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 …

Insight into the molecular evolution of birds has been offered by the steady accumulation of
avian DNA sequence data, recently culminating in the first draft sequence of an avian …

Molecular clocks are widely used to date phylogenetic events, yet evidence supporting the
rate constancy of molecular clocks through time and across taxonomic lineages is weak …

The first edition of this book was written at a time when comprehensive analyses of
molecular sequence data just began to provide a robust framework for the interrelationships …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds presents an up-to-date classification of
Australian birds. Building on the authors 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of …

Diverse research programs employing complementary strategies have been uncovering
cellular, molecular, and genetic mechanisms essential to avian beak development and …

Many evolutionary studies of birds rely on the estimation of molecular divergence times and
substitution rates. In order to perform such analyses, it is necessary to incorporate some form …

With our increasing ability for generating whole-genome sequences, comparative analysis
of whole genomes has become a powerful tool for understanding the structure, function, and …

Current understanding of the diversification of birds is hindered by their incomplete fossil
record and uncertainty in phylogenetic relationships and phylogenetic rates of molecular …