Phylogeography

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A necessarily complex model to explain the biogeography of the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar. 
  • A taxonomic monograph of Ipomoea integrated across phylogenetic scales. 
  • A time and a place for everything: phylogenetic history and geography as joint predictors of oak plastome phylogeny. 
  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species. 
  • Atractiella rhizophila, sp. nov., an endorrhizal fungus isolated from the Populus root microbiome. 
  • Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives. 
  • Boechera, a model system for ecological genomics. 
  • Cryptococcus neoformans Recovered From Olive Trees (Olea europaea) in Turkey Reveal Allopatry With African and South American Lineages. 
  • Defining spatial and temporal patterns of phylogeographic structure in Madagascar's iguanid lizards (genus Oplurus). 
  • Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome. 
  • Endemism and functional convergence across the North American soil mycobiome. 
  • Evidence for reciprocal origins in Polypodium hesperium (Polypodiaceae): A fern model system for investigating how multiple origins shape allopolyploid genomes 
  • Evolution of DNA Methylation in Papio Baboons. 
  • Evolutionary origin of the latitudinal diversity gradient in liverworts. 
  • Extensive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Is Due to Incomplete Lineage Sorting and Not Ongoing Introgression in a Rapidly Radiated Bryophyte Genus. 
  • Formalizing morphologically cryptic biological entities: new insights from DNA taxonomy, hybridization, and biogeography in the leafy liverwort Porella platyphylla (Jungermanniopsida, Porellales). 
  • Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye. 
  • Frequent circumarctic and rare transequatorial dispersals in the lichenised agaric genus Lichenomphalia (Hygrophoraceae, Basidiomycota). 
  • Genome Evolution and Innovation across the Four Major Lineages of Cryptococcus gattii. 
  • Geogenetic patterns in mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus) reveal the ghosts of Madagascar's forests past. 
  • Historical effects on beta diversity and community assembly in Amazonian trees. 
  • Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. 
  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. 
  • Microbiome of the upper troposphere: species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications. 
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family: analysis of the epidemiological and clinical factors associated with an emerging lineage in the urban area of Milan. 
  • Niche partitioning and biogeography of high light adapted Prochlorococcus across taxonomic ranks in the North Pacific. 
  • Oceanic islands are not sinks of biodiversity in spore-producing plants. 
  • Phylogeny and biogeography of East Asian evergreen oaks (Quercus section Cyclobalanopsis; Fagaceae): Insights into the Cenozoic history of evergreen broad-leaved forests in subtropical Asia. 
  • Phylogeny and biogeography of the American live oaks (Quercus subsection Virentes): a genomic and population genetics approach. 
  • Phylogeography of a Morphologically Cryptic Golden Mole Assemblage from South-Eastern Africa. 
  • Phylogeography of the arid-adapted Malagasy bullfrog, Laliostoma labrosum, influenced by past connectivity and habitat stability. 
  • Range size heritability and diversification patterns in the liverwort genus Radula. 
  • Refugial isolation and range expansions drive the genetic structure of Oxyria sinensis (Polygonaceae) in the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains. 
  • SnapShot: Microbial Extremophiles. 
  • Species delimitation and biogeography of a southern hemisphere liverwort clade, Frullania subgenus Microfrullania (Frullaniaceae, Marchantiophyta). 
  • The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition. 
  • The narrow endemic Norwegian peat moss Sphagnum troendelagicum originated before the last glacial maximum. 
  • The phylogeography and incidence of multi-drug resistant typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Tracing Genetic Exchange and Biogeography of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii at the Global Population Level. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Mitchell-Olds, Thomas, Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor of Biology, Biology
  • Yoder, Anne Daphne, Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Duke Science & Society