Molecular evolution and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient

What causes latitudinal gradients in species diversity? Evolutionary processes and ecological constraints on swallowtail biodiversity

(2012) Fabien L. Condamine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary and ecological causes?

(2012) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Patterns and Causes of Variation in Plant Nucleotide Substitution Rates

(2011) Brandon Gaut et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Genome analyses substantiate male mutation bias in many species

(2011) Melissa A. Wilson Sayres et al.   BIOESSAYS

Diversification and the rate of molecular evolution: no evidence of a link in mammals

(2011) Xavier Goldie et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Review: an embryo's eye view of avian eggshell pigmentation

(2011) Golo Maurer et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Why is pollen yellow? And why are there so many species in the tropical rain forest?

(2011) John R. Flenley   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Variation in the mutation rate across mammalian genomes

(2011) Alan Hodgkinson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The genome as a life-history character: why rate of molecular evolution varies between mammal species

(2011) L. Bromham   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogenetic diversity as a window into the evolutionary and biogeographic histories of present-day richness gradients for mammals

(2011) T. J. Davies et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mutation Rate Switch inside Eurasian Mitochondrial Haplogroups: Impact of Selection and Consequences for Dating Settlement in Europe

(2011) Denis Pierron et al.   PLoS One

Inferring speciation and extinction processes from extant species data

(2011) T. Stadler   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

(2011) H. Morlon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Are rates of molecular evolution in mammals substantially accelerated in warmer environments?

(2011) J. T. Weir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular evolutionary rates predict both extinction and speciation in temperate angiosperm lineages

(2010) Lesley T Lancaster   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Thermal energy and the rate of genetic evolution in marine fishes

(2010) Shane D. Wright et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Faster evolution of highly conserved DNA in tropical plants

(2010) L. N. GILLMAN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Positive Correlation between dN/dS and dS in Mammals Is Due to Runs of Adjacent Substitutions

(2010) Nina Stoletzki et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Generation Time Effect on the Rate of Molecular Evolution in Invertebrates

(2010) Jessica A. Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Biotic influences on species duration: interactions between traits in marine molluscs

(2010) James S. Crampton et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Seasonality, the latitudinal gradient of diversity, and Eocene insects

(2010) S. Bruce Archibald et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Mutation rate is linked to diversification in birds

(2010) R. Lanfear et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary rates of mitochondrial genomes correspond to diversification rates and to contemporary species richness in birds and reptiles

(2010) S. H. Eo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conditions for mutation-order speciation

(2010) P. Nosil et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species

(2010) Robert Lanfear et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Hypothesis testing in biogeography

(2010) Michael D. Crisp et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Insect Rate‐Temperature Relationships: Environmental Variation and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology

(2009) Ulrike M. Irlich et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Generation of Earth's First-Order Biodiversity Pattern

(2009) Andrew Z. Krug et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Mitochondrial whims: metabolic rate, longevity and the rate of molecular evolution

(2009) N. Galtier et al.   Biology Letters

Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences

(2009) John J Welch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

(2009) Benoit Nabholz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Climate as a Driver of Evolutionary Change

(2009) Douglas H. Erwin   CURRENT BIOLOGY

EXPLOSIVE RADIATION OR CRYPTIC MASS EXTINCTION? INTERPRETING SIGNATURES IN MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   EVOLUTION

SLOWER TEMPO OF MICROEVOLUTION IN ISLAND BIRDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

(2009) Shane D. Wright et al.   EVOLUTION

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal

(2009) N. GALTIER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Latitude, elevation and the tempo of molecular evolution in mammals

(2009) L. N. Gillman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for Ecological Speciation and Its Alternative

(2009) D. Schluter   SCIENCE

Speciation as an active force in promoting genetic evolution

(2009) Chris Venditti et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Population divergence in plant species reflects latitudinal biodiversity gradients

(2008) S. H. Eo et al.   Biology Letters

TESTS OF THE MID-DOMAIN HYPOTHESIS: A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE

(2008) David J. Currie et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EXPLOSIVE EVOLUTIONARY RADIATIONS: DECREASING SPECIATION OR INCREASING EXTINCTION THROUGH TIME?

(2008) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   EVOLUTION

ESTIMATING SPECIATION AND EXTINCTION RATES FROM DIVERSITY DATA AND THE FOSSIL RECORD

(2008) Rampal S. Etienne et al.   EVOLUTION

Selection efficiency and effective population size inDrosophilaspecies

(2008) N. PETIT et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Relationship between field metabolic rate and body weight in mammals: effect of the study

(2008) A. Riek   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The metabolism of lake plankton does not support the metabolic theory of ecology

(2008) Francisco de Castro et al.   OIKOS

Incumbency, diversity, and latitudinal gradients

(2008) James W. Valentine et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Comment on "The Latitudinal Gradient in Recent Speciation and Extinction Rates of Birds and Mammals"

(2008) Joseph A. Tobias et al.   SCIENCE

Rates of Molecular Evolution Are Linked to Life History in Flowering Plants

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Patterns of Positive Selection in Six Mammalian Genomes

(2008) Carolin Kosiol et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Population Genetics of dN/dS

(2008) Sergey Kryazhimskiy et al.   PLoS Genetics

A long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record

(2007) P. J Mayhew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES