Ricardo Betancur‐R, Richard E. Broughton, E. O. Wiley, Kent E. Carpenter et al.
The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned fishes, traditionally referred to as percomorphs, whose uncertain relationships have plagued ichthyologist...
Caterina Penone, Ana D. Davidson, Kevin T. Shoemaker, Moreno Di Marco et al.
Summary Despite efforts in data collection, missing values are commonplace in life‐history trait databases. Because these values typically are not missing randomly, the common practice of removing missing data not only reduces sample size, but also introduces bias that can lead to incorrect conclusi...
Deborah M. Leigh, Charles B. van Rees, Katie L. Millette, Martin F. Breed et al.
The rapidly emerging field of macrogenetics focuses on analysing publicly accessible genetic datasets from thousands of species to explore large-scale patterns and predictors of intraspecific genetic variation. Facilitated by advances in evolutionary biology, technology, data infrastructure, statist...
Aditi Gupta, David J. Chivers
Primate habitats in south-east Asia span the two main forest formations of this part of the Oriental region – the deciduous monsoon rainforests of mainland Asia north of the isthmus of Kra and the evergreen rain forests of the “islands” of the Sunda Shelf (Whitmore, 1975). The evergreen rainforests ...
Fernando Gonçalves, Ricardo S. Bovendorp, Gabrielle Beca, Carolina Bello et al.
Measures of traits are the basis of functional biological diversity. Numerous works consider mean species-level measures of traits while ignoring individual variance within species. However, there is a large amount of variation within species and it is increasingly apparent that it is important to c...
Parth R. Chauhan
Abstract This broad overview highlights the Indian subcontinent as an important and exciting source of new discoveries regarding Lower Paleolithic hominins and their biological and behavioral evolution. Broadly situated in the center of the Old World, the region arbitrarily encompasses Pakistan, Ind...
David M. Leslie
Boselaphus tragocamelus (Pallas, 1766) is a bovid commonly called the nilgai or blue bull and is Asia’s largest antelope. A sexually dimorphic ungulate of large stature and unique coloration, it is the only species in the genus Boselaphus. It is endemic to peninsular India and small parts of Pakista...
Mónica A. Silva, António Araújo
Louise M. Allison, Lesley Gibson, J. Aberton
In the coastal heathlands of southern Victoria, populations of a rare dasyurid, the swamp antechinus (Antechinus minimus maritimus), are restricted to small and disjunct patches of suitable habitat. Although characteristics of their preferred habitat in terms of vegetation structure and composition ...
Chelmala Srinivasulu, S. Chakraborty, Mandakini Pradhan
A checklist of 28 species of sciurids belonging to 12 genera in two subfamilies known to occur in South Asia including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is provided.
Uwe Fritz, Richard Gemel, Christian Kehlmaier, Melita Vamberger et al.
Using up to 2456 bp mtDNA and up to 2716 bp nDNA of fresh samples and short sequences of three mitochondrial genes of historical museum material, we examine the phylogeography of Amyda cartilaginea. This data set provides evidence for the existence of deeply divergent genetic lineages which we inter...
Kes Hillman-Smith, Mankoto ma Oyisenzoo, Fraser Smith
The northern subspecies of white rhino Ceratotherium simum cottoni is very close to extinction. Probably fewer than 50 remain in the wild and only 13 are known in captivity. Garamba National Park in northern Zaire contains the only potentially viable group, of 15–20 individuals, and here there is a ...
Heather Marie Hassel-Finnegan, Carola Borries, Qing Zhao, Phaivanh Phiapalath et al.
We examined historical and ecological factors affecting current primate biodiversity in Southeast Asia. In Africa, Madagascar and South America, but not Southeast Asia, primate species richness is positively associated with average rainfall and distance from the equator (latitude). We predicted that...
Takumi Saito, Takahiro Hirano, Bin Ye, Larisa Prozorova et al.
Abstract To clarify the effect of niche conservatism on evolutionary history, we focused on freshwater snails, which have different ecological and phylogenetic properties from previously tested taxa. We conducted a phylogenetic analysis using 750 lymnaeid individuals from 357 sites of eleven Radix s...
Masanaru Takai, Yuichiro Nishioka, Thaung-Htike, Maung Maung et al.
We here describe a new fossil species of Asian colobine monkey, Semnopithecus gwebinensissp. nov. from the Late Pliocene Irrawaddy sediments of the Gwebin area in central Myanmar. Extant Semnopithecus (Hanuman langur) is a relatively large, terrestrial colobine monkey known as one of the most adapta...