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Pleistocene phylogeographic effects on avian populations and the speciation process [PDF]

, 1998
Pleistocene biogeographic events have traditionally been ascribed a major role in promoting speciations and in sculpting the present-day diversity and distributions of vertebrate taxa.
Avise, John C, Walker, De Ette
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Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology [PDF]

Vertebrate Zoology
The advent of molecular methods has revolutionised the field of species delimitation and description, one of the key tasks of systematic biology.
Wolfgang Wüster
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Cultural traditions across a migratory network shape the genetic structure of southern right whales around Australia and New Zealand

, 2015
ELC was supported by the AMMC and a Newton Fellowship from the Royal Society and RH in part by a Sitka Sound Science Centre Scientist in Residency Fellowship. OEG acknowledges support from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and
Carroll, Emma Louise, Gröcke, D. R., J. Bannister (3245850), Harcourt, Robert, R. Alderman (3245853), Alderman, Rachael, Gröcke, Darren, O. E. Gaggiotti (3245862), E. L. Carroll (12840311), Baker, C. Scott, Gaggiotti, O.E., Patenaude, Nathalie, Watson, M., Baker, C. S., M. Watson (3245868), N. Patenaude (3245865), Gröcke, D.R., Gaggiotti, Oscar Eduardo, D. R. Gröcke (3245856), Gaggiotti, O. E., Patenaude, N., Harcourt, R., Watson, Mandy, C. S. Baker (12840314), Baker, C.S., Bannister, John, Alderman, R., Bannister, J., Carroll, E.L., R. Harcourt (3245859), Carroll, E. L.   +30 more
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A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Health and Genetic Impacts of Releasing Confiscated Passerines Into the Wild: A Reduced-Risk Approach

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
The illegal capture and trade of wild birds have long been threats to biodiversity. The rehabilitation and release of confiscated animals may be a useful conservation tool in species management.
Cláudio E. F. Cruz, Cláudio E. F. Cruz, Gustavo R. Funkler, Gustavo R. Funkler, André L. S. Zani, Paulo G. C. Wagner, Inês Andretta, Luciano N. Segura, Nelson J. R. Fagundes, Nelson J. R. Fagundes   +9 more
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Ancient DNA provides new insights into the evolutionary history of New Zealand's extinct Giant Eagle

, 2005
Prior to human settlement 700 years ago New Zealand had no terrestrial mammals - apart from three species of bats -instead, approximately 250 avian species dominated the ecosystem.
Holdaway, R.N., Cooper, Alan, Michael Bunce, Beth Shapiro (30433), Barnes, Ian, Heather R. L Lerner (70924), Lerner, Heather R L, Beth Shapiro, Barnes, I., Szulkin, M., Alan Cooper (9827), Holdaway, Richard N, Marta Szulkin, Shapiro, Beth, Richard N Holdaway (70926), Lerner, R., Szulkin, Marta, Ian Barnes, Richard N Holdaway, Alan Cooper, Marta Szulkin (70923), Cooper, A., Holdaway, R., Ian Barnes (70925), Michael Bunce (31164), Shapiro, B., Lerner, H.R.L., Heather R L Lerner, Bunce, M., Bunce, Michael   +29 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Aquila nipalensis and its phylogenetic position

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
Mitochondrial genome sequences are valuable resources for systematics and conservation biology studies. In this paper, we present the complete mitogenome of Aquila nipalensis which was 18,450 bp in length.
Chuang Zhou, Hongmei Tu, Yingzhu Chen, Liang Dou, Yang Meng, Nan Yang, Bisong Yue, Yongjie Wu   +7 more
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Landscape genetics of Schistocephalus solidus parasites in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) from Alaska. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The nature of gene flow in parasites with complex life cycles is poorly understood, particularly when intermediate and definitive hosts have contrasting movement potential.
C Grace Sprehn, Michael J Blum, Thomas P Quinn, David C Heins   +3 more
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Domination Versus Sisterhoods in the Blood Microbiota of Migrating Birds: Patterns of Within‐ and Between‐Individual Blood Parasite Diversity Revealed Through Metabarcoding

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Avian haemosporidian blood parasites are typically identified through Sanger sequencing of a partial cytochrome b fragment, the MalAvi barcoding region. Next‐generation sequencing is seldom used for avian blood parasite identification; this study demonstrates a higher detection rate of co‐infections via metabarcoding and its possible implications ...
Peter Pibaque, Gaia Porporato, Simone Cescutti, Alanis Cruz‐Flores, Tobias Busche, Anika Winker, Tim Maximilian Rapp, Patrick Bergkamp, Anna Doneva, Nayden Chakarov   +9 more
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Integrating coalescent species delimitation with analysis of host specificity reveals extensive cryptic diversity despite minimal mitochondrial divergence in the malaria parasite genus Leucocytozoon

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2018
Background Coalescent methods that use multi-locus sequence data are powerful tools for identifying putatively reproductively isolated lineages, though this approach has rarely been used for the study of microbial groups that are likely to harbor many ...
Spencer C. Galen, Renato Nunes, Paul R. Sweet, Susan L. Perkins   +3 more
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Bloodmeal analysis reveals avian Plasmodium infections and broad host preferences of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) vectors. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Changing environmental conditions and human encroachment on natural habitats bring human populations closer to novel sources of parasites, which might then develop into new emerging diseases. Diseases transmitted by host generalist vectors are of special
Diego Santiago-Alarcon, Peter Havelka, Hinrich Martin Schaefer, Gernot Segelbacher   +3 more
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