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Animal phylogenetics

The mitochondrial genomes of the endemic and endangered South Philippine Hawk-eagle Nisaetus pinskeri and other Nisaetus Hawk-eagles (Aves, Accipitriformes)

Dhan Mikhail Perdon, John Michael Egana, Francis Tablizo, Renato Jacinto Mantaring, Kris Punayan, Shiela Mae Araiza, Jo-Hannah Llames, Ma. Celeste Abad, Jayson Ibañez, Cynthia P. Saloma

published 26 Oct 2026

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Assessing the impact of phylogenetic reconstruction error on genetic reassortment inference in segmented viruses

Hugo G. Castelán-Sánchez, Art F. Y. Poon

published 22 Oct 2026

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Characterisation of multidrug-resistant, avian pathogenic-like Escherichia coli O78 from dairy-bred calves with atypical colisepticaemia

Jolinda Pollock, Geoffrey Foster, Jordan Maliska, Katrina Henderson, Colin Mason, Cici Corbett, Gavin K. Paterson

published 09 Oct 2026

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Factors shaping sugar metabolism in Neotropical bats: A physiological and ecological perspective

Andrea Bernal-Rivera, Cristian Calvache-Sánchez, Oscar E. Murillo-García

published 11 Aug 2026

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First eDNA-based monitoring of marine vertebrates in the urban marine ecosystem of Abu Dhabi: Mangrove and seagrass beds as biodiversity reservoirs?

Jean-Luc Jung, Rachel Haderlé, Karen Cosnier, Mohamed Al Musallami, Sara Al Mehairbi, Ponpandi Perumal, Sultan Al Hammadi, Alice Valentini, Visotheary Ung, Christophe Prazuck, Clio Chaveneau, Olivier Adam

published 04 Aug 2026

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Characteristics of Escherichia coli ST131 strains isolated from dogs and cats with urinary tract infections in a teaching hospital in Taiwan

Shu-Xian Lin, Kuang-Sheng Yeh

published 22 May 2026

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The latitudinal speciation gradient in freshwater fishes: Higher speciation across assemblages at higher latitudes in the northern hemisphere

Juliana Herrera-Pérez, Juan Carvajal-Quintero, Axel Arango, Daniel Valencia-Rodríguez, Ana Berenice García-Andrade, Pablo Tedesco, Fabricio Villalobos

published 23 Jan 2026

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Morphological diversity in the honeyeater hyolingual apparatus and its relationship with nectarivory

Amanda E. Hewes, Cassandra Fieldson, Maude W. Baldwin, William A. Buttemer, Alejandro Rico-Guevara

published 04 Dec 2025

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Using citizen science data to estimate trait and climate drivers of daily activity patterns in temperate butterflies

Jacob Idec, Caitlin J. Campbell, Michael Belitz, V. A. Akshay, Rob Guralnick

published 21 Nov 2025

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Structural and evolutionary constraints shape adaptive landscapes of immune-related genes across mammalian phylogeny

Zhengtian Li, Mubbashar Hassan, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Adnan Ashraf, Akhtar Rasool Asif, Iram Qadeer, Abid Hussain Shahzad, Shaista Abbas, Muhammad Sajid, Abdul Mateen, Irfan Ahmed, Jamal Muhammad, Sayyed Aun Muhammad, Farid S. Ataya

published 07 Nov 2025

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Phylogenomics of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): Cloud forests and Pliocene extinction explain the timing and spread of an iconic South American radiation

Max R. Bangs, Alexandre Reis Percequillo, Víctor Pacheco, Scott J. Steppan

published 04 Nov 2025

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Captivity-driven microbiota reshaping: A cross-species analysis of divergent patterns in the gut microbiota of giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), red pandas (Ailurus fulgens), and Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus)

Lin Xu, Zhengquan Hu, Xin Zhang, Siyuan Zhang, Wenjing Li, Minglei Wang, Ruihong Ning, Wei Guo

published 08 Oct 2025

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Mitochondrial genomics and phylogeny of noctuoid moths: Implications for Macroheterocera

Sivasankaran Kuppusamy, Muzafar Riyaz, Rauf Ahmad Shah, Ignacimuthu Savarimuthu, Karuppasamy Paraman

published 07 Oct 2025

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