Search Results - "BUCKLEY, Thomas R"

Model Selection and Model Averaging in Phylogenetics: Advantages of Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Approaches Over Likelihood Ratio Tests by Posada, David, Buckley, Thomas R., Thorne, Jeffrey

“…Model selection is a topic of special relevance in molecular phylogenetics that affects many, if not all, stages of phylogenetic inference. Here we discuss…”
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Single origin of the Mascarene stick insects: ancient radiation on sunken islands? by Bradler, Sven, Cliquennois, Nicolas, Buckley, Thomas R

“…The study of islands as model systems plays a key role in understanding many evolutionary processes. Knowledge of the historical events leading to present-day…”
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Evolutionary history of Polyneoptera and its implications for our understanding of early winged insects by Wipfler, Benjamin, Letsch, Harald, Frandsen, Paul B., Kapli, Paschalia, Mayer, Christoph, Bartel, Daniela, Buckley, Thomas R., Donath, Alexander, Edgerly-Rooks, Janice S., Fujita, Mari, Liu, Shanlin, Machida, Ryuichiro, Mashimo, Yuta, Misof, Bernhard, Niehuis, Oliver, Peters, Ralph S., Petersen, Malte, Podsiadlowski, Lars, Schütte, Kai, Shimizu, Shota, Uchifune, Toshiki, Wilbrandt, Jeanne, Yan, Evgeny, Zhou, Xin, Simon, Sabrina

“…Polyneoptera represents one of the major lineages of winged insects, comprising around 40,000 extant species in 10 traditional orders, including grasshoppers,…”
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Extreme convergence in stick insect evolution: phylogenetic placement of the Lord Howe Island tree lobster by Buckley, Thomas R, Attanayake, Dilini, Bradler, Sven

“…we constructed a phylogeny from approximately 2.4 kb of mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data from representatives of all major phasmatodean lineages. Our…”
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Multiple lineages of hyper‐diverse Zopheridae beetles survived the New Zealand Oligocene Drowning by Buckley, Thomas R., Lord, Nathan P., Ramón-Laca, Ana, Allwood, Julia S., Leschen, Richard A. B.

“…Aim During the late Oligocene (23 mya) the New Zealand landmass was reduced to approximately 18% of its current area. It has been hypothesized that this event,…”
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Assembling large genomes: analysis of the stick insect (Clitarchus hookeri) genome reveals a high repeat content and sex-biased genes associated with reproduction by Wu, Chen, Twort, Victoria G, Crowhurst, Ross N, Newcomb, Richard D, Buckley, Thomas R

“…Stick insects (Phasmatodea) have a high incidence of parthenogenesis and other alternative reproductive strategies, yet the genetic basis of reproduction is…”
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Parallel molecular routes to cold adaptation in eight genera of New Zealand stick insects by Dennis, Alice B., Dunning, Luke T., Sinclair, Brent J., Buckley, Thomas R.

“…The acquisition of physiological strategies to tolerate novel thermal conditions allows organisms to exploit new environments. As a result, thermal tolerance…”
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Differentiating between Hypotheses of Lineage Sorting and Introgression in New Zealand Alpine Cicadas (Maoricicada Dugdale) by Buckley, Thomas R., Cordeiro, Michael, Marshall, David C., Simon, Chris, Collins, Tim

“…Lineage sorting and introgression can lead to incongruence among gene phylogenies, complicating the inference of species trees for large groups of taxa that…”
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Model Misspecification and Probabilistic Tests of Topology: Evidence from Empirical Data Sets by Buckley, Thomas R., Rannala, Bruce

“…Probabilistic tests of topology offer a powerful means of evaluating competing phylogenetic hypotheses. The performance of the nonparametric…”
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De novo transcriptome analysis of the common New Zealand stick insect Clitarchus hookeri (Phasmatodea) reveals genes involved in olfaction, digestion and sexual reproduction by Wu, Chen

“…Employs de novo transcriptome analysis to identify genes with primary functions related to female odour reception, digestion, and male sexual traits in the New…”
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Analysis of the genome of the New Zealand giant collembolan (Holacanthella duospinosa) sheds light on hexapod evolution by Wu, Chen, Jordan, Melissa D, Newcomb, Richard D, Gemmell, Neil J, Bank, Sarah, Meusemann, Karen, Dearden, Peter K, Duncan, Elizabeth J, Grosser, Sefanie, Rutherford, Kim, Gardner, Paul P, Crowhurst, Ross N, Steinwender, Bernd, Tooman, Leah K, Stevens, Mark I, Buckley, Thomas R

“…The New Zealand collembolan genus Holacanthella contains the largest species of springtails (Collembola) in the world. Using Illumina technology we have…”
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Positive selection and comparative molecular evolution of reproductive proteins from New Zealand tree weta (Orthoptera, Hemideina) by Twort, Victoria G

“…Describes the male reproductive transcriptomes for two tree weta species, Hemideina crassidens and H. thoracica. Identifies putative male reproductive…”
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Multistate Characters and Diet Shifts: Evolution of Erotylidae (Coleoptera) by Leschen, Richard A. B., Buckley, Thomas R., Lewis, Paul

“…The dominance of angiosperms has played a direct role in the diversification of insects, especially Coleoptera. The shift to angiosperm feeding from other…”
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A population genomics analysis of the Aotearoa New Zealand endemic rewarewa tree (Knightia excelsa) by McCartney, Ann M, Koot, Emily, Prebble, Jessica M, Jibran, Rubina, Mitchell, Caroline, Podolyan, Ana, Fergus, Alexander J, Arnst, Elise, Herron, Katie E, Houliston, Gary, Buckley, Thomas R, Chagné, David

“…Rewarewa (Knightia excelsa, Proteaceae) is a tree species endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand, with a natural distribution spanning Te Ika-a-Māui (North Island)…”
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A new leaf-mining moth from New Zealand, Sabulopteryx botanica sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae), feeding on the rare endemic shrub Teucrium parvifolium (Lamiaceae), with a revised checklist of New Zealand Gracillariidae by Hoare, Robert J.B., Patrick, Brian H., Buckley, Thomas R.

“…Sabulopteryxbotanica Hoare & Patrick, sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Gracillariidae, Gracillariinae) is described as a new species from New Zealand. It is regarded as…”
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phylogenetic placement and biogeographical origins of the New Zealand stick insects (Phasmatodea) by BUCKLEY, THOMAS R, ATTANAYAKE, DILINI, NYLANDER, JOHAN A. A, BRADLER, SVEN

“…The Lanceocercata are a clade of stick insects (Phasmatodea) that have undergone an impressive evolutionary radiation in Australia, New Caledonia, the…”
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Limited, episodic diversification and contrasting phylogeography in a New Zealand cicada radiation by Marshall, David C, Hill, Kathy B R, Marske, Katharine A, Chambers, Colleen, Buckley, Thomas R, Simon, Chris

“…The New Zealand (NZ) cicada fauna contains two co-distributed lineages that independently colonized the isolated continental fragment in the Miocene. One…”
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A living fossil tale of Pangaean biogeography by Murienne, Jerome, Daniels, Savel R., Buckley, Thomas R., Mayer, Georg, Giribet, Gonzalo

“…The current distributions of widespread groups of terrestrial animals and plants are supposedly the result of a mixture of either vicariance owing to…”
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Primary symbiont of the ancient scale insect family Coelostomidiidae exhibits strict cophylogenetic patterns by Dhami, Manpreet K, Buckley, Thomas R, Beggs, Jacqueline R, Taylor, Michael W

“…Bacterial symbionts play a critical role in the physiology, ecology and evolution of a diverse range of insects. Such symbionts with unknown roles in the…”
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Improved resolution on the phylogenetic relationships among Pseudomonas by the combined analysis of atpD, carA, recA and 16S rDNA by HILARIO, Elena, BUCKLEY, Thomas R, YOUNG, John M

“…A study of representatives of the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, analysing a combined data set of four molecular sequences with completely different properties…”
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