The growing use of comparative methods to address evolutionary questions has generated
an increased need for robust hypotheses of evolutionary relationships for a wide range of …

Birds are the most diverse tetrapod class, with about 10,000 extant species that represent a
remarkable evolutionary radiation in which most taxa arose during a short period of time …

The statistical estimation of phylogenies is always associated with uncertainty, and
accommodating this uncertainty is an important component of modern phylogenetic …

Abstract Background Order Charadriiformes (shorebirds) is an ideal model group in which to
study a wide range of behavioural, ecological and macroevolutionary processes across …

Comparative studies of trait evolution require accounting for the shared evolutionary history.
This is done by including phylogenetic hypotheses into statistical analyses of species' traits …

The phylogeny of most of the species in the avian passerine family Locustellidae is inferred
using a Bayesian species tree approach (Bayesian Estimation of Species Trees, BEST), as …

This paper proposes that avian classifications should express the content of natural groups,
that is, taxa that are our best estimates of genealogically related groups of species. The …

The Corvides (previously referred to as the core Corvoidea) are a morphologically diverse
clade of passerine birds comprising nearly 800 species. The group originated some 30 …

Gene trees will often differ from the true species history, the species tree, as a result of
processes such as incomplete lineage sorting. New methods such as Bayesian Estimation …

Avian Tree of Life (TOL) projects using multilocus sequence data have begun to reweave
Sibley and Ahlquist's (1990)''tapestry” of the systematic relationships among birds, which …