Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation.
- F. K. Barker, A. Cibois, Peter Schikler, Julie Feinstein, J. Cracraft
- Biology, Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 27 July 2004
The historical framework suggests multiple waves of passerine dispersal from Australasia into Eurasia, Africa, and the New World, commencing as early as the Eocene, essentially reversing the classical scenario of oscine biogeography.
Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds
- E. Jarvis, S. Mirarab, Guojie Zhang
- BiologyScience
- 12 December 2014
A genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves recovered a highly resolved tree that confirms previously controversial sister or close relationships and identifies the first divergence in Neoaves, two groups the authors named Passerea and Columbea.
A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data
- F. K. Barker, G. Barrowclough, J. G. Groth
- BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society of London…
- 7 February 2002
The hypothesis of relationships presented here suggests that the oscine passerines arose on the Australian continental plate while it was isolated by oceanic barriers and that a major northern radiation of oscines originated subsequent to dispersal from the south.
The utility of the incongruence length difference test.
- F. K. Barker, F. Lutzoni
- BiologySystematic Biology
- 1 July 2002
Combinability has been eval-uated by the effect of data set combina-tion on phylogenetic accuracy: Combinabledata sets increase accuracy and this convergence property is guaranteed by sta-tistical homogeneity of the data sets to becombined.
The pattern and timing of diversification of Philippine endemic rodents: evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences.
- S. Jansa, F. K. Barker, L. Heaney
- BiologySystematic Biology
- 1 February 2006
The results suggest that most of the diversification of Philippine murines took place within the archipelago, and that combination of mitochondrial and nuclear data to estimate relatively ancient divergence times can severely compromise those estimates, even when specific methods that account for rate heterogeneity among genes are employed.
Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): towards an avian tree of life
- J. Cracraft, F. K. Barker, D. Mindell
- Biology
- 12 August 2004
Modem perceptions of the inonophyly of avian higher taxa {modern birds, Neomiihes) and their interrelationships are the legacy uf systematic work undertaken in the 19th century. Before Llie…
Earth history and the passerine superradiation
- C. Oliveros, D. Field, B. Faircloth
- Biology, Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1 April 2019
Recon reconstructing passerine evolutionary history and producing the most comprehensive time-calibrated phylogenetic hypothesis of the group, which suggests more complex mechanisms than temperature change or ecological opportunity have controlled macroscale patterns of passerine speciation.
African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary ‘enigmas’
- P. Beresford, F. K. Barker, P. Ryan, T. Crowe
- Environmental Science, BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 April 2005
An emerging phylogenetic picture reveals that relationships within Old World families are highly informative regarding the early dispersal and radiation of songbirds out of Gondwana.
A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves).
- I. Lovette, J. Pérez-Emán, E. Bermingham
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 November 2010
THE EARLY DIVERSIFICATION HISTORY OF DIDELPHID MARSUPIALS: A WINDOW INTO SOUTH AMERICA'S “SPLENDID ISOLATION”
- S. Jansa, F. K. Barker, R. Voss
- Environmental Science, BiologyEvolution; international journal of organic…
- 1 March 2014
This study provides the first published molecular‐phylogenetic evidence for mass extinction in any animal clade, and it is the first time that evidence for such an event (in any plant or animal taxon) has been tested for statistical significance.
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