Genetic population structure of Tectura paleacea: implications for the mechanisms regulating population structure in patchy coastal habitats. by Emina Begovic, David R Lindberg

“…The seagrass limpet Tectura paleacea (Gastropoda; Patellogastropoda) belongs to a seagrass obligate lineage that has shifted from the Caribbean in the late Miocene, across the Isthmus of Panama prior to the closing of the Panamanian seaway, and then northward to its modern Baja California - Oregon distribution. …”
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Phylogeography of Nasutitermes corniger (Isoptera: Termitidae) in the Neotropical Region by Amanda de Faria Santos, Tiago Fernandes Carrijo, Eliana Marques Cancello, Adriana Coletto Morales-Corrêa e Castro

“…Phylogeographic analyses showed a dispersal route for N. corniger from Central America into South America via the Isthmus of Panama, with subsequent dispersal through the highlands east of the Andes and into eastern regions of the continent. …”
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Molecular perspective on the American transisthmian species of Macrobrachium (Caridea, Palaemonidae) by Leonardo Pileggi, Natalia Rossi, Ingo Wehrtmann, Fernando Mantelatto

“…The closure of the Isthmus of Panama (about 3.1 million years ago) separated previously continuous populations and created two groups of extant species, which live now in the Pacific and Atlantic drainage systems. …”
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COCONUT GENETIC RESOURCES by Dr. M. K. NAIR

“…The origin of coconut was placed by Martius (1850) on the West Coast of Central America near the Isthmus of Panama. On the basis of evidences for the cultivation of coconut in Sri Lanka by about 300 BC. as well as the discovery of a fossil (Pliocene) Cocos in Newzealand (Hill, 1929) and in the deserts of Rajasthan (Kaul, 1951) the theory of Central American origin has been contested. …”
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Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region. by Steffen Kiel, Bent T Hansen

“…We speculate that the increasingly oligotrophic conditions in the Caribbean Sea after the closure of the Isthmus of Panama in the Pliocene may have been unfavorable for such large lucinids because they are only facultative chemosymbiotic and need to derive a significant proportion of their nutrition from suspended organic matter.…”
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In the wake of invasion: tracing the historical biogeography of the South American cricetid radiation (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae). by Rafael N Leite, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Francisca C Almeida, Fernanda P Werneck, Duke S Rogers, Marcelo Weksler

“…The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) was greatly influenced by the completion of the Isthmus of Panama and impacted the composition of modern faunal assemblages in the Americas. …”
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New species of Polycystididae (Platyhelminthes: Kalyptorhynchia) from Cuba and the Pacific coast of Panama by Yander L. Diez, Claudia Sanjuan, Marlies Monnens, Tom Artois

“…With the data available today, a possible explanation of rhabdocoel biogeographic patterns across the Isthmus of Panama remains largely speculative. …”
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Predominant east to west colonizations across major oceanic barriers: Insights into the phylogeographic history of the hydroid superfamily Plumularioidea, suggested by a mitochondr... by Carlos J. Moura, Allen G. Collins, Ricardo S. Santos, Harilaos Lessios

“…Extant geminate clades separated by the Isthmus of Panama have predominantly Atlantic origin. Various ancient colonizations mainly directed from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic occurred through the Tethys Sea and around South Africa in periods of lower intensity of the Benguela upwelling. …”
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What complete mitochondrial genomes tell us about the evolutionary history of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens by J. Guilliet, G. Baudouin, N. Pollet, J. Filée

“…We estimate the separation events of the different haplotypes at more than 2 million years for the oldest branches characterizing the ancestral split between present North American lineages and the other highly diverse south-central American clades, possibly the following radiation beyond the isthmus of Panama northwards. Our data confirm that this North American lineage ultimately gave birth to almost all commercial BSF stocks that participated in the worldwide BSF dissemination through farm escapements. …”
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Documenting Translation and Vertical-Axis Rotations using Paleomagnetic Techniques along the Panama Isthmus: Preliminary Results by César Silva, Germán Bayona, Abraham Osorio, Camilo Montes, Carlos Jaramillo, Luis Santamaría

“…Along the Isthmus of Panama 23 paleomagnetic sites were sampled in order to determine preliminary block rotations and paleolatitudinal movements. …”
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Placing Immateriality: Situating the Material of Highland Chiriquí by Karen Holmberg

“…Chiriquí, like the isthmus of Panamá overall, inhabits a nebulous place in archaeological conception due to its positioning below Mesoamerica and above the Andean world. …”
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A Multigene Phylogeny of Native American Hawkweeds (<i>Hieracium</i> Subgen. <i>Chionoracium</i>, Cichorieae, Asteraceae): Origin, Speciation Patterns, and Migration Routes by Judith Fehrer, Yann J. K. Bertrand, Matthias Hartmann, Petra Caklová, Jiřina Josefiová, Siegfried Bräutigam, Jindřich Chrtek

“…Via one Central American lineage, the group colonized South America and radiated into more than a hundred species within about 0.8 million years, long after the closure of the Isthmus of Panama and the most recent uplift of the Andes. …”
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Lower Miocene stratigraphy along the Panama Canal and its bearing on the Central American Peninsula. by Michael Xavier Kirby, Douglas S Jones, Bruce J MacFadden

“…Our new data sets demonstrate that the main axis of the volcanic arc in southern Central America more than likely existed as a peninsula connected to northern Central America and North America for much of the Miocene, which has profound implications for our understanding of the tectonic, climatic, oceanographic and biogeographic history related to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama.…”
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Morphological and molecular (28S rRNA) data of monogeneans (Platyhelminthes) infecting the gill lamellae of marine fishes in the Campeche Bank, southwest Gulf of Mexico by Edgar F. Mendoza-Franco, Mariela del Carmen Rosado Tun, Allan de Jesús Duarte Anchevida, Rodolfo E. del Rio Rodríguez

“…As previously suggested, there are at least, two possibilities to explain that parasite distribution: differentiation of morphological features in these monogeneans have resulted in only slight to insignificant morphological changes developing over the extended period of 3.2 mya (when the Isthmus of Panama was closing) and/or speciation is only evident at molecular level.…”
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Characterization of shallow groundwater in Eocene sediments of Panama Canal Watershed using electrical techniques by Irving Díaz, Alexis Mojica Ábrego, Carlos Ho, Reinhardt Pinzón, José Fábrega, Erick Vallester, David Vega, Fred Ogden, Jan Hendrickx

“…Based on the results of this study, we conclude that the infiltrations generated by the affluent in this part of the Isthmus of Panama are very important, even in periods when precipitation levels are.…”
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Contrasting patterns of population structure of Bulwer’s petrel (Bulweria bulwerii) between oceans revealed by statistical phylogeography by Mónica C. Silva, Paulo Catry, Joël Bried, Kazuto Kawakami, Elizabeth Flint, José P. Granadeiro

“…Conversely, divergence between the Central Pacific and Atlantic populations occurred within the last 200,000 years. While the Isthmus of Panama is important in restricting gene flow between oceans in Bulwer’s petrels, the deepest phylogeographic break is within the Pacific Ocean, where oceanographic barriers are key in driving and maintaining the remarkable structure found in this highly mobile seabird. …”
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Upper Pleistocene deposits from the Cauca Valley by Carlos Jaramillo, Gheny Krigsfeld Shuster, Carlo D. Rojas, Alexander Henao, Germán Y. Ojeda, Dayenari Caballero, Sebastian Escobar-Florez, Sebastian Gomez, Jaime Escobar

“… The rise of the Isthmus of Panama is one of the major biogeographical events of the Cenozoic. …”
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Whole genome assembly and annotation of the King Angelfish (Holacanthus passer) gives insight into the evolution of marine fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific by Remy Gatins, Carlos F. Arias, Carlos Sánchez, Giacomo Bernardi, Luis F. De León

“…Our demographic analysis suggests that population expansions of H. passer occurred prior to the last glacial maximum (LGM) and were more likely shaped by events associated with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. This result is surprising, given that most rapid population expansions in both freshwater and marine organisms have been reported to occur globally after the LGM. …”
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Multiple transisthmian divergences, extensive cryptic diversity, occasional long‐distance dispersal, and biogeographic patterns in a marine coastal isopod with an amphi‐American di... by Luis A. Hurtado, Mariana Mateos, Gustavo Mattos, Shuang Liu, Pilar A. Haye, Paulo C. Paiva

“…Phylogeographic patterns revealed the following: (1) new highly divergent lineages of E. braziliensis; (2) three instances of Atlantic–Pacific divergences, some of which appear to predate the closure of the Isthmus of Panama; (3) the distributional limit of highly divergent lineages found in Brazil coincides with the boundary between two major marine coastal provinces; (4) evidence of recent long‐distance dispersal in the Caribbean; and (5) populations in the Gulf of California have closer affinities with lineages further south in the Pacific, which contrasts with the closer affinity with the Caribbean reported for other intertidal organisms. …”
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Diversity of helminth parasites of freshwater fish in the headwaters of the Coatzacoalcos River, in Oaxaca, Mexico by Guillermo Salgado-Maldonado, Juan Manuel Caspeta-Mandujano, Emilio Martínez-Ramírez, Jesús Montoya-Mendoza, Edgar F. Mendoza-Franco

“…Most species recorded from this area have also been captured from freshwater bodies between the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Isthmus of Panama. However, three species, including an acanthocephalan and two nematodes, are likely endemic to this area. …”
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