Exploring rain forest diversification using demographic model testing in the African foam‐nest treefrog Chiromantis rufescens

Sky, sea, and forest islands: Diversification in the African leaf-folding frog Afrixalus paradorsalis (Anura: Hyperoliidae) of the Lower Guineo-Congolian rain forest

(2018) Kristin L. Charles et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversity and biogeography of frogs in the genus Amnirana (Anura: Ranidae) across sub-Saharan Africa

(2018) Gregory F.M. Jongsma et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and biogeography of the African burrowing snake subfamily Aparallactinae (Squamata: Lamprophiidae)

(2018) Frank Portillo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comprehensive multi-locus phylogeny of Old World tree frogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae) reveals taxonomic uncertainties and potential cases of over- and underestimation of species diversity

(2018) Kin Onn Chan et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Vanishing refuge? Testing the forest refuge hypothesis in coastal East Africa using genome-wide sequence data for seven amphibians

(2018) Christopher D. Barratt et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean

(2018) Zhi-Yong Yuan et al.   National Science Review

Inferring the Joint Demographic History of Multiple Populations: Beyond the Diffusion Approximation

(2017) Julien Jouganous et al.   GENETICS

StarBEAST2 Brings Faster Species Tree Inference and Accurate Estimates of Substitution Rates

(2017) Huw A. Ogilvie et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Idiosyncratic responses to climate-driven forest fragmentation and marine incursions in reed frogs from Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea Islands

(2017) Rayna C. Bell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evaluating mechanisms of diversification in a Guineo-Congolian tropical forest frog using demographic model selection

(2017) Daniel M. Portik et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Leapfrogging into new territory: How Mascarene ridged frogs diversified across Africa and Madagascar to maintain their ecological niche

(2017) Breda M. Zimkus et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Pleistocene population expansions of shade-tolerant trees indicate fragmentation of the African rainforest during the Ice Ages

(2017) Rosalía Piñeiro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inferring the Joint Demographic History of Multiple Populations: Beyond the Diffusion Approximation

(2017) Julien Jouganous et al.   GENETICS

SDMtoolbox 2.0: the next generation Python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses

(2017) Jason L. Brown et al.   PeerJ

Phylogeography of the heavily poached African common pangolin (Pholidota,Manis tricuspis) reveals six cryptic lineages as traceable signatures of Pleistocene diversification

(2016) Philippe Gaubert et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Molecular data from contemporary and historical collections reveal a complex story of cryptic diversification in the Varanus (Polydaedalus) niloticus Species Group

(2016) Stephanie A. Dowell et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary history of the river frog genus Amietia (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) reveals extensive diversification in Central African highlands

(2016) Thornton R. Larson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeography of the genus Podococcus (Palmae/Arecaceae) in Central African rain forests: Climate stability predicts unique genetic diversity

(2016) A. Faye et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Bayesian inference of species diffusion in the West African Agama agama species group (Reptilia, Agamidae)

(2016) Adam D. Leaché et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Fine-scale genetic analysis of the exploited Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) in Sahelian Africa

(2015) Stephanie A Dowell et al.   BMC GENETICS

Linking vertebrate species richness to tree canopy height on a global scale

(2015) Uri Roll et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Late Pleistocene molecular dating of past population fragmentation and demographic changes in African rain forest tree species supports the forest refuge hypothesis

(2015) Jérôme Duminil et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns of reproductive-mode evolution in Old World tree frogs (Anura, Rhacophoridae)

(2015) Madhava Meegaskumbura et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

A phylogeny of Central AfricanBoaedon(Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Albertine Rift

(2015) Eli Greenbaum et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

PyRAD: assembly of de novo RADseq loci for phylogenetic analyses

(2014) Deren A. R. Eaton   BIOINFORMATICS

Spatial filtering to reduce sampling bias can improve the performance of ecological niche models

(2014) Robert A. Boria et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

The first endemic West African vertebrate family – a new anuran family highlighting the uniqueness of the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot

(2014) Michael F Barej et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The genus Atheris (Serpentes: Viperidae) in East Africa: Phylogeny and the role of rifting and climate in shaping the current pattern of species diversity

(2014) M. Menegon et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Primate phylogenetic relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes

(2014) Luca Pozzi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

SDMtoolbox: a python-based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses

(2014) Jason L. Brown   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Comparative phylogeography of African rain forest trees: A review of genetic signatures of vegetation history in the Guineo-Congolian region

(2013) Olivier J. Hardy et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Estimating optimal complexity for ecological niche models: A jackknife approach for species with small sample sizes

(2013) Mariya Shcheglovitova et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Making better Maxentmodels of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation

(2013) Aleksandar Radosavljevic et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Montane refugia predict population genetic structure in the Large-blotched Ensatina salamander

(2013) Thomas J. Devitt et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

West Africa - A Safe Haven for Frogs? A Sub-Continental Assessment of the Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)

(2013) Johannes Penner et al.   PLoS One

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

(2013) R. A. Pyron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetic diversity in caribou linked to past and future climate change

(2013) Glenn Yannic et al.   Nature Climate Change

Cross-validation of species distribution models: removing spatial sorting bias and calibration with a null model

(2012) Robert J. Hijmans   ECOLOGY

Inferring Species Trees Directly from Biallelic Genetic Markers: Bypassing Gene Trees in a Full Coalescent Analysis

(2012) David Bryant et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

(2012) Aylwyn Scally et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Double Digest RADseq: An Inexpensive Method for De Novo SNP Discovery and Genotyping in Model and Non-Model Species

(2012) Brant K. Peterson et al.   PLoS One

The variant call format and VCFtools

(2011) P. Danecek et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

adegenet 1.3-1: new tools for the analysis of genome-wide SNP data

(2011) Thibaut Jombart et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Patterns of divergence in the olive sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea (Aves: Nectariniidae) across the African rainforest-savanna ecotone

(2011) THOMAS B. SMITH et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A hotspot revisited - a biogeographical analysis of West African amphibians

(2011) Johannes Penner et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

TESTING ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES FOR EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION IN AN AFRICAN SONGBIRD: RAINFOREST REFUGIA VERSUS ECOLOGICAL GRADIENTS

(2011) Alexander N. G. Kirschel et al.   EVOLUTION

Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar

(2011) Marc Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Evidence from Cameroon reveals differences in the genetic structure and histories of chimpanzee populations

(2011) M. K. Gonder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method

(2011) Dent A. Earl et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

DensiTree: making sense of sets of phylogenetic trees

(2010) R. R. Bouckaert   BIOINFORMATICS

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Discriminant analysis of principal components: a new method for the analysis of genetically structured populations

(2010) Thibaut Jombart et al.   BMC GENETICS

Genomic signals of diversification along ecological gradients in a tropical lizard

(2010) ADAM H. FREEDMAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rate, molecular spectrum, and consequences of human mutation

(2010) M. Lynch   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bayesian species delimitation in West African forest geckos (Hemidactylus fasciatus)

(2010) A. D. Leache et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

VertNet: A New Model for Biodiversity Data Sharing

(2010) Heather Constable et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Spatially autocorrelated sampling falsely inflates measures of accuracy for presence-only niche models

(2009) Samuel D. Veloz   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Observations on the ecology and breeding biology of the genus Chiromantis (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae)

(2009) Malcolm Coe   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

New insights to the molecular phylogenetics and generic assessment in the Rhacophoridae (Amphibia: Anura) based on five nuclear and three mitochondrial genes, with comments on the evolution of reproduction

(2009) Jia-tang Li et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Are lowland rainforests really evolutionary museums? Phylogeography of the green hylia (Hylia prasina) in the Afrotropics

(2009) Ben D. Marks   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Inferring the Joint Demographic History of Multiple Populations from Multidimensional SNP Frequency Data

(2009) Ryan N. Gutenkunst et al.   PLoS Genetics

New perspectives on the origin and diversification of Africa’s forest avifauna

(2008) Jon Fjeldså et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Re-examination of the phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA

(2008) Guohua Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION