How do seemingly non-vagile clades accomplish trans-marine dispersal? Trait and dispersal evolution in the landfowl (Aves: Galliformes)

Sorting out relationships among the grouse and ptarmigan using intron, mitochondrial, and ultra-conserved element sequences

(2016) Nicholas W. Persons et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s enigmatic acanthisittid wrens

(2016) Kieren J. Mitchell et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Rapid and recent diversification of curassows, guans, and chachalacas (Galliformes: Cracidae) out of Mesoamerica: Phylogeny inferred from mitochondrial, intron, and ultraconserved element sequences

(2016) Peter A. Hosner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Predictable evolution toward flightlessness in volant island birds

(2016) Natalie A. Wright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The influence of wing morphology upon the dispersal, geographical distributions and diversification of the Corvides (Aves; Passeriformes)

(2016) Jonathan D. Kennedy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PHYLUCE is a software package for the analysis of conserved genomic loci

(2015) Brant C. Faircloth   BIOINFORMATICS

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 comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

(2015) Richard O. Prum et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) S. Claramunt et al.   Science Advances

QuorUM: An Error Corrector for Illumina Reads

(2015) Guillaume Marçais et al.   PLoS One

Quartet Inference from SNP Data Under the Coalescent Model

(2014) Julia Chifman et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets

(2014) Robert Lanfear et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genomic Support for a Moa–Tinamou Clade and Adaptive Morphological Convergence in Flightless Ratites

(2014) Allan J. Baker et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Dispersal and the transition to sympatry in vertebrates

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

Dispersal has inhibited avian diversification in Australasian archipelagoes

(2014) B. C. Weeks 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

Of mice and mammoths: generality and antiquity of the island rule

(2013) Mark V. Lomolino et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Assessing Phylogenetic Relationships among Galliformes: A Multigene Phylogeny with Expanded Taxon Sampling in Phasianidae

(2013) Ning Wang et al.   PLoS One

Speciation of flightless rails on islands: A DNA-based phylogeny of the typical rails of the Pacific

(2012)   AUK

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Ratite Nonmonophyly: Independent Evidence from 40 Novel Loci

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

Ultraconserved Elements Anchor Thousands of Genetic Markers Spanning Multiple Evolutionary Timescales

(2012) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets

(2011) R. Schmieder et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The evolution of island gigantism and body size variation in tortoises and turtles

(2011) A. L. Jaffe et al.   Biology Letters

Of mice and mammoths: evaluations of causal explanations for body size evolution in insular mammals

(2011) Mark V. Lomolino et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds

(2011) S. Claramunt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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

Slaying dragons: limited evidence for unusual body size evolution on islands

(2010) Shai Meiri et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Demography of a Reintroduced Population of Evermann's Rock Ptarmigan in the Aleutian Islands

(2010) Robb S. A. Kaler et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Divergence in an archipelago and its conservation consequences in Aleutian Island rock ptarmigan

(2009) Christin L. Pruett et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Are islands the end of the colonization road?

(2008) E BELLEMAIN et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

(2008) Ran Nathan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The island rule: made to be broken?

(2007) S. Meiri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES