The New World blackbirds (Icteridae) are among the best known songbirds, both through exemplar species, such as the Red-winged Blackbird ( Agelaius phoeniceus), and collectively, as a model clade in studies of morphological, ecological, and behavioral trait evolution. Knowledge …
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It is in the nature of humans to wonder about and try to make sense off everything they see and all things they encounter. Humans have always been observing, describing, and recording patterns in the world around them. Particularly since Darwin's On the Origin of Species, resear…
"This book is designed for the use of university students in botany, pharmacy, and environmental sciences as well as for any botanical researcher interested in the adoption of a new perspective on classification." "The book includes a CD-ROM with 351 colour photographs, summary …
"Traditional ecological approaches to species evolution have frequently dealt with too few species, relatively small areas, and relatively short time spans. In The Coevolutionary Process, John N. Thompson advances a new conceptual approach to the evolution of species interaction…
In Science, more than elsewhere, a word is expected to mean what it says, nothing more, nothing less. But scientific discourse is neither different nor separable from ordinary language - meanings are multiple, ambiguities ubiquitous. Keywords in Evolutionary Biology grapples wit…
This book represents the author's effort to provide a synthesis of the exciting developments in molecular evolution in the past two decades. It describes the dynamics of evolutionary change at the molecular level, the driving forces behind the evolutionary process, novel evoluti…
Despite the existence of various molecular marker systems there are still limitations in distinguishing between closely related species based on molecular divergence, especially when hybridization events have occurred in the past. The characterisation of plant small nucleolar RN…
The historical range of the Indus River dolphin has declined by 80% since the 19th century and has been fragmented into 17 river sections by construction of irrigation barrages. Dolphin sighting and interview surveys showed that river dolphins persist in six river sections, have…
Ixodes ricinus is the most important human-biting tick in Europe and the principal vector of Lyme borreliosis. In addition, this hard tick species transmits a large number of microbial pathogens that are of importance to animal and human health. Little is known about the diversi…
The name Metatheria refers to the clade that contains the extant marsupials and also all extinct mammals that are more closely related to extant marsupials than to the placental mammals. Metatherians first appear in the fossil record of Asia during the Early Cretaceous, with you…
One of the central goals of evolutionary biology is to understand the evolutionary relationships among organisms by constructing phylogenetic estimates, commonly known as evolutionary trees. The accuracy of phylogenetic estimates can be strongly affected by the particular evolut…
Studying how island biotas evolve and are dynamically shaped by interactions between resident species, their immediate environments and neighboring continental communities have provided basic understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes operating in these ecosystems. H…
The arthropod subphylum Chelicerata underwent a history of early and rapid diversification that has proven difficult to resolve through phylogenomic analyses. Different rates of evolution among chelicerates drives this difficulty through long branch attraction, a systematic arti…