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2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
J. J. Moreno ◽  
J. Miroforidis ◽  
E. Filatovas ◽  
I. Kaliszewski ◽  
E. M. Garzón


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 3107-3121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Hendrickx ◽  
Thierry Backeljau ◽  
Wouter Dekoninck ◽  
Steven M. Van Belleghem ◽  
Viki Vandomme ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 558-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Vidal ◽  
Julie Marin ◽  
Marina Morini ◽  
Steve Donnellan ◽  
William R. Branch ◽  
...  

Worm-like snakes (scolecophidians) are small, burrowing species with reduced vision. Although largely neglected in vertebrate research, knowledge of their biogeographical history is crucial for evaluating hypotheses of snake origins. We constructed a molecular dataset for scolecophidians with detailed sampling within the largest family, Typhlopidae (blindsnakes). Our results demonstrate that scolecophidians have had a long Gondwanan history, and that their initial diversification followed a vicariant event: the separation of East and West Gondwana approximately 150 Ma. We find that the earliest blindsnake lineages, representing two new families described here, were distributed on the palaeolandmass of India+Madagascar named here as Indigascar. Their later evolution out of Indigascar involved vicariance and several oceanic dispersal events, including a westward transatlantic one, unexpected for burrowing animals. The exceptional diversification of scolecophidians in the Cenozoic was probably linked to a parallel radiation of prey (ants and termites) as well as increased isolation of populations facilitated by their fossorial habits.



2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus S. Reut ◽  
Richard W. Jobson

Phylogenetic relationships among 26 of the 37 recognised taxa of Utricularia subgenus Polypompholyx sensu Müller & Borsch were assessed by cladistic analysis of DNA sequences from the plastid rps16 intron. We also examined the placement of the recently described U. simmonsii (sect. Minutae), which was reported to share some morphological characters with subgenus Polypompholyx. We found strong jackknife support for a monophyletic subgenus Polypompholyx lineage; however, our strict consensus tree shows an unresolved relationship between the sections Polypompholyx and Pleiochasia. Within the section Pleiochasia, we found two supported clades, generally differing in a more northern or southern distribution. Despite high levels of morphological heterogeneity and convergence, we found some clade-specific character homogeneity within these two clades, particularly that of growth and bladder-trap form, and floral structure. Bladder-trap form corresponds most strongly with terrestrial v. aquatic habits. The evolution of filiform corolla appendages corresponds with floral colour, and is possibly associated with sexual mimicry, with those of the upper corolla arising twice independently. Furthermore, we found that U. monanthos and U. novae-zelandiae remain synonyms of U. dichotoma, and that U. simmonsii is not included in the subgenus Polypompholyx, but instead is allied with sections Stomoisia and Enskide of subgenus Bivalvaria.



2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (0) ◽  
pp. 411-412
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Hasuike ◽  
Takahiro Goto ◽  
Yutaka Tamaura ◽  
Yoshio Yoshizawa




1990 ◽  
Vol 173 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 143-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Pellmyr ◽  
L. B. Thien ◽  
G. Bergstr�m ◽  
I. Groth
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