A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna

FE Rheindt, DM Prawiradilaga, H Ashari, Suparno… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Birds are the best-known animal class, with only about five or six new species descriptions
per year since 1999. Integrating genomic and phenotypic research with arduous fieldwork in …

Island biogeography revisited: museomics reveals affinities of shelf island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland

KM Garg, B Chattopadhyay, E Cros… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Island biogeography is one of the most powerful subdisciplines of ecology: its mathematical
predictions that island size and distance to mainland determine diversity have withstood the …

Conservation genomics reveals possible illegal trade routes and admixture across pangolin lineages in Southeast Asia

HC Nash, Wirdateti, GW Low, SW Choo, JL Chong… - Conservation …, 2018 - Springer
The use of genome-wide genetic markers is an emerging approach for informing evidence-
based management decisions for highly threatened species. Pangolins are the most heavily …

Cryptic diversity in Cyornis (Aves: Muscicapidae) jungle-flycatchers flagged by simple bioacoustic approaches

CY Gwee, JA Eaton, KM Garg, P Alström… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Despite the ongoing taxonomic revolution incorporating multiple species delimitation
methods, knowledge gaps persist in the taxonomy of comparatively well-studied animal …

Fluctuating fortunes: genomes and habitat reconstructions reveal global climate-mediated changes in bats' genetic diversity

B Chattopadhyay, KM Garg… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the last approximately 2.6 Myr, Earth's climate has been dominated by cyclical ice ages
that have profoundly affected species' population sizes, but the impact of impending …

Quaternary land bridges have not been universal conduits of gene flow

E Cros, B Chattopadhyay, KM Garg, NSR Ng… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quaternary climate oscillations are a well‐known driver of animal diversification, but their
effects are most well studied in areas where glaciations lead to habitat fragmentation. In …

The conservation value of admixed phenotypes in a critically endangered species complex

KR Sadanandan, GW Low, S Sridharan, CY Gwee… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
In today's environmental crisis, conservationists are increasingly confronted with terminally
endangered species whose last few surviving populations may be affected by allelic …

Genome‐wide SNPs confirm plumage polymorphism and hybridisation within a Cyornis flycatcher species complex

EYX Ng, S Li, D Zhang, KM Garg, G Song… - Zoologica …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology has been a leading taxonomic guiding light to systematists for the last couple of
hundred years. However, the genetic and–more recently–genomic revolution have …

Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a 'great speciator', reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity

CY Gwee, KM Garg, B Chattopadhyay… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Archipelagoes serve as important 'natural laboratories' which facilitate the study of island
radiations and contribute to the understanding of evolutionary processes. The white-eye …

Environmental stress influences Malesian Lamiaceae distributions

LA Trethowan, C Arvidsson… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dual effects of spatial distance and environment shape archipelagic floras. In Malesia, there
are multiple environmental stressors associated with increasing uplands, drought, and metal …