Origins of Lemurs and other Malagasy Biota

Year Title Format
2015 Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar’s extinct, giant ‘subfossil’ lemurs. Kistler, L., A. Ratan, L.R. Crowley, et al. Journal of Human Evolution, 79:45-54. PDF
 2014  The founding of Mauritian endemic coffee trees by a synchronous long-distance dispersal event. Nowak, M. D., Haller, B.C. and A.D. Yoder. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27(6):1229-39. PDF
2012 Sequence data from new plastid and nuclear
COSII regions resolves early diverging lineages in Coffea (Rubiaceae)
Nowak, M.D., Davis, A.P. and A.D. Yoder. Systematic Botany, 37(4):995-1005.
PDF
2009 Phylogeny and Evolution of Malagasy Plated Lizards. Raselimanana, A., Noonan, B.P., Karanth, P., Gauthier, J., and A.D. Yoder. Mol. Phyl. & Evol. 50: 336-344.

Link to ScienceDirect Version

2008 The development and application of a phylogenomic toolkit: resolving the evolutionary history of Madagascar’s lemurs. Horvath, J., Weisrock, D., Embry, S.L., Fiorentino, Balhoff, J.P., I., Kappeler, P., Wray, G.A., Willard, H., and A.D. Yoder. Genome Research 18(3): 489-499. PDF
2006 Has vicariance or dispersal been the predominant biogeographic force in Madagascar?: only time will tell. Yoder, A.D. and M. Nowak. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 37:405-431. PDF
2005 The biogeography of Madagascar: where to turn when the fossils aren’t there. Yoder, A.D. Paleontological Society Papers, V. 11, 129-139.
2005 Ancient DNA from giant extinct lemurs verifies single origin of Malagasy primates. Karanth, P. Rakotosamimanana, B., Parsons, T.J. and A.D. Yoder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 5090-5095. PDF
2003 Origin of Malagasy Carnivora. Yoder, A.D. and J.J. Flynn. In: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. Benstead, eds.) University of Chicago Press, pp. 1253-1256.
2003 Phylogeny of the lemurs. Yoder, A.D. In: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. Benstead, eds.) University of Chicago Press, pp. 1242-1247.
2003 Single origin of Malagasy Carnivora from an African ancestor. Yoder, A.D., Burns, M.M., Zehr, S., Delefosse, T., Veron, G., Goodman, S.M., and J.J. Flynn. Nature, 421: 734-737. PDF
2002 Molecular evidence of reproductive isolation in sympatric sibling species of mouse lemurs. Yoder, A.D., Burns, M.M., and F. Genin. International Journal of Primatology, 23: 1335-1343. PDF
1996 Ancient single origin for Malagasy primates. Yoder, A.D., Cartmill, M., Ruvolo, M., Smith, K., and R. Vilgalys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 93:5122-5126. PDF
Back to top