Plumage patterns: Ecological functions, evolutionary origins, and advances in quantification

NA Mason, RCK Bowie - The Auk, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Birds exhibit remarkable variation in plumage patterns, both within individual feathers and
among plumage patches. Differences in the size, shape, and location of pigments and …

[HTML][HTML] Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data

P Alström, Z Mohammadi, ED Enbody, M Irestedt… - Avian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The family Alaudidae, larks, comprises 93–100 species (depending on taxonomy) that are
widely distributed across Africa and Eurasia, with single species extending their ranges to …

Integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognised species diversity in African Corypha larks (Aves: Alaudidae)

P Alström, Z Mohammadi, PF Donald… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The species complex comprising the rufous-naped lark Corypha africana, Sharpe's lark
Corypha sharpii, the red-winged lark Corypha hypermetra, the Somali long-billed lark …

Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris)

NA Mason, EA Riddell, FG Romero… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Animal coloration serves many biological functions and must therefore balance potentially
competing selective pressures. For example, many animals have camouflage in which …

A Highly Contiguous Genome for the Golden-Fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons) via Hybrid Oxford Nanopore and Short Read Assembly

G Wiley, MJ Miller - G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Woodpeckers are found in nearly every part of the world and have been important for
studies of biogeography, phylogeography, and macroecology. Woodpecker hybrid zones …

Neo‐sex chromosome evolution and phenotypic differentiation across an elevational gradient in horned larks (Eremophila alpestris)

SB Shakya, CY Wang‐Claypool, C Cicero… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic structure and phenotypic variation among populations are affected by both
geographic distance and environmental variation across species' distributions …

Not out of the woods yet: Signatures of the prolonged negative genetic consequences of a population bottleneck in a rapidly re‐expanding wader, the black‐faced …

SH Li, Y Liu, CF Yeh, Y Fu, CKL Yeung… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐term persistence of a population which has suffered a bottleneck partly depends
on how historical demographic dynamics impacted its genetic diversity and the …

Agriculture induces isotopic shifts and niche contraction in Horned Larks (Eremophila alpestris) of the Colorado Desert

NA Mason, P Unitt, JP Sparks - Journal of Ornithology, 2021 - Springer
Agriculture can dramatically alter community composition, food webs, and resource
availability, yet the impacts of agriculture on many ecosystems and their constituents remain …

Integrative Approaches Illuminate Evolutionary Divergence in the Bar-tailed Lark Complex (Ammomanes cinctura)

Z Liu - 2023 - diva-portal.org
Abstract Ammomanes cinctura (Bar-tailed Lark) is a lark species with a wide distribution in
the Palearctic. One of its subspecies, A. c. arenicolor, has a wide range across northern …