New Zealand phylogeography: evolution on a small continent

GP Wallis, SA Trewick - Molecular ecology, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does
geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a continent. This schism …

Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference

RH Ree, I Sanmartín - Journal of Biogeography, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
In historical biogeography, phylogenetic trees have long been used as tools for addressing
a wide range of inference problems, from explaining common distribution patterns of species …

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 …

Insights into the evolutionary history of an emerging livestock pathogen: porcine circovirus 2

C Firth, MA Charleston, S Duffy, B Shapiro… - Journal of …, 2009‏ - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) is the primary etiological agent of postweaning
multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS), one of the most economically important emerging …

Evolution of modern birds revealed by mitogenomics: timing the radiation and origin of major orders

MA Pacheco, FU Battistuzzi, M Lentino… - Molecular Biology …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial (mt) genes and genomes are among the major sources of data for
evolutionary studies in birds. This places mitogenomic studies in birds at the core of intense …

Evolution and taxonomy of the wild species of the genus Ovis (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae)

HR Rezaei, S Naderi, IC Chintauan-Marquier… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
New insights for the systematic and evolution of the wild sheep are provided by molecular
phylogenies inferred from Maximum parsimony, Bayesian, Maximum likelihood, and …

A brief history of fruits and frugivores

TH Fleming, WJ Kress - Acta Oecologica, 2011‏ - Elsevier
In this paper we briefly review the evolutionary history of the mutualistic interaction between
angiosperms that produce fleshy fruits and their major consumers: frugivorous birds and …

A multilocus molecular phylogeny of the parrots (Psittaciformes): support for a Gondwanan origin during the Cretaceous

TF Wright, EE Schirtzinger, T Matsumoto… - Molecular biology …, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
The question of when modern birds (Neornithes) first diversified has generated much debate
among avian systematists. Fossil evidence generally supports a Tertiary diversification …

New perspectives on the origin and diversification of Africa's forest avifauna

J Fjeldså, RCK Bowie - African Journal of Ecology, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
The use of DNA sequence data in systematic studies has brought about a revolution in our
understanding of avian relationships and when combined with digitized distributional data …

[کتاب][B] Biogeography of Australasia: a molecular analysis

M Heads - 2013‏ - books.google.com
Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …