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Testing the role of ecology and life history in structuring genetic variation across a landscape: a trait-based phylogeographic approach

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Ecology, July 2015
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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40 tweeters

Citations

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Readers on

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Title
Testing the role of ecology and life history in structuring genetic variation across a landscape: a trait-based phylogeographic approach
Published in
Molecular Ecology, July 2015
DOI 10.1111/mec.13275
Pubmed ID
26080899
Authors

Andrea Paz, Roberto Ibáñez, Karen R. Lips, Andrew J. Crawford

Abstract

Hypotheses to explain phylogeographic structure traditionally invoke geographic features, but often fail to provide a general explanation for spatial patterns of genetic variation. Organism's intrinsic characteristics might play more important roles than landscape features in determining phylogeographic structure. We developed a novel comparative approach to explore the role of ecological and life-history variables in determining spatial genetic variation and tested it on frog communities in Panama. We quantified spatial genetic variation within 31 anuran species based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, for which hierarchical approximate Bayesian computation analyses rejected simultaneous divergence over a common landscape. Regressing ecological variables on genetic divergence allowed us to test the importance of individual variables revealing that body size, current landscape resistance, geographic range, biogeographic origin, and reproductive mode were significant predictors of spatial genetic variation. Our results support the idea that phylogeographic structure represents the outcome of an interaction between organisms and environment, and suggest a conceptual integration we refer to as ecophylogeography. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 3%
Brazil 3 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 213 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 23%
Researcher 33 15%
Student > Master 29 13%
Student > Bachelor 23 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 10%
Other 40 18%
Unknown 26 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 149 66%
Environmental Science 23 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 1%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 1%
Other 7 3%
Unknown 26 12%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 July 2020.
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#1,602,066
of 23,714,250 outputs
Outputs from Molecular Ecology
#731
of 6,410 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,038
of 263,921 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Molecular Ecology
#10
of 112 outputs
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