From B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk Wed Feb 13 08:40:08 2013 From: B.Huertas at nhm.ac.uk (Blanca Huertas) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:40:08 +0000 Subject: [TABD] Lepidoptera Course in Peru In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Estimados amig at s, Les reenv?o este correo que me hicieron llegar sobre el siguiente curso a realizarse en el Centro de Ecolog?a y Biodiversidad en Per? el a?o siguiente del 7 al 16 de agosto (Neotropical Lepidoptera Course), creo que puede ser de su inter?s: http://www.cebioperu.org/courses/lepidoptera-2013.php Saludos, Jos? Luis -- ___________________________________ Dr. Jos? Luis Salinas-Guti?rrez Museo de Zoolog?a "Alfonso L. Herrera" Departamento de Biolog?a Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM AP 70-399, M?xico DF 04510 M?xico, M?XICO Tel?fono: + (52) (55) 5622 - 4954 Fax: + (52) (55) 5622 - 4828 Correo electr?nico: sgjl at att.net.mx heliopetes at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From mycalesis at gmail.com Tue Feb 26 12:23:49 2013 From: mycalesis at gmail.com (Carlos Pena) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:23:49 +0200 Subject: [TABD] Please review our paper: Diversity dynamics in Nymphalidae butterflies Message-ID: <512CA955.4060608@gmail.com> Hi all, We got infected by the "open peer-review" fashion so I posted our unpublished manuscript for open-peer review on Peerage of Science. The title is: "Diversity dynamics in Nymphalidae butterflies: Effect of phylogenetic uncertainty on diversification rate shift estimates" You are welcome to review and provide comments/criticism. The manuscript is available at: https://www.peerageofscience.org/?link=63485 Note that you will need to create an account. See the abstract below. Thanks! ================= Abstract: The family Nymphalidae is the largest family within the true butterflies and has been used to develop hypotheses explaining evolutionary interactions between plants and insects. Theories of insect and hostplant dynamics predict accelerated diversification in some scenarios. We investigated whether phylogenetic uncertainty affects a commonly used method (MEDUSA, modelling evolutionary diversity using stepwise AIC) for estimating shifts in diversification rates in lineages of the family Nymphalidae, by extending the method to run across a random sample of phylogenetic trees from the posterior distribution of a Bayesian run. We found that phylogenetic uncertainty greatly affects diversification rate estimates. Different trees from the posterior distribution can give diversification rates ranging from high values to almost zero for the same clade, and for some clades both significant rate increase and decrease were estimated. Only three out of 13 significant shifts found on the maximum credibility tree were consistent across more than 95% of the trees from the posterior: (i) accelerated diversification for Solanaceae feeders in the tribe Ithomiini; (ii) accelerated diversification in the genus Charaxes, and (iii) deceleration in the Danaina. By using the binary speciation and extinction model (BISSE), we found that a hostplant shift to Solanaceae or a codistributed character is responsible for the increase in diversification rate in Ithomiini, and the result is congruent with the diffuse cospeciation hypothesis. A shift to Apocynaceae is not responsible for the slowdown of diversification in Danaina. Our results show that taking phylogenetic uncertainty into account when estimating diversification rate shifts is of great importance, and relying on the maximum credibility tree alone potentially can give erroneous results. Keywords: diversification analysis, MEDUSA, BiSSE, speciation rate, insect-hostplant dynamics ================= carlos -- Dr. Carlos Pe?a Laboratory of Genetics Department of Biology University of Turku 20014 Turku FINLAND * Associated Editor, Revista Peruana de Biolog?a http://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/rpb * The Nymphalidae Systematics Group http://nymphalidae.utu.fi/db.php From cpenz at uno.edu Wed Feb 27 18:46:21 2013 From: cpenz at uno.edu (Carla M Penz) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:46:21 +0000 Subject: [TABD] new publication Message-ID: Hello everybody, The latest on Brassolini can be downloaded from the link below - some food for thought. http://fs.uno.edu/cpenz/Pubs.html Best wishes, Carla ___________________________ Carla M. Penz Department of Biological Sciences University of New Orleans http://fs.uno.edu/cpenz/ and http://biology.uno.edu/people/penz/home.aspx