Often, biogeography is applied only as a narrative addition to phylogenetic studies and lacks
scientific rigour. However, if research questions are framed as hypotheses, biogeographical …

Abstract Knowledge concerning the diversity of parasitism and its reach across our current
understanding of the tree of life has benefitted considerably from novel molecular …

Mitochondrial DNA remains one of the most widely used molecular markers to reconstruct
the phylogeny and phylogeography of closely related birds. It has been proposed that bird …

Over the last decade, molecular studies carried out on the Australasian biota have revealed
a new world of organic structure that exists from submicroscopic to continental scale …

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their
unheralded role in global evolution Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia …

Cockatoos are the distinctive family Cacatuidae, a major lineage of the order of parrots
(Psittaciformes) and distributed throughout the Australasian region of the world. However …

Aim Parrots are thought to have originated on Gondwana during the Cretaceous. The initial
split within crown group parrots separated the New Zealand taxa from the remaining extant …

Evolutionary timescales have mainly used fossils for calibrating molecular clocks, though
fossils only really provide minimum clade age constraints. In their place, phylogenetic trees …

Passerines are the largest avian order, and the 6,000 species comprise more than half of all
extant bird species. This successful radiation probably had its origin in the Australasian …

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …