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

ABSTRACT: Recent radiations are important to evolutionary biologists, because they provide an opportunity to study the mechanisms that link micro- and macroevolution. The role of ecological speciation during adaptive radiation has been intensively studied, but radiations can arise from a diversity of evolutionary processes; in particular, on large continental landmasses where allopatric speciation might frequently precede ecological differentiation. It is therefore important to establish a phylogenetic and ecological framework for recent continental-scale radiations that are species-rich and ecologically diverse. Here, we use a genomic (approx. 1 200 loci, exon capture) approach to fit branch lengths on a summary-coalescent species tree and generate a time-calibrated phylogeny for a recent and ecolo

SUBMITTER: Blom MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4920308 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature