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 …

Identification of birds through DNA barcodes

PDN Hebert, MY Stoeckle, TS Zemlak, CM Francis - PLoS biology, 2004‏ - journals.plos.org
Short DNA sequences from a standardized region of the genome provide a DNA barcode for
identifying species. Compiling a public library of DNA barcodes linked to named specimens …

Biogeographic patterns and conservation in the South American Cerrado: a tropical savanna hotspot: the Cerrado, which includes both forest and savanna habitats, is …

JM Cardoso Da Silva, JM Bates - BioScience, 2002‏ - academic.oup.com
(Figure 1), with extensive borders with the two largest forest biomes (Amazonia and Atlantic
Forest) as well as with the two largest dry regions (Caatinga and Chaco). The Cerrado …

Avian gene trees, landscape evolution, and geology: towards a modern synthesis of Amazonian historical biogeography?

A Aleixo, DF Rossetti - Journal of Ornithology, 2007‏ - Springer
Recent studies have improved our understanding of Amazonian geological history during
the late Tertiary and Quaternary, two periods regarded as critical for the recent diversification …

Ecological adaptation and species recognition drives vocal evolution in neotropical suboscine birds

N Seddon - Evolution, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
Given that evolutionary divergence in mating signals leads to reproductive isolation in
numerous animal taxa, understanding what drives signal divergence is fundamental to our …

Evolutionary diversification and the origin of the diversity–environment relationship

RE Ricklefs - Ecology, 2006‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global patterns in species richness have resisted explanation since they first caught the
attention of ecologists in the 1960s. The failure of ecology to fully integrate the diversity issue …

Historical diversification of a terra‐firme forest bird superspecies: a phylogeographic perspective on the role of different hypotheses of Amazonian diversification

A Aleixo - Evolution, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Among those few hypotheses of Amazonian diversification amenable to falsification by
phylogenetic and population genetics methods, three can be singled out because of their …

Probing evolutionary patterns in Neotropical birds through DNA barcodes

KCR Kerr, DA Lijtmaer, AS Barreira, PDN Hebert… - PLoS …, 2009‏ - journals.plos.org
Background The Neotropical avifauna is more diverse than that of any other biogeographic
region, but our understanding of patterns of regional divergence is limited. Critical …

Mitochondrial dating and mixed support for the “2% rule” in birds

IJ Lovette - The Auk, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Perspectives in Ornithology 2[Auk, Vol. 121 to date much earlier nodes (eg among families
and orders) in the avian tree (eg van Tuinen and Hedges 2001, Feduccia 2003). Here I …

The Sorry State of F2 Hybrids: Consequences of Rapid Mitochondrial DNA Evolution in Allopatric Populations

RS Burton, CK Ellison, JS Harrison - the american naturalist, 2006‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Through the processes of natural selection and genetic drift, allopatric populations diverge
genetically and may ultimately become reproductively incompatible. In cases of prezygotic …