Digest: Repeated body size evolution in island bats

GA McCulloch - 2024 - academic.oup.com
Island ecosystems represent outstanding natural laboratories for studying the interplay
between ecology and evolution. use genomic approaches to identify a remarkable example …

Genomic patterns in the dwarf kingfishers of northern Melanesia reveal a mechanistic framework explaining the paradox of the great speciators

DA DeRaad, AN Files, LH DeCicco, RP Martin… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The paradox of the great speciators describes a contradictory biogeographic pattern
exhibited by numerous avian lineages in Oceania. Specifically, these lineages display broad …