A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History
- S. Hackett, R. Kimball, Tamaki Yuri
- BiologyScience
- 27 June 2008
This study examined ∼32 kilobases of aligned nuclear DNA sequences from 19 independent loci for 169 species, representing all major extant groups, and recovered a robust phylogeny from a genome-wide signal supported by multiple analytical methods.
Phylogenetics, biogeography and classification of, and character evolution in, gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes): effects of character exclusion, data partitioning and missing data
- T. Crowe, R. Bowie, J. Wakeling
- Biology
- 1 December 2006
The combined‐data cladogram supports the hypothesis that basal lineages of galliforms diverged prior to the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K‐T) Event and that the subsequent cladogenesis was influenced by the break‐up of Gondwana.
Molecular phylogeography reveals island colonization history and diversification of western Indian Ocean sunbirds (Nectarinia: Nectariniidae).
- B. Warren, E. Bermingham, R. Bowie, R. Prŷs-Jones, C. Thébaud
- Environmental Science, BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 October 2003
The Role of Mountain Ranges in the Diversification of Birds
- J. Fjeldså, R. Bowie, C. Rahbek
- Environmental Science
- 5 November 2012
The distribution of small-ranged species is concentrated near tropical coasts, where moderation of the climate in topographically complex areas creates cloud forests and stable local conditions, and thereby the role of these places as cradles of biodiversity.
Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds
- J. Harshman, E. Braun, Tamaki Yuri
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 9 September 2008
A phylogenetic analyses of 20 unlinked nuclear genes reveal a genome-wide signal that unequivocally places tinamous within ratites, making ratites polyphyletic and suggesting multiple losses of flight.
Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): a review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers.
- U. Johansson, J. Fjeldså, R. Bowie
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 September 2008
Molecular systematics of a speciose, cosmopolitan songbird genus: defining the limits of, and relationships among, the Turdus thrushes.
- G. Voelker, S. Rohwer, R. Bowie, D. Outlaw
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 February 2007
Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates
- C. Cadena, K. Kozak, C. Graham
- Environmental ScienceProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 7 January 2012
This study quantifies overlap in the climatic distributions of 93 pairs of sister species of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles restricted to either the New World tropics or to the Northern temperate zone to suggest evolutionary conservatism in the thermal niches of tropical taxa, coupled with the greater thermal zonation of tropical mountains, may result in increased opportunities for allopatric isolation, speciation and the accumulation of species in tropical montane regions.
A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome.
- R. Kimball, E. Braun, Tamaki Yuri
- BiologyMolecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- 1 March 2009
New perspectives on the origin and diversification of Africa’s forest avifauna
- J. Fjeldså, R. Bowie
- Geography, Biology
- 1 September 2008
Recent studies with special reference to Africa’s forest avifauna are reviewed, commenting on the putative origins of ‘hotspots’ of endemism in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and in the Cape Region of South Africa.
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