Browsing by Author "Oleksyk, Taras K."

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    • Colonization of islands in the Mona Passage by endemic dwarf geckoes (genus Sphaerodactylus) reconstructed with mitochondrial phylogeny 

      Díaz-Lameiro, Alondra M.; Oleksyk, Taras K.; Bird-Picó, Fernando J.; Martínez-Cruzado, Juan Carlos (2013)
      Little is known about the natural history of the Sphaerodactylus species endemic to the three islands located in the Mona Passage separating the Greater Antillean islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. In this study, parts ...

    • Innovative assembly strategy contributes to understanding the evolution and conservation genetics of the endangered Solenodon paradoxus from the island of Hispaniola 

      Grigorev, Kirill; Kliver, Sergey; Dobrynin, Pavel; Komissarov, Aleksey; Wolfsberger, Walter; Krasheninnikova, Ksenia; Afanador-Hernández, Yashira M.; Brandt, Adam L.; Paulino, Liz A.; Carreras de León, Rosanna; Rodríguez, Luis E.; Nuñez, Adrell; Brandt, Jessica R.; Silva, Filipe; Hernández-Martich, David; Majeske1, Audrey J.; Antunes, Agostinho; Roca, Alfred L.; O’Brien, Stephen J.; Martínez-Cruzado, Juan Carlos; Oleksyk, Taras K. (2018)
      Solenodons are insectivores that live in Hispaniola and Cuba. They form an isolated branch in the tree of placental mammals that are highly divergent from other eulipothyplan insectivores The history, unique biology, and ...

    • Mitogenomic sequences support a north–south subspecies subdivision within Solenodon paradoxus 

      Brandt, Adam L.; Grigorev, Kirill; Afanador-Hernández, Yashira M.; Paulino, Liz A.; Murphy, William J.; Núñez, Adrell; Komissarov, Aleksey; Brandt, Jessica R.; Dobrynin, Pavel; Hernández-Martich, J. David; María, Roberto; O’Brien, Stephen J.; Rodríguez, Luis E.; Martínez-Cruzado, Juan C.; Oleksyk, Taras K.; Roca, Alfred L. (2017)
      Solenodons are insectivores found only in Hispaniola and Cuba, with a Mesozoic divergence date versus extant mainland mammals. Solenodons are the oldest lineage of living eutherian mammal for which a mitogenome sequence ...

    • Molecular phylogeny and evolution of amazon parrots in the Greater Antilles 

      Kolchanova, Sofiia; Komissarov, Alexey; Kliver, Sergei; Mazo-Vargas, Anyi; Afanador, Yashira; Vélez-Valentín, Jafet; Valentín de la Rosa, Ricardo; Castro-Márquez, Stephanie; Rivera-Colón, Israel; Majeske, Audrey J.; Wolfsberger, Walter W.; Hains, Taylor; Corvelo, André; Martínez-Cruzado, Juan-Carlos; Glenn, Travis C.; Robinson, Orlando; Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Oleksyk, Taras K. (2021)
      Amazon parrots (Amazona spp.) colonized the islands of the Greater Antilles from the Central American mainland, but there has not been a consensus as to how and when this happened. Today, most of the five remaining island ...