Earth history and the passerine superradiation

CH Oliveros, DJ Field, DT Ksepka… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic
movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the …

An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world

BG Holt, JP Lessard, MK Borregaard, SA Fritz… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a …

Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): a review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers

US Johansson, J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2008 - Elsevier
The avian clade Passerida was first identified based on DNA–DNA hybridization data [CG
Sibley, JE Ahlquist, Phylogeny and Classification of Birds, 1990, Yale University Press, New …

A new time tree reveals Earth history's imprint on the evolution of modern birds

S Claramunt, J Cracraft - Science advances, 2015 - science.org
Determining the timing of diversification of modern birds has been difficult. We combined
DNA sequences of clock-like genes for most avian families with 130 fossil birds to generate …

A guide to avian museomics: Insights gained from resequencing hundreds of avian study skins

M Irestedt, F Thörn, IA Müller… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological specimens in natural history collections constitute a massive repository of genetic
information. Many specimens have been collected in areas in which they no longer exist or …

Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes)

T Cai, A Cibois, P Alström, RG Moyle… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
The babblers are a diverse group of passerine birds comprising 452 species. The group was
long regarded as a “scrap basket” in taxonomic classification schemes. Although several …

Supermatrix phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian Meliphagides radiation (Aves: Passeriformes)

PZ Marki, KA Jønsson, M Irestedt, JMT Nguyen… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2017 - Elsevier
With nearly 300 species, the infraorder Meliphagides represents one of the largest and most
conspicuous Australasian bird radiations. Although the group has been the focus of a …

Time to spread your wings: a review of the avian ancient DNA field

A Grealy, NJ Rawlence, M Bunce - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
Ancient DNA (aDNA) has the ability to inform the evolutionary history of both extant and
extinct taxa; however, the use of aDNA in the study of avian evolution is lacking in …

[LIVRE][B] Biogeography of Australasia: a molecular analysis

M Heads - 2013 - books.google.com
Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

Contrasting morphology with molecular data: an approach to revision of species complexes based on the example of European Phoxinus (Cyprinidae)

A Palandačić, A Naseka, D Ramler, H Ahnelt - BMC evolutionary biology, 2017 - Springer
Background Molecular taxonomy studies and barcoding projects can provide rapid means of
detecting cryptic diversity. Nevertheless, the use of molecular data for species delimitation …