Population divergence and speciation

Selected relevant papers (available from WCF upon request):

Cadena, C. D., Z. A. Cheviron, and W. C. Funk. 2011. Testing the molecular and evolutionary causes of a 'leapfrog' pattern of geographical variation in coloration. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:402-414.

Funk, W. C., and M. A. Murphy . 2010. Testing evolutionary hypotheses for phenotypic divergence using landscape genetics . Molecular Ecology 19:427-430.

Funk, W. C., D. C. Cannatella, and M. J. Ryan. 2009. Genetic divergence is more tightly related to call variation than landscape features in the Amazonian frogs Physalaemus petersi and P. freibergi. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22:1839-1853.

Funk, W. C., A. Angulo, J. P. Caldwell, M. J. Ryan, and D. C. Cannatella. 2008. Comparison of morphology and calls of two cryptic species of Physalaemus (Anura: Leiuperidae). Herpetologica 64:290–304.

Funk, W. C., C. A. Pearl, H. M. Draheim, M. J. Adams, T. D. Mullins, and S. M. Haig. 2008. Range-wide phylogeographic analysis of the spotted frog complex (Rana luteiventris and Rana pretiosa) in northwestern North America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49:198–210.

Boul, K. E., W. C. Funk (joint first author), C. R. Darst, D. C. Cannatella, and M. J. Ryan. 2007. Sexual selection drives speciation in an Amazonian frog. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274:399–406.
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Funk, W. C., J. P. Caldwell, C. E. Peden, J. M. Padial, I. de la Riva, and D. C. Cannatella. 2007. Tests of biogeographic hypotheses for diversification in the Amazonian forest frog, Physalaemus petersi. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44:825–837.

Guayasamin, J. M., M. R. Bustamante, D. Almeida-Reinoso, and W. C. Funk. 2006. Glass frogs (Centrolenidae) of Yanayacu Biological Station, Ecuador, with the description of a new species and comments on centrolenid systematics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147:489–513.