Article
Phylogenomics, Biogeography, and Morphometrics Reveal Rapid Phenotypic Evolution in Pythons After Crossing Wallace's Line.
Systematic biology - 1 Nov 2020
Esquerré Damien, Donnellan Stephen, Brennan Ian G, Lemmon Alan R, Moriarty Lemmon Emily, Zaher Hussam, Grazziotin Felipe G, Keogh J Scott
Abstract excerpt
Ecological opportunities can be provided to organisms that cross stringent biogeographic barriers towards environments with new ecological niches. Wallace's and Lyddeker's lines are arguably the most famous biogeographic barriers, separating the Asian and Australo-Papuan biotas. One of the most ecomorphologically diverse groups of reptiles, the pythons, is distributed across these lines, and are remarkably more...
Topics
- Animals
- Asia
- Biodiversity
- Biological Evolution
- Boidae
- Ecosystem
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Phylogeography