Genomic diversity is shaped by the interplay between mutation, genetic drift, recombination,
and natural selection. A major goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the relative …

Hairy woodpeckers Picoides villosus are a common, year round resident with distinct
plumage and morphological variation across North America. We genotyped 335 individuals …

Populations that have experienced long periods of geographic isolation will diverge over
time. The application of high-throughput sequencing technologies to study the genomes of …

Although massively parallel sequencing has facilitated large-scale DNA sequencing,
comparisons among distantly related species rely upon small portions of the genome that …

Identifying the genetic basis of adaptive traits is an integral part of understanding the
mechanisms that cause speciation. Speciation relies on the formation of barriers to …

The use of genome-scale data to understand the evolutionary history of birds has provided
important progress in the field of evolutionary biology and conservation. Here we review the …

The ability to disperse over long distances can result in a high propensity for colonizing new
geographic regions, including uninhabited continents, and lead to lineage diversification via …

Island endemic birds account for the majority of extinct vertebrates in the past few centuries.
To date, the evolutionary characteristics of island endemic bird's is poorly known. In this …

Most of Hawaii's endemic avifauna are species of conservation concern. Some of Hawaii's
endangered waterbirds, however, have increased in number as a result of intensive …

Abstract Throughout the Plio-Pleistocene, climate change has impacted tropical marine
ecosystems substantially, with even more severe impacts predicted in the Anthropocene …