Local origin and diversification among Lampornis hummingbirds: a Mesoamerican taxon

J García-Moreno, N Cortés, GM García-Deras… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2006 - Elsevier
The huge biodiversity found in Mesoamerica is often explained by its geographic situation
as a natural bridge between two large biogeographic regions. Often overlooked, however …

Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and trait beta diversity in South American hummingbirds

BG Weinstein, B Tinoco, JL Parra… - The American …, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract Comparison of the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and trait dimensions of beta diversity
may uncover the mechanisms that generate and maintain biodiversity, such as geographic …

Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds

JA McGuire, CC Witt, JV Remsen, A Corl, DL Rabosky… - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
The tempo of species diversification in large clades can reveal fundamental evolutionary
mechanisms that operate on large temporal and spatial scales [1–4]. Hummingbirds have …

The temporal build-up of hummingbird/plant mutualisms in North America and temperate South America

S Abrahamczyk, SS Renner - BMC evolutionary biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The 361 species of hummingbirds that occur from Alaska to Patagonia
pollinate~ 7,000 plant species with flowers morphologically adapted to them. To better …

Phylogeography and population genetics of the Amethyst-throated Hummingbird (Lampornis amethystinus)

N Cortés-Rodríguez, BE Hernández-Baños… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2008 - Elsevier
We analyzed mitochondrial DNA sequence variation across 69 Amethyst-throated
Hummingbirds (Lampornis amethystinus), comparing with samples of related taxa. Although …

An extinct hummingbird species that never was: a cautionary tale about sampling issues in molecular phylogenetics

JL Pérez-Emán, J Perdigon Ferreira, N Gutiérrez-Pinto… - bioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT The Bogota Sunangel (Heliangelus zusii) was described based on a historical
specimen lacking locality data as a striking–and potentially extinct–new species of …

[图书][B] The hummingbirds of North America

PA Johnsgard - 2016 - books.google.com
Swift and iridescent, hummingbirds are found only in the New World, and encompass an
amazing variety of specializations. No other family of birds can lay claim to so many …

Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate …

JA McGuire, CC Witt, DL Altshuler… - Systematic …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Hummingbirds are an important model system in avian biology, but to date the group has
been the subject of remarkably few phylogenetic investigations. Here we present partitioned …

A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds

JA McGuire, CC Witt, JV Remsen, R Dudley… - Journal of …, 2009 - Springer
In the context of a recently published phylogenetic estimate for 151 hummingbird species,
we provide an expanded informal taxonomy, as well as a formal phylogenetic taxonomy for …

Biogeography of the Andean metaltail hummingbirds: contrasting evolutionary histories of tree line and habitat‐generalist clades

PM Benham, AM Cuervo, JA McGuire… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess geographical and temporal patterns of diversification in Metallura
hummingbirds, particularly with respect to topographical barriers and climatic variation …