The ability of feathers to perform many functions either simultaneously or at different times
throughout the year or life of a bird is integral to the evolutionary history of birds. Many …

Comparisons of rhythmic movements and the central pattern generators (CPGs) that control
them uncover principles about the evolution of behaviour and neural circuits. Over the …

Background Phylogenetic and population genetic studies often deal with multiple sequence
alignments that require manipulation or processing steps such as sequence concatenation …

Phylogenomics, the use of large-scale data matrices in phylogenetic analyses, has been
viewed as the ultimate solution to the problem of resolving difficult nodes in the tree of life …

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 …

A core question in evolutionary biology is whether convergent phenotypic evolution is driven
by convergent molecular changes in proteins or regulatory regions. We combined …

Through eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, Biogeography: An Ecological
and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the …

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 …

Production of massive DNA sequence data sets is transforming phylogenetic inference, but
best practices for analyzing such data sets are not well established. One uncertainty is …

The evolution of the ratite birds has been widely attributed to vicariant speciation, driven by
the Cretaceous breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. The early isolation of Africa and …