Genome size versus geographic range size in birds

Evidence for Rapoport’s rule and latitudinal patterns in the global distribution and diversity of alien bird species

(2020) Ellie E. Dyer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution

(2020) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Introducing the Bird Chromosome Database: An Overview of Cytogenetic Studies in Birds

(2020) Tiago M. Degrandi et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Iroki: automatic customization and visualization of phylogenetic trees

(2020) Ryan M. Moore et al.   PeerJ

Constraints on vertebrate range size predict extinction risk

(2019) Thomas M. Newsome et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity?

(2019) Carsten Rahbek et al.   SCIENCE

Genome size variation is associated with life‐history traits in birds

(2019) J. P. Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Variation in range size and dispersal capabilities of microbial taxa

(2018) Mallory J. Choudoir et al.   ECOLOGY

Karyotype Evolution in Birds: From Conventional Staining to Chromosome Painting

(2018) Rafael Kretschmer et al.   Genes

Evolutionary Mechanisms of Varying Chromosome Numbers in the Radiation of Erebia Butterflies

(2018) Kay Lucek   Genes

phylopath: Easy phylogenetic path analysis in R

(2018) Wouter van der Bijl   PeerJ

Heterochromatin: Guardian of the Genome

(2018) Aniek Janssen et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Breakdown of brain–body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals

(2018) Masahito Tsuboi et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Macroevolutionary shift in the size of amphibian genomes and the role of life history and climate

(2018) H. Christoph Liedtke et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A long winter for the Red Queen: rethinking the evolution of seasonal migration

(2018) Benjamin M. Winger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

One strategy does not fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Less effective selection leads to larger genomes

(2017) Tristan Lefébure et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Dynamics of genome size evolution in birds and mammals

(2017) Aurélie Kapusta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Longevity is associated with relative brain size in birds

(2017) Piotr Minias et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Big brains stabilize populations and facilitate colonization of variable habitats in birds

(2017) Trevor S. Fristoe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A role for brain size and cognition in food webs

(2016) Nicholas B. Edmunds et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Larger brain size indirectly increases vulnerability to extinction in mammals

(2016) Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer et al.   EVOLUTION

A comparative study on karyotypic diversification rate in mammals

(2016) P A Martinez et al.   HEREDITY

Ancestral range reconstruction of Galliformes: the effects of topology and taxon sampling

(2016) Ning Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Sex Determination, Sex Chromosomes, and Karyotype Evolution in Insects

(2016) Heath Blackmon et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

The coevolution of innovation and technical intelligence in primates

(2016) Ana F. Navarrete et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phenotypes in phylogeography: Species’ traits, environmental variation, and vertebrate diversification

(2016) Kelly R. Zamudio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds

(2016) Ferran Sayol et al.   Nature Communications

Land connectivity changes and global cooling shaped the colonization history and diversification of New World quail (Aves: Galliformes: Odontophoridae)

(2015) Peter A. Hosner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global variation in thermal physiology of birds and mammals: evidence for phylogenetic niche conservatism only in the tropics

(2015) Imran Khaliq et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix

(2015) J. Gordon Burleigh et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

What's in a genome? The C-value enigma and the evolution of eukaryotic genome content

(2015) Tyler A. Elliott et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome size correlates with reproductive fitness in seed beetles

(2015) Göran Arnqvist et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Model for Genome Size Evolution

(2014) Stephan Fischer et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds

(2014) Walter Jetz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals

(2014) Hamish Wilman et al.   ECOLOGY

Why are some microbes more ubiquitous than others? Predicting the habitat breadth of soil bacteria

(2014) Albert Barberán et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in the numbers of chromosomes and sex determination system in bushcrickets of the genus Odontura (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae)

(2014) Elzbieta WARCHALOWSKA-SLIWA et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

The contrasting effects of genome size, chromosome number and ploidy level on plant invasiveness: a global analysis

(2014) Maharaj K. Pandit et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

(2014) G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

An asymmetry in niche conservatism contributes to the latitudinal species diversity gradient in New World vertebrates

(2012) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

DISENTANGLING EVOLUTIONARY CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS WITH PHYLOGENETIC CONFIRMATORY PATH ANALYSIS

(2012) Achaz von Hardenberg et al.   EVOLUTION

Towards a more mechanistic understanding of traits and range sizes

(2012) Irina Laube et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large geographic range size reflects a patchwork of divergent lineages in the long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum)

(2012) J. A. Lee-Yaw et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

How to measure and test phylogenetic signal

(2012) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Understanding global patterns in amphibian geographic range size: does Rapoport rule?

(2011) Felix J. S. Whitton et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The relationship between geographic range size and life history traits: is biogeographic history uncovered? A test using the Iberian butterflies

(2010) Enrique Garcia-Barros et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Functional responses in habitat selection by tropical birds moving through fragmented forest

(2009) Cameron S. Gillies et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Distinct Gene Number-Genome Size Relationships for Eukaryotes and Non-Eukaryotes: Gene Content Estimation for Dinoflagellate Genomes

(2009) Yubo Hou et al.   PLoS One

Genome size and wing parameters in passerine birds

(2008) C. B Andrews et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE