| opening the door to greater phylogeographic inference in southeast asia: comparative genomic study of five codistributed rainforest bird species using target capture and historical dna. | indochina and sundaland are biologically diverse, interconnected regions of southeast asia with complex geographic histories. few studies have examined phylogeography of bird species that span the two regions because of inadequate population sampling. to determine how geographic barriers/events and disparate dispersal potential have influenced the population structure, gene flow, and demographics of species that occupy the entire area, we studied five largely codistributed rainforest bird specie ... | 2020 | 32273983 |
| foraging niche segregation in malaysian babblers (family: timaliidae). | tropical rainforests are considered as hotspots for bird diversity, yet little is known about the system that upholds the coexistence of species. differences in body size that are associated with foraging strategies and spatial distribution are believed to promote the coexistence of closely related species by reducing competition. however, the fact that many babbler species do not differ significantly in their morphology has challenged this view. we studied the foraging ecology of nine sympatric ... | 2017 | 28253284 |
| identification and characterization of microsatellite loci in two socially complex old world tropical babblers (family timaliidae). | although the highest diversity of birds occurs in tropical regions, little is known about the genetic mating systems of most tropical species. we describe microsatellite markers isolated in the chestnut-crested yuhina (staphida everetti), endemic to the island of borneo, and the grey-throated babbler (stachyris nigriceps), widely distributed across southeast asia. both species belong to the avian family timaliidae and are highly social, putatively cooperatively breeding birds in which helpers at ... | 2015 | 26597161 |