Florida Museum of Natural History

Global origins of tuna and billfish fisheries reveal the transition from coastal access to oceanic exploitation

Ocean ecosystems have played a crucial role in people’s lives around the world for millennia. However, questions persist about when, why, and how people first began removing biomass from offshore habitats and established fisheries in distant, oceanic environments. We explore the...

Aquatic vegetation promotes prey diversity but not the diversification of predator phenotypes

Freshwater fish have evolved to forage in a range of habitats, from open water in lakes to benthic shorelines and streams. Much research has focused on how prey differences, such as zooplankton versus benthic macroinvertebrates, might select for divergence in predator traits acro...

Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V

Abstract We present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of the APG classification were largely based on uniparentally inherited mark...

Quantifying niche overlap and transgression in allopolyploid hybrids: Case study of Sorbus subgenus Aria

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Apomixis, the formation of seeds without recombination, facilitates adaptation and persistence under environmental change. By preserving hybrid genotypes over long time periods, apomixis may conserve adaptive trait combinations from parental niche margins. We...

Leveraging dog models to uncover human cancer insights

Background: Comparative genomics can reveal insights into human disease that cannot be identified from human data alone. Dogs are particularly useful for comparative genomics studies as they share human diet and environment, and, from a genomics perspective, dogs are closely rela...

Genome report: Genome sequence of Phymata mystica (Evans), an ambush bug

Recent advances in sequencing technology have made the sequencing of non-model organisms significantly more streamlined and feasible. Using these technologies, we begin to address the lack of data on non-model organisms, by sequencing the genome of one such species, Phymata mysti...

Spatiotemporal Thermal Variation Modulates Phenotypic Plasticity in Freshwater Turtle Growth, Behavior, and Sex

ABSTRACT Phenotypic plasticity in life history traits is critical for organisms in variable environments and a key mechanism for persisting in a rapidly changing environment. For ecothermic organisms with temperature‐dependent sex determination, such as many turtle species, tempe...

Integrative taxonomy reveals multiple Mediterranean invasions by Indo-Pacific Dorvillea (Annelida, Dorvilleidae)

Abstract Biological invasions are a major driver of global biodiversity loss, with the Mediterranean Sea among the most heavily invaded marine regions. However, identification and monitoring of Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) are hindered by taxonomic uncertainty and cryptic diversi...