Avian Island Radiations Shed Light on the Dynamics of Adaptive and Nonadaptive Radiation

JC Illera, JC Rando, M Melo… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Understanding the mechanisms underlying species formation and differentiation is a central
goal of evolutionary biology and a formidable challenge. This understanding can provide …

Understanding the evolution of immune genes in jawed vertebrates

M Vinkler, SR Fiddaman, M Těšický… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Driven by co‐evolution with pathogens, host immunity continuously adapts to optimize
defence against pathogens within a given environment. Recent advances in genetics …

Historic Museum Samples Provide Evidence for a Recent Replacement of Wolbachia Types in European Drosophila melanogaster

A Strunov, S Kirchner, J Schindelar… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Wolbachia is one of the most common bacterial endosymbionts, which is frequently found in
numerous arthropods and nematode taxa. Wolbachia infections can have a strong influence …

A high-quality genome assembly highlights the evolutionary history of the great bustard (Otis tarda, Otidiformes)

H Luo, X Jiang, B Li, J Wu, J Shen, Z Xu… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Conservation genomics often relies on non-invasive methods to obtain DNA fragments
which limit the power of multi-omic analyses for threatened species. Here, we report multi …

Recent advances in museomics: revolutionizing biodiversity research

JJ Fong, MPK Blom, A Aowphol, JA McGuire… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Museomics, a term coined by Drs. Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller in∼ 2009, refers to
“the large-scale analysis of the DNA content of museum collections”(http://mammoth. psu …

[HTML][HTML] Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data

P Alström, Z Mohammadi, ED Enbody, M Irestedt… - Avian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The family Alaudidae, larks, comprises 93–100 species (depending on taxonomy) that are
widely distributed across Africa and Eurasia, with single species extending their ranges to …

Phylogenomic species delimitation of the twisted‐winged parasite genus Stylops (Strepsiptera)

M Lähteenaro, J Straka, M Forshage… - Systematic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The twisted‐winged parasite genus Stylops has a history of different species concepts with
varying host specificity resulting in diverse species diversity estimates in different regions of …

Ancient mitochondrial genomes unveil the origins and evolutionary history of New Zealand's enigmatic takahē and moho

AJF Verry, E Mas‐Carrió, GC Gibb, L Dutoit… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many avian species endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand were driven to extinction or reduced
to relict populations following successive waves of human arrival, due to hunting, habitat …

Integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognised species diversity in African Corypha larks (Aves: Alaudidae)

P Alström, Z Mohammadi, PF Donald… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The species complex comprising the rufous-naped lark Corypha africana, Sharpe's lark
Corypha sharpii, the red-winged lark Corypha hypermetra, the Somali long-billed lark …

Demographic history, local adaptation and vulnerability to climate change in a tropical mountain bird in New Guinea

PGP Ericson, M Irestedt, Y Qu - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To investigate how and when allopatric populations of a widely spread mountain bird in
New Guinea, Amblyornis macgregoriae, have diversified, how they differ genetically, and …