Taylor, S. A., Curry, R. L., White, T. A., Ferretti, V. and Lovette, I. (2014), Spatiotemporally consistent genomic signatures of reproductive isolation in a moving hybrid zone. Evolution, 68: 3066–3081. Abstract: Studies of hybrid zone dynamics often investigate a single sampling period and draw conclusions from that temporal snapshot. Stochasticity can,…
David’s commentary in The Auk provides a nicely balanced perspective on the opportunities and challenges of using different criteria to define avian species. Clicking on this post will open this announcement in a window where you can download David’s full commentary: Toews 2014 species commentary
You can read more about Jake’s study of continga relationships here: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=e46626901d&e=0011c99ba8
And one on a spectacular avian radiation too: Berv, J. S., and R. O. Prum. 2014. A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Neotropical cotingas (Cotingidae, Aves) with a comparative evolutionary analysis of breeding system and plumage dimorphism and a revised phylogenetic classification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
Congratulations to Dan and his co-authors for their forthcoming cover article: ” Baldassarre, D. T., White, T. A., Karubian, J. and Webster, M. S. 2014. Genomic and morphological analysis of a semi-permeable avian hybrid zone suggests asymmetrical introgression of a sexual signal. Evolution. doi: 10.1111/evo.12457.”
Benites P, Campagna L, Tubaro PL. 2014. Song-based species discrimination in a rapid Neotropical radiation of grassland seedeaters. Journal of Avian Biology. In press.
One of the first major papers to result from our collaborative work on chickadee hybridization has just come out in Current Biology, along with an associated commentary in that journal plus extensive popular media coverage! Article: Taylor SA, White TA, Hochachka WM, Ferretti V, Curry RL, Lovette I. 2014. Climate…
Freeman, B. and Class Freeman, A. M. 2014. Rapid upslope shifts in New Guinean birds illustrate strong distributional responses of tropical montane species to global warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 4490-4494.
Congratulations to graduate student Yula Kapetanakos on the publication of her very first research paper: Kapetanakos, Y.A., I.J. Lovette, and T.E. Katzner. 2014. Development of microsatellite markers and a restriction endonuclease digest assay for non-invasive sampling of endangered White-rumped, Slender-billed and Red-headed vultures. Conservation Genetics Resources 6:539-542.
Freeman, B. & Class Freeman, A. M. 2014. The avifauna of Mt. Karimui, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea, including evidence for long-term population dynamics in undisturbed tropical forest. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 134: 30-51.
Congratulations to postdoc Leo Campagna and his co-authors on their new paper resulting from Leo’s PhD research: Campagna L, Kopuchian C, Tubaro PL, Lougheed SC. 2014. Pleistocene divergence, range expansion, and secondary contact followed by gene flow between mitochondrial lineages of a widespread Neotropical songbird (Zonotrichia capensis). Biological Journal of…
Congratulations to postdoc Scott Taylor and his co-authors for another paper resulting from his PhD research at Queen’s University: Burg T, Taylor SA, Lemmen K, Gaston AJ, Friesen VL. 2014. Postglacial population differentiation potentially facilitated by a flexible migratory strategy in golden-crowned kinglets (Regulus satrapa). Canadian Journal of Zoology 92: 163-172.
Freeman, B.2014.Sexual niche partitioning in two species of New Guinean Pachycephala whistlers. Journal of Field Ornithology 85: 23-30.
Congratulations to Dan and Mike for their new paper: Baldassarre, D. T.and Webster, M. S. 2013. Experimental evidence that extra-pair mating drives asymmetrical introgression of a sexual trait. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280: 20132175. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2175.
Congratulations to postdoc Scott Taylor and his co-authors for another paper resulting from his PhD research at Queen’s University: Boutilier S, Taylor SA, Morris-Pocock JA, Lavoie R, Friesen VL. 2014. Evidence for genetic differentiation among Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) populations in North America. Conservation Genetics 15: 275-281.
Congratulations to postdoc Scott Taylor and his co-authors for another paper resulting from his PhD research at Queen’s University: Jeyasingham W, Taylor SA, Zavalaga CB, Simeone A, Friesen VL. 2013. Specialization to cold water upwellings facilitates gene flow in seabirds: additional evidence from the Peruvian pelican, Pelecanus thagus (Aves: Pelecanidae).…
Congratulations to postdoc Leo Campagna and his co-authors on their new paper resulting from Leo’s PhD research: Campagna L, Silveira LF, Tubaro PL, Lougheed SC. 2013. Identifying the sister species to the rapid capuchino seedeater radiation (Sporophila, Passeriformes). The Auk 130: 645-655.
Lutz, H. L., Jiang, Z., Skeen, H. R., Hackett, S. J., Weckstein, J. D. 2013. The evolution of scientific collecting: Comprehensive biodiversity surveys of avian parasites and pathogens can produce important baseline data and lead to novel eco-evolutionary insights, presented at the 131st Meeting of the American Ornithologists Union, Chicago,…
Lutz, H. L., Hochachka, M. W., Engel, J. I., Tkach, V. T., Bates, J. M., Hackett, S. J., Weckstein, J. D. 2013. Ecological determinants of haemosporidian prevalence in tropical African birds, presented at the International Conference on Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Congratulations to Scott and his co-authors for another paper resulting from his PhD research at Queen’s University: Taylor SA, Morris-Pocock JA, Tershy BR, Castillo-Guerrero JA, Friesen, VL. 2013. Genetic evidence for hybridization between brown (Sula leucogaster) and blue-footed (S. nebouxii) boobies in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ornithology 41: 113 –…