Background We describe the genome of the western painted turtle, Chrysemys picta bellii,
one of the most widespread, abundant, and well-studied turtles. We place the genome into a …

The federally threatened California red‐legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii) has disappeared
from much of its range for unknown reasons. We mapped 237 historic locations for the …

A major goal of landscape genetics is to understand how landscapes structure genetic
variation in natural populations. However, landscape genetics still lacks a framework for …

November 2020 marked 2 y since the launch of the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which
aims to sequence all known eukaryotic species in a 10-y timeframe. Since then, significant …

Wind‐borne pesticides have long been suggested as a cause of amphibian declines in areas
without obvious habitat destruction. In California, the transport and deposition of pesticides …

Declines in amphibian populations are rarely reported on the community or ecosystem level.
We combined broad‐scale field sampling with historical analyses of museum records to …

Efforts to document the decline of extant populations require a historical record of previous
occurrences. Natural history museums contain such information for most regions of the world, …

Turtles and tortoises (chelonians) have been integral components of global ecosystems for
about 220 million years and have played important roles in human culture for at least …

We present phylogenetic analyses of both molecular and morphological data for the 23
major lineages of living turtles and seven key fossil taxa. Nearly 1 kilobase of cytochrome b …

▪ Abstract The number, size, and scope of phylogenetic analyses using molecular data has
increased steadily in recent years. This has simultaneously led to a dramatic improvement in …