Zoogeographic, palaeontological and biochemical data support a Southern Hemisphere
origin for passerine birds, while accumulating molecular data suggest that most extant avian …

Adaptive radiation is the rapid diversification of a single lineage into many species that
inhabit a variety of environments or use a variety of resources and differ in traits required to …

… Other ventures include the above-mentioned BOLD (with iBOL extending its coverage)
which holds 7.76M DNA barcode records across 0.31M species, many of which are commonly-…

This paper summarizes and discusses the many new insights into passerine evolution gained
from an increased general interest in avian evolution among biologists, and particularly …

Museum study skins represent an invaluable source of DNA for phylogenetics, phylogeography
and population genetics. This becomes evident by comparing the number of study skins …

Genome assemblies are currently being produced at an impressive rate by consortia and
individual laboratories. The low costs and increasing efficiency of sequencing technologies …

Background The birds-of-paradise (Paradisaeidae) form one of the most prominent avian
examples of sexual selection and show a complex biogeographical distribution. The family has …

… They were assembled to complete sequences with SeqManII (DNASTAR). Positions
where the nucleotide could not be determined with certainty were coded with the appropriate …

A two-locus phylogenetic hypothesis of the family Roccellaceae is presented based on data
from the nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nucLSU) and the second largest subunit of RNA …

Biological specimens in natural history collections constitute a massive repository of genetic
information. Many specimens have been collected in areas in which they no longer exist or …