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Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in Delaware BayAllan J Baker
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S IC6, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 271:875-82. 2004..Demographic modelling predicts imminent endangerment and an increased risk of extinction of the subspecies without urgent risk-averse management...- Islands in the sky: the impact of Pleistocene climate cycles on biodiversityAllan J Baker
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Biol 7:32. 2008.... - Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of Charadriiformes genera: multigene evidence for the Cretaceous origin of at least 14 clades of shorebirdsAllan J Baker
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6
Biol Lett 3:205-9. 2007.... - Multiple gene evidence for expansion of extant penguins out of Antarctica due to global coolingAllan J Baker
Department of Natural History, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Proc Biol Sci 273:11-7. 2006..Thus, global cooling has had a major impact on penguin evolution, as it has on vertebrates generally. Penguins only reached cooler tropical waters in the Galapagos about 4 mya, and have not crossed the equatorial thermal barrier... - Reconstructing the tempo and mode of evolution in an extinct clade of birds with ancient DNA: the giant moas of New ZealandAllan J Baker
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2C6
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:8257-62. 2005..The spectacular radiation of moa lineages involved significant changes in body size, shape, and mass and provides another example of the general influence of large-scale paleoenvironmental changes on vertebrate evolutionary history... - Phylogenetic and coalescent analysis of three loci suggest that the Water Rail is divisible into two species, Rallus aquaticus and R. indicusErika S Tavares
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, Canada
BMC Evol Biol 10:226. 2010..aquaticus) were already spread across the Palearctic by the Pleistocene approximately 2 million years ago, and the oldest fossil remains thought to be closely related to the common ancestor of water rails date from the Pliocene... - Single mitochondrial gene barcodes reliably identify sister-species in diverse clades of birdsErika S Tavares
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, Canada
BMC Evol Biol 8:81. 2008.... - Sequences from 14 mitochondrial genes provide a well-supported phylogeny of the Charadriiform birds congruent with the nuclear RAG-1 treeTara A Paton
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 2C6
Mol Phylogenet Evol 39:657-67. 2006.... - A mitogenomic timescale for birds detects variable phylogenetic rates of molecular evolution and refutes the standard molecular clockSergio L Pereira
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 23:1731-40. 2006..Our analysis advances knowledge of rates of DNA evolution across birds and other vertebrates and will, therefore, aid comparative biology studies that seek to infer the origin and timing of major adaptive shifts in vertebrates... - Low number of mitochondrial pseudogenes in the chicken (Gallus gallus) nuclear genome: implications for molecular inference of population history and phylogeneticsSergio L Pereira
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6 Canada
BMC Evol Biol 4:17. 2004..Louis provided an opportunity to search this first avian genome for the frequency and characteristics of Numts relative to those in human and plants... - A molecular timescale for galliform birds accounting for uncertainty in time estimates and heterogeneity of rates of DNA substitutions across lineages and sitesSergio L Pereira
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 2C6
Mol Phylogenet Evol 38:499-509. 2006..We also point out that galliform fossils may not be as useful for point calibrations as was previously suggested, but instead may be better employed as priors for the estimation of node ages under a Bayesian approach... - Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences support a Cretaceous origin of Columbiformes and a dispersal-driven radiation in the Paleocene Sergio L Pereira
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Syst Biol 56:656-72. 2007..Multiple dispersals of more derived Columbiformes between Australasian and Afro-Eurasian regions are required to explain current distributions... - DNA evidence for a Paleocene origin of the Alcidae (Aves: Charadriiformes) in the Pacific and multiple dispersals across northern oceansSergio L Pereira
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park Crescent, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 2C6
Mol Phylogenet Evol 46:430-45. 2008..Hence, warmer tropical waters are now a barrier for the dispersal of auks into the Southern Hemisphere, as it is for penguins in the opposite direction... - Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences show that modern birds are not descended from transitional shorebirdsTara Paton
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 2C6
Proc Biol Sci 269:839-46. 2002.... - RAG-1 sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships within Charadriiform birdsTara A Paton
Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen s Park, Toronto, Ont, Canada M5S 2C6
Mol Phylogenet Evol 29:268-78. 2003..Divergence times estimated with rate-smoothing methods and minimum time constraints imposed at nodes with key fossils suggest that Charadriiformes originated in Gondwanaland... - Characterization of the red knot (Calidris canutus) mitochondrial control regionDeborah M Buehler
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Genome 46:565-72. 2003.... - Time to the most recent common ancestor and divergence times of populations of common chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) in Europe and North Africa: insights into Pleistocene refugia and current levels of migrationCortland K Griswold
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Evolution 56:143-53. 2002..We compare these estimates with nonequilibrium-based estimates and show that the nonequilibrium estimates are consistently lower than the equilibrium estimates... - Characterization and locus-specific typing of MHC class I genes in the red-billed gull (Larus scopulinus) provides evidence for major, minor, and nonclassical lociAlison Cloutier
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Immunogenetics 63:377-94. 2011.... - The enigmatic monotypic crab plover Dromas ardeola is closely related to pratincoles and coursers (Aves, Charadriiformes, Glareolidae)Sergio L Pereira
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON Canada
Genet Mol Biol 33:583-6. 2010....