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 …

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

The remarkable biodiversity of the Earth fascinated natural scientists for centuries. Studying
this biodiversity has been a major occupation of the life sciences because deciphering the …

Abstract The King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) has been delineated into two broadly
distributed breeding populations in North America (the western and eastern Arctic) on the …

Molecular genetic approaches can be used to evaluate the historic and current relationships
among populations. Mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear microsatellite loci were …

Levels of gene flow among populations have a critical role in evolution and are affected by
geographic, ecological, and behavioural barriers. Reductions in gene flow lead to …

We describe range-wide phylogeographic variation in gray jays (Perisoreus canadensis), a
boreal Nearctic corvid that occurs today primarily in recently glaciated regions. Phylogenetic …

This doctoral dissertation focuses on genomic approaches to study evolution and adaptation
in birds. Recent advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology and analytical …

Among birds, white-eyes (genus Zosterops) have diversified so extensively that Jared
Diamond and Ernst Mayr referred to them as the “great speciator.” The Zosterops lineage …

Phylogeographic structure within high-latitude North American birds is likely shaped by a
history of isolation in refugia during Pleistocene glaciations. Previous studies of individual …