Rates of karyotypic evolution in Estrildid finches differ between island and continental clades

Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds

(2014) P. Alstrom et al.   Biology Letters

Avian sex, sex chromosomes, and dosage compensation in the age of genomics

(2014) Jennifer A. Marshall Graves   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Dynamic Chromosome Reorganization in the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus, Pandionidae, Falconiformes): Relationship between Chromosome Size and the Chromosomal Distribution of Centromeric Repetitive DNA Sequences

(2014) C. Nishida et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

INDEPENDENT STRATUM FORMATION ON THE AVIAN SEX CHROMOSOMES REVEALS INTER-CHROMOSOMAL GENE CONVERSION AND PREDOMINANCE OF PURIFYING SELECTION ON THE W CHROMOSOME

(2014) Alison E. Wright et al.   EVOLUTION

A high-density linkage map enables a second-generation collared flycatcher genome assembly and reveals the patterns of avian recombination rate variation and chromosomal evolution

(2014) Takeshi Kawakami et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Reanalysis suggests that genomic islands of speciation are due to reduced diversity, not reduced gene flow

(2014) Tami E. Cruickshank et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

doublesex is a mimicry supergene

(2014) K. Kunte et al.   NATURE

Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

(2014) Trevor D. Price et al.   NATURE

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

(2014) G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows

(2014) J. W. Poelstra et al.   SCIENCE

The Evolutionary Genomics of Birds

(2013) Hans Ellegren   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Initiation of Meiotic Recombination: How and Where? Conservation and Specificities Among Eukaryotes

(2013) Bernard de Massy   Annual Review of Genetics

CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENTS AND THE GENETICS OF REPRODUCTIVE BARRIERS INMIMULUS(MONKEY FLOWERS)

(2013) Lila Fishman et al.   EVOLUTION

PHYLOGENOMICS REVEALS EXTENSIVE RETICULATE EVOLUTION INXIPHOPHORUSFISHES

(2013) Rongfeng Cui et al.   EVOLUTION

Neanderthal and Denisova genetic affinities with contemporary humans: Introgression versus common ancestral polymorphisms

(2013) Robert K. Lowery et al.   GENE

The scope and strength of sex-specific selection in genome evolution

(2013) A. E. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Sympatric sister species in rodents are more chromosomally differentiated than allopatric ones: implications for the role of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation

(2013) Riccardo Castiglia   MAMMAL REVIEW

Understanding the origin of species with genome-scale data: modelling gene flow

(2013) Vitor Sousa et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Inferring Phylogeny and Introgression using RADseq Data: An Example from Flowering Plants (Pedicularis: Orobanchaceae)

(2013) Deren A. R. Eaton et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

RNA sequencing reveals sexually dimorphic gene expression before gonadal differentiation in chicken and allows comprehensive annotation of the W-chromosome

(2013) Katie L Ayers et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Identification of avian W-linked contigs by short-read sequencing

(2012) Nancy Chen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Centromere positions in chicken and Japanese quail chromosomes: de novo centromere formation versus pericentric inversions

(2012) Anna Zlotina et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION AND LOCAL ADAPTATION QUANTIFIED FOR A CHROMOSOME INVERSION IN A MALARIA MOSQUITO

(2012) Diego Ayala et al.   EVOLUTION

Establishment of New Mutations in Changing Environments

(2012) Stephan Peischl et al.   GENETICS

The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks

(2012) Felicity C. Jones et al.   NATURE

W chromosome expression responds to female-specific selection

(2012) H. K. Moghadam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species?

(2012) Ellen M. Leffler et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

ADAPTIVE CHROMOSOMAL DIVERGENCE DRIVEN BY MIXED GEOGRAPHIC MODE OF EVOLUTION

(2011) Jeffrey L. Feder et al.   EVOLUTION

Recombination rate variation in closely related species

(2011) C S Smukowski et al.   HEREDITY

Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry

(2011) Mathieu Joron et al.   NATURE

A SNP based linkage map of the turkey genome reveals multiple intrachromosomal rearrangements between the Turkey and Chicken genomes

(2010) Muhammad L Aslam et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Cross-Species Chromosome Painting Corroborates Microchromosome Fusion during Karyotype Evolution of Birds

(2010) T. Hansmann et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Evolution of the Genomic Recombination Rate in Murid Rodents

(2010) B. L. Dumont et al.   GENETICS

The recombination landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome

(2010) N. Backstrom et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Copy number variation, chromosome rearrangement, and their association with recombination during avian evolution

(2010) M. Volker et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Faster evolution of Z-linked duplicate genes in chicken

(2010) Li Yan et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Cytotaxonomy and chromosome evolution in Passeriformes (Ayes)

(2010) R. Ray-Chaudhuri   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

The genome of a songbird

(2010) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

Chromosomal speciation revisited: rearranging theory with pieces of evidence

(2010) Rui Faria et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Widespread Chromosomal Inversion Polymorphism Contributes to a Major Life-History Transition, Local Adaptation, and Reproductive Isolation

(2010) David B. Lowry et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Multi-Platform Next-Generation Sequencing of the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo): Genome Assembly and Analysis

(2010) Rami A. Dalloul et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

How and Why Chromosome Inversions Evolve

(2010) Mark Kirkpatrick   PLOS BIOLOGY

Avian comparative genomics: reciprocal chromosome painting between domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) and the stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus, Charadriiformes)—An atypical species with low diploid number

(2009) Wenhui Nie et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Polymorphic Heterochromatic Segments in Japanese Quail Microchromosomes

(2009) A. Krasikova et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE AND THE FASTER-X EFFECT: AN EXTENDED MODEL

(2009) Beatriz Vicoso et al.   EVOLUTION

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE AND THE FASTER-X EFFECT: EMPIRICAL RESULTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION

(2009) Judith E. Mank et al.   EVOLUTION

NOMENCLATURE FOR CENTROMERIC POSITION ON CHROMOSOMES

(2009) ALBERT LEVAN et al.   HEREDITAS

Avian genome evolution: insights from a linkage map of the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)

(2009) B Hansson et al.   HEREDITY

Faster-Z Evolution Is Predominantly Due to Genetic Drift

(2009) J. E. Mank et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Neocentromeres: New Insights into Centromere Structure, Disease Development, and Karyotype Evolution

(2008) Owen J. Marshall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Revisiting the Impact of Inversions in Evolution: From Population Genetic Markers to Drivers of Adaptive Shifts and Speciation?

(2008) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Characterization of chromosome structures of Falconinae (Falconidae, Falconiformes, Aves) by chromosome painting and delineation of chromosome rearrangements during their differentiation

(2008) Chizuko Nishida et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

EVOLUTION OF THE GENOMIC RATE OF RECOMBINATION IN MAMMALS

(2008) Beth L. Dumont et al.   EVOLUTION

Nucleotide Variation, Linkage Disequilibrium and Founder-Facilitated Speciation in Wild Populations of the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

(2008) C. N. Balakrishnan et al.   GENETICS

A Linkage Map of the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata Provides New Insights Into Avian Genome Evolution

(2008) J. Stapley et al.   GENETICS

jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

(2008) D. Posada   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic evidence for a large-Z effect

(2008) H. Ellegren   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES