Complete mitogenomes of ancient Caribbean Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus)

TL;DR: The results are congruent with ancient DNA studies that favor the hypothesis of a natural introduction of the group in the archipelago before settlement of human populations, and the observed phenotypic homogeneity and stability over the 2000 years of Pre-Columbian occupation suggests that rice rats were not part of long-distance inter-island exchanges by humans.

TL;DR: A striking loss of parrot diversity is revealed, much of which took place during human occupation of the islands, and genetic information spanning paleontological, archaeological, and modern contexts is demonstrated to understand the role of humans in altering the diversity and distribution of biota.

TL;DR: This first database of terrestrial vertebrate species introductions spanning the entire anthropogenic history of a system: the Caribbean is presented, finding that serial human colonization events contributed to habitat modifications and species extinctions that shaped the trajectories of subsequent species introduction by other human groups.

TL;DR: It is argued dimorphic representations of “pigs” on Ligon’s map reflect the co-occurrence of peccary and European domestic swine on historic Barbados, overturning conventional history and providing greater taxonomic and chronological resolution for Caribbean bioinvasion studies, helping to refine the understanding of potential ecological impacts.

TL;DR: This book describes ggplot2, a new data visualization package for R that uses the insights from Leland Wilkisons Grammar of Graphics to create a powerful and flexible system for creating data graphics.

TL;DR: The GATK programming framework enables developers and analysts to quickly and easily write efficient and robust NGS tools, many of which have already been incorporated into large-scale sequencing projects like the 1000 Genomes Project and The Cancer Genome Atlas.

TL;DR: It is shown that a combination of hill-climbing approaches and a stochastic perturbation method can be time-efficiently implemented and found higher likelihoods between 62.2% and 87.1% of the studied alignments, thus efficiently exploring the tree-space.

TL;DR: Geneious Basic has been designed to be an easy-to-use and flexible desktop software application framework for the organization and analysis of biological data, with a focus on molecular sequences and related data types.