Understanding the biogeographic origins and temporal sequencing of groups within a
region or of lineages within an ecosystem can yield important insights into evolutionary …

Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a …

40 Years of Evolution is a landmark study of the finches first made famous by Charles
Darwin, one that documents as never before the evolution of species through natural …

The order Passeriformes (“perching birds”) comprises extant species diversity comparable to
that of living mammals. For over a decade, a single phylogenetic hypothesis based on DNA …

Mixed-species flocks of foraging birds have been documented from terrestrial habitats all
over the world and are thought to form for either improved feeding efficiency or better …

Despite the theoretical link between the ecology and the population genetics of species, little
empirical evidence is available that corroborates the association. Here, we examined …

Zoogeographic, palaeontological and biochemical data support a Southern Hemisphere
origin for passerine birds, while accumulating molecular data suggest that most extant avian …

Recently, as genome-scale data have become available for more organisms, the
development of phylogenetic markers from nuclear protein-coding loci (NPCL) has become …

This paper reviews speciation studies of Andean forest birds, using mtDNA sequence data,
and explores possible driving mechanisms. Typical biogeographic patterns in the Andean …

The Andean uplift played important roles in the historical diversification of Neotropical
organisms, both by producing new high-elevation habitats that could be colonized and by …