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
1994
Molecular biogeography: using the Corsica—Sardinia microplate disjunction to calibrate mitochondrial rDNA evolutionary rates in mountain newts (Euproctus)
Caccone A, Milinkovitch M, Sbordoni V, Powell J. Molecular biogeography: using the Corsica—Sardinia microplate disjunction to calibrate mitochondrial rDNA evolutionary rates in mountain newts (Euproctus). Journal Of Evolutionary Biology 1994, 7: 523-524. DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1994.7040523.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMolecular biogeography: using the Corsica-Sardinia microplate disjunction to calibrate mitochondrial rDNA evolutionary rates in mountain newts (Euproctus)
Caccone A, Milinkovitch M, Sbordoni V, Powell J. Molecular biogeography: using the Corsica-Sardinia microplate disjunction to calibrate mitochondrial rDNA evolutionary rates in mountain newts (Euproctus). Journal Of Evolutionary Biology 1994, 7: 227-245. DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1994.7020227.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEvolutionary ratesSequence dataMitochondrial DNA sequence variationRelative rate testMolecular clock hypothesisDNA sequence variationRibosomal rRNA geneClock-like behaviorSardinia-Corsica microplateAllozyme studiesCladogenetic eventsGenus TriturusE. montanusE. platycephalusVicariant distributionPhylogenetic treePhylogenetic methodsClock hypothesisP. waltlRRNA geneBootstrap valuesIdentical topologiesSequence variationMountain newtPyrenean region