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McCollin et al

McCollin, Hodgson & Crockett (in press). Do British birds conform to Bergmann's and Allen's rules? An analysis of body size variation with latitude for four species. Bird Study. [abstract & preview]
 
New Zealand

Gibb, England, Hartig, McLenachan, Taylor Smith, McComish, Cooper & Penny (in press). New Zealand passerines help clarify the diversification of major songbird lineages during the Oligocene. Genome Biol Evol. [abstract] [pdf]
 
Vietnam

Kalyakin (in press). Morpho-functional analysis of the jaw apparatus of Vietnamese Passerine birds (Passeriformes): inferences on their trophic adaptations, ecology, and systematic position. J Ornithol. [abstract]
 
Eggshell colour

Brulez, Mikšík, Cooney, Hauber, Lovell, Maurer, Portugal, Russell, Reynolds & Cassey (in press). Eggshell pigment composition covaries with phylogeny but not with life history or with nesting ecology traits of British passerines. Ecol Evol. [abstract] [article & pdf]
 
Dispersal and diversification

Kennedy 2015. Global Dynamics of Dispersal and Diversification among Passerine Birds. PhD thesis, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen. [abstract]
 
Shandiya Balasubramaniam, Rebecca D. Bray, Raoul A. Mulder, Paul Sunnucks, Alexandra Pavlova and Jane Melville, 2016. New data from basal Australian songbird lineages show that complex structure of MHC class II β genes has early evolutionary origins within passerines. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:112.

[pdf]
 
Gonna read this paper later when I find the time. Noted an interesting relationship in the supplementary material - Anthoscopus related to Sylvietta rather than Remiz!
Has this come up before in any other papers?
 
Antoscopus musculus was sister to Sylvietta and far away from Parus in Sefc et al 2003 [pdf here],
but
Antoscopus minutus was sister to Remiz and closer to it than Auriparus with high support in Gill et al 2005 [pdf here],
and
Antoscopus minutus and A. parvulus were sister to Remiz and closer to it than Auriparus with high support in Johansson et al 2013 [ms pdf here].

(Here, unfortunately, they used a composite sequences, supposed to represent the genus, which they created by combining data from Sefc et al 2003 (nd2 & 12s-rRNA) and Gill et al 2005 (cyt-b). If the pieces they combined have conflicting phylogenetic signals, it's a bit of a problem.)
 
l_raty said:
Antoscopus musculus was sister to Sylvietta and far away from Parus in Sefc et al 2003 [pdf here],
but
Antoscopus minutus was sister to Remiz and closer to it than Auriparus with high support in Gill et al 2005 [pdf here],
and
Antoscopus minutus and A. parvulus were sister to Remiz and closer to it than Auriparus with high support in Johansson et al 2013 [ms pdf here].

(Here, unfortunately, they used a composite sequences, supposed to represent the genus, which they created by combining data from Sefc et al 2003 (nd2 & 12s-rRNA) and Gill et al 2005 (cyt-b). If the pieces they combined have conflicting phylogenetic signals, it's a bit of a problem.)
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Ah Sefc et al (2003). It rang a little bell somewhere in the back of my mind. Thanks for the reply and links Laurent
 
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. Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation. Nature Communications 7: 12709. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12709 (Open Access)
 
Jonathan D. Kennedy, Trevor D. Price, Jon Fjeldså and Carsten Rahbek. Historical limits on species co-occurrence determine variation in clade richness among New World passerine birds. Journal of Biogeography, Early view article. Version of Record online: 31 AUG 2016.

[abstract]
 
Oliveros, C.H., D.J. Field, D.T. Ksepka, F.K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M.J. Andersen, P. Alström, B.W. Benz, E.L. Braun, M.J. Braun, G.A. Bravo, R.T. Brumfield, R.T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A.M. Cuervo, E.P. Derryberry, T.C. Glenn, M.G. Harvey, P.A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. Kimball, A.L. Mack, C.M. Miskelly, A.T. Peterson, M.B. Robbins, F.H. Sheldon, L.F. Silveira, B.T. Smith, N.D. White, R.G. Moyle, B.C. Faircloth. Accepted. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
 
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