Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in three avian lineages: paleognaths, parrots, and passerines

Evolution of ultraviolet vision in the largest avian radiation - the passerines

(2011) Anders Ödeen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Anatomical Specializations for Nocturnality in a Critically Endangered Parrot, the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

(2011) Jeremy R. Corfield et al.   PLoS One

UVS is rare in seabirds

(2011) Gabriel E. Machovsky Capuska et al.   VISION RESEARCH

Mesozoic retroposons reveal parrots as the closest living relatives of passerine birds

(2011) Alexander Suh et al.   Nature Communications

TreeGraph 2: Combining and visualizing evidence from different phylogenetic analyses

(2010) Ben C Stöver et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The evolution of plumage colouration in parrots: a review

(2010) Mathew L. Berg et al.   EMU

Clutch predation in great tinamous Tinamus major and implications for the evolution of egg color

(2010) Patricia L. R. Brennan   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Ancient DNA reveals extreme egg morphology and nesting behavior in New Zealand's extinct moa

(2010) L. Huynen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ultraviolet-sensitive vision in long-lived birds

(2010) L. S. Carvalho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Evolution of ultraviolet vision in shorebirds (Charadriiformes)

(2009) A. Odeen et al.   Biology Letters

Detecting pigments from colourful eggshells of extinct birds

(2009) Branislav Igic et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Ontogenetic colour changes in an insular tree species: signalling to extinct browsing birds?

(2009) Nik Fadzly et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals

(2009) D. M. Hunt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tinamous and Moa Flock Together: Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Analysis Reveals Independent Losses of Flight among Ratites

(2009) Matthew J. Phillips et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships of fantails (Aves: Rhipiduridae)

(2009) Árpád S. Nyári et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Egg pigmentation reflects female and egg quality in the spotless starling Sturnus unicolor

(2008) Isabel López-Rull et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

UV reflectance of eggs of brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) and accepter and rejecter hosts

(2008) Todd J. Underwood et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

(2008) J WOOD et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE