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Developmental bias explains the evolutionary trend towards simple leaf shapes
2025-08-21T00:00:00Z
James S. Malone
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Nora S. Martin
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Samuel H.A. von der Dunk
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Ard A. Louis
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Contradictory Phylogenetic Signals in the Laurasiatheria Anomaly Zone
Relationships among laurasiatherian clades represent one of the most highly disputed topics in mammalian phylogeny. In this study, we …
Liliya Doronina
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Graham M. Hughes
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Diana D. Moreno-Santillán
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Colleen Lawless
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Tadhg Lonergan
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Louise Ryan
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David Jebb
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Bogdan M. Kirilenko
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Jennifer M. Korstian
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Sonja C. Vernes
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Eugene W. Myers
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Emma C. Teeling
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Michael Hiller
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Lars S. Jermiin
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Jürgen Schmitz
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Mark S. Springer
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David A. Ray
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Where the wild things were: intrinsic and extrinsic extinction predictors in the world's most depleted mammal fauna
Preventing extinctions requires understanding macroecological patterns of vulnerability or persistence. However, correlates of risk can …
Samuel T. Turvey
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Clare Duncan
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Nathan S. Upham
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Xavier Harrison
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Parallel molecular evolution in pathways, genes, and sites in high-elevation hummingbirds revealed by comparative transcriptomics
High-elevation organisms experience shared environmental challenges that include low oxygen availability, cold temperatures, and …
Marisa C.W. Lim
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Christopher C. Witt
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Catherine H. Graham
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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The death and life of biodiversity: modeling extinction and resilience on islands
We assembled a group of socio-environmental scientists to analyze and model the natural and human factors that determine the extinction and resilience of insular vertebrate fauna and leverage this understanding into metrics for use in conservation assessments.
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Out of the Antilles: Fossil Phylogenies Support Reverse Colonization of Bats to South America
Previous phylogenies of extant short‐faced bats (Chiroptera Stenodermatina) supported either two colonization events from the mainland …
Valéria da C. Tavares*
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Omar M. Warsi
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Fernando Balseiro
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Carlos A. Mancina
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Hakai Magazine
The Molecular Evolution of Bat Chemosensory Pathways Reveals Sensory Innovation and Loss
Chemosensation detects environmental chemical cues and mediates many behaviors directly related to fitness (e.g. finding food, mates). …
Laurel R. Yohe
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Phylogeny and divergence times of lemurs inferred with recent and ancient fossils in the tree
Paleontological and neontological systematics seek to answer evolutionary questions with different data sets. Phylogenies inferred for …
James P. Herrera
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Bats (Chiroptera: Noctilionoidea) Challenge a Recent Origin of Extant Neotropical Diversity
The mechanisms underlying the high extant biodiversity in the Neotropics have been controversial since the 19th century. Support for …
Danny Rojas
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Omar M. Warsi
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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Amino acid transporter expansions associated with the evolution of obligate endosymbiosis in sap-feeding insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha)
Mutualistic obligate endosymbioses shape the evolution of endosymbiont genomes, but their impact on host genomes remains unclear. …
Romain A. Dahan
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Rebecca P. Duncan
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Alex C.C. Wilson
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Liliana M. Dávalos
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