| validation and description of two new north-western australian rainbow skinks with multispecies coalescent methods and morphology. | while methods for genetic species delimitation have noticeably improved in the last decade, this remains a work in progress. ideally, model based approaches should be applied and considered jointly with other lines of evidence, primarily morphology and geography, in an integrative taxonomy framework. deep phylogeographic divergences have been reported for several species of carlia skinks, but only for some eastern taxa have species boundaries been formally tested. the present study does this and ... | 2017 | 28875076 |
| tropical specialist vs. climate generalist: diversification and demographic history of sister species of carlia skinks from northwestern australia. | species endemic to the tropical regions are expected to be vulnerable to future climate change due in part to their relatively narrow climatic niches. in addition, these species are more likely to have responded strongly to past climatic change, and this can be explored through phylogeographic analyses. to test the hypothesis that tropical specialists are more sensitive to climate change than climate generalists, we generated and analyse sequence data from mtdna and ~2500 exons to compare scales ... | 2017 | 28543871 |