[HTML][HTML] Comparative genomics and evolution of avian specialized traits

L Wu, X Jiao, D Zhang, Y Cheng, G Song, Y Qu… - Current …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genomic data are important for understanding the origin and evolution of traits. Under the
context of rapidly developing of sequencing technologies and more widely available …

Museomics sheds light on evolutionary diversity in a critically endangered cockatoo species from Wallacea

AA Andersson, AF Sands, K Reid, T Hains… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate identification of evolutionarily significant units of rare and threatened organisms
provides a foundation for effective management and conservation. Up to seven subspecies …

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 …

Performance of a points-based scoring system for assessing species limits in birds

JA Tobias, PF Donald, RW Martin, SHM Butchart… - The Auk, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Species are fundamental to biology, conservation, and environmental legislation; yet, there
is often disagreement on how and where species limits should be drawn. Even sophisticated …

Re-assessing species limits in a morphologically cryptic Australasian kingfisher lineage (Coraciiformes: Halcyonidae) using bioacoustic data

YCK Sin, JA Eaton, RO Hutchinson… - Biological Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The common paradise-kingfisher, Tanysiptera galatea, species complex comprises 19 taxa
distributed across New Guinea and Wallacea. Owing to its highly conserved morphological …

Intraspecific variation of three plumage-cryptic bulbul species

A Dejtaradol, M Päckert, SC Renner - Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2024 - Elsevier
Bird songs and morphometry are frequently used to distinguish bird species which are
plumage-cryptic, or to delineate boundaries of subspecies. Rubigula flaviventris …

The threatened Rufous Limestone Babbler Gypsophila calcicola—not a quarry species, but a “quarried species”

PD Round, N Tantipisanuh, K Eiamampai… - Bird Conservation …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Limestone karst habitats are threatened globally by quarrying for production of concrete and
cement. A significant area of limestone karst shared among the provinces of Saraburi …