Madagascar is one of the world's hottest biodiversity hot spots due to its diverse, endemic,
and highly threatened biota. This biota shows a distinct signature of evolution in isolation�…

Aim To integrate ecological fitting, the oscillation hypothesis and the taxon pulse hypothesis
into a coherent null model for the evolution of complex host–parasite associations. Location�…

Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and
the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a�…

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate�…

The Southern Hemisphere has traditionally been considered as having a fundamentally
vicariant history. The common trans-Pacific disjunctions are usually explained by the�…

The fish faunas of continental South and Central America constitute one of the greatest
concentrations of aquatic diversity on Earth, consisting of about 10 percent of all living�…

Determining the timing of diversification of modern birds has been difficult. We combined
DNA sequences of clock-like genes for most avian families with 130 fossil birds to generate�…

Patterns of diversification and timing of evolution within Neoaves, which includes almost
95% of all bird species, are virtually unknown. On the other hand, molecular data�…

The first edition of this book was written at a time when comprehensive analyses of
molecular sequence data just began to provide a robust framework for the interrelationships�…

The order Passeriformes (“perching birds”) comprises extant species diversity comparable to
that of living mammals. For over a decade, a single phylogenetic hypothesis based on DNA�…