Search Results - "Bravo, Gustavo A."
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What Have We Learned from the First 500 Avian Genomes?
Published in Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics (02-11-2021)“…The increased capacity of DNA sequencing has significantly advanced our understanding of the phylogeny of birds and the proximate and ultimate mechanisms…”
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The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (11-12-2020)“…The tropics are the source of most biodiversity yet inadequate sampling obscures answers to fundamental questions about how this diversity evolves. We…”
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Systematics of Thraupis (Aves, Passeriformes) reveals an extensive hybrid zone between T. episcopus (Blue-gray Tanager) and T. sayaca (Sayaca Tanager)
Published in PloS one (05-10-2022)“…The Neotropical avian genus Thraupis (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) currently comprises seven species that are widespread and abundant throughout their ranges…”
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Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (2019)“…Building the Tree of Life (ToL) is a major challenge of modern biology, requiring advances in cyberinfrastructure, data collection, theory, and more. Here, we…”
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The role of biogeographical barriers on the historical dynamics of passerine birds with a circum‐Amazonian distribution
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-03-2024)“…Common distributional patterns have provided the foundations of our knowledge of Neotropical biogeography. A distinctive pattern is the “circum‐Amazonian…”
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The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation
Published in Evolution letters (01-12-2021)“…Hybridization and resulting introgression can play both a destructive and a creative role in the evolution of diversity. Thus, characterizing when and where…”
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An Integrative Approach to Species-Level Systematics Reveals the Depth of Diversification in an Andean Thamnophilid, the Long-tailed Antbird
Published in The Condor (Los Angeles, Calif.) (01-08-2012)“…The geographic range of the Long-tailed Antbird (Drymophila caudata) extends from the Paria Mountains of Venezuela south through the Andes to northern Bolivia,…”
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Earth history and the passerine superradiation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-04-2019)“…Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors…”
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Ecology and behavior predict an evolutionary trade-off between song complexity and elaborate plumages in antwrens (Aves, Thamnophilidae)
Published in Evolution (01-10-2021)“…The environment can impose constraints on signal transmission properties such that signals should evolve in predictable directions (Sensory Drive Hypothesis)…”
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Amazonian colonization from the Atlantic Forest: New perspectives on the connections of South American tropical forests
Published in Molecular ecology (01-12-2023)“…An open and dry vegetation belt separates Amazonia (AM) and the Atlantic Forest (AF). Evidence from palaeoclimatic and phylogenetic studies suggests past…”
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The evolution of sex similarities in social signals: Climatic seasonality is associated with lower sexual dimorphism and greater elaboration of female and male signals in antbirds (Thamnophilidae)
Published in Evolution (01-12-2022)“…Selection on signals that mediate social competition varies with resource availability. Climate regulates resource availability, which may affect the strength…”
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Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)
Published in Systematic biology (27-05-2024)“…Can knowledge about genome architecture inform biogeographic and phylogenetic inference? Selection, drift, recombination, and gene flow interact to produce a…”
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Comparative phylogeographic and demographic analyses reveal a congruent pattern of sister relationships between bird populations of the northern and south-central Atlantic Forest
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-01-2021)“…[Display omitted] •PCE avifauna is closely related to that in the southern-central Atlantic Forest.•Study species exhibited a pattern of divergence with gene…”
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Evidence for the Pleistocene Arc Hypothesis from genome‐wide SNPs in a Neotropical dry forest specialist, the Rufous‐fronted Thornbird (Furnariidae: Phacellodomus rufifrons)
Published in Molecular ecology (01-11-2020)“…South American dry forests have a complex and poorly understood biogeographic history. Based on the fragmented distribution of many Neotropical dry forest…”
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Species limits, patterns of secondary contact and a new species in the Trogon rufus complex (Aves: Trogonidae)
Published in Zoological journal of the Linnean Society (01-10-2021)“…Abstract The black-throated trogon, Trogon rufus, is a widespread, polytypic species-complex with a convoluted taxonomic history. Here, we integrated…”
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Phenotypic similarity leads to taxonomic inconsistency: A revision of the lowland's antpittas
Published in Zoologica scripta (01-01-2019)“…A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of lowland antpittas in the genera Hylopezus and Myrmothera indicated that Hylopezus, as currently defined, is paraphyletic…”
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Molecular systematics and biogeography of lowland antpittas (Aves, Grallariidae): The role of vicariance and dispersal in the diversification of a widespread Neotropical lineage
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-03-2018)“…[Display omitted] •Lowland antpittas originated in Western Amazonia.•Lineages crossed into the Chocó/Central America before the major uplift of the…”
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Integrating natural history collections and comparative genomics to study the genetic architecture of convergent evolution
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (22-07-2019)“…Evolutionary convergence has been long considered primary evidence of adaptation driven by natural selection and provides opportunities to explore evolutionary…”
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phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-11-2010)“…1. Methods that assess patterns of phylogenetic relatedness, as well as character distribution and evolution, allow one to infer the ecological processes…”
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Systematics, biogeography, and diversification of Scytalopus tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), an enigmatic radiation of Neotropical montane birds
Published in The Auk (01-04-2020)“…We studied the phylogeny, biogeography, and diversification of suboscine passerines in the genus Scytalopus (Rhinocryptidae), a widespread, species-rich, and…”
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