Museum collections in ornithology: today's record of avian biodiversity for tomorrow's world

Using Historical DNA to Characterize Hybridization Between Baltimore Orioles (Icterus galbula) and Bullock’s Orioles (I. bullockii)

(2011) Matthew D. Carling et al.   AUK

Preserve the past

(2011)   NATURE

The end of the fat dodo? A new mass estimate for Raphus cucullatus

(2011) Delphine Angst et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Temporal increase in organic mercury in an endangered pelagic seabird assessed by century-old museum specimens

(2011) A.-T. E. Vo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural history collections as sources of long-term datasets

(2011) Adrian M. Lister   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A cryptic and critically endangered species revealed by mitochondrial DNA analyses: the Western Ground Parrot

(2010) Stephen A. Murphy et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

What do museum specimens tell us about the impact of urbanisation? A comparison of the recent and historical bird communities of Sydney

(2010) Richard E. Major et al.   EMU

The impact of Pleistocene changes of climate and landscape on Australian birds: a test using the Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)

(2010) Anna M. Kearns et al.   EMU

Nucleotide divergence vs. gene expression differentiation: comparative transcriptome sequencing in natural isolates from the carrion crow and its hybrid zone with the hooded crow

(2010) JOCHEN B. W. WOLF et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The flight of the Passenger Pigeon: Phylogenetics and biogeographic history of an extinct species

(2010) Kevin P. Johnson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA

(2010) C. L. Oskam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Distorted Views of Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data

(2010) Elizabeth H. Boakes et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A Global Snapshot of Avian Tissue Collections: State of the Enterprise

(2009) Mark Stoeckle et al.   AUK

Global changes and animal phenotypic responses: melanin-based plumage redness of scops owls increased with temperature and rainfall during the last century

(2009) P. Galeotti et al.   Biology Letters

Systematic and conservation implications of mitochondrial DNA diversity in emu-wrens, Stipiturus (Aves: Maluridae)

(2009) S. C. Donnellan et al.   EMU

The historical frequency of head-colour morphs in the Gouldian Finch (Erythrura gouldiae)

(2009) Amanda J. Gilby et al.   EMU

Phylogeography: its development and impact in Australo-Papuan ornithology with special reference to paraphyly in Australian birds

(2009) Leo Joseph et al.   EMU

Explosive eversion and functional morphology of the duck penis supports sexual conflict in waterfowl genitalia

(2009) P. L. R. Brennan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Shifting latitudinal clines in avian body size correlate with global warming in Australian passerines

(2009) J. L. Gardner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Demographic mechanism of a historical bird population collapse reconstructed using museum specimens

(2008) R. E Green   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Optimizing the use of shed feathers for genetic analysis

(2007) FIONA E. HOGAN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources