad CFB. Systematics and historical biogeography of Neotropical foam-nesting frogs of the Adenomera heyeri clade (Leptodactylidae), with the description of six new Amazonian species. Zool J Linn Soc 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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A large proportion of the biodiversity of Amazonia, one of the most diverse rainforest areas in the world, is yet to be formally described. One such case is the Neotropical frog genus Adenomera. We here evaluate the species richness and historical biogeography of the Adenomera heyeri clade by integrating molecular phylogenetic and species delimitation analyses with morphological and acoustic data. Our results uncovered ten new candidate species with interfluve-associated distributions across Amazonia. In this study, six of these are formally named and described. The new species partly correspond to previously identified candidate lineages ‘sp. F’ and ‘sp. G’ and also to previously unreported lineages. Because of their rarity and unequal sampling effort of the A. heyeri clade across Amazonia, conservation assessments for the six newly described species are still premature. Regarding the biogeography of the A. heyeri clade, our data support a northern Amazonian origin with two independent dispersals into the South American Dry Diagonal. Although riverine barriers have a relevant role as environmental filters by isolating lineages in interfluves, dispersal rather than vicariance must have played a central role in the diversification of this frog clade.
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- Thiago R D Carvalho
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of the Pacific (UOP), Stockton, CA, USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB), CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Ecosfera Consultoria e Pesquisa em Meio Ambiente, Ltda., São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual Norte Fluminense (UENF), Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Taxonomia e Sistemática de Anuros Neotropicais, Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Naturais do Pontal, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Ituiutaba, MG, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia da Conservação and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Biodiversidade, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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Brown JL, Paz A, Reginato M, Renata CA, Assis C, Lyra M, Caddah MK, Aguirre‐Santoro J, d’Horta F, Raposo do Amaral F, Goldenberg R, Lucas Silva‐Brandão K, Freitas AVL, Rodrigues MT, Michelangeli FA, Miyaki CY, Carnaval AC. Seeing the forest through many trees: Multi‐taxon patterns of phylogenetic diversity in the Atlantic Forest hotspot. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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- Jason L. Brown
- School of Biological Sciences Southern Illinois University Carbondale IL USA
- Biology Department, City College of New York I Biology Program, The Graduate Center City University of New York New York NY USA
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- Biology Department, City College of New York I Biology Program, The Graduate Center City University of New York New York NY USA
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- Departamento de Botânica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
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- Universidade Federal de São Paulo ‐ Campus Diadema Diadema Brazil
- Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista ‐ Campus Rio Claro Rio Claro Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Florianópolis Brazil
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- Biology Department, City College of New York I Biology Program, The Graduate Center City University of New York New York NY USA
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Pirani RM, Peloso PLV, Prado JR, Polo ÉM, Knowles LL, Ron SR, Rodrigues MT, Sturaro MJ, Werneck FP. Diversification history of clown tree frogs in Neotropical rainforests (Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2020; 150:106877. [PMID: 32512194 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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General consensus emphasizes that no single biological process can explain the patterns of species' distributions and diversification in the Neotropics. Instead, the interplay of several processes across space and time must be taken into account. Here we investigated the phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic history of tree frogs in the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species group (Amphibia: Hylidae), which is distributed across Amazonia and the Atlantic rainforests. Using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and double digest restriction-site associated DNA (ddRADseq), we inferred phylogenetic relationships, species limits, and temporal and geographic patterns of diversification relative to the history of these biomes. Our results indicate that the D. leucophyllatus species group includes at least 14 independent lineages, which are currently arranged into ten described species. Therefore, a significant portion of species in the group are still unnamed. Different processes were associated to the group diversification history. For instance, the Andes uplift likely caused allopatric speciation for Cis-Andean species, whereas it may also be responsible for changes in the Amazonian landscape triggering parapatric speciation by local adaptation to ecological factors. Meanwhile, Atlantic Forest ancestors unable to cross the dry diagonal biomes after rainforest's retraction, evolved in isolation into different species. Diversification in the group began in the early Miocene, when connections between Atlantic Forest and the Andes (Pacific Dominion) by way of a south corridor were possible. The historical scenario in Amazonia, characterized by several speciation events and habitat heterogeneity, helped promoting diversification, resulting in the highest species diversity for the group. This marked species diversification did not happen in Atlantic Forest, where speciation is very recent (late Pliocene and Pleistocene), despite its remarkable climatic heterogeneity.
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- Renata M Pirani
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. Ephigênio Sales 2239, 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, Guamá, 66075-110, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Av. General Rodrigo Octávio, 6200, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 41809-1079, USA
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- Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 05508-090 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Av. Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Jardim Eldorado, Diadema, CEP 09972-270 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética, Conservação e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. Ephigênio Sales 2239, 69060-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, CEP 69067-375 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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Schultz EB, Santana TEZ, Silva FF, Garcia AO, Oliveira HR, Rodrigues MT, Brito LF. Short communication: Genetic parameter estimates for caprine arthritis encephalitis in dairy goats. J Dairy Sci 2020; 103:6407-6411. [PMID: 32331882 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2019-17740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2019] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Caprine arthritis encephalitis (CAE) is a chronic disease caused by a retrovirus from the Lentivirus genus. No effective vaccines or treatments exist, and therefore genetic selection for CAE resistance might be a feasible alternative. To our best knowledge, no other studies have investigated the genetic architecture of CAE resistance in dairy goats. In this context, this study was designed to estimate genetic parameters for CAE infection in Alpine and Saanen goats using a Bayesian threshold model. A total of 542 adult goats (and >3-generation pedigree), which were group-housed in a population with high CAE prevalence, were tested based on a serological infection assessment test (negative = 1 or positive = 2) and used for this study. Genetic parameters were estimated using the BLUPF90 family programs. There was considerable genetic variability for CAE resistance, and pedigree-based heritability was significantly different from zero (0.026 < heritability < 0.128). Our findings indicate that the prevalence of CAE in goat herds can be reduced or eliminated through direct genetic selection for CAE resistance in addition to proper management strategies.
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- E B Schultz
- Departament of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Departament of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Departament of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Departament of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Departament of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
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Melo-Sampaio PR, Prates I, Peloso PLV, Recoder R, Dal Vechio F, Marques-Souza S, Rodrigues MT. A new nurse frog from Southwestern Amazonian highlands, with notes on the phylogenetic affinities of Allobates alessandroi (Aromobatidae). J NAT HIST 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1727972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Paulo R. Melo-Sampaio
- Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Sheu Y, Zurano JP, Ribeiro‐Junior MA, Ávila‐Pires TC, Rodrigues MT, Colli GR, Werneck FP. The combined role of dispersal and niche evolution in the diversification of Neotropical lizards. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:2608-2625. [PMID: 32185006 PMCID: PMC7069304 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Ecological requirements and environmental conditions can influence diversification across temporal and spatial scales. Understanding the role of ecological niche evolution under phylogenetic contexts provides insights on speciation mechanisms and possible responses to future climatic change. Large-scale phyloclimatic studies on the megadiverse Neotropics, where biomes with contrasting vegetation types occur in narrow contact, are rare. We integrate ecological and biogeographic data with phylogenetic comparative methods, to investigate the relative roles of biogeographic events and niche divergence and conservatism on the diversification of the lizard genus Kentropyx Spix, 1825 (Squamata: Teiidae), distributed in South American rainforests and savannas. Using five molecular markers, we estimated a dated species tree, which recovered three clades coincident with previously proposed species groups diverging during the mid-Miocene. Biogeography reconstruction indicates a role of successive dispersal events from an ancestral range in the Brazilian Shield and western Amazonia. Ancestral reconstruction of climatic tolerances and niche overlap metrics indicates a trend of conservatism during the diversification of groups from the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield, and a strong signal of niche divergence in the Brazilian Shield savannas. Our results suggest that climatic-driven divergence at dynamic forest-savanna borders might have resulted in adaptation to new environmental niches, promoting habitat shifts and shaping speciation patterns of Neotropical lizards. Dispersal and ecological divergence could have a more important role in Neotropical diversification than previously thought.
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- Yumi Sheu
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em GenéticaConservação e Biologia EvolutivaInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas do AmazôniaManausBrasil
- Programa de Pós‐Graduação em Genética e MelhoramentoUniversidade Federal do Espírito SantoEspírito SantoBrasil
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- Departamento de Sistemática e EcologiaUniversidade Federal da ParaíbaJoão PessoaBrasil
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- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de BiociênciasUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloBrasil
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- Departamento de ZoologiaInstituto de Ciências BiológicasUniversidade de BrasíliaBrasíliaBrasil
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- Programa de Coleções Científicas BiológicasCoordenação de BiodiversidadeInstituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManausBrasil
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyMuseum of Comparative BiologyHarvard UniversityCambridgeMAUSA
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Zornosa-Torres C, Augusto-Alves G, Lyra ML, Silva Júnior JCD, Garcia PC, Leite F, Verdade V, Rodrigues MT, Gasparini JL, Haddad CF, Toledo LF. Anurans of the Caparaó National Park and surroundings, southeast Brazil. Biota Neotrop 2020. [DOI: 10.1590/1676-0611-bn-2019-0882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Abstract The Atlantic Forest (AF) is one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world, and the most fragmented biome of Brazil. This biome includes different phytophysiognomies, as riparian, slope, cloudy forests, and grasslands. Such complexity, allied to huge latitudinal and high elevational range, provides diverse habitats and conditions for amphibian speciation. As a result, there are over 600 amphibian species known to occur in the AF. Within this biome the Caparaó National Park (CNP) is relevant, as it includes the highest peak of the biome, the Pico da Bandeira at almost 3,000 m above sea level, as well as different phytophysiognomies as rocky fields and humid forests. In spite of that, its amphibian fauna is still poorly described. We inventoried amphibians at the CNP and surrounding areas from 2016 to 2018 and recorded 47 anuran species, of which two are locally endemic and at least six have not been described yet. Additionally, we compiled data from previous surveys (2004 to 2008) and secondary data from scientific collections. All together, we registered a total of 61 anuran species from 12 families for the CNP and surroundings, placing this area among the 10 amphibian richest sites in the AF. Some of these species are represented by only one or two collected specimens and have not been registered in the CNP since the 1980’s, such as Thoropa lutzi and Hylodes vanzolinii. These species could be examples of population declines or even past local extinctions, highlighting the need of further sampling efforts in that highly biodiverse site.
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- Camila Zornosa-Torres
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil; Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil
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Lanna FM, Gehara M, Werneck FP, Fonseca EM, Colli GR, Sites JW, Rodrigues MT, Garda AA. Dwarf geckos and giant rivers: the role of the São Francisco River in the evolution of Lygodactylus klugei (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the semi-arid Caatinga of north-eastern Brazil. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Species diversification can be strongly influenced by geomorphological features, such as mountains, valleys and rivers. Rivers can act as hard or soft barriers to gene flow depending on their size, speed of flow, historical dynamics and regional topographical characteristics. The São Francisco River (SFR) is the largest perennial river in the Caatinga biome in north-eastern Brazil and has been considered a barrier to gene flow and dispersal. Herein, we evaluated the role of the SFR on the evolution of Lygodactylus klugei, a small gecko from the Caatinga. Using a single-locus species delimitation method (generalized mixed Yule coalescent), we defined lineages (haploclades). Subsequently, we evaluated the role of the SFR in structuring genetic diversity in this species using a multilocus approach to quantify migration across margins. We also evaluated genetic structure based on nuclear markers, testing the number of populations found through an assignment test (STRUCTURE) across the species distribution. We recovered two mitochondrial lineages structured with respect to the SFR, but only a single population was inferred from nuclear markers. Given that we detected an influence of the SFR only on mitochondrial markers, we suggest that the current river course has acted as a relatively recent geographical barrier for L. klugei, for ~450 000 years.
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- Flávia M Lanna
- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, Natal, RN, Brazil
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- Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, Natal, RN, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Department of Biology and Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, Natal, RN, Brazil
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de Sá FP, Haddad CFB, Gray MM, Verdade VK, Thomé MTC, Rodrigues MT, Zamudio KR. Male-male competition and repeated evolution of terrestrial breeding in Atlantic Coastal Forest frogs. Evolution 2019; 74:459-475. [PMID: 31710098 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Revised: 10/09/2019] [Accepted: 10/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Terrestrial breeding is a derived condition in frogs, with multiple transitions from an aquatic ancestor. Shifts in reproductive mode often involve changes in habitat use, and these are typically associated with diversification in body plans, with repeated transitions imposing similar selective pressures. We examine the diversification of reproductive modes, male and female body sizes, and sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in the Neotropical frog genera Cycloramphus and Zachaenus, both endemic to the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. Species in this clade either breed in rocky streams (saxicolous) or in terrestrial environments, allowing us to investigate reproductive habitat shifts. We constructed a multilocus molecular phylogeny and inferred evolutionary histories of reproductive habitats, body sizes, and SSD. The common ancestor was small, saxicolous, and had low SSD. Terrestrial breeding evolved independently three times and we found a significant association between reproductive habitat and SSD, with shifts to terrestrial breeding evolving in correlation with decreases in male body size, but not female body size. Terrestrial breeding increases the availability of breeding sites and results in concealment of amplexus, egg-laying, and parental care, therefore reducing male-male competition at all stages of reproduction. We conclude that correlated evolution of terrestrial reproduction and small males is due to release from intense male-male competition that is typical of exposed saxicolous breeding.
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- Fábio P de Sá
- Departamento de Zoologia and Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Instituto de Biociências, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, 13506-900, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia and Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Instituto de Biociências, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, 13506-900, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, UFABC - Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, 09210-580, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia and Centro de Aquicultura (CAUNESP), Instituto de Biociências, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, 13506-900, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, USP - Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853
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Brunes TO, da Silva AJ, Marques-Souza S, Rodrigues MT, Pellegrino KC. Not always young: The first vertebrate ancient origin of true parthenogenesis found in an Amazon leaf litter lizard with evidence of mitochondrial haplotypes surfing on the wave of a range expansion. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 135:105-122. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Vasconcellos MM, Colli GR, Weber JN, Ortiz EM, Rodrigues MT, Cannatella DC. Isolation by instability: Historical climate change shapes population structure and genomic divergence of treefrogs in the Neotropical Cerrado savanna. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:1748-1764. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Departamento de Zoologia Universidade de Brasília Brasília Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Alaska Anchorage Anchorage, Alaska
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- Department of Integrative Biology The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas
- Plant Biodiversity Research Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management Technical University of Munich Freising Germany
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil
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- Department of Integrative Biology The University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas
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Fouquet A, Ferrier B, Salmona J, Tirera S, Vacher JP, Courtois EA, Gaucher P, Lima JD, Nunes PMS, de Souza SM, Rodrigues MT, Noonan B, de Thoisy B. Phenotypic and life-history diversification in Amazonian frogs despite past introgressions. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 130:169-180. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Revised: 09/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/15/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Graboski R, Arredondo JC, Grazziotin FG, da Silva AAA, Prudente ALC, Rodrigues MT, Bonatto SL, Zaher H. Molecular phylogeny and hemipenial diversity of South American species ofAmerotyphlops(Typhlopidae, Scolecophidia). ZOOL SCR 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Roberta Graboski
- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
- Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia; Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho; Rio Claro Brazil
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Belém Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Pará; Belém Brazil
- Programa de Coleções e Acervos Científicos; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Manaus Brazil
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Coordenação de Zoologia; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Belém Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Pará; Belém Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências; Universidade de São; São Paulo Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Escola de Ciências; Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo Brazil
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Zaher H, Yánez-Muñoz MH, Rodrigues MT, Graboski R, Machado FA, Altamirano-Benavides M, Bonatto SL, Grazziotin FG. Origin and hidden diversity within the poorly known Galápagos snake radiation (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). SYST BIODIVERS 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2018.1478910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Hussam Zaher
- Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré 481, Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, 04263-000, Brazil
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- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Av. De los Shyris y Rumipamba 341, Quito, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Travessa 14, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré 481, Ipiranga, São Paulo, SP, 04263-000, Brazil
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- División de Mastozoología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, Buenos Aires (C1405DJR), Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnológicas (INCYT), Universidad Iberoamericana del Ecuador, 9 de Octubre N25-12 y Colón, Quito, Ecuador
- Estación Científica Amazonica Juri-Juri Kawsay, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Av. América N23-41 y Mercadillo, Quito, Ecuador
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- Laboratório de Biologia Genômica e Molecular, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Ipiranga 6681, 90619--900, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo, SP, 05503-900, Brazil
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Peloso PL, Oliveira RMD, Sturaro MJ, Rodrigues MT, Lima-Filho GR, Bitar YO, Wheeler WC, Aleixo A. Phylogeny of Map Tree Frogs, Boana semilineata Species Group, with a New Amazonian Species (Anura: Hylidae). South American Journal of Herpetology 2018. [DOI: 10.2994/sajh-d-17-00037.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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- Pedro L.V. Peloso
- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1.901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-530, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Museu Nacional, Departamento de Vertebrados, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista, CEP 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1.901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-530, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, n 321, Cidade Universitária, Caixa Postal 11461, CEP 05422-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1.901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-530, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Pará, Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas, Travessa 13, s/n, campus Universitário do Marajó-Soure Pacoval, CEP 68870-000, Soure, PA, Brazil
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- American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Central Park West at 79th Street, 10024, New York, NY, USA
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Zoologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1.901, Terra Firme, CEP 66077-530, Belém, PA, Brazil
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Sturaro MJ, Rodrigues MT, Colli GR, Knowles LL, Avila-Pires TC. Integrative taxonomy of the lizards Cercosaura ocellata species complex (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae). ZOOL ANZ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2018.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Lanna FM, Werneck FP, Gehara M, Fonseca EM, Colli GR, Sites JW, Rodrigues MT, Garda AA. The evolutionary history of Lygodactylus lizards in the South American open diagonal. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 127:638-645. [PMID: 29906606 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The Pleistocenic Arc Hypothesis (PAH) posits that South American Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests (SDTF) were interconnected during Pleistocene glacial periods, enabling the expansion of species ranges that were subsequently fragmented in interglacial periods, promoting speciation. The lizard genus Lygodactylus occurs in Africa, Madagascar, and South America. Compared to the high diversity of African Lygodactylus, only two species are known to occur in South America, L. klugei and L. wetzeli, distributed in SDTFs and the Chaco, respectively. We use a phylogenetic approach based on mitochondrial (ND2) and nuclear (RAG-1) markers covering the known range of South American Lygodactylus to investigate (i) if they are monophyletic relative to their African congeners, (ii) if their divergence is congruent with the fragmentation of the PAH, and (iii) if cryptic diversity exists within currently recognized species. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses recovered a well-supported monophyletic South American Lygodactylus, presumably resulting from a single trans-Atlantic dispersal event 29 Mya. Species delimitation analyses supported the existence of five putative species, three of them undescribed. Divergence times among L. klugei and the three putative undescribed species, all endemic to the SDTFs, are not congruent with the fragmentation of the PAH. However, fragmentation of the once broader and continuous SDTFs likely influenced the divergence of L. wetzeli in the Chaco and Lygodactylus sp. 3 (in a SDTF enclave in the Cerrado).
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- Flávia M Lanna
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, 59078-900 Natal, RN, Brazil.
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Programa de Coleções Científicas Biológicas, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), 69067-375 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- American Museum of Natural History, Department of Herpetology, 79th St. Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, United States
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, 59078-900 Natal, RN, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil
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- Department of Biology and Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, United States
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, 59078-900 Natal, RN, Brazil
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Sánchez-Pacheco SJ, Torres-Carvajal O, Aguirre-Peñafiel V, Nunes PMS, Verrastro L, Rivas GA, Rodrigues MT, Grant T, Murphy RW. Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna. Cladistics 2018; 34:260-291. [PMID: 34645080 DOI: 10.1111/cla.12203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/17/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Riama is the most speciose genus of the Neotropical lizard family Gymnophthalmidae. Its more than 30 montane species occur throughout the northern Andes, the Cordillera de la Costa (CC) in Venezuela, and Trinidad. We present the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of Riama to date based on a total evidence (TE) approach and direct optimization of molecular and morphological evidence. Analyses use DNA sequences from four loci and 35 phenotypic characters. The dataset consists of 55 ingroup terminals representing 25 of the 30 currently recognized species of Riama plus five undescribed taxa, including an endemic species from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM) in Colombia, and 66 outgroup terminals of 47 species. Analysis results in a well-supported hypothesis in which Riama is polyphyletic, with its species falling into three clades. The Tepuian Anadia mcdiarmidi nests within one clade of Riama, and the recently resurrected Pantodactylus nests within Cercosaura. Accordingly, we propose a monophyletic taxonomy that reflects historical relationships. Analysis of character evolution indicates that the presence/absence of prefrontals-a cornerstone of the early genus-level taxonomy of cercosaurines-is optimally explained as having been plesiomorphically present in the most recent common ancestor of Cercosaurinae and lost in that of the immediately less inclusive clade. Multiple independent reversals to present and subsequent returns to absent occur within this clade. To evaluate the impact of phenotypic evidence on our results, we compare our TE results with results obtained from analyses using only molecular data. Although phenotypic evidence comprises only 1.2% of the TE matrix, its inclusion alters both the topology and support values of the clades that do not differ. Finally, current phylogenetic evidence reveals a SNSM-CC-Trinidad-tepuis biogeographical link. We hypothesize that an ancient connection facilitated the exchange of species between the SNSM and the CC.
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- Santiago J Sánchez-Pacheco
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.,Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada.,Laboratorio de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS 91540-000, Brazil
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre y Roca apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre y Roca apartado 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.,Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego S/n, Cidade Universitaria 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Herpetologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS 91540-000, Brazil
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- Museo de Biología, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia, Apartado Postal 526, Maracaibo, 4011, Estado Zulia, Venezuela
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, Canada.,Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada
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Carvalho AL, Rivas LR, Céspedes R, Rodrigues MT. A New Collared Lizard (Tropidurus: Tropiduridae) Endemic to the Western Bolivian Andes and Its Implications for Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests. American Museum Novitates 2018. [DOI: 10.1206/3896.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- André L.G. Carvalho
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology), American Museum of Natural History
- Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Universidad Autónoma del Beni “Mcal. José Ballivián,” Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia
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Gonçalves AI, Gershovich PM, Rodrigues MT, Reis RL, Gomes ME. Human adipose tissue-derived tenomodulin positive subpopulation of stem cells: A promising source of tendon progenitor cells. J Tissue Eng Regen Med 2017; 12:762-774. [PMID: 28593712 DOI: 10.1002/term.2495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2017] [Revised: 04/14/2017] [Accepted: 06/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cell-based therapies are of particular interest for tendon and ligament regeneration given the low regenerative potential of these tissues. Adipose tissue is an abundant source of stem cells, which may be employed for the healing of tendon lesions. However, human adult multipotent adipose-derived stem cells (hASCs) isolated from the stromal vascular fraction of adipose tissue originate highly heterogeneous cell populations that hinder their use in specific tissue-oriented applications. In this study, distinct subpopulations of hASCs were immunomagnetic separated and their tenogenic differentiation capacity evaluated in the presence of several growth factors (GFs), namely endothelial GF, basic-fibroblast GF, transforming GF-β1 and platelet-derived GF-BB, which are well-known regulators of tendon development, growth and healing. Among the screened hASCs subpopulations, tenomodulin-positive cells were shown to be more promising for tenogenic applications and therefore this subpopulation was further studied, assessing tendon-related markers (scleraxis, tenomodulin, tenascin C and decorin) both at gene and protein level. Additionally, the ability for depositing collagen type I and III forming extracellular matrix structures were weekly assessed up to 28 days. The results obtained indicated that tenomodulin-positive cells exhibit phenotypical features of tendon progenitor cells and can be biochemically induced towards tenogenic lineage, demonstrating that this subset of hASCs can provide a reliable source of progenitor cells for therapies targeting tendon regeneration.
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- A I Gonçalves
- 3B's Research Group - Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Avepark - Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal.,ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group - Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Avepark - Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal.,ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group - Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Avepark - Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal.,ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group - Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Avepark - Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal.,ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.,The Discoveries Centre for Regenerative and Precision Medicine, Headquarters at University of Minho, Avepark, 4805-017, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal
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- 3B's Research Group - Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, University of Minho, Headquarters of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Avepark - Zona Industrial da Gandra, 4805-017, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal.,ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal.,The Discoveries Centre for Regenerative and Precision Medicine, Headquarters at University of Minho, Avepark, 4805-017, Barco, Guimarães, Portugal
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Sánchez-Pacheco SJ, Nunes PMS, Marques-Souza S, Rodrigues MT, Murphy RW. Formal recognition of the species of Oreosaurus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Zookeys 2017; 691:149-162. [PMID: 29369307 PMCID: PMC5672716 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.691.13595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Oreosaurus is one of the two genera extracted from the former Riamasensu lato, which was recently recognized as polyphyletic. Oreosaurus is a small clade (five named and two undescribed species) of montane gymnophthalmid lizards and exhibits an exceptional distributional pattern. Its nominal and undescribed species are discontinuously distributed on the Cordillera de la Costa of Venezuela, the tepuis from the Chimantá massif in Venezuela, the highlands of the island of Trinidad, and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia (SNSM). Herein, we describe the species of Oreosaurus that is endemic to the SNSM. Historically, this species associates with two names that are currently nomina nuda: Proctoporus serranus and P. specularis. Formal nomenclatural recognition of Oreosaurus serranussp. n. renders specularis a permanently unavailable name for this taxon. Oreosaurus serranussp. n. is the sister of all remaining congeners, and differs primarily from them in having only one pair of genial scales, as well as a unique pattern of scutellation. We provide an identification key to the species of Oreosaurus.
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- Santiago J Sánchez-Pacheco
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, SP, Brazil
- Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Professor Moraes Rego S/n, Cidade Universitária 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3B2, Canada
- Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada
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Sturaro MJ, Avila-Pires TCS, Rodrigues MT. Molecular phylogenetic diversity in the widespread lizard Cercosaura ocellata (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae) in South America. SYST BIODIVERS 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1284913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Marcelo José Sturaro
- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, CZO. C.P. 399, 66017-970, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Pará/Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
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- Laboratório de Herpetologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, CZO. C.P. 399, 66017-970, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Caixa Postal 11.461, 05422-970, São Paulo, Brazil
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Prates I, Rivera D, Rodrigues MT, Carnaval AC. A mid‐
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mazonian anole lizards. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:5174-5186. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2016] [Revised: 08/10/2016] [Accepted: 08/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Ivan Prates
- Department of Biology City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue Marshak Science Building, Room J‐526 New York NY 10031 USA
- Department of Biology Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4315 New York NY 10016 USA
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- Department of Biology City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue Marshak Science Building, Room J‐526 New York NY 10031 USA
- Department of Biology University of Texas at Arlington 501 S. Nedderman Drive Arlington TX 76019 USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo Rua do Matão Travessa 14, n. 321 São Paulo SP 05508‐090 Brazil
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- Department of Biology City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue Marshak Science Building, Room J‐526 New York NY 10031 USA
- Department of Biology Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4315 New York NY 10016 USA
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Jungfer KH, Verdade VK, Faivovich J, Rodrigues MT. A new species of spiny-backed treefrog (Osteocephalus) from Central Amazonian Brazil (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Zootaxa 2016; 4114:171-81. [PMID: 27395123 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.2.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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A new species of treefrog of the genus Osteocephalus is described from the Rio Abacaxis, a southern tributary of the Amazonas in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. This member of the O. buckleyi group is characterized by green dorsal colouration with irregular blotches of various shades of brown, light venter with tan spots and bold dark markings on the posterior surfaces of the thighs. It can be distinguished from its closest relative, O. helenae from the same general area, by the lack of an axillary membrane, a few indistinct tubercles on the proximal segment of Finger IV and single ulnar tubercles.
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- Karl-Heinz Jungfer
- Institute of Integrated Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstr. 1, 56070 Koblenz, Germany.;
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Av. dos Estados, 5001, CEP 09210-971, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil.;
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- División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"-CONICET, Angel Gallardo 470, 1405 Buenos Aires, Argentina.;
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 11461, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil.;
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Goicoechea N, Frost DR, De la Riva I, Pellegrino KCM, Sites J, Rodrigues MT, Padial JM. Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree‐alignment and similarity‐alignment. Cladistics 2016; 32:624-671. [DOI: 10.1111/cla.12150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/28/2015] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- Noemí Goicoechea
- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales‐CSIC C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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- Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology) American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York NY 10024 USA
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- Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales‐CSIC C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 28006 Madrid Spain
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de São Paulo Avenida Professor Artur Riedel 275 Diadema São Paulo CEP 09972‐270 Brazil
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- Departament of Biology and M.L. Bean Life Science Museum Brigham Young University Provo UT 84602 USA
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- Departamento de Zoologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo CEP: 05508‐090 Brazil
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- Section of Amphibians and Reptiles Carnegie Museum of Natural History 4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA
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Carvalho AL, Sena MA, Peloso PL, Machado FA, Montesinos R, Silva HR, Campbell G, Rodrigues MT. A NewTropidurus(Tropiduridae) from the Semiarid Brazilian Caatinga: Evidence for Conflicting Signal between Mitochondrial and Nuclear Loci Affecting the Phylogenetic Reconstruction of South American Collared Lizards. American Museum Novitates 2016. [DOI: 10.1206/3852.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Guarnizo CE, Werneck FP, Giugliano LG, Santos MG, Fenker J, Sousa L, D’Angiolella AB, dos Santos AR, Strüssmann C, Rodrigues MT, Dorado-Rodrigues TF, Gamble T, Colli GR. Cryptic lineages and diversification of an endemic anole lizard (Squamata, Dactyloidae) of the Cerrado hotspot. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2016; 94:279-89. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2015] [Revised: 08/06/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Oliveira EF, Gehara M, São-Pedro VA, Chen X, Myers EA, Burbrink FT, Mesquita DO, Garda AA, Colli GR, Rodrigues MT, Arias FJ, Zaher H, Santos RML, Costa GC. Speciation with gene flow in whiptail lizards from a Neotropical xeric biome. Mol Ecol 2015; 24:5957-75. [PMID: 26502084 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Revised: 10/15/2015] [Accepted: 10/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain the diversification of the Caatinga biota. The riverine barrier hypothesis (RBH) claims that the São Francisco River (SFR) is a major biogeographic barrier to gene flow. The Pleistocene climatic fluctuation hypothesis (PCH) states that gene flow, geographic genetic structure and demographic signatures on endemic Caatinga taxa were influenced by Quaternary climate fluctuation cycles. Herein, we analyse genetic diversity and structure, phylogeographic history, and diversification of a widespread Caatinga lizard (Cnemidophorus ocellifer) based on large geographical sampling for multiple loci to test the predictions derived from the RBH and PCH. We inferred two well-delimited lineages (Northeast and Southwest) that have diverged along the Cerrado-Caatinga border during the Mid-Late Miocene (6-14 Ma) despite the presence of gene flow. We reject both major hypotheses proposed to explain diversification in the Caatinga. Surprisingly, our results revealed a striking complex diversification pattern where the Northeast lineage originated as a founder effect from a few individuals located along the edge of the Southwest lineage that eventually expanded throughout the Caatinga. The Southwest lineage is more diverse, older and associated with the Cerrado-Caatinga boundaries. Finally, we suggest that C. ocellifer from the Caatinga is composed of two distinct species. Our data support speciation in the presence of gene flow and highlight the role of environmental gradients in the diversification process.
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- Eliana F Oliveira
- Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
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- Pós-Graduação em Sistemática e Evolução, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
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- Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, 6S-143, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY, 10314, USA.,Department of Biology, The Graduate School, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Department of Biology, 6S-143, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY, 10314, USA.,Department of Biology, The Graduate School, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Department of Biology, 6S-143, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island, NY, 10314, USA.,Department of Biology, The Graduate School, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10016, USA.,Department of Herpetology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192, USA
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- Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, 58000-00, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica e Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05422-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05422-970, Brazil
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- Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 04263-000, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05422-970, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, 59072-970, Brazil
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