A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data

Barker, F. Keith; Barrowclough, George F.; Groth, Jeff G.

doi:10.1098/rspb.2001.1883

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A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data

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Barker, F. Keith, Barrowclough, George F., Groth, Jeff G.·2002·Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

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Passerine birds comprise over half of avian diversity, but have proved difficult to classify. Despite a long history of work on this group, no comprehensive hypothesis of passerine family-level relationships was available until recent analyses of DNA-DNA hybridization data. Unfortunately, given the value of such a hypothesis in comparative studies of passerine ecology and behaviour, the DNA-hybridization results have not been well tested using independent data and analytical approaches. Therefore, we analysed nucleotide sequence variation at the nuclear RAG-1 and c-mos genes from 69 passerine taxa, including representatives of most currently recognized families. In contradiction to previous DNA-hybridization studies, our analyses suggest paraphyly of suboscine passerines because the suboscine New Zealand wren Acanthisitta was found to be sister to all other passerines. Additionally, we reconstructed the parvorder Corvida as a basal paraphyletic grade within the oscine passerines. Finally, we found strong evidence that several family-level taxa are misplaced in the hybridization results, including the Alaudidae, Irenidae, and Melanocharitidae. The hypothesis of relationships we present here suggests that the oscine passerines arose on the Australian continental plate while it was isolated by oceanic barriers and that a major northern radiation of oscines (i.e. the parvorder Passerida) originated subsequent to dispersal from the south.

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Sibley, C. G. (1974) · Emu - Austral Ornithology · doi:10.1071/mu974065 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
DNA-DNA hybridization and avian phylogeny
Mindell, D. P. (1992) · Systematic Biology · Cited by 25 · see citing works
TAXONOMIC COMMENTS ON THE EURYLAIMIDAE
Olson, S. L. (1971) · Ibis · doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1971.tb05185.x · Cited by 24 · see citing works
Systematic and functional aspects of the locomotor system of the Scrub-birds, Atrichornis, and Lyrebirds, Menura (Passeriformes: Atrichornithidae and Menuridae)
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Associations among Biogeography, Phylogeny and Bird Species Diversity
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Relationships Among the Birds-of-Paradise (Paradisaeidae) and Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae) - Protein Evidence
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Chicken Homolog of the mos Proto-Oncogene
Schmidt, M. C., Oskarsson, M. K., Dunn, J. K., Blair, D. G., Hughes, S. H., Propst, F., & Woude, G. F. V. (1988) · Molecular and Cellular Biology · doi:10.1128/mcb.8.2.923-929.1988 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Evolution of the Broadbills (eurylaimidae) and Asities (philepittidae) Based on Morphology
Prum, R. O. (2024) · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · Cited by 14 · see citing works
Phylogeny and Classification of Birds. By Charles G. Sibley and Jon E. Ahlquist
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Relationships between the ant-thrushes Neocossyphus and the flycatcher-thrushes Stizorhina, and their position relative to Myadestes, Entomodestes and some other Turdidae (Passeriformes)
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Morphology of the Bony Stapes in the Menuridae and Acanthisittidae: Evidence for Oscine Affinities
Feduccia, A. (1975) · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Origins and relationships of the Australian biota
Keast, A. (1981) · Monographiae biologicae · doi:10.1007/978-94-009-8629-9_69 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
A Molecular Perspective on Oscine Phylogeny, with Special Reference to Inter-familial Relationships.
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Molecular Perspectives on the Phylogenetic Affinities of Lyrebirds (Menuridae) and Treecreepers (Climacteridae)
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Affinities of the Aberrant Australo-Papuan Honeyeaters, Toxorhamphus, Oedistoma, Timeliopsis and Epthianura - Protein Evidence
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Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds
Jarvis, E. D., Mirarab, S., Aberer, A. J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., Ho, S. Y. W., Faircloth, B. C., Nabholz, B., Howard, J. T., et al. (2014) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1253451 · Cited by 1,901 · see citing works
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Prevalence of different modes of parental care in birds
Cockburn, A. (2006) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3458 · Cited by 845 · see citing works
“I augmented the phylogenetic hypotheses of Sibley & Ahlqist (1990) with insights from new molecular phylogenetic analysis, which has particularly marked effects on the relationships of the passerines (Barker et al. 2002, 2004; Ericson et al. 2002, 2003).”
Method
Comparing entire colour patterns as birds see them
Endler, J. A., & Mielke, P. W. (2005) · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00540.x · Cited by 756 · see citing works
Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation
Barker, F. K., Cibois, A., Schikler, P., Feinstein, J., & Cracraft, J. L. (2004) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0401892101 · Cited by 718 · see citing works
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Higher-order phylogeny of modern birds (Theropoda, Aves: Neornithes) based on comparative anatomy. II. Analysis and discussion
LIVEZEY, B. C., & ZUSI, R. L. (2007) · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00293.x · Cited by 574 · see citing works
“Barker et al. (2002) inferred the Ptilonorhynchidae (Stonor, 1938; Cracraft, 1992a; Nunn & Cracraft, 1996; Cracraft & Feinstein, 2000; Johansson et al., 2001) to be the sister-group of the remaining passeriform taxa.”
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Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds
Koenig, W. D., & Dickinson, J. L. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816 · Cited by 539 · see citing works
Multilocus Resolution of Phylogeny and Timescale in the Extant Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers
Lerner, H. R. L., Meyer, M., James, H. F., Hofreiter, M., & Fleischer, R. C. (2011) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.09.039 · Cited by 517 · see citing works
“, nonsynonymous sites) are largely concordant with other published avian data sets [14–17], suggesting broad applicability of our locus-specific rates for population genetic and phylogenetic studies of avian taxa.”
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Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota
Byrne, M. M., Steane, D. A., Joseph, L., Yeates, D. K., Jordan, G. J., Crayn, D. M., Aplin, K. P., Cantrill, D. J., Cook, L. G., Crisp, M. D., et al. (2011) · Journal of Biogeography · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02535.x · Cited by 419 · see citing works
“For birds, mesic ancestry was inferred from all phylogenies for passerines, particularly oscine passerines (Barker et al., 2002, 2004; Ericson et al., 2002, 2003; Chesser & ten Have, 2007) and for parrots among non-passerines (Wright et al., 2008; Schweizer et al., 2010).”
High dispersal ability inhibits speciation in a continental radiation of passerine birds
Claramunt, S., Derryberry, E. P., Remsen, J. V., & Brumfield, R. T. (2011) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1922 · Cited by 402 · see citing works
Earth history and the passerine superradiation
Oliveros, C. H., Field, D. J., Ksepka, D. T., Barker, F. K., Aleixo, A. L. P., Andersen, M. J., Alström, P., Benz, B. W., Braun, E. L., Braun, M. J., et al. (2019) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1813206116 · Cited by 395 · see citing works
“Numerous apparently rapid divergence events within passerines have hindered reconstruction of their evolutionary interrelationships when sampling few loci (<10) (4, 9, 14, 15, 19) or few taxa (<70% of passerine families) (5, 17, 20).”
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Flight distance of urban birds, predation, and selection for urban life
Møller, A. P. (2008) · Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology · doi:10.1007/s00265-008-0636-y · Cited by 396 · see citing works
“…composite phylogeny used in the comparative analyses was based on Sibley and Ahlquist (1990), combined with information from other sources (Sheldon et al. 1992; Blondel et al. 1996; Badyaev 1997; Slikas et al. 1996; Helbig and Seibold 1999; Barker et al. 2001, 2004; Voelker and Spellman 2004) (Fig.”
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A new time tree reveals Earth history’s imprint on the evolution of modern birds
Claramunt, S., & Cracraft, J. (2015) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501005 · Cited by 383 · see citing works
The Genetics of Vitamin C Loss in Vertebrates
Drouin, G., Godin, J. R. P., & Pagé, B. (2011) · Current Genomics · doi:10.2174/138920211796429736 · Cited by 359 · see citing works
“(6) have been supported by recent studies [41, 43-46].”
Phylogenetic Relationships and Classification of Didelphid Marsupials, an Extant Radiation of New World Metatherian Mammals
Voss, R. S., & Jansa, S. A. (2009) · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · doi:10.1206/322.1 · Cited by 349 · see citing works
“Nucleotide sequence data from RAG1 have previously been analyzed in several vertebrate phylogenetic studies (e.g., Groth and Barrowclough, 1999; Barker et al., 2002; Baker et al., 2004; Gruber et al., 2007).”
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A first-generation microsatellite-based genetic linkage map of the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus): insights into avian genome evolution
Jaari, S., Li, M.-H., & Merilä, J. (2009) · BMC Genomics · doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-1 · Cited by 308 · see citing works
“[47,48]), a linkage map of the Siberian jay may provide new insights into avian genome evolution, and thereby also to the extensive morphological, life historical and behavioural diversification within the order Passeriformes (see [47]).”
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Connections between the Atlantic and the Amazonian forest avifaunas represent distinct historical events
Batalha‐Filho, H., Fjeldså, J., Fabre, P., & Miyaki, C. Y. (2012) · Journal für Ornithologie · doi:10.1007/s10336-012-0866-7 · Cited by 297 · see citing works
“We used the geological split between New Zealand and Antarctica as the calibration point, as this has been related to the basal separation of the Acanthisitta lineage from the other passerines (Barker et al. 2002, 2004; Ericson et al. 2002). Thus, we used a normally distributed tree prior with a mean of 78 mya and a s…”
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The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs
D’Emic, M. D. (2012) · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00853.x · Cited by 276 · see citing works
Developmental origins of mosaic evolution in the avian cranium
Felice, R. N., & Goswami, A. (2018) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1716437115 · Cited by 249 · see citing works
“Psittaciformes, Bucerotiformes, and Passeroidea show very similar patterns in the palate and rostrum (Fig.”
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Evolutionary Relationships, Cospeciation, and Host Switching in Avian Malaria Parasites
Ricklefs, R. E., Fallon, S. M., & Bermingham, E. (2004) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1080/10635150490264987 · Cited by 268 · see citing works
“…from vireonidcorvid hosts appear to be in more basal positions within the Haemoproteus clade than are parasites recovered from nine-primaried oscines, paralleling the more basal position of vireonids and corvids within the passerif orm phylogeny (Sibley and Ahlquist, 1990; Barker et al., 2002).”
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The Speciation and Biogeography of Birds
Zink, R. M., & Jones, A. W. (2004) · The Auk · doi:10.1093/auk/121.4.1296 · Cited by 263 · see citing works
A molecular phylogeny of tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes
Lê, M. Đ., Raxworthy, C. J., McCord, W. P., & Mertz, L. A. (2006) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.003 · Cited by 247 · see citing works
“…Spinks et al. (2004) CM1 (Cmos) 163 5 -GCCTGGTGCTCCATCGACTGGGA-3 Barker et al. (2002) CM2 (Cmos) 820 5 -GGGTGATGGCAAAGGAGTAGATGTC-3 Barker et al. (2002) Cmos1 (Cmos) 163 5 -GCCTGGTGCTCCATCGACTGGGATCA-3 This study Cmos3 (Cmos) 812 5 -GTAGATGTCTGCTTTGGGGGTGA-3 This study F2 (Rag2)…”
A Multilocus Molecular Phylogeny of the Parrots (Psittaciformes): Support for a Gondwanan Origin during the Cretaceous
Wright, T. F., Schirtzinger, E. E., Matsumoto, T. E., Eberhard, J. R., Graves, G. R., Sánchez, J. J., Capelli, S., Müller, H., Scharpegge, J., Chambers, G. K., et al. (2008) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msn160 · Cited by 236 · see citing works
“Analyses using similar approaches suggest that both Passeriformes (Barker et al. 2002) and Columbiformes (Pereira et al. 2007) also originated in Gondwana during the Cretaceous.”
Going to Extremes: Contrasting Rates of Diversification in a Recent Radiation of New World Passerine Birds
Barker, F. K., Burns, K. J., Klicka, J., Lanyon, S. M., & Lovette, I. J. (2012) · Systematic Biology · doi:10.1093/sysbio/sys094 · Cited by 229 · see citing works
“…recognized by current taxonomy ( As immediate outgroups, we selected members of the family Fringillidae (the sister clade to the New World group; Barker et al. 2002; Ericson and Johansson 2003; Johansson et al. 2008), including the former tanager genera In addition, we included 2 members of the…”
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New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies
Barker, F. K., Burns, K. J., Klicka, J., Lanyon, S. M., & Lovette, I. J. (2015) · The Auk · doi:10.1642/auk-14-110.1 · Cited by 223 · see citing works
“Now that molecular phylogenetic analyses have largely resolved such controversial relationships among higher taxa (Barker et al. 2002, 2004, 2013, Ericson and Johansson 2003), as well as revealing species-level relationships within most of the major emberizoid lineages (Lovette et al. 2010, Burns…”
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PARALLEL RADIATIONS IN THE PRIMARY CLADES OF BIRDS
Fain, M. G., & Houde, P. (2004) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00884.x · Cited by 224 · see citing works
Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago
Jønsson, K. A., Fabre, P., Ricklefs, R. E., & Fjeldså, J. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1018956108 · Cited by 218 · see citing works
“However, other oscine lineages—the core Corvoidea (crows and allies), comprising more than 700 species, and the Passerida (warblers, thrushes,finches, and other songbirds), comprisingmore than 3,500 species—originated in themid-Tertiary and dispersed all over the world (17, 18, 20).”
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Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation
Moyle, R. G., Oliveros, C. H., Andersen, M. J., Hosner, P. A., Benz, B. W., Manthey, J. D., Travers, S. L., Brown, R. M., & Faircloth, B. C. (2016) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms12709 · Cited by 240 · see citing works
Fitness consequences of helping
Dickinson, J. L., & Hatchwell, B. J. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816.004 · Cited by 209 · see citing works
Nuclear DNA phylogeny of the squirrels (Mammalia: Rodentia) and the evolution of arboreality from c-myc and RAG1
Steppan, S. J., Storz, B. L., & Hoffmann, R. S. (2003) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00204-5 · Cited by 209 · see citing works
“Nearly the entire exon has been used to resolve ordinal phylogenetics among birds (Barker et al., 2002; Ericson et al., 2002; Groth and Barrowclough, 1999) and vertebrates (Frippiat et al.”
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Recent Advances in the (Molecular) Phylogeny of Vertebrates
Meyer, A., & Zardoya, R. (2003) · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.011802.132351 · Cited by 201 · see citing works
“Furthermore, the monophyly of the Passeriformes is supported by several recent molecular studies that are based on nuclear DNA sequences (Barker et al. 2002).”
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The Paleogene fossil record of birds in Europe
Mayr, G. (2005) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1017/s1464793105006779 · Cited by 177 · see citing works
Phylogeny and classification of the avian superfamily Sylvioidea
Alström, P., Ericson, P. G. P., Olsson, U., & Sundberg, P. (2005) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.05.015 · Cited by 173 · see citing works
“Molecular data suggest that the oscine passerines had their early evolution in the Australo-Papuan region, from where several groups later dispersed (Barker et al., 2002, 2004; Ericson et al., 2002).”
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Testosterone in Tropical Birds: Effects of Environmental and Social Factors
Goymann, W., Moore, I. T., Scheuerlein, A., Hirschenhauser, K., Grafen, A., & Wingfield, J. C. (2004) · The American Naturalist · doi:10.1086/422856 · Cited by 171 · see citing works
“1) was derived from Sibley and Ahlquist (1990), with additional information from Friesen et al. (2002) and Barker et al. (2002).”
Method
Which birds adjust the frequency of vocalizations in urban noise?
Hu, Y., & Cardoso, G. C. (2010) · Animal Behaviour · doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.036 · Cited by 170 · see citing works
“For this we compiled a phylogeny for our species based on Hackett et al. (2008) and Barker et al. (2002, 2004).”
Method
MALARIA AND RISK OF PREDATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BIRDS
Møller, A. P., & Nielsen, J. T. (2007) · Ecology · doi:10.1890/06-0747 · Cited by 170 · see citing works
Is There a “Migratory Syndrome” Common to All Migrant Birds?
Piersma, T., Pérez‐Tris, J., Mouritsen, H., Bauchinger, U., & Bairlein, F. (2005) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1196/annals.1343.026 · Cited by 170 · see citing works
A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri)
Jønsson, K. A., & Fjeldså, J. (2006) · Zoologica Scripta · doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00221.x · Cited by 165 · see citing works
LIFE-HISTORY AND ECOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN EGG AND CLUTCH MASS AMONG PASSERINE SPECIES
Martin, T. E., Bassar, R. D., Bassar, S. K., Fontaine, J. J., Lloyd, P., Mathewson, H. A., Niklison, A. M., & Chalfoun, A. D. (2006) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb01115.x · Cited by 165 · see citing works
“When egg mass was corrected for body mass and clutch size, the residual variation was strongly correlated with nest predation across sites (Rp 5 20.64, df 5 66, P , 0.0001; see gray line in Fig.”
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Phylogeny of Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data
Ericson, P. G. P., & Johansson, U. S. (2003) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00067-8 · Cited by 164 · see citing works
“In the parsimony analysis of Barker et al. (2002) the dipper grouped with the thrush-flycatcher clade, while it got a position basal to both this and the starling-mockingbird clade in the maximum-likelihood analysis.”
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Phylogeny and phylogenetic classification of the tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins, and their allies (Aves: Tyrannides)
Tello, J. G., Moyle, R. G., Marchese, D. J., & Cracraft, J. L. (2009) · Cladistics · doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00254.x · Cited by 160 · see citing works
“, 2003; Ericson and Johansson, 2003; Barker et al., 2002, 2004; Cracraft and Barker, 2009; among others). Finally, to facilitate standardization of taxon names we generally follow Sibley et al. (1988) and Sibley and Monroe s (1990) suffixes for taxon names assigned to particular suprageneric ranks.”
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Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix
Burleigh, J. G., Kimball, R. T., & Braun, E. L. (2014) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.12.003 · Cited by 156 · see citing works
Evolution, biogeography, and patterns of diversification in passerine birds
Ericson, P. G. P., Irestedt, M., & Johansson, U. S. (2003) · Journal of Avian Biology · doi:10.1034/j.1600-048x.2003.03121.x · Cited by 160 · see citing works
“The suggested exclusion from both the suboscine and the oscine clade has recently been supported by DNA sequence data, which indicate that the New Zealand wrens are survivors of the earliest radiation of passerines (Barker et al. 2002, Ericson et al. 2002a) (Fig.”
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Second report on chicken genes and chromosomes 2005
Schmid, M., Nanda, I., & Burt, D. W. (2005) · Cytogenetic and Genome Research · doi:10.1159/000084205 · Cited by 159 · see citing works
“Besides the water birds, progress has been made with DNA sequence analyses in understanding relationships within other neoavian groups, including the Passeriformes (Johansson et al., 2001, 2002; Barker et al., 2002; Yuri and Mindell, 2002; Cracraft et al., 2004).”
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CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF BEAK MORPHOLOGY AND SONG IN THE NEOTROPICAL WOODCREEPER RADIATION
Derryberry, E. P., Nathalie Seddon, A., Claramunt, S., Tobias, J. A., Baker, A., Aleixo, A. L. P., & Brumfield, R. T. (2012) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01642.x · Cited by 152 · see citing works
“RAG-1 and RAG-2 genes were amplified and sequenced using multiple primer pairs (Groth and Barrowclough 1999; Barker et al. 2002, 2004).”
RAG-1 sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships within Charadriiform birds
Paton, T., Baker, A. J., Groth, J. G., & Barrowclough, G. F. (2003) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00098-8 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
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Mammals: comparisons and contrasts
Russell, A. F. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816.014 · Cited by 147 · see citing works
Evolution of ultraviolet vision in the largest avian radiation - the passerines
Ödeen, A., Håstad, O., & Alström, P. (2011) · BMC Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-313 · Cited by 146 · see citing works
“proto-Australasia [45,46], whereas the Philesturnus/Cnemophilus/Toxorhampus/’core Corvoidea’ clade has been inferred to have originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago [43].”
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Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): A review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers
Johansson, U. S., Fjeldså, J., & Bowie, R. C. K. (2008) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.029 · Cited by 141 · see citing works
Nuclear DNA from old collections of avian study skins reveals the evolutionary history of the Old World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes)
Irestedt, M., Ohlson, J. I., Zuccon, D., Källersjö, M., & Ericson, P. G. P. (2006) · Zoologica Scripta · doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00249.x · Cited by 139 · see citing works
“That the variation in syrinx morphology in passerines is generally consistent with molecular data is obvious when comparing the extensive morphological study by Ames (1971) with recent molecular findings (e.g. Barker et al. 2002, 2004; Ericson et al. 2002a; Irestedt et al. 2002).”
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Delayed dispersal
Ekman, J. B., Dickinson, J. L., Hatchwell, B. J., & Griesser, M. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816.003 · Cited by 137 · see citing works
Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: eighth report
Sangster, G., Collinson, J. M., Crochet, P., Knox, A. G., Parkin, D. T., & Votier, S. C. (2012) · Ibis · doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2012.01273.x · Cited by 135 · see citing works
Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks
Zanata, T. B., Dalsgaard, B., Passos, F. C., Cotton, P. A., Roper, J. J., Maruyama, P. K., Fischer, E. A., Schleuning, M., González, A. M. M., Vizentin‐Bugoni, J., et al. (2017) · Journal of Biogeography · doi:10.1111/jbi.13045 · Cited by 134 · see citing works
“, 2016; Fleming & Muchhala, 2008; Stiles, 1981), with a limited distribution overlap between these OW families (Barker et al., 2002).”
Background
Extrapair paternity, migration, and breeding synchrony in birds
Spottiswoode, C. N. (2004) · Behavioral Ecology · doi:10.1093/beheco/arg100 · Cited by 130 · see citing works
“Higher nodes for the nonpasserines were drawn from the DNA–DNA hybridization phylogeny of Sibley and Ahlquist (1990) and predominantly from Barker et al. (2001) for Passeriformes.”
Method
Rethinking birdsong evolution: meta-analysis of the relationship between song complexity and reproductive success
Soma, M., & Garamszegi, L. Z. (2011) · Behavioral Ecology · doi:10.1093/beheco/arq219 · Cited by 127 · see citing works
“We did not use phylogeny of Barker et al. (2002) because it did not allow the resolution of branch lengths within families.”
Method
Resolving the root of the avian mitogenomic tree by breaking up long branches
Slack, K. E., Delsuc, F., McLenachan, P. A., Árnason, Ú., & Penny, D. (2006) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.06.002 · Cited by 126 · see citing works
“The early emergence of New Zealand wrens 28/8/08, page 5 of 28 within Passeriformes is consistent with a Gondwanan origin for the whole passerine group (Cracraft 2001; Barker et al. 2002; Edwards and Boles, 2002; Ericson et al. 2002a).”
Losses of female song with changes from tropical to temperate breeding in the New World blackbirds
Price, J. J., Lanyon, S. M., & Omland, K. E. (2009) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1626 · Cited by 126 · see citing works
“2005), based on evidence for an Australasian origin of songbirds (Barker et al. 2002) combined with the prevalence of female song among Australian species today.”
Background
Nest sanitation in passerine birds: implications for egg rejection in hosts of brood parasites
Guigueno, M. F., & Sealy, S. G. (2011) · Journal für Ornithologie · doi:10.1007/s10336-011-0731-0 · Cited by 124 · see citing works
“We controlled for phylogeny with independent contrasts using the contrast.exe subroutine of PHYLIP (Felsenstein 1989) and the phylogenetic hypothesis presented by Barker et al. (2002) .”
Method
Host compatibility rather than vector–host-encounter rate determines the host range of avian Plasmodium parasites
Medeiros, M. C. I., Hamer, G. L., & Ricklefs, R. E. (2013) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2947 · Cited by 121 · see citing works
The evolutionary radiation of modern birds (Neornithes): reconciling molecules, morphology and the fossil record
Dyke, G. J., & van Tuinen, M. (2004) · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00118.x · Cited by 120 · see citing works
“Both molecular clock analyses (van Tuinen & Hedges, 2001; M. van Tuinen, T. A. Stidham & E. A. Hadly, unpubl. data) and biogeographical interpretations (Cracraft, 2001; Barker et al., 2002) suggest a Cretaceous diversification for this large and diverse clade.”
Background
Flight distance and population trends in European breeding birds
Møller, A. P. (2008) · Behavioral Ecology · doi:10.1093/beheco/arn103 · Cited by 120 · see citing works
Phylogeny of swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae) estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences
Sheldon, F. H., Whittingham, L. A., Moyle, R. G., Slikas, B., & Winkler, D. W. (2005) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.008 · Cited by 117 · see citing works
“Outgroups were selected from sylvioid families known to be closely related to the Hirundinidae (Barker et al., 2001; Sheldon and Gill, 1996).”
Background
Global diversification rates of passerine birds
Ricklefs, R. E. (2003) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2489 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
“Significant events might have included the colonization of South America by several North American fringillid lineages (family Fringillidae, nine tribes), the escape of corvid lineages (family Corvidae, 16 tribes) from Australasia as the Australian plate approached Asia (Barker et al. 2002; Ericson et al. 2002), the c…”
Influential
The evolution of song in female birds in Europe
Garamszegi, L. Z., Pavlova, D. Z., Eens, M., & Møller, A. P. (2006) · Behavioral Ecology · doi:10.1093/beheco/arl047 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
“First, female song is prevalent in Australian birds (Robinson 1949), which are the ancestors of oscine passerines (Barker et al. 2002).”
Background
Metaves, Mirandornithes, Strisores and other novelties - a critical review of the higher-level phylogeny of neornithine birds
Mayr, G. (2010) · Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research · doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2010.00586.x · Cited by 116 · see citing works
“…analyses is the recognition of sister group relationship between the New Zealand Acanthisittidae and all other extant passeriform birds, the Eupasseres, which fall into two clades, the predominantly New World Suboscines and the Oscines (Barker et al. 2002, 2004; Ericson et al. 2002, 2003b).”
Background
Great Bowerbirds Create Theaters with Forced Perspective When Seen by Their Audience
Endler, J. A., Endler, L. C., & Doerr, N. R. (2010) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.033 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
“Birds in the infraorder Corvida [1] (ravens, jays, bowerbirds) are renowned for their cognitive abilities [2–4], which include advanced problem solving with spatial inference [4–8], tool use and complex constructions [7–10], and bowerbird cognitive ability is associated with mating success [11].”
African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary ‘enigmas’
Beresford, P., Barker, F. K., Ryan, P. G., & Crowe, T. M. (2005) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2997 · Cited by 116 · see citing works
“In any event, the increased taxonomic and genetic sampling of Barker et al. (2004) implied several waves of dispersal out of Australasia, from 45–47 Myr for Picathartidae to 26–29 Myr for crown Corvoidea.”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialSelf-citation
Molecular systematics of New World suboscine birds
Chesser, R. T. (2004) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.11.015 · Cited by 115 · see citing works
“2) indicated that the New Zealand wren A. chloris, member of a group sometimes considered suboscine, was sister to all other passerines, consistent with previous studies using sequence data (Barker et al., 2002; Ericson et al., 2002).”
Result
Parental care, load-lightening, and costs
Heinsohn, R. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816.005 · Cited by 113 · see citing works
Phylogeny and phylogenetic classification of the antbirds, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, and allies (Aves: Passeriformes: infraorder Furnariides)
Moyle, R. G., Chesser, R. T., Brumfield, R. T., Tello, J. G., Marchese, D. J., & Cracraft, J. L. (2009) · Cladistics · doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00259.x · Cited by 114 · see citing works
“Barker et al., 2002, 2004; Ericson et al., 2002) strongly supported a basal topology for Passeriformes in which the oscine passerines are sister to all suboscines.”
Influential
Cooperative breeding in oscine passerines: does sociality inhibit speciation?
Cockburn, A. (2003) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2503 · Cited by 114 · see citing works
“We now believe that the Corvida as originally recognized includes the Passerida, which branched from the old Australian stock only after several major taxa had emerged and radiated in Australia ( Barker et al. 2002; Ericson et al. 2002).”
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An unexpectedly long history of sexual selection in birds-of-paradise
Irestedt, M., Jønsson, K., Fjeldså, J., Christidis, L., & Ericson, P. (2009) · BMC Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-235 · Cited by 334 · see citing works
“To calibrate the tree we used the geological split between New Zealand and Antarctica, as it has been associated with the basal separation of the Acanthisitta-lineage from all other passerines [ 45 ,46].”
Method
Genetic similarity and hatching success in birds
Spottiswoode, C. N., & Møller, A. P. (2004) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2003.2605 · Cited by 109 · see citing works
“For the analyses, we used a composite phylogenetic hypothesis, reported in electronic Appendix B and mainly based on Sibley & Ahlquist (1990) and Barker et al. (2002).”
Method
Female songbirds still struggling to be heard
Riebel, K., Hall, M. L., & Langmore, N. E. (2005) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2005.04.024 · Cited by 109 · see citing works
“We would like to stimulate the discussion further by postulating that, given the probable Australasian origin of oscine passerines [ 9 ] and the prevalence of female song in Australian birds [10], song in both sexes could be the ancestral condition.”
Background
Phylogeny and classification of the New World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes)
Ohlson, J. I., Irestedt, M., Ericson, P. G. P., & Fjeldså, J. (2013) · Zootaxa · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.1.1 · Cited by 107 · see citing works
Incest and incest avoidance
Koenig, W. D., & Haydock, J. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816.010 · Cited by 103 · see citing works
Sapayoa aenigma : a New World representative of 'Old World suboscines'
Fjeldså, J., Zuccon, D., Irestedt, M., Johansson, U. S., & Ericson, P. G. P. (2003) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0075 · Cited by 105 · see citing works
Inter‐generic relationships of the crows, jays, magpies and allied groups (Aves: Corvidae) based on nucleotide sequence data
Ericson, P. G. P., Jansén, A., Johansson, U. S., & Ekman, J. B. (2005) · Journal of Avian Biology · doi:10.1111/j.0908-8857.2001.03409.x · Cited by 105 · see citing works
“Molecular analyses of the oscine passerines give strong support to an east Gondwanan origin of the group (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990, Barker et al. 2002, Ericson et al. 2002b, 2003).”
Background
No evidence that sexual selection is an ‘engine of speciation’ in birds
Morrow, E. H., Pitcher, T. E., & Arnqvist, G. (2003) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00418.x · Cited by 100 · see citing works
“(1990). Although this phylogeny has been criticized (see for example Barker et al. 2002 ) it has been validated by several independent data sets (Sibley 1994) and is the most widely used working hypothesis of the true phylogeny of birds.”
Method
Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae)
Driskell, A. C., & Christidis, L. (2003) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.10.017 · Cited by 99 · see citing works
“Mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data (Barker et al., 2002; Cracraft and Feinstein, 2000; Ericson et al., 2002a,b) confirm close affinities between the Meliphagidae , Pardalotidae–Acanthizidae, and Maluridae.”
Background
Mating systems and sexual conflict
Cockburn, A. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816.006 · Cited by 98 · see citing works
Phylogenetics of modern birds in the era of genomics
Edwards, S. V., Jennings, W. B., & Shedlock, A. M. (2005) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.3035 · Cited by 97 · see citing works
“Barker et al. (2002) and Sorenson et al. (2003) used ambiguity codes and specified their treatment as polymorphisms, an approach that would have particular power using transversion-parsimony and in ML analyses.”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluential
Speciation dynamics in the Australo-Papuan Meliphaga honeyeaters
Norman, J. A., Rheindt, F. E., Rowe, D. L., & Christidis, L. (2006) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.032 · Cited by 97 · see citing works
Parasite biodiversity and host defenses: chewing lice and immune response of their avian hosts
Møller, A. P., & Rózsa, L. (2004) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1735-8 · Cited by 96 · see citing works
“We used a composite phylogeny based on information in Sibley and Ahlquist (1990) and Barker et al. (2001) for families and orders, combined with information in Badyaev (1997), Blondel et al. (1996), Cibois and Pasquet (1999), Leisler et al. (1997), Martin and Clobert (1996), Møller et al. (2001),…”
Method
Biological, ecological, conservation and legal information for all species and subspecies of Australian bird
Garnett, S. T., Duursma, D. E., Ehmke, G. C., Guay, P., Stewart, A. J., Szabo, J. K., Weston, M. A., Bennett, S., Crowley, G., Drynan, D., et al. (2015) · Scientific Data · doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.61 · Cited by 96 · see citing works
“Over 60% of all terrestrial birds globally are passerines and Australia was the major early centre of their radiation 5,6 .”
Phylogeny and classification of the Old World Emberizini (Aves, Passeriformes)
Alström, P., Olsson, U., Lei, F., Wang, H., Gao, W., & Sundberg, P. (2007) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.12.007 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
HIGH LINEAGE DIVERSITY AND HOST SHARING OF MALARIAL PARASITES IN A LOCAL AVIAN ASSEMBLAGE
Szymanski, M. M., & Lovette, I. J. (2005) · Journal of Parasitology · doi:10.1645/ge-417r1.1 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
Third Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes 2015
Schmid, M., Smith, J., Burt, D. W., Aken, B. L., Antin, P. B., Archibald, A. L., Ashwell, C. M., Blackshear, P. J., Boschiero, C., Brown, C. T., et al. (2015) · Cytogenetic and Genome Research · doi:10.1159/000430927 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
“Besides the water birds, progress has been made with DNA sequence analyses in understanding relationships within other neoavian groups, including the Passeriformes [Johansson et al., 2001, 2002; Barker et al., 2002; Yuri and Mindell, 2002; Cracraft et al., 2004].”
Background
The evolution of the spindlin gene in birds: Sequence analysis of an intron of the spindlin W and Z gene reveals four major divisions of the Psittaciformes
de Kloet, R. S., & de Kloet, S. R. (2005) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.03.013 · Cited by 93 · see citing works
Risk taking by singing males
Møller, A. P., Nielsen, J. T., & Garamszegi, L. Z. (2007) · Behavioral Ecology · doi:10.1093/beheco/arm098 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
“The composite phylogenies used in the comparative analyses were based on Sibley and Ahlquist (1990), combined with information from other sources (Sheldon et al. 1992; Blondel et al. 1996; Slikas et al. 1996; Badyaev 1997; Helbig and Seibold 1999; Barker et al. 2001, 2004; Voelker and Spellman 2004) (Supplementary Fig…”
BackgroundMethod
The phylogeny of the louse genus Brueelia does not reflect host phylogeny
Johnson, K. P., Adams, R. J., & Clayton, D. H. (2002) · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society · doi:10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00107.x · Cited by 90 · see citing works
“While the phylogeny of Sibley & Ahlquist (1990) is controversial (Lanyon, 1992), phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences (Johnson, 2001) and nuclear gene sequences (Barker et al., 2002) for a large number of avian taxa produces similar relationships and identifies similar major groupings of birds.”
Background
Ecological constraints on the evolution of avian brains
Winkler, H., Leisler, B., & Bernroider, G. (2004) · Journal of Ornithology · doi:10.1007/s10336-004-0040-y · Cited by 63 · see citing works
“We used species of two ‘‘warbler’’ radiations for our analysis: Old World Sylviid warblers, which are not a monophyletic assemblage (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990; Barker et al. 2001) and North American parulids.”
Method
Evolutionary origins
Ligon, J. D., & Burt, D. B. (2004) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606816.002 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Molecular phylogenetic evidence for ancient divergence of lizard taxa on either side of Wallace's Line
Schulte, J. A., Melville, J., & Larson, A. (2003) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2272 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
“It marks a geographical separation between divergent assemblages of birds, mammals, reptiles, insects and fishes, whose phylogenetic distinctness is confirmed by recent molecular phylogenetic studies (DeBoer & Duffels 1996; Keogh 1998; Barker et al. 2002 ).”
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Is Cooperative Breeding Associated With Bigger Brains? A Comparative Test in the Corvida (Passeriformes)
Iwaniuk, A. N., & Arnold, K. E. (2004) · Ethology · doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2003.00957.x · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Monophyletic groups within 'higher land birds'- comparison of morphological and molecular data
Mayr, G., Manegold, A., & Johansson, U. S. (2003) · Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research · doi:10.1046/j.1439-0469.2003.00230.x · Cited by 87 · see citing works
“…have previously been proven useful in resolving the earliest divergences in the avian phylogeny (Groth and Barrowclough 1999; Johansson et al. 2001; Barker et al. 2002; Ericson et al. 2002a; Irestedt et al. 2002), and the genes show low levels of homoplasy at this phylogenetic level (Groth and…”
Background
Reweaving the Tapestry: a Supertree of Birds
Davis, K. E., & Page, R. (2014) · PLoS Currents · doi:10.1371/currents.tol.c1af68dda7c999ed9f1e4b2d2df7a08e · Cited by 83 · see citing works
Sociality, age at first reproduction and senescence: comparative analyses of birds
Møller, A. P. (2006) · Journal of Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.01065.x · Cited by 86 · see citing works
More Taxa, More Characters: The Hoatzin Problem Is Still Unresolved
Sorenson, M. D. (2003) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msg157 · Cited by 86 · see citing works
A Paleogene origin for crown passerines and the diversification of the Oscines in the New World
Selvatti, A. P., Gonzaga, L. P., & Russo, C. (2015) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.03.018 · Cited by 84 · see citing works
“More recently, molecular phylogenies revealed the paraphyletic status of Corvida with the monophyletic Passerida nested within (Barker et al., 2004; 2002; Ericson et al., 2002). This new proposal switched the synchronous diversification scenario of Passerida in the Northern hemisphere and Corvida in the Southern hemis…”
Background
Phylogeny of the Falconidae (Aves): a comparison of the efficacy of morphological, mitochondrial, and nuclear data
Griffiths, C. S., Barrowclough, G. F., Groth, J. G., & Mertz, L. A. (2004) · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2003.11.019 · Cited by 83 · see citing works
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Phylogeny of major lineages of suboscines (Passeriformes) analysed by nuclear DNA sequence data
Irestedt, M., Johansson, U. S., Parsons, T. J., & Ericson, P. G. P. (2001) · Journal of Avian Biology · doi:10.1034/j.1600-048x.2001.320103.x · Cited by 102 · see citing works
SUMMARY
Sibley, C. G., & Ahlquist, J. E. (1983)
Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation
Barker, F. K., Cibois, A., Schikler, P., Feinstein, J., & Cracraft, J. L. (2004) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0401892101 · Cited by 718 · see citing works
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Evolution, biogeography, and patterns of diversification in passerine birds
Ericson, P. G. P., Irestedt, M., & Johansson, U. S. (2003) · Journal of Avian Biology · doi:10.1034/j.1600-048x.2003.03121.x · Cited by 160 · see citing works
The Phylogeny and Classification of the Australo-Papuan Passerine Birds
Sibley, C. G., & Ahlquist, J. E. (1985) · Emu - Austral Ornithology · doi:10.1071/mu9850001 · Cited by 188 · see citing works

Authors: Barker, F. K., Barrowclough, G. F., & Groth, J. G.
Affiliations: American Museum of Natural History (US)
Corresponding author: Barker, F. Keith
ORCID: Barker, F. Keith
Barrowclough, George F.
Groth, Jeff G.
Venue: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
Publisher: The Royal Society
Published: 2002-02-07
Volume: 269
Issue: 1488
Pages: 295-308
ISSN: 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
0962-8452
1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1883
PMC: PMC1690884
OpenAlex: W2112388934
Cited by: 377
References: 123
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FWCI: 36.13
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
europepmc.org
Locations: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: American Museum of Natural History
University of Washington
Field Museum
Burke Museum, University of Washington
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Plant Diversity and Evolution
Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords: Passeriformes, phylogenetic relationships, nuclear DNA sequences, suboscine passerines, oscine passerines, Alaudidae, biogeography, dispersal, family-level classification, paraphyly
MeSH terms: Animals, Base Sequence, Geography, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Genetic Variation, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Evolution, Molecular, Songbirds

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A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data

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