Metabolic 'engines' of flight drive genome size reduction in birds

Individual Variation in Thermogenic Capacity Is Correlated with Flight Muscle Size but Not Cellular Metabolic Capacity in American Goldfinches (Spinus tristis)

(2013) David L. Swanson et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF BEAK MORPHOLOGY AND SONG IN THE NEOTROPICAL WOODCREEPER RADIATION

(2012) Elizabeth Perrault Derryberry et al.   EVOLUTION

The Evolution of Intron Size in Amniotes: A Role for Powered Flight?

(2012) Qu Zhang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Energetics, lifestyle, and reproduction in birds

(2012) R. M. Sibly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Uninformative Parameters and Model Selection Using Akaike's Information Criterion

(2011) TODD W. ARNOLD   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Scaling of Avian Primary Feather Length

(2011) Robert L. Nudds et al.   PLoS One

Avian Wing Proportions and Flight Styles: First Step towards Predicting the Flight Modes of Mesozoic Birds

(2011) Xia Wang et al.   PLoS One

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

Are Transposable Element Insertions Homoplasy Free?: An Examination Using the Avian Tree of Life

(2011) Kin-Lan Han et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ecology Predicts Levels of Genetic Differentiation in Neotropical Birds

(2009) Curtis W. Burney et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Spring migration decisions in relation to weather are predicted by wing morphology among trans-Mediterranean migratory birds

(2009) Nicola Saino et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Genome size is inversely correlated with relative brain size in parrots and cockatoos

(2009) Chandler B. Andrews et al.   GENOME

The smallest avian genomes are found in hummingbirds

(2009) T. R. Gregory et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Palaeogenomics of pterosaurs and the evolution of small genome size in flying vertebrates

(2008) C. L Organ et al.   Biology Letters

Ecomorphological predictors of natal dispersal distances in birds

(2008) Britta A. Dawideit et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Genome size and wing parameters in passerine birds

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