Browsing by Author "Napolitano, Constanza"

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    • Phylogeography and population history of Leopardus guigna, the smallest American felid 
      Napolitano, Constanza; Johnson, Warren E.; Sanderson, Jim; O’Brien, Stephen J.; Hoelzel, A. Rus; Freer, Rachel; Dunstone, Nigel; Ritland, Kermit; Ritland, Carol E.; Poulin, Elie (Springer Science+Business Media, 2014)
      The guigna (Leopardus guigna) is the smallest and most-restricted New World cat species, inhabiting only around 160,000 km2 of temperate rain forests in southern South America and is currently threatened by habitat ...
    • Recurrent Evolution of Melanism in South American Felids 
      Schneider, Alexsandra; Henegar, Corneliu; Day, Kenneth; Absher, Devin; Napolitano, Constanza; Silveira, Leandro; David, Victor A.; O’Brien, Stephen J.; Menotti-Raymond, Marilyn; Barsh, Gregory S.; Eizirik, Eduardo (Elsevier, 2015)
      Morphological variation in natural populations is a genomic test bed for studying the interface between molecular evolution and population genetics, but some of the most interesting questions involve non-model organisms ...
    • Reduced Genetic Diversity and Increased Dispersal in Guigna (Leopardus guigna) in Chilean Fragmented Landscapes 
      Napolitano, Constanza; Díaz, Diego; Sanderson, Jim; Johnson, Warren E.; Ritland, Kermit; Ritland, Carol E.; Poulin, Elie (Oxford Univ Press, 2015)
      Landscape fragmentation is often a major cause of species extinction as it can affect a wide variety of ecological processes. The impact of fragmentation varies among species depending on many factors, including their ...
    • The subantarctic rayadito (aphrastura subantarctica), a new bird species on the southernmost islands of the ... 
      Rozzi, Ricardo; Quilodrán, Claudio S.; Botero Delgadillo, Esteban; Napolitano, Constanza; Torres Mura, Juan C.; Barroso, Omar; Crego, Ramiro D.; Bravo, Camila; Ippi, Silvina; Quirici, Verónica; Mackenzie, Roy; Suazo, Cristián G.; Rivero de Aguilar, Juan; Goffinet, Bernard; Kempenaers, Bart; Poulin, Elie Albert; Vásquez Salfate, Rodrigo Alfonso (Nature, 2022)
      We describe a new taxon of terrestrial bird of the genus Aphrastura (rayaditos) inhabiting the Diego Ramirez Archipelago, the southernmost point of the American continent. This archipelago is geographically isolated and ...