A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna

FE Rheindt, DM Prawiradilaga, H Ashari, Suparno… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Birds are the best-known animal class, with only about five or six new species descriptions
per year since 1999. Integrating genomic and phenotypic research with arduous fieldwork in …

Anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in an Australian predatory bird increases with proximity to developed habitat

MT Lohr - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) are commonly used worldwide to control commensal
rodents. Second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) are highly persistent and …

Extensive paraphyly in the typical owl family (Strigidae)

JF Salter, CH Oliveros, PA Hosner, JD Manthey… - The Auk, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The typical owl family (Strigidae) comprises 194 species in 28 genera, 14 of which are
monotypic. Relationships within and among genera in the typical owls have been …

Cryptic diversity in Cyornis (Aves: Muscicapidae) jungle-flycatchers flagged by simple bioacoustic approaches

CY Gwee, JA Eaton, KM Garg, P Alström… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Despite the ongoing taxonomic revolution incorporating multiple species delimitation
methods, knowledge gaps persist in the taxonomy of comparatively well-studied animal …

DNA barcoding a unique avifauna: an important tool for evolution, systematics and conservation

J Tizard, S Patel, J Waugh, E Tavares… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2019 - Springer
Background DNA barcoding utilises a standardised region of the cytochrome c oxidase I
(COI) gene to identify specimens to the species level. It has proven to be an effective tool for …

Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus: Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago

SB Reilly, BR Karin, AL Stubbs, E Arida, U Arifin… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The archipelagos of Wallacea extend between the Sunda and Sahul Shelves, serving as a
semipermeable two-way filter influencing faunal exchange between Asia and Australo …

Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a 'great speciator', reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity

CY Gwee, KM Garg, B Chattopadhyay… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Archipelagoes serve as important 'natural laboratories' which facilitate the study of island
radiations and contribute to the understanding of evolutionary processes. The white-eye …

Deep macroevolutionary impact of humans on New Zealand's unique avifauna

L Valente, RS Etienne, JC Garcia-R - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Islands are at the frontline of the anthropogenic extinction crisis [1]. A vast number of island
birds have gone extinct since human colonization [2], and an important proportion is …

Genome‐wide SNPs confirm plumage polymorphism and hybridisation within a Cyornis flycatcher species complex

EYX Ng, S Li, D Zhang, KM Garg, G Song… - Zoologica …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology has been a leading taxonomic guiding light to systematists for the last couple of
hundred years. However, the genetic and–more recently–genomic revolution have …

[HTML][HTML] Using bioacoustic tools to clarify species delimitation within the Blakiston's Fish Owl (Bubo blakistoni) complex

N Movin, T Gamova, SG Surmach, JC Slaght… - Avian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Although Blakiston's Fish Owl (Bubo blakistoni) is widely treated as a single
species, marked differences in the structure of pair duets between continental and insular …