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Autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegia is genetically heterogeneous and one locus maps to chromosome 14q

Jamilé Hazan
Catherine Lamy
Jean Weissenbach
Research01 Oct 1993
Nature Genetics

Volume: 5, P: 163-167
Global incidence of female birdsong is predicted by territoriality and biparental care in songbirds

Elaborate traits like birdsong are thought to be sexually selected in males but are poorly understood in females. This study shows that year-round territoriality and biparental care are selected for female birdsong, whereas migration, seasonal territoriality, and loss of male care led to losses of female song.

Karan J. Odom
Marcelo Araya-Salas
Katharina Riebel
ResearchOpen Access21 Jul 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-11
Some birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat

Twenty years of occurrence data for North American birds suggest that range shifts in some, but not all, bird species have partly mitigated the effects of climate change.

Catherine Sheard
News & Views28 May 2025
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 9, P: 1092-1093
Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

In birds, the hand-wing index is a morphological trait that can be used as a proxy for flight efficiency. Here the authors examine variation of hand-wing index in over 10,000 bird species, finding that it is higher in migratory and non-territorial species, and lower in the tropics.

Catherine Sheard
Montague H. C. Neate-Clegg
Joseph A. Tobias
ResearchOpen Access18 May 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-9
Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds

Predicting ecological niche space and ecosystem function from morphological traits is challenging. Here, the authors show that avian trophic diversity can be reduced to four dimensions, based on nine key morphological traits, which reflects convergence of trait combinations.

Alex L. Pigot
Catherine Sheard
Joseph A. Tobias
Research13 Jan 2020
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 4, P: 230-239
Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations

Developmental duration is a key life-history trait. Cooney et al. compile data on 3096 bird species to quantify the degree to which phylogenetic history, body size and ecological variables like predation risk or breeding phenology influence variation in developmental duration.

Christopher R. Cooney
Catherine Sheard
Alison E. Wright
ResearchOpen Access14 May 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-9
The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds

Combining phylogenetic, morphological and environmental data on range overlap among 1,115 pairs of bird species, the authors show that coexistence is best explained by a model integrating both dispersal-assembly and niche-assembly processes.

Alex L. Pigot
Walter Jetz
Joseph A. Tobias
Research18 Jun 2018
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 2, P: 1112-1119
Tempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation

It is unclear whether biodiversity evolves gradually or in rapid bursts associated with speciation. Here, the authors show that patterns of avian trait divergence are not gradual and that early pulses of trait divergence promote subsequent transitions to sympatry.

Jay P. McEntee
Joseph A. Tobias
J. Gordon Burleigh
Research18 Jun 2018
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 2, P: 1120-1127
The effect of age on phenotype of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment

Mariantonia Ferrara
Mo Al-Zubaidy
David Yorston
Research26 Apr 2022
Eye

Volume: 37, P: 1114-1122
The effect of sex and laterality on the phenotype of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment

Mariantonia Ferrara
Anna Song
David Yorston
ResearchOpen Access27 Feb 2023
Eye

Volume: 37, P: 2926-2933

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