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Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds by Cooney, Christopher R., Bright, Jen A., Capp, Elliot J. R., Chira, Angela M., Hughes, Emma C., Moody, Christopher J. A., Nouri, Lara O., Varley, Zoë K., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…A study of more than 2,000 bird species shows that diversity in bill shape expands towards extreme morphologies early in avian evolution in a series of major…”
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Sexual selection predicts the rate and direction of colour divergence in a large avian radiation by Cooney, Christopher R., Varley, Zoë K., Nouri, Lara O., Moody, Christopher J. A., Jardine, Michael D., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…Sexual selection is proposed to be a powerful driver of phenotypic evolution in animal systems. At macroevolutionary scales, sexual selection can theoretically…”
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Heterogeneous relationships between rates of speciation and body size evolution across vertebrate clades by Cooney, Christopher R., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…Several theories predict that rates of phenotypic evolution should be related to the rate at which new lineages arise. However, drawing general conclusions…”
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Human long intrinsically disordered protein regions are frequent targets of positive selection by Afanasyeva, Arina, Bockwoldt, Mathias, Cooney, Christopher R, Heiland, Ines, Gossmann, Toni I

“…Intrinsically disordered regions occur frequently in proteins and are characterized by a lack of a well-defined three-dimensional structure. Although these…”
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Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations by Cooney, Christopher R., Sheard, Catherine, Clark, Andrew D., Healy, Susan D., Liker, András, Street, Sally E., Troisi, Camille A., Thomas, Gavin H., Székely, Tamás, Hemmings, Nicola, Wright, Alison E.

“…The duration of the developmental period represents a fundamental axis of life-history variation, yet broad insights regarding the drivers of this diversity…”
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Using pose estimation to identify regions and points on natural history specimens by He, Yichen, Cooney, Christopher R, Maddock, Steve, Thomas, Gavin H

“…A key challenge in mobilising growing numbers of digitised biological specimens for scientific research is finding high-throughput methods to extract…”
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Sexual selection, speciation and constraints on geographical range overlap in birds by Cooney, Christopher R., Tobias, Joseph A., Weir, Jason T., Botero, Carlos A., Seddon, Nathalie, Westneat, David

“…The role of sexual selection as a driver of speciation remains unresolved, not least because we lack a clear empirical understanding of its influence on…”
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Deep learning image segmentation reveals patterns of UV reflectance evolution in passerine birds by He, Yichen, Varley, Zoë K., Nouri, Lara O., Moody, Christopher J. A., Jardine, Michael D., Maddock, Steve, Thomas, Gavin H., Cooney, Christopher R.

“…Ultraviolet colouration is thought to be an important form of signalling in many bird species, yet broad insights regarding the prevalence of ultraviolet…”
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The consequences of craniofacial integration for the adaptive radiations of Darwin’s finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers by Navalón, Guillermo, Marugán-Lobón, Jesús, Bright, Jen A., Cooney, Christopher R., Rayfield, Emily J.

“…The diversifications of Darwin’s finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers are two text-book examples of adaptive radiation in birds. Why these two bird groups…”
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Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks by Rombaut, Louie M. K., Capp, Elliot J. R., Cooney, Christopher R., Hughes, Emma C., Varley, Zoë K., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…Evolution can involve periods of rapid divergent adaptation and expansion in the range of diversity, but evolution can also be relatively conservative over…”
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Sociality, ecology and developmental constraints predict variation in brain size across birds by Hardie, Jasmine L., Cooney, Christopher R.

“…Conflicting theories have been proposed to explain variation in relative brain size across the animal kingdom. Ecological theories argue that the cognitive…”
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AVONET : morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds by Tobias, Joseph A., Sheard, Catherine, Pigot, Alex L., Devenish, Adam J. M., Sayol, Ferran, Neate‐Clegg, Montague H. C., Alioravainen, Nico, Weeks, Thomas L., Barber, Robert A., Cooper, Jacob C., Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Analuddin, Kangkuso, Fjeldså, Jon, Seddon, Nathalie, Sweet, Paul R., DeClerck, Fabrice A. J., Naka, Luciano N., Aleixo, Alexandre, MacGregor, Hannah E. A., Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Rahbek, Carsten, Fritz, Susanne A., Thomas, Gavin H., Schleuning, Matthias, Vincent, Claire, Phillips, Anna G., Montaño‐Centellas, Flavia A., Leandro‐Silva, Victor, Freeman, Benjamin G., Bregman, Tom P., Cooney, Christopher R., Hughes, Emma C., Capp, Elliot J. R., Varley, Zoë K., Friedman, Nicholas R., Korntheuer, Heiko, Trisos, Christopher H., Weeks, Brian C., Hanz, Dagmar M., Töpfer, Till, Bravo, Gustavo A., Remeš, Vladimír, Nowak, Larissa, Moncada R., Amilkar J., Matysioková, Beata, Baldassarre, Daniel T., Martínez‐Salinas, Alejandra, Wolfe, Jared D., Chapman, Philip M., Daly, Benjamin G., Neu, Alexander, Ford, Michael A., Mayhew, Rebekah J., Fabio Silveira, Luis, Kelly, David J., Pollock, Henry S., Grabowska‐Zhang, Ada M., McEntee, Jay P., Meneses, Camila G., Muñoz, Marcia C., Powell, Luke L., Jamie, Gabriel A., Matthews, Thomas, Johnson, Oscar, Brito, Guilherme R. R., Zyskowski, Kristof, Crates, Ross, Harvey, Michael G., Jurado Zevallos, Maura, Hosner, Peter A., Bradfer‐Lawrence, Tom, Maley, James M., Stiles, F. Gary, Lima, Hevana S., Provost, Kaiya L., Chibesa, Moses, Mashao, Mmatjie, Howard, Jeffrey T., Mlamba, Edson, Chua, Marcus A. H., Gómez, M. Isabel, García, Natalia C., Päckert, Martin, Ali, Jarome R., Derryberry, Elizabeth P., Carlson, Monica L., Urriza, Rolly C., Brzeski, Kristin E., Prawiradilaga, Dewi M., Rayner, Matt J., Miller, Eliot T., Bowie, Rauri C. K., Lafontaine, René‐Marie, Scofield, R. Paul, Somarathna, Lankani, Lepage, Denis, Illif, Marshall, Neuschulz, Eike Lena, Templin, Mathias, Dehling, D. Matthias

“…Functional traits offer a rich quantitative framework for developing and testing theories in evolutionary biology, ecology and ecosystem science. However, the…”
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Widespread correlations between climatic niche evolution and species diversification in birds by Cooney, Christopher R., Seddon, Nathalie, Tobias, Joseph A.

“…The adaptability of species' climatic niches can influence the dynamics of colonization and gene flow across climatic gradients, potentially increasing the…”
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Constraint and divergence in the evolution of male and female recombination rates in fishes by Cooney, Christopher R., Mank, Judith E., Wright, Alison E.

“…Recombination is a fundamental feature of sexual reproduction across eukaryotes, yet recombination rates are highly variable both within and between species…”
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The latitudinal gradient in dispersal constraints: ecological specialisation drives diversification in tropical birds by Salisbury, Claire L., Seddon, Nathalie, Cooney, Christopher R., Tobias, Joseph A.

“…Physiological and behavioural constraints arising from ecological specialisation are proposed to limit gene flow and promote diversification in tropical…”
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Phenotypic sexual dimorphism is associated with genomic signatures of resolved sexual conflict by Wright, Alison E., Rogers, Thea F., Fumagalli, Matteo, Cooney, Christopher R., Mank, Judith E.

“…Intralocus sexual conflict, where an allele benefits one sex at the expense of the other, has an important role in shaping genetic diversity of populations…”
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Multi-modal signal evolution in birds: re-examining a standard proxy for sexual selection by Cooney, Christopher R, MacGregor, Hannah E A, Seddon, Nathalie, Tobias, Joseph A

“…Sexual selection is proposed to be an important driver of speciation and phenotypic diversification in animal systems. However, previous phylogenetic tests…”
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Global biogeographic patterns of avian morphological diversity by Hughes, Emma C., Edwards, David P., Bright, Jen A., Capp, Elliot J.R., Cooney, Christopher R., Varley, Zoë K., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…Understanding the biogeographical patterns, and evolutionary and environmental drivers, underpinning morphological diversity are key for determining its…”
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Spatio‐temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts by Wiethase, Joris H., Mostert, Philip S., Cooney, Christopher R., O'Hara, Robert B., Beale, Colin M.

“…Aim Climate change and habitat loss or degradation are some of the greatest threats that species face today, often resulting in range shifts. Species traits…”
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Adaptive radiation and the evolution of nectarivory in a large songbird clade by Marki, Petter Z., Kennedy, Jonathan D., Cooney, Christopher R., Rahbek, Carsten, Fjeldså, Jon

“…The accumulation of exceptional ecological diversity within a lineage is a key feature of adaptive radiation resulting from diversification associated with the…”
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