2007
Independent evolutionary origins of landlocked alewife populations and rapid parallel evolution of phenotypic traits
PALKOVACS E, DION K, POST D, CACCONE A. Independent evolutionary origins of landlocked alewife populations and rapid parallel evolution of phenotypic traits. Molecular Ecology 2007, 17: 582-597. PMID: 18179439, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03593.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLandlocked populationsAnadromous populationsAlewife populationSmaller adult body sizeRapid parallel evolutionLife history divergenceFreshwater ancestorsIndependent evolutionary originsDivergence time estimatesLife-history variantsGill raker spacingMicrosatellite mutation ratesMtDNA control regionAdult body sizeRate of evolutionSmall prey itemsAnadromous ancestorsForaging traitsPopulation divergenceAllele frequency dataDivergence timesEvolutionary ratesMicrosatellite dataAnadromous formEvolutionary origin
2003
Xantusiid “night” lizards: a puzzling phylogenetic problem revisited using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mtDNA sequences
Vicario S, Caccone A, Gauthier J. Xantusiid “night” lizards: a puzzling phylogenetic problem revisited using likelihood-based Bayesian methods on mtDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution 2003, 26: 243-261. PMID: 12565035, DOI: 10.1016/s1055-7903(02)00313-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDivergence time estimatesXantusia riversianaCytochrome b geneMaximum parsimony analysisCalifornia Channel IslandsLikelihood-based Bayesian methodsIsland endemicsMitochondrial genesLizard evolutionAncestral stateScleroglossan lizardsRibosomal genesMtDNA sequencesPhylogenetic problemsCrown cladeAdditional cladesPhylogenetic analysisNeighbor-JoiningParsimony analysisB geneBoundary bolide impactRock crevicesCladeMaximum likelihoodXantusia