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

Quantifying historical trends in the completeness of the fossil record and the contributing factors: an example using Aves

(2016) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Avoiding Missing Data Biases in Phylogenomic Inference: An Empirical Study in the Landfowl (Aves: Galliformes)

(2015) Peter A. Hosner et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Paleogene origin for crown passerines and the diversification of the Oscines in the New World

(2015) Alexandre Pedro Selvatti et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A molecular genetic time scale demonstrates Cretaceous origins and multiple diversification rate shifts within the order Galliformes (Aves)

(2015) R. Will Stein et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

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

A new time tree reveals Earth historys imprint on the evolution of modern birds

(2015) S. Claramunt et al.   Science Advances

Avian extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: Assessing the magnitude and subsequent explosive radiation

(2014) Alan Feduccia   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Incubator birds: biogeographical origins and evolution of underground nesting in megapodes (Galliformes: Megapodiidae)

(2014) Rebecca B. Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The evolution of peafowl and other taxa with ocelli (eyespots): a phylogenomic approach

(2014) K. Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution

(2014) K. J. Mitchell et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) E. D. Jarvis et al.   SCIENCE

Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades

(2014) Nicholas J. Matzke   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Does more sequence data improve estimates of galliform phylogeny? Analyses of a rapid radiation using a complete data matrix

(2014) Rebecca T. Kimball et al.   PeerJ

Biogeography Off the Tracks

(2013) Jonathan M. Waters et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The age of the crown group of passerine birds and its evolutionary significance – molecular calibrations versus the fossil record

(2013) Gerald Mayr   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Phylogenetic affinities of evolutionarily enigmatic African galliforms: the Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosusand Nahan's FrancolinFrancolinus nahani,and support for their sister relationship with New World quails

(2012) Callan Cohen et al.   IBIS

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

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

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Ratite Nonmonophyly: Independent Evidence from 40 Novel Loci

(2012) Jordan V. Smith et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Diversification in Adelomyia hummingbirds follows Andean uplift

(2011) JAIME A. CHAVES et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Calibrated Tree Priors for Relaxed Phylogenetics and Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Joseph Heled et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Estimating Species Trees from Unrooted Gene Trees

(2011) Liang Liu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparative molecular evolution and phylogenetic utility of 3′-UTRs and introns in Galliformes

(2010) Amber J. Bonilla et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Broken gears in the avian molecular clock: new phylogenetic analyses support stem galliform status forGallinuloides wyomingensisand rallid affinities forAmitabha urbsinterdictensis

(2009) Daniel T. Ksepka   CLADISTICS

Vagility: The Neglected Component in Historical Biogeography

(2009) Ullasa Kodandaramaiah   Evolutionary Biology

Relaxation of selective constraints on avian mitochondrial DNA following the degeneration of flight ability

(2009) Y.-Y. Shen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History

(2008) S. J. Hackett et al.   SCIENCE

More Taxa Are Not Necessarily Better for the Reconstruction of Ancestral Character States

(2008) Guoliang Li et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY