What have we learned from the first 500 avian genomes?

GA Bravo, CJ Schmitt… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
The increased capacity of DNA sequencing has significantly advanced our understanding of
the phylogeny of birds and the proximate and ultimate mechanisms molding their genomic …

Phylogenetic methods in biogeography

F Ronquist, I Sanmartín - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2011‏ - annualreviews.org
Phylogenetic approaches to biogeography are rapidly becoming more sophisticated. Four
types of models are being explored in the literature:(a) diffusion models,(b) island models,(c) …

A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

RO Prum, JS Berv, A Dornburg, DJ Field, JP Townsend… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Although reconstruction of the phylogeny of living birds has progressed tremendously in the
last decade, the evolutionary history of Neoaves—a clade that encompasses nearly all living …

Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

JF Parham, PCJ Donoghue, CJ Bell… - Systematic …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Our ability to correlate biological evolution with climate change, geological evolution, and
other historical patterns is essential to understanding the processes that shape biodiversity …

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 …

Multilocus resolution of phylogeny and timescale in the extant adaptive radiation of Hawaiian honeycreepers

HRL Lerner, M Meyer, HF James, M Hofreiter… - Current Biology, 2011‏ - cell.com
Evolutionary theory has gained tremendous insight from studies of adaptive radiations. High
rates of speciation, morphological divergence, and hybridization, combined with low …

[کتاب][B] The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades

SJ Nesbitt - 2009‏ - search.proquest.com
Archosaurs have a 250 million year record that originated shortly after the Permian-Triassic
extinction event and is continued today by two extant clades, the crocodylians and the …

Primate phylogenetic relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes

L Pozzi, JA Hodgson, AS Burrell, KN Sterner… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The origins and the divergence times of the most basal lineages within primates have been
difficult to resolve mainly due to the incomplete sampling of early fossil taxa. The main …

Paleogene fossil birds

G Mayr, Mayr - 2009‏ - Springer
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 …

Cell-type homologies and the origins of the neocortex

J Dugas-Ford, JJ Rowell, CW Ragsdale - Proceedings of the National …, 2012‏ - pnas.org
The six-layered neocortex is a uniquely mammalian structure with evolutionary origins that
remain in dispute. One long-standing hypothesis, based on similarities in neuronal …