Behavioral, morphological, and ecological trait evolution in two clades of New World Sparrows (Aimophila and Peucaea, Passerellidae)

Polygyny is linked to accelerated birdsong evolution but not to larger song repertoires

(2019) Kate T. Snyder et al.   Nature Communications

Fifty shades of brown: Macroevolution of plumage brightness in the Furnariida, a large clade of drab Neotropical passerines

(2019) Rafael S. Marcondes et al.   EVOLUTION

The evolution of vocal duets and migration in New World warblers (Parulidae)

(2019) Liam R Mitchell et al.   AUK

Ecological and geographical overlap drive plumage evolution and mimicry in woodpeckers

(2019) Eliot T. Miller et al.   Nature Communications

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Asynchronous evolution of interdependent nest characters across the avian phylogeny

(2018) Yi-Ting Fang et al.   Nature Communications

Ecological drivers of song evolution in birds: Disentangling the effects of habitat and morphology

(2018) Elizabeth Perrault Derryberry et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Feather growth rate increases with latitude in four species of widespread resident Neotropical birds

(2018) Ryan S. Terrill   AUK

The relationship between latitude, migration and the evolution of bird song complexity

(2018) Nadje Najar et al.   IBIS

Complexity is complicated and so too is comparing complexity metrics‐A response to Mikula et al. (2018)

(2018) William D. Pearse et al.   EVOLUTION

Identifying ecological drivers of interspecific variation in song complexity in songbirds (Passeriformes, Passeri)

(2018) Nicholas M. A. Crouch et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The role of sexual and natural selection in shaping patterns of sexual dichromatism in the largest family of songbirds (Aves: Thraupidae)

(2017) Allison J. Shultz et al.   EVOLUTION

Out of the dark: 350 million years of conservatism and evolution in diel activity patterns in vertebrates

(2017) Samantha R. Anderson et al.   EVOLUTION

The biogeographic and evolutionary history of an endemic clade of Middle American sparrows: Melozone and Aimophila (Aves: Passerellidae)

(2017) Luis Sandoval et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Target enrichment of thousands of ultraconserved elements sheds new light on early relationships within New World sparrows (Aves: Passerellidae)

(2016) Robert W. Bryson et al.   AUK

Selection, constraint, and the evolution of coloration in African starlings

(2016) Rafael Maia et al.   EVOLUTION

A global analysis of bird plumage patterns reveals no association between habitat and camouflage

(2016) Marius Somveille et al.   PeerJ

The effect of habitat and body size on the evolution of vocal displays in Thraupidae (tanagers), the largest family of songbirds

(2015) Nicholas A. Mason et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Interspecific competition affects evolutionary links between cavity nesting, migration and clutch size in Old World flycatchers (Muscicapdae)

(2015) Sahas Barve et al.   IBIS

Evolution of leaf warbler songs (Aves: Phylloscopidae)

(2015) Dieter Thomas Tietze et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Natural and sexual selection act on different axes of variation in avian plumage color

(2015) P. O. Dunn et al.   Science Advances

Context of female bias in song repertoire size, singing effort, and singing independence in a cooperatively breeding songbird

(2014) Anya E. Illes   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic niche conservatism and the evolutionary basis of ecological speciation

(2014) R. Alexander Pyron et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A comprehensive multilocus assessment of sparrow (Aves: Passerellidae) relationships

(2014) John Klicka et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Temperate origins of long-distance seasonal migration in New World songbirds

(2014) B. M. Winger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Elaborate visual and acoustic signals evolve independently in a large, phenotypically diverse radiation of songbirds

(2014) N. A. Mason et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Migration and the evolution of duetting in songbirds

(2014) D. M. Logue et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Unsolved Challenge to Phylogenetic Correlation Tests for Categorical Characters

(2014) Wayne P. Maddison et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Different vocal signals, but not prior experience, influence heterospecific from conspecific discrimination

(2013) Luis Sandoval et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Angry Birds Need Not Apply: A Perspective on the Flexible form and Multifunctionality of Avian Vocal Duets

(2013) Christine R. Dahlin et al.   ETHOLOGY

Phylogenetic signal in primate behaviour, ecology and life history

(2013) J. M. Kamilar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmental variability and acoustic signals: a multi-level approach in songbirds

(2012) I. Medina et al.   Biology Letters

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Plumage evolution in relation to light environment in a novel clade of Neotropical tanagers

(2012) Allison J. Shultz et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Accuracy and Precision of Species Trees: Effects of Locus, Individual, and Base Pair Sampling on Inference of Species Trees in Lizards of the Liolaemus darwinii Group (Squamata, Liolaemidae)

(2011) Arley Camargo et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Fifty-First Supplement to the American Ornithologists' UnionCheck-List of North American Birds

(2010) R. Terry Chesser et al.   AUK

California towhee vocal duets are multi-functional signals for multiple receivers

(2010) Lauryn Benedict   BEHAVIOUR

Sexual selection: when to expect trade-offs

(2010) D. Shutler   Biology Letters

Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

(2010) SUSANNE A. FRITZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Ecology Shapes Birdsong Evolution: Variation in Morphology and Habitat Explains Variation in White‐Crowned Sparrow Song

(2009) Elizabeth P. Derryberry   AMERICAN NATURALIST

PLUMAGE EVOLUTION IN THE OROPENDOLAS AND CACIQUES: DIFFERENT DIVERGENCE RATES IN POLYGYNOUS AND MONOGAMOUS TAXA

(2009) J. Jordan Price et al.   EVOLUTION

A molecular systematic revision of two historically problematic songbird clades: Aimophila and Pipilo

(2009) Jeffrey M. DaCosta et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Estimating Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Rates from Incompletely Resolved Phylogenies

(2009) Richard G. FitzJohn et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL DICHROMATISM. 1. CONVERGENT LOSSES OF ELABORATE FEMALE COLORATION IN NEW WORLD ORIOLES (ICTERUSSPP.)

(2008) CHRISTOPHER M. HOFMANN et al.   AUK

A comparative study of song form and duetting in neotropical Thryothorus wrens

(2008) Nigel Mann et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Occurrence and life history correlates of vocal duetting in North American passerines

(2008) Lauryn Benedict   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Signal, Evolutionary Process, and Rate

(2008) Liam J. Revell et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY