Predation on the gecko phyllodactylus gerrhopygus (Wiegmann) (squamata: Gekkonidae) by the six-eyed sand spider sicarius thomisoides (walckenaer) (araneae: Sicariidae) [Depredación sobre el geco phyllodactylus gerrhopygus (Wiegmann) (squamata: gekkonidae) por la araña de arena de seis ojos sicarius thomisoides (walckenaer) (araneae: sicariidae)]

10.25085/rsea.790207Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina79248-5

Current advances in molecular phylogenetics

10.1155/2014/596746BioMed Research International201459674

Attack risk for butterflies changes with eyespot number and size

10.1098/rsos.150614Royal Society Open Science3115061

A Single Origin for Nymphalid Butterfly Eyespots Followed by Widespread Loss of Associated Gene Expression

10.1371/journal.pgen.1002893PLoS Genetics88e100289

Tempo of speciation in a butterfly genus from the Southeast Asian tropics, inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data

Molecular systematics is frequently beset with phylogenetic results that are not fully resolved. Researchers either state that the absence of resolution is due to character conflict, explosive speciation, or some combination of the two, but seldom do they carefully examine their data to distinguish between these causes. In this study, we exhaustively analyze a set of nuclear and mitochondrial nucleotide data for the Asian tropical butterfly genus Arhopala so as to highlight the causes of polytomies in the phylogenetic trees, and, as a result, to infer important biological events in the history of this genus. We began by using non-parametric statistical methods to determine whether the ambiguously resolved regions in these trees represent hard or soft polytomies. In addition we determined how this correlated to number of inferred changes on branches, using parametric maximum likelihood estimations. Based on congruent patterns in both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences, we concluded that at two stages in the history of Arhopala there have been accelerated instances of speciation. One event, at the base of the phylogeny, generated many of the groups and subgroups currently recognized in this genus, while a later event generated another major clade consisting of both Oriental and Papuan species groups. Based on comparisons of closely related taxa, the ratio of instantaneous rate of evolution between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA evolution is established at approximately 3:1. The earliest radiation is dated between 7 and 11 Ma by a molecular clock analysis, setting the events generating much of the diversity of Arhopala at well before the Pleistocene. Periodical flooding of the Sunda plateau during interglacial periods was, therefore, not responsible for generating the major divisions in the genus Arhopala. Instead, we hypothesize that large-scale climatic changes taking place in the Miocene have induced the early acceleration in speciatio

The 2006 NESCent phyloinformatics hackathon: A field report

10.1177/117693430700300016Evolutionary Bioinformatics3287-29