Phylogenetics
Study of evolutionary relationships between organisms
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| 2024 |
Lazarus taxon
Egyptian population of spotted hyena was rediscovered, after being presumed extirpated for 5000 years.
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| 2024 |
Lazarus taxon
Montreal melon replanted after being preserved in a seed bank.
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| 2024 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Han and Molloy published a follow-up research on TREE-QMC, continuing to develop the species tree estimation method.
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| 2023 |
Lazarus taxon
Pernambuco holly (Ilex sapiiformis) rediscovered in Igarassu, Pernambuco after being unseen since 1837.
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| 2023 |
Lazarus taxon
Fagilde's trapdoor spider (Nemesia berlandi) rediscovered after being presumed lost for decades
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| 2023 |
Lazarus taxon
Victorian grassland bearded dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla), feared extinct since 1969, was rediscovered.
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| 2023 |
Lazarus taxon
Big puma fungus (Austroomphaliaster nahuelbutensis) rediscovered after being unseen for decades, representing a classic example of a Lazarus taxon.
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| 2023 |
Lazarus taxon
De Winton's golden mole was rediscovered in western South Africa, after last being seen in 1937.
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| 2023 |
Lazarus taxon
York groundsel replanted using seeds discovered in the Millennium Seed Bank.
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| 2023 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Han and Molloy published research on TREE-QMC, a method for summarizing unrooted gene trees into an unrooted species tree using the Quartet Max Cut heuristic.
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| November 2023 |
Lazarus taxon
Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was recorded again in the Cyclops Mountains of Papua New Guinea, after being last seen in 1962 and believed possibly extinct.
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| 2022 |
Lazarus taxon
Black-naped pheasant pigeon rediscovered after 140 years.
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| 2021 |
Lazarus taxon
Batman River Loach, a fish species not seen since the 1970s, was rediscovered after decades of being considered missing.
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| 2021 |
Lazarus taxon
Biologist Pierre Mvogo Ndongo rediscovered both the Sierra Leone river crab and Afzelius's crab, previously thought to be extinct, in Sierra Leone.
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| June 27 2021 |
Lazarus taxon
Green broadbill (Calyptomena viridis) rediscovered after being declared extinct since 1941.
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| 2020 |
Lazarus taxon
Somali sengi was rediscovered in Djibouti, after only being recorded from specimens in Somalia prior to 1968.
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| 2020 |
Lazarus taxon
Rediscovery of the Bolivian Cochran frog (Nymphargus bejaranoi) after being unseen for over 18 years.
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| 2020 |
Lazarus taxon
Lestes patricia damselfly was rediscovered with a colony, after only a single male specimen was initially collected in 1924.
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| 2019 |
Lazarus taxon
Vietnam mouse-deer was sighted with camera-trap photographs, after not being seen for nearly 30 years since a specimen was acquired from hunters in 1990.
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| 2019 |
Lazarus taxon
Extant individuals of Calliostoma bullatum described from deep-water coral reefs off the coast of Mauritania.
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| 2019 |
Lazarus taxon
Hibiscadelphus woodii rediscovered three years after being declared extinct.
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| 2019 |
Lazarus taxon
Madhuca diplostemon rediscovered after a long period.
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| 2019 |
Lazarus taxon
Rediscovery of the Starry night toad (Atelopus arsyecue) after being unseen for over 30 years.
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| 2019 |
Lazarus taxon
A female Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus) was rediscovered on the island during an expedition for the Animal Planet show Extinct or Alive, after only being known from a single male specimen in 1906.
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| 2018 |
Lazarus taxon
Living specimens of Cymatioa cookae discovered on the coast of Santa Barbara.
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| 2018 |
Lazarus taxon
Cloaked bee was rediscovered after not being found since 1923.
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| 2018 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Flouri et al. published additional research on BPP, expanding understanding of the multispecies coalescent process software.
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| 2018 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Jones published additional research on STACEY, further developing the software package.
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| 2018 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Zhang et al. published updated research on ASTRAL, further refining the species tree estimation method.
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| 2017 |
Lazarus taxon
Táchira antpitta (Grallaria chthonia) rediscovered in El Tamá National Park after being feared extinct since its discovery in 1956.
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| 2017 |
Lazarus taxon
Rediscovery of Jackson's climbing salamander (Bolitoglossa jacksoni) during an expedition, after being unseen since the mid-1970s.
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| 2017 |
Lazarus taxon
San Quintin kangaroo rat was rediscovered, after being feared extinct since its previous sighting in 1986.
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| 2017 |
Lazarus taxon
Cropan's boa (Corallus cropanii), endemic to the endangered Atlantic forest ecosystem of Brazil, was rediscovered.
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| 2016 |
Lazarus taxon
Mount Diablo buckwheat (Eriogonom truncatum) rediscovered again.
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| 2016 |
Lazarus taxon
Hibiscadelphus woodii declared extinct in the Malvaceae family.
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| 2016 |
Lazarus taxon
Rediscovery of the Confusing rocket frog (Ectopoglossus confusus) after being thought extinct since 1989.
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| 2016 |
Lazarus taxon
Rediscovery of Atelopus ignescens (Jambato toad, Quito stubfoot toad) after being unseen since 1988.
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| 2016 |
Lazarus taxon
Albany adder (Bitis albanica) was rediscovered.
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| February 2016 |
Lazarus taxon
Ganges shark, previously known only from three early 19th-century museum specimens, was rediscovered at a fish market in Mumbai.
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| 2015 |
Lazarus taxon
Pygmy goosefoot (Dysphania pusilla) rediscovered after being presumed extinct since 1959.
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| 2015 |
Lazarus taxon
Bouvier's red colobus monkey was rediscovered.
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| 2015 |
Lazarus taxon
Myanmar Jerdon's babbler (Chrysomma altirostre altirostre) rediscovered after last being seen in 1941.
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| 2015 |
Lazarus taxon
Short-nosed sea snake (Aipysurus apraefrontalis) was rediscovered after leaving its original habitat of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands.
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| 2015 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Yang et al. published research on BPP, a Bayesian MCMC software package for inferring phylogeny and divergence times, including species delimitation methods.
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| 2015 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Vachaspati and Warnow published research on ASTRID, an extension of the NJst method for species tree estimation using internode distances.
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| 2015 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Jones et al. published research on STACEY, a Bayesian MCMC software package for inferring phylogeny with a novel approach to sampling minimal clusters during MCMC.
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| 2014 |
Lazarus taxon
Roosevelt's muntjac was re-discovered in Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Vietnam's Thanh Hoa province.
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| 2014 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Mirarab et al. published research on ASTRAL (Accurate Species TRee ALgorithm), a summary method that generates species tree estimates using a quartet method.
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| 2014 |
Multispecies coalescent process
Chifman and Kubatko published research on SVDquartets, a statistically consistent method for phylogenetic estimation implemented in PAUP*.
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| 2012 |
Lazarus taxon
Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat was rediscovered, after being assumed extinct since its discovery in 1974.
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