Monachus tropicalis.

• 10.1644/747

New information on the natural history, distribution, and skull size of the extinct (?) West Indian monk seal, Monachus tropicalis.

IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2

A new look at the statistical model identification.

History of North American pinnipeds: a monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears, and seals of North America. Miscellaneous Publications of the U.S.

The West Indian seal (Monachus tropicalis Gray).

• 2246/836

Journal of Systematic Paleontology

A molecular view of pinniped relationships with particular emphasis on the true seals.

Comparison between the complete mtDNA sequences of the blue and the fin whale, two species that can hybridize in nature.

Mitogenomic analyses of caniform relationships.

Pinniped phylogeny and a new hypothesis for their origin and dispersal.

Final closure of Panama and the onset of northern hemisphere glaciation.

Mitochondrial pseudogenes: evolution’s misplaced witnesses.

Pinniped taxonomy: review of currently recognized species and subspecies, and evidence used for their description.

Building large trees by combining phylogenetic information: a complete phylogeny of the extant Carnivora (Mammalia).

A morphological perspective on the phylogenetic relationships of the extant phocid seals (Mammalia: Carnivora: Phocidae).

The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of Nyctereutes procyonoides.

Closure of the Isthmus of Panama: the near-shore marine record of Costa Rica and western Panama.

Evolution and Environment in Tropical America

De quelques Espèces de Phoques et des groupes génériques entre lesquels elles se partagent.

A phylogeny of the extant Phocidae inferred from complete mitochondrial DNA coding regions.

Conserved primers for rapid sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome from carnivores, applied to three species of bears.

Pinnipedimorph evolutionary biogeography.

Relaxed phylogenetics and dating with confidence.

Bayesian phylogenetics with BEAUTI and the BEAST 1.7.

Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap.

PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package) version 3.6

A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World’s Extinct Animals.

The Philosophy of Zoology, or, A General View of the Structure, Function, and Classification of Animals

Multiple fossil calibrations, nuclear loci and mitochondrial genomes provide new insight into biogeography and divergence timing for true seals (Phocidae, Pinnipedia).

Multiple markers and multiple individuals refine true seal phylogeny and bring molecules and morphology back in line.

Historical biogeography and phylogeny of monachine seals (Pinnipedia: Phocidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA data.

The conditioned reconstructed process.

Prodrome of a monograph of the Pinnipedes.

Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs, für höhere Schulen

Gemeinnütziges Hand- und Hilfsbuch der Naturgeschichte

Biological investigations in Mexico.

A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica

On the variation of the teeth of the crested seal, Cystophora cristata, and on a new species of the genus from the West Indies.

Catalogue of the Specimens of the Mammalia in the Collections of the British Museum

Description of a new genus and species of seal (Heliophoca atlantica) from Madeira.

Catalogue of the Seals and Whales in the British Museum

New algorithms and methods to estimate maximum-likelihood phylogenies: assessing the performance of PhyML 3.0.

Glacial refugia and the phylogeography of Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) in the North Pacific.

Role of Panama uplift on oceanic freshwater balance.

Beschreibung der Münchs-Robbe.

Sinonimía Vulgar y Científica de los Principales Vertebrados Mexicanos

Phylogeny and divergence of the pinnipeds (Carnivora: Mammalia) assessed using a multigene dataset

DNA sequences from multiple amplifications reveal artifacts induced by cytosine deamination in ancient DNA.

When are fossils better than extant taxa in phylogenetic analysis?

Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus

Timing of the oceanographic and biological isolation of the Caribbean Sea from the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean.

Bayes factors.

Complete mitochondrial genomes and a novel spatial genetic method reveal cryptic phylogeographical structure and migration patterns among brown bears in north-western Eurasia.

Life history of the Hawaiian monk seal.

The monk seals (genus Monachus).

• 1302

Relationships of the hooded and elephant seals (genera Cystophora and Mirounga).

Some notes on the Hawaiian monk seal.

The fossil monk seal Pontophoca sarmatica (Alekseev) (Mammalia: Phocidae: Monachinae) from the Miocene of eastern Europe.

Global threats to pinnipeds.

A new method for calculating evolutionary substitution rates.

Phylogenetic analyses of complete Cytochrome b genes of the order Carnivora with particular emphasis on the Caniformia.

The effect of ambiguous data on phylogenetic estimates obtained by maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference.

IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2

Eine Robbe von Laysan.

Extinction rate, historical population structure and ecological role of the Caribbean monk seal.

Tropical and subtropical records of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) dispel the myth of extant Caribbean monk seals (Monachus tropicalis).

Evidence for middle Eocene and younger land emergence in central Panama: implications for isthmus closure.

Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals.

The enigma of the landlocked Baikal and Caspian seals addressed through phylogeny of phocine mitochondrial sequences.

APE: Analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R language.

Genetic diversity and differentiation between the two remaining populations of the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal.

The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca).

R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing

Geography of phocid evolution.

Phoca wymani and other Tertiary seals (Mammalia: Phocidae) described from the eastern seaboard of North America.

Maximum likelihood inference of geographic range evolution by dispersal, local extinction, and cladogenesis.

Marine mammals of the world: systematics and distribution.

The origin of the Hawaiian monk seal.

• 66217

Historical Biogeography, Plate Tectonics, and the Changing Environment

Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth.

MrBayes 3.2: efficient Bayesian phylogenetic inference and model choice across a large model space.

Impact of missing data on phylogenies inferred from empirical phylogenomic data sets.

Extremely low genetic diversity in the endangered Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi).

The recent status of Monachus monachus, the Mediterranean monk seal.

Multiple comparisons of log-likelihoods with applications to phylogenetic inference.

Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution.

RAxML-VI-HPC: maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models.

Bayesian selection of continuous-time Markov chain evolutionary models.

An analysis of the mammalian generic names given in Dr. C. W. L. Gloger’s ‘Naturgeschichte’ (1841).

Historical distribution of the extinct tropical seal, Monachus tropicalis (Carnivora: Phocidae).

Holocene Extinctions

First human-caused extinction of a cetacean species?

Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: new evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Fossil seals from late Neogene deposits in South America: a new pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) assemblage from Chile.

A Stranding Guide to the Marine Mammals of the Wider Caribbean Region: An Introductory Field Guide for Stranding Responders

Missing data and the accuracy of Bayesian phylogenetics.

Missing data in phylogenetic analysis: reconciling results from simulations and empirical data.

Highly incomplete taxa can rescue phylogenetic analyses from the negative impacts of limited taxon sampling.

Ancient DNA.

Galápagos and Californian sea lions are separate species: genetic analysis of the genus Zalophus and its implications for conservation management.

• 10.1186/1742-9994-4-20

Treating fossils as terminal taxa in divergence time estimation reveals ancient vicariance patterns in the palpimanoid spiders.

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference

On “retrogression” in the evolution of the Phocinae and phylogenetic affinities of the monk seals.

Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: approximate methods.

Single origin of Malagasy Carnivora from an African ancestor.

On the phylogeny of Mustelidae subfamilies: analysis of seventeen nuclear non-coding loci and mitochondrial complete genomes.