Madagascar is one of the world's hottest biodiversity hot spots due to its diverse, endemic,
and highly threatened biota. This biota shows a distinct signature of evolution in isolation …

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 …

Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galápagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his
thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

The endemic species richness on Madagascar, relative to landmass area, is unparalleled in
the world. Many organisms on the island have restricted geographical ranges. A …

Adaptive radiation is the rapid diversification of a single lineage into many species that
inhabit a variety of environments or use a variety of resources and differ in traits required to …

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in
and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including …

The deep divergence between the African endemic passerines Picathartidae (rockfowl
Picathartes and rockjumpers Chaetops, four species) and the Passerida (ca. 3500 species) …

The complete mitochondrial ND2 gene (1037bp) was sequenced to examine relationships
within the bent-wing bat complex, Miniopterus schreibersii (Family Vespertilionidae). It was …

We analyzed nucleotide variation at four loci for 75 species to produce a phylogenetic
hypothesis for the Meliphagidae, and to examine the evolution and biogeographic history of …