Kyle A. O’Connell
National Museum of Natural History
28 Papers
47 Citations
Kyle A. O’Connell is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Population. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 21 publications. Previous affiliations of Kyle A. O’Connell include University of Texas at Arlington & University of Texas at Austin.
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Papers
Candidate‐species delimitation in Desmognathus salamanders reveals gene flow across lineage boundaries, confounding phylogenetic estimation and clarifying hybrid zones
TL;DR: Strong support is found for both recent admixture between terminal lineages and ancient hybridization across internal branches in Dusky Salamanders, and a signal appears to distort concatenated phylogenetic inference.
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Within-island diversification underlies parachuting frog (Rhacophorus) species accumulation on the Sunda Shelf
Kyle A. O’Connell,Kyle A. O’Connell,Utpal Smart,Eric N. Smith,Amir Hamidy,Nia Kurniawan,Matthew K. Fujita +6 more
TL;DR: This study uses the parachuting frog genus Rhacophorus to estimate divergence times and quantify the respective contributions of between and within‐island diversification to species richness and endemism.
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Two new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra and an estimation of their phylogeny.
Michael B. Harvey,Kyle A. O’Connell,Gabriel Barraza,Awal Riyanto,Nia Kurniawan,Eric N. Smith +5 more
TL;DR: Two new species of bent-toed geckos from montane forests in the southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra, Indonesia are described, one of which has a greatly enlarged scale positioned at the apex of a continuous series of femoral and precloacal pore-bearing scales.
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Geographical features are the predominant driver of molecular diversification in widely distributed North American whipsnakes.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that multiple features of the North American landscape contributed to allopatric divergence in this widely distributed snake group.
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The effect of missing data on coalescent species delimitation and a taxonomic revision of whipsnakes (Colubridae: Masticophis).
TL;DR: This study demonstrates the power of molecular data and model-based delimitation methods to identify evolutionary relationships, and finds that missing data have little impact on the outcome of delimitation analyses.
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