Published in Mol Phylogenet Evol on January 26, 2008
Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.62
The genetics of vitamin C loss in vertebrates. Curr Genomics (2011) 1.01
Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: what is a bombycillid? Mol Phylogenet Evol (2008) 0.96
Macroevolution of hyperdiverse flightless beetles reflects the complex geological history of the Sunda Arc. Sci Rep (2016) 0.91
Is sociality required for the evolution of communicative complexity? Evidence weighed against alternative hypotheses in diverse taxonomic groups. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2012) 0.88
An unexpectedly long history of sexual selection in birds-of-paradise. BMC Evol Biol (2009) 0.83
Insights into the evolution of a cryptic radiation of bats: dispersal and ecological radiation of Malagasy Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae). PLoS One (2014) 0.83
Fixing Formalin: A Method to Recover Genomic-Scale DNA Sequence Data from Formalin-Fixed Museum Specimens Using High-Throughput Sequencing. PLoS One (2015) 0.82
Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves). BMC Evol Biol (2014) 0.81
The spatio-temporal colonization and diversification across the Indo-Pacific by a 'great speciator' (Aves, Erythropitta erythrogaster). Proc Biol Sci (2013) 0.81
Functional characterization of spectral tuning mechanisms in the great bowerbird short-wavelength sensitive visual pigment (SWS1), and the origins of UV/violet vision in passerines and parrots. BMC Evol Biol (2013) 0.79
New Zealand Passerines Help Clarify the Diversification of Major Songbird Lineages during the Oligocene. Genome Biol Evol (2015) 0.76
The influence of wing morphology upon the dispersal, geographical distributions and diversification of the Corvides (Aves; Passeriformes). Proc Biol Sci (2016) 0.75
The avian fossil record in Insular Southeast Asia and its implications for avian biogeography and palaeoecology. PeerJ (2014) 0.75
The New Zealand Thrush: an extinct oriole. PLoS One (2011) 0.75
The Corvids Literature Database-500 years of ornithological research from a crow's perspective. Database (Oxford) (2016) 0.75
A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history. Science (2008) 9.00
An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world. Science (2012) 5.09
Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts. Science (2007) 2.85
A Gondwanan origin of passerine birds supported by DNA sequences of the endemic New Zealand wrens. Proc Biol Sci (2002) 2.63
Flight speeds among bird species: allometric and phylogenetic effects. PLoS Biol (2007) 2.40
Early evolution of the venom system in lizards and snakes. Nature (2005) 2.40
The toxicogenomic multiverse: convergent recruitment of proteins into animal venoms. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet (2009) 2.30
The mitochondrial genome sequence of the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Genome Res (2009) 2.30
Phylogeography of Indonesian and Sino-Himalayan region bush warblers (Cettia, Aves). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2006) 2.00
Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.98
Local participation in natural resource monitoring: a characterization of approaches. Conserv Biol (2008) 1.92
Molecular phylogeography reveals island colonization history and diversification of western Indian Ocean sunbirds (Nectarinia: Nectariniidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2003) 1.73
Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.62
Systematic relationships and biogeography of the tracheophone suboscines (Aves: Passeriformes). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2002) 1.58
Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.53
Evolution of an arsenal: structural and functional diversification of the venom system in the advanced snakes (Caenophidia). Mol Cell Proteomics (2007) 1.41
A central role for venom in predation by Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon) and the extinct giant Varanus (Megalania) priscus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.36
Inter-familial relationships of the shorebirds (Aves: Charadriiformes) based on nuclear DNA sequence data. BMC Evol Biol (2003) 1.29
Dichlorvos exposure impedes extraction and amplification of DNA from insects in museum collections. Front Zool (2010) 1.27
Phylogeny and classification of the avian superfamily Sylvioidea. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2005) 1.26
Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.23
Ecological and evolutionary determinants for the adaptive radiation of the Madagascan vangas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.20
Ground tit genome reveals avian adaptation to living at high altitudes in the Tibetan plateau. Nat Commun (2013) 1.20
Identical skin toxins by convergent molecular adaptation in frogs. Curr Biol (2009) 1.17
Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 1.15
Tracing the colonization history of the Indian Ocean scops-owls (Strigiformes: Otus) with further insight into the spatio-temporal origin of the Malagasy avifauna. BMC Evol Biol (2008) 1.10
Coalescent models reveal the relative roles of ancestral polymorphism, vicariance, and dispersal in shaping phylogeographical structure of an African montane forest robin. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2005) 1.10
Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): a review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2008) 1.10
Build-up of the Himalayan avifauna through immigration: a biogeographical analysis of the Phylloscopus and Seicercus warblers. Evolution (2007) 1.09
Novel venom proteins produced by differential domain-expression strategies in beaded lizards and gila monsters (genus Heloderma). Mol Biol Evol (2009) 1.08
Are transposable element insertions homoplasy free?: an examination using the avian tree of life. Syst Biol (2011) 1.08
Sapayoa aenigma: a New World representative of 'Old World suboscines'. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 1.07
Systematic affinities of the lyrebirds (Passeriformes: Menura), with a novel classification of the major groups of passerine birds. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2002) 1.06
Phylogenetic relationships of the African bush-shrikes and helmet-shrikes (Passeriformes: Malaconotidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2004) 1.05
Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2004) 1.02
Out of Gondwanaland; the evolutionary history of cooperative breeding and social behaviour among crows, magpies, jays and allies. Proc Biol Sci (2006) 1.01
A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2008) 0.99
Gene trees, species trees and Earth history combine to shed light on the evolution of migration in a model avian system. Mol Ecol (2013) 0.99
Specialization in plant-hummingbird networks is associated with species richness, contemporary precipitation and quaternary climate-change velocity. PLoS One (2011) 0.98
Host and habitat specialization of avian malaria in Africa. Mol Ecol (2011) 0.98
Systematic placement of an enigmatic Southeast Asian taxon Eupetes macrocerus and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida. Biol Lett (2007) 0.96
The potential drivers in forming avian biodiversity hotspots in the East Himalaya Mountains of Southwest China. Integr Zool (2015) 0.96
The African warbler genus Hyliota as a lost lineage in the Oscine songbird tree: molecular support for an African origin of the Passerida. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2005) 0.96
Molecular systematics of a speciose, cosmopolitan songbird genus: defining the limits of, and relationships among, the Turdus thrushes. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2006) 0.95
Non-monophyletic taxa and cryptic species--evidence from a molecular phylogeny of leaf-warblers (Phylloscopus, Aves). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2005) 0.95
Shall we chat? Evolutionary relationships in the genus Cercomela (Muscicapidae) and its relation to Oenanthe reveals extensive polyphyly among chats distributed in Africa, India and the Palearctic. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2009) 0.94
Within-host speciation of malaria parasites. PLoS One (2007) 0.93
Microgeographic socio-genetic structure of an African cooperative breeding passerine revealed: integrating behavioural and genetic data. Mol Ecol (2011) 0.90
Molecular evolution in space and through time: mtDNA phylogeography of the Olive Sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea/obscura) throughout continental Africa. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2004) 0.90
Complex biogeographic history of the cuckoo-shrikes and allies (Passeriformes: Campephagidae) revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2006) 0.89
The systematic affinity of the enigmatic Lamprolia victoriae (Aves: Passeriformes)--an example of avian dispersal between New Guinea and Fiji over Miocene intermittent land bridges? Mol Phylogenet Evol (2008) 0.89
A multi-gene phylogeny reveals novel relationships for aberrant genera of Australo-Papuan core Corvoidea and polyphyly of the Pachycephalidae and Psophodidae (Aves: Passeriformes). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2009) 0.88
A phylogeny for the Cisticolidae (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, and a re-interpretation of an unique nest-building specialization. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2006) 0.88
A multigene phylogeny examining evolutionary and ecological relationships in the Australo-papuan wrens of the subfamily Malurinae (Aves). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2011) 0.88
Sequence capture using PCR-generated probes: a cost-effective method of targeted high-throughput sequencing for nonmodel organisms. Mol Ecol Resour (2014) 0.88
Diversification across an altitudinal gradient in the Tiny Greenbul (Phyllastrephus debilis) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Africa. BMC Evol Biol (2011) 0.87
Functional and structural diversification of the Anguimorpha lizard venom system. Mol Cell Proteomics (2010) 0.87
A tight balance between natural selection and gene flow in a southern African arid-zone endemic bird. Evolution (2011) 0.87
Plumage patterns are good indicators of taxonomic diversity, but not of phylogenetic affinities, in Australian grasswrens Amytornis (Aves: Maluridae). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2010) 0.87
Evidence for panmixia despite barriers to gene flow in the southern African endemic, Caffrogobius caffer (Teleostei: Gobiidae). BMC Evol Biol (2008) 0.87
Evolutionary history and biogeography of the drongos (Dicruridae), a tropical Old World clade of corvoid passerines. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2007) 0.87
Systematic affinities of two enigmatic New Zealand passerines of high conservation priority, the hihi or stitchbird Notiomystis cincta and the kokako Callaeas cinerea. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2006) 0.87
Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data reveal the major lineages of starlings, mynas and related taxa. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2006) 0.86
Speciation dynamics in the Australo-Papuan Meliphaga honeyeaters. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2006) 0.85
Phylogenetic relationships of tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Tyrannidae), with an emphasis on the elaeniine assemblage. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2007) 0.85
Phylogenetic relationships of typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) and test of incongruence based on Bayes factors. BMC Evol Biol (2004) 0.85
Interpreting the process behind endemism in China by integrating the phylogeography and ecological niche models of the Stachyridopsis ruficeps. PLoS One (2012) 0.85
Diversification and biogeographic patterns in four island radiations of passerine birds. Evolution (2011) 0.84
A complete multilocus species phylogeny of the tits and chickadees (Aves: Paridae). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2013) 0.84
Multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset reveal extensive non-monophyly in the avian family Locustellidae. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2011) 0.84