Land connectivity changes and global cooling shaped the colonization history and diversification of New World quail (Aves: Galliformes: Odontophoridae)

New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies

(2015) F. Keith Barker et al.   AUK

ASTRAL: genome-scale coalescent-based species tree estimation

(2014) S. Mirarab et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The De Geer, Thulean and Beringia routes: key concepts for understanding early Cenozoic biogeography

(2014) Leonidas Brikiatis   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

Incongruence among different mitochondrial regions: A case study using complete mitogenomes

(2014) Kelly A. Meiklejohn et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational 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

Historical biogeography of the Isthmus of Panama

(2013) Egbert G. Leigh et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

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

STRAW: Species TRee Analysis Web server

(2013) Timothy I. Shaw et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2013) Ning Wang et al.   PLoS One

Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography when the Number of Areas is Large

(2013) Michael J. Landis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2012)   AUK

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

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

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Multiple losses of flight and recent speciation in steamer ducks

(2012) T. L. Fulton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ratite Nonmonophyly: Independent Evidence from 40 Novel Loci

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

Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Core Babblers (Aves: Timaliidae)

(2012) Robert G. Moyle et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Methods in Biogeography

(2011) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Population Genetics of a Recent Transcontinental Colonization of South America by Breeding Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica)

(2011) Shawn M. Billerman et al.   AUK

Mio-Pliocene Faunal Exchanges and African Biogeography: The Record of Fossil Bovids

(2011) Faysal Bibi   PLoS One

Podargiform Affinities of the Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores (“Caprimulgiformes” + Apodiformes)

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   PLoS One

Estimating Species Trees from Unrooted Gene Trees

(2011) Liang Liu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

S-DIVA (Statistical Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis): A tool for inferring biogeographic histories

(2010) Yan Yu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and biogeography of the Asian trogons (Aves: Trogoniformes) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences

(2010) Peter A. Hosner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

New fossil mousebird (Aves: Coliiformes) with feather preservation provides insight into the ecological diversity of an Eocene North American avifauna

(2010) DANIEL T. KSEPKA et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ecology Predicts Levels of Genetic Differentiation in Neotropical Birds

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

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

Ecological limits and diversification rate: alternative paradigms to explain the variation in species richness among clades and regions

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference

(2009) Richard H. Ree et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Great American Biotic Interchange in birds

(2009) J. T. Weir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a “great speciator”

(2009) Robert G. Moyle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental evidence for extreme dispersal limitation in tropical forest birds

(2008) R. P. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Great American Interchange in birds: a phylogenetic perspective with the genus Trogon

(2008) JEFFREY M. DACOSTA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome

(2008) Rebecca T. Kimball et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Comparative Study in Ancestral Range Reconstruction Methods: Retracing the Uncertain Histories of Insular Lineages

(2008) John R. Clark et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY