Open Tree of Life
Bibliographic references for the synthetic tree
The following studies (listed alphabetically by first author) have contributed to the current synthetic tree.
Quintero, Esther, Camila C. Ribas, Joel Cracraft. 2012. The Andean Hapalopsittaca parrots (Psittacidae, Aves): an example of montane-tropical lowland vicariance. Zoologica Scripta 42 (1): 28-43.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00567.x
A. Manegold, 2008, 'Composition and phylogenetic affinities of vangas (Vangidae, Oscines, Passeriformes) based on morphological characters', Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 267-277
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0469.2008.00458.x
ALICE CIBOIS, JEAN-CLAUDE THIBAULT, ERIC PASQUET, 2008, 'Systematics of the extinct reed warblers Acrocephalus of the Society Islands of eastern Polynesia', Ibis, vol. 150, no. 2, pp. 365-376
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.2008.00800.x
Aliabadian, Mansour, Mohammad Kaboli, Roger Prodon, Vincent Nijman, Miguel Vences. 2007. Phylogeny of Palaearctic wheatears (genus Oenanthe)—Congruence between morphometric and molecular data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42 (3): 665-675
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.08.018
Alstrom, P., D. M. Hooper, Y. Liu, U. Olsson, D. Mohan, M. Gelang, H. Le Manh, J. Zhao, F. Lei, T. D. Price. 2014. Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds. Biology Letters 10 (3): 20131067-20131067.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.1067
Alström, P., Cibois, A., Irestedt, M., Zuccon, D., Gelang, M., Fjeldså, J., Andersen, M. J., Moyle, R. G., Pasquet, E., & Olsson, U. (2018). Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the grassbirds and allies (Locustellidae) reveals extensive non-monophyly of traditional genera, and a proposal for a new classification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 127, 367–375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.029
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.029
Alström, P., Höhna, S., Gelang, M., Ericson, P. G., & Olsson, U. (2011). Non-monophyly and intricate morphological evolution within the avian family Cettiidae revealed by multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11(1), 352. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-352
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-352
Alström, P., Jønsson, K. A., Fjeldså, J., Ödeen, A., Ericson, P. G. P., & Irestedt, M. (2015). Dramatic niche shifts and morphological change in two insular bird species. Royal Society Open Science, 2(3), 140364. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140364
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140364
Alström, P., Mohammadi, Z., Enbody, E., Irestedt, M., Engelbrecht, D., Crochet, P.-A., Guillaumet, A., Rancilhac, L., Tieleman, B. I., Olsson, U., Donald, P. F., & Stervander, M. (2023). Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data. Avian Research, 100095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100095
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100095
Alström, P., Rasmussen, P. C., Sangster, G., Dalvi, S., Round, P. D., Zhang, R., Yao, C., Irestedt, M., Le Manh, H., Lei, F., & Olsson, U. (2019). Multiple species within the Striated Prinia
Prinia crinigera–
Brown Prinia
P. polychroa
complex revealed through an integrative taxonomic approach. Ibis, 162(3), 936–967. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12759
https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12759
Alström, P., Rasmussen, P. C., Xia, C., Gelang, M., Liu, Y., Chen, G., Zhao, M., Hao, Y., Zhao, C., Zhao, J., Yao, C., Eaton, J. A., Hutchinson, R., Lei, F., & Olsson, U. (2018). Taxonomy of the White-browed Shortwing (Brachypteryx montana) complex on mainland Asia and Taiwan: an integrative approach supports recognition of three instead of one species. Avian Research, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40657-018-0125-6
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40657-018-0125-6
Alström, P., Rasmussen, P. C., Xia, C., Zhang, L., Liu, C., Magnusson, J., Shafaeipour, A., & Olsson, U. (2021). Morphology, vocalizations, and mitochondrial DNA suggest that the Graceful Prinia is two species. Ornithology, 138(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukab014
https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukab014
Alström, P., Rasmussen, P. C., Zhao, C., Xu, J., Dalvi, S., Cai, T., Guan, Y., Zhang, R., Kalyakin, M. V., Lei, F., & Olsson, U. (2016). Integrative taxonomy of the Plain-backed Thrush (Zoothera mollissima) complex (Aves, Turdidae) reveals cryptic species, including a new species. Avian Research, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40657-016-0037-2
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40657-016-0037-2
Alström, Per, Keith N. Barnes, Urban Olsson, F. Keith Barker, Paulette Bloomer, Aleem Ahmed Khan, Masood Ahmed Qureshi, Alban Guillaumet, Pierre-André Crochet, Peter G. Ryan. 2013. Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (3): 1043-1056.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.005
Andersen, M. J., McCullough, J. M., Friedman, N. R., Peterson, A. T., Moyle, R. G., Joseph, L., & Nyári, Á. S. (2019). Ultraconserved elements resolve genus-level relationships in a major Australasian bird radiation (Aves: Meliphagidae). Emu - Austral Ornithology, 119(3), 218–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2019.1595662
https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2019.1595662
Arbabi, Tayebeh, Javier Gonzalez, Michael Wink. 2014. A re-evaluation of phylogenetic relationships within reed warblers (Aves: Acrocephalidae) based on eight molecular loci and ISSR profiles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 304-313.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.026
Armenta, Jessica K., Jason D. Weckstein, Daniel F. Lane. 2005. Geographic variation in mitochondrial DNA sequences of an Amazonian nonpasserine: The Black-spotted Barbet complex. The Condor 107 (3): 527-536.
https://doi.org/10.1650/0010-5422(2005)107[0527:gvimds]2.0.co;2
Arshad, Muhammad, Javier Gonzalez, Abdel Aziz El-Sayed, Tim Osborne, Michael Wink. 2009. Phylogeny and phylogeography of critically endangered Gyps species based on nuclear and mitochondrial markers. Journal of Ornithology 150 (2): 419-430.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-008-0359-x
Barker, F. K., K. J. Burns, J. Klicka, S. M. Lanyon, I. J. Lovette. 2013. Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine birds. Systematic Biology 62 (2): 298-320.
https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/sys094
Barker, F. Keith, Alice Cibois, Peter Schikler, Julie Feinstein, Joel Cracraft. 2004. Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101 (30): 11040-11045.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0401892101
Barker, F. Keith, Kevin J. Burns, John Klicka, Scott M. Lanyon, Irby J. Lovette. 2015. New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies. The Auk 132 (2): 333-348.
https://doi.org/10.1642/auk-14-110.1
Barker, F.K. 2014. Mitogenomic data resolve basal relationships among passeriform and passeridan birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 313-324.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.011
Batista, R., Olsson, U., Andermann, T., Aleixo, A., Ribas, C. C., & Antonelli, A. (2020). Phylogenomics and biogeography of the world’s thrushes (Aves,
Turdus
): new evidence for a more parsimonious evolutionary history. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1919), 20192400. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2400
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2400
Benz, Brett W., Mark B. Robbins, A. Townsend Peterson. 2006. Evolutionary history of woodpeckers and allies (Aves: Picidae): placing key taxa on the phylogenetic tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40 (2): 389-399.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.021
Benz, Brett W., Mark B. Robbins. 2011. Molecular phylogenetics, vocalizations, and species limits in Celeus woodpeckers (Aves: Picidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (1): 29-44.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.001
Beresford, P., F.K. Barker, P.G. Ryan, T.M. Crowe. 2005. African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary 'enigmas'. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1565): 849-858
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2997
Bertelli, Sara, Ana Luz Porzecanski. 2004. Tinamou (Tinamidae) systematics: a preliminary combined analysis of morphology and molecules. 2004. Ornithologia Neotropical 15: 293-299
https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/on/v015s/p0293-p0300.pdf
Besnard, Guillaume, Joris A. M. Bertrand, Boris Delahaie, Yann X. C. Bourgeois, Emeline Lhuillier, Christophe Thébaud. 2015. Valuing museum specimens: high-throughput DNA sequencing on historical collections of New Guinea crowned pigeons (Goura). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 117 (1): 71-82
https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12494
Blechschmidt, Karin, Hans-Ulrich Peter, Jacobus De Korte, Michael Wink, Ingrid Seibold, Andreas J. Helbig. 1993. Investigations on the molecular systematics of skuas (Stercorariidae). Zool. Jb. Syst. 120: 379-387.
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak14/ipmb/phazb/pubwink/1993/1.%201993.pdf
Boertmann, D. 1990. Phylogeny of the divers, family Gaviidae (Aves). Steenstrupia 16: 21-36.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Boertmann/publication/258846478_Phylogeny_of_the_divers_family_Gaviidae_Aves/links/55f6645e08ae7a10cf8b92a8/Phylogeny-of-the-divers-family-Gaviidae-Aves.pdf
Bonaccorso, Elisa, Juan M. Guayasamin, A. Townsend Peterson, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza. 2011. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of Neotropical toucanets in the genus Aulacorhynchus (Aves, Ramphastidae). Zoologica Scripta 40 (4): 336-349.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00475.x
Brian Tilston Smith, Robert W. Bryson, William M. Mauck, Jaime Chaves, Mark B. Robbins, Alexandre Aleixo, John Klicka, 2018, 'Species delimitation and biogeography of the gnatcatchers and gnatwrens (Aves: Polioptilidae)', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 126, pp. 45-57
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.012
Bridge, E. S., Jones, A. W., & Baker, A. J. (2005). A phylogenetic framework for the terns (Sternini) inferred from mtDNA sequences: implications for taxonomy and plumage evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 35(2), 459–469. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.12.010
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2004.12.010
Brumfield, R., & Edwards S. 2007. Evolution into and out of the Andes: a Bayesian analysis of historical diversification in Thamnophilus antshrikes. Evolution 61 (2): 346-367.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00039.x
Bruxaux, J., Gabrielli, M., Ashari, H., Prŷs-Jones, R., Joseph, L., Milá, B., Besnard, G., & Thébaud, C. (2018). Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): Implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 120, 248–258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.022
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Bryson, R. W., Faircloth, B. C., Tsai, W. L. E., McCormack, J. E., & Klicka, J. (2016). Target enrichment of thousands of ultraconserved elements sheds new light on early relationships within New World sparrows (Aves: Passerellidae). The Auk, 133(3), 451–458. https://doi.org/10.1642/auk-16-26.1
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Buainain, N., Ferreira, M., Avendaño, J. E., Cadena, C. D., Faircloth, B. C., Brumfield, R. T., Cracraft, J., & Ribas, C. C. (2022). Biogeography of a neotropical songbird radiation reveals similar diversification dynamics between montane and lowland clades. Journal of Biogeography. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14379
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Burleigh, J. Gordon, Rebecca T. Kimball, Edward L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53-63
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.12.003
Burns, Kevin J., Allison J. Shultz, Pascal O. Title, Nicholas A. Mason, F. Keith Barker, John Klicka, Scott M. Lanyon, Irby J. Lovette. 2014. Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 75: 41-77.
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Cai, T., Cibois, A., Alström, P., Moyle, R. G., Kennedy, J. D., Shao, S., Zhang, R., Irestedt, M., Ericson, P. G. P., Gelang, M., Qu, Y., Lei, F., & Fjeldså, J. (2019). Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world’s babblers (Aves: Passeriformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 130, 346–356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010
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Cerasale, David J., Roi Dor, David W. Winkler, Irby J. Lovette. 2012. Phylogeny of the Tachycineta genus of New World swallows: insights from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63 (1): 64-71.
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Chambers, GK, Moeke, C, Steel, R, Trueman, JWH. 2009. Phylogenetic analysis of the 24 named albatross taxa based on full mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequences. Notornis 56 (2): 82-94.
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Chaves, Jaime A., José R. Hidalgo, John Klicka. 2013. Biogeography and evolutionary history of the Neotropical genus Saltator (Aves: Thraupini). Journal of Biogeography 40 (11): 2180-2190.
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Cibois, Alice, Jean-Claude Thibault, Céline Bonillo, Christopher E. Filardi, Dick Watling, Eric Pasquet. 2014. Phylogeny and biogeography of the fruit doves (Aves: Columbidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70: 442-453.
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