Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

The south‐western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate
Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia …

The order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, sawflies, and bees) represents one of the most
diverse animal lineages, but whether specific key innovations have contributed to its …

Determining the timing of diversification of modern birds has been difficult. We combined
DNA sequences of clock-like genes for most avian families with 130 fossil birds to generate …

Given that both sexes of most parrots learn new vocalizations throughout life and produce
them in diverse social contexts, whereas few songbird species combine all these traits, why …

We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of
topological hypotheses in particular. We show that the standard way of setting up Bayes …

The last 20 years have seen a resurgence in systematic studies of parrots (Aves:
Psittaciformes). Principally but not solely molecular in nature, this body of work has …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

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 …

Parasite host switches may trigger disease emergence, but prehistoric host ranges are often
unknowable. Lymphatic filariasis and loiasis are major human diseases caused by the …