Out of the dark: 350 million years of conservatism and evolution in diel activity patterns in vertebrates

Contrasting evidence of phylogenetic trophic niche conservatism in mammals worldwide

(2016) Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 species

(2016) Yuchi Zheng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Detecting Hidden Diversification Shifts in Models of Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction

(2016) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Into the light: diurnality has evolved multiple times in geckos

(2015) Tony Gamble et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Explaining large-scale patterns of vertebrate diversity

(2015) John J. Wiens   Biology Letters

Faster diversification on land than sea helps explain global biodiversity patterns among habitats and animal phyla

(2015) John J. Wiens   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

Ancestral State Reconstruction, Rate Heterogeneity, and the Evolution of Reptile Viviparity

(2015) Benedict King et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Model Inadequacy and Mistaken Inferences of Trait-Dependent Speciation

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees

(2014) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Nocturnality in synapsids predates the origin of mammals by over 100 million years

(2014) K. D. Angielczyk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

The Unsolved Challenge to Phylogenetic Correlation Tests for Categorical Characters

(2014) Wayne P. Maddison et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Faster Speciation and Reduced Extinction in the Tropics Contribute to the Mammalian Latitudinal Diversity Gradient

(2014) Jonathan Rolland et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Exploring power and parameter estimation of the BiSSE method for analyzing species diversification

(2013) Matthew P Davis et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Early origin of viviparity and multiple reversions to oviparity in squamate reptiles

(2013) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Catch Me If You Can: Diel Activity Patterns of Mammalian Prey and Predators

(2013) Pedro Monterroso et al.   ETHOLOGY

The nocturnal bottleneck and the evolution of activity patterns in mammals

(2013) M. P. Gerkema et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Identifying Hidden Rate Changes in the Evolution of a Binary Morphological Character: The Evolution of Plant Habit in Campanulid Angiosperms

(2013) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Biophysical Modeling of the Temporal Niche: From First Principles to the Evolution of Activity Patterns

(2012) Ofir Levy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Moving Day and Night: Highly Labile Diel Activity Patterns in a Tropical Snake

(2012) Rickard Abom et al.   BIOTROPICA

Phylogenomic analyses support the position of turtles as the sister group of birds and crocodiles (Archosauria)

(2012) Ylenia Chiari et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

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

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

Eye shape and the nocturnal bottleneck of mammals

(2012) M. I. Hall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R

(2012) Richard G. FitzJohn   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles

(2011) A. L. Jaffe et al.   Biology Letters

A TIME-CALIBRATED SPECIES TREE OF CROCODYLIA REVEALS A RECENT RADIATION OF THE TRUE CROCODILES

(2011) Jamie R. Oaks   EVOLUTION

The ecology of lizard reproductive output

(2011) Shai Meiri et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climatic niche conservatism and the evolutionary dynamics in species range boundaries: global congruence across mammals and amphibians

(2011) Miguel Á. Olalla-Tárraga et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecological niche conservatism: a time-structured review of evidence

(2011) A. Townsend Peterson   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Masking of the zeitgeber: African wild dogs mitigate persecution by balancing time

(2011) G. S. A. Rasmussen et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies

(2011) Tyler S. Kuhn et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

(2010) SUSANNE A. FRITZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals

(2010) L. B. Buckley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology

(2009) Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates

(2009) M. E. Alfaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bringing the Hutchinsonian niche into the 21st century: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives

(2009) R. D. Holt   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavior and Activity Budgets of Sonoran Pronghorns (Antilocapra americana sonoriensis)

(2009) Ryan R. Wilson et al.   SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST

Estimating Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Rates from Incompletely Resolved Phylogenies

(2009) Richard G. FitzJohn et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Activity patterns of rodents: the physiological ecology of biological rhythms

(2008) Noga Kronfeld-Schor et al.   BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM RESEARCH

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

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate

(2008) Liam J. Revell et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolution of vertebrate visual pigments

(2008) James K. Bowmaker   VISION RESEARCH