Why is Madagascar special? The extraordinarily slow evolution of pelican spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae)

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Why does diversification slow down?

(2014) Daniel Moen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Imperfect Isolation: Factors and Filters Shaping Madagascar’s Extant Vertebrate Fauna

(2013) Karen E. Samonds et al.   PLoS One

Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography when the Number of Areas is Large

(2013) Michael J. Landis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic placement of pelican spiders (Archaeidae, Araneae), with insight into evolution of the “neck” and predatory behaviours of the superfamily Palpimanoidea

(2012) Hannah Marie Wood et al.   CLADISTICS

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Spatial and temporal arrival patterns of Madagascar's vertebrate fauna explained by distance, ocean currents, and ancestor type

(2012) K. E. Samonds et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vertebrate time-tree elucidates the biogeographic pattern of a major biotic change around the K-T boundary in Madagascar

(2012) A. Crottini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification

(2012) T. J. Near et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Treating Fossils as Terminal Taxa in Divergence Time Estimation Reveals Ancient Vicariance Patterns in the Palpimanoid Spiders

(2012) Hannah Marie Wood et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Australian Assassins, Part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern Australia

(2012) Michael Rix et al.   ZooKeys

Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland

(2012) Michael Rix et al.   ZooKeys

The Role of Mountain Ranges in the Diversification of Birds

(2011) Jon Fjeldså et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Protecting the innocent: studying short-range endemic taxa enhances conservation outcomes

(2011) Mark S. Harvey et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Late Cretaceous bioconnections between Indo-Madagascar and Antarctica: refutation of the Gunnerus Ridge causeway hypothesis

(2011) Jason R. Ali et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Phylogeny and historical biogeography of ancient assassin spiders (Araneae: Archaeidae) in the Australian mesic zone: Evidence for Miocene speciation within Tertiary refugia

(2011) Michael G. Rix et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Australian Assassins, Part I: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae: Archaeidae) of mid-eastern Australia

(2011) Michael Rix et al.   ZooKeys

SIZE-CORRECTION AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPARATIVE STUDIES

(2009) Liam J. Revell   EVOLUTION

The distribution of forest passerine birds and Quaternary climatic change in tropical Africa

(2009) A. W. Diamond et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Testing Species-Level Diversification Hypotheses in Madagascar: The Case of Microendemic Brookesia Leaf Chameleons

(2009) Ted M. Townsend et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Madagascar as a model region of species diversification

(2009) Miguel Vences et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

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

PATTERNS OF ENDEMISM AND SPECIES RICHNESS IN MALAGASY COPHYLINE FROGS SUPPORT A KEY ROLE OF MOUNTAINOUS AREAS FOR SPECIATION

(2008) Katharina C. Wollenberg et al.   EVOLUTION

Palpimanoid spiders from the Jurassic of China

(2008) Paul A. Selden et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A revision of the assassin spiders of the Eriauchenius gracilicollis group, a clade of spiders endemic to Madagascar (Araneae: Archaeidae)

(2008) HANNAH WOOD   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY