Amazonia through time: Andean uplift, climate change, landscape evolution, and biodiversity

C Hoorn, FP Wesselingh, H Ter Steege, MA Bermudez… - science, 2010 - science.org
The Amazonian rainforest is arguably the most species-rich terrestrial ecosystem in the
world, yet the timing of the origin and evolutionary causes of this diversity are a matter of …

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 …

CALIBRATING DIVERGENCE TIMES ON SPECIES TREES VERSUS GENE TREES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIATION HISTORY OF APHELOCOMA JAYS

JE McCormack, J Heled, KS Delaney, AT Peterson… - …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Estimates of the timing of divergence are central to testing the underlying causes of
speciation. Relaxed molecular clocks and fossil calibration have improved these estimates; …

Single mitochondrial gene barcodes reliably identify sister-species in diverse clades of birds

ES Tavares, AJ Baker - BMC evolutionary biology, 2008 - Springer
Background DNA barcoding of life using a standardized COI sequence was proposed as a
species identification system, and as a method for detecting putative new species. Previous …

Fifty-First Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds

RT Chesser, RC Banks, FK Barker, C Cicero, JL Dunn… - The Auk, 2010 - academic.oup.com
R. TERRY CHESSER, 1, 12, 13 RICHARD C. BANKS, 1 F. KEITH BARKER, 2 CARLA
CICERO, 3 JON L. DUNN, 4 ANDREW W. KRATTER, 5 IRBY J. LOVETTE, 6 PAMELA C …

Speciation in the highlands of Mexico: genetic and phenotypic divergence in the Mexican jay (Aphelocoma ultramarina)

JE McCormack, AT Peterson, E Bonaccorso… - Molecular …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The pine‐oak woodlands of the Mexican highlands harbour significant biological diversity,
yet little is known about the evolutionary history of organisms inhabiting this region. We …

Morphological and kinematic basis of the hummingbird flight stroke: scaling of flight muscle transmission ratio

TL Hedrick, BW Tobalske, IG Ros… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) are widely known for their insect-like flight strokes characterized
by high wing beat frequency, small muscle strains and a highly supinated wing orientation …

A highly contiguous reference genome for the Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)

PM Benham, C Cicero, DA DeRaad… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The Steller's jay is a familiar bird of western forests from Alaska south to Nicaragua. Here,
we report a draft reference assembly for the species generated from PacBio HiFi long-read …

High latitudes and high genetic diversity: phylogeography of a widespread boreal bird, the gray jay (Perisoreus canadensis)

P van Els, C Cicero, J Klicka - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
We describe range-wide phylogeographic variation in gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis), a
boreal Nearctic corvid that occurs today primarily in recently glaciated regions. Phylogenetic …

Testing mitochondrial sequences and anonymous nuclear markers for phylogeny reconstruction in a rapidly radiating group: molecular systematics of the Delphininae …

SE Kingston, LD Adams, PE Rosel - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 - Springer
Background Many molecular phylogenetic analyses rely on DNA sequence data obtained
from single or multiple loci, particularly mitochondrial DNA loci. However, phylogenies for …