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List of works by Rauri C.K. Bowie

A complete multilocus species phylogeny of the tits and chickadees (Aves: Paridae)

scientific article (publication date: December 2013)

A highly contiguous genome assembly for the California quail ( Callipepla californica )

A multi-locus phylogeny reveals a complex pattern of diversification related to climate and habitat heterogeneity in southern African white-eyes

scientific article published in June 2012

A new Indo-Malayan member of the Stenostiridae (Aves: Passeriformes) revealed by multilocus sequence data: biogeographical implications for a morphologically diverse clade of flycatchers

scientific article

A new member of the greater double-collared sunbird complex (Passeriformes: Nectariniidae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Africa

scientific article (publication date: 12 October 2016)

A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history

scientific article

A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology

scientific article published in 2022

A tight balance between natural selection and gene flow in a southern African arid-zone endemic bird.

scientific article

A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome

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AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

scientific article

Are transposable element insertions homoplasy free?: an examination using the avian tree of life

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Biogeographical history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua

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Biogeography and diversification dynamics of the African woodpeckers

scientific article

Biome stability predicts population structure of a southern African aridland bird species

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Book ReviewsHandbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 16: Tanagers to New World Blackbirds.— Josep del Hoyo , Andrew Elliott , and David Christie , Eds. 2011 . Lynx Edicions , Barcelona, Spain . 894 pp. 81 color plates, >500 photographs, and 766 dis

scientific article published in 2013

Coalescent models reveal the relative roles of ancestral polymorphism, vicariance, and dispersal in shaping phylogeographical structure of an African montane forest robin

scientific article

Coevolutionary patterns and diversification of avian malaria parasites in African sunbirds (Family Nectariniidae).

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Comparative genetic diversity of Lyme disease bacteria in Northern Californian ticks and their vertebrate hosts

scientific article published on 3 April 2015

Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) and the barred owl (Strix varia; Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) confirm the presence of a duplicated control region

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) and the barred owl (Strix varia; Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) confirm the presence of a duplicated control region

Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) and the barred owl (Strix varia; Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) confirm the presence of a duplicated control region

Concordant genetic structure in two species of woodpecker distributed across the primary West African biogeographic barriers

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Cranial morphological variation in Peromyscus maniculatus over nearly a century of environmental change in three areas of California

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

Cryptic speciation in gentoo penguins is driven by geographic isolation and regional marine conditions: Unforeseen vulnerabilities to global change

scientific article published in 2020

Deep ecomorphological and genetic divergence in Steller's Jays (, Aves: Corvidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Description and molecular characterization of a new Leucocytozoon parasite (Haemosporida: Leucocytozoidae), Leucocytozoon californicus sp. nov., found in American kestrels (Falco sparverius sparverius).

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Development and characterization of microsatellite loci from the Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) and widespread application to other members of the Pelecanidae

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Development and characterization of thirteen microsatellite markers for the Fiscal Flycatcher (Sigelus silens) for use in phylogeographic and landscape genetics research

Development of Polymorphic Tetranucleotide Microsatellite Markers for New World Warblers (Aves: Passeriformes: Parulidae) with Broad Cross-species Utility

Development of ten highly polymorphic microsatellite markers for Sunbirds (Aves: Nectariniidae) with broad cross-amplification utility in at least eight species

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Development of twelve tetranucleotide microsatellite loci for White-eyes (Zosterops spp.) for use in phylogeographic and hybridization studies

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Diversification across an altitudinal gradient in the Tiny Greenbul (Phyllastrephus debilis) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Africa

scientific article

Diversification in an Afro-Asian songbird clade (Erythropygia-Copsychus) reveals founder-event speciation via trans-oceanic dispersals and a southern to northern colonization pattern in Africa

scientific article

Diversification of African greenbuls in space and time: linking ecological and historical processes

Ecological speciation along an elevational gradient in a tropical passerine bird?

scientific article

Evidence for panmixia despite barriers to gene flow in the southern African endemic, Caffrogobius caffer (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

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Explosive avian radiations and multi-directional dispersal across Wallacea: evidence from the Campephagidae and other Crown Corvida (Aves).

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Extending ecological niche models to the past 120 000 years corroborates the lack of strong phylogeographic structure in the Crested Drongo (Dicrurus forficatus forficatus) on Madagascar

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Gene trees, species trees and Earth history combine to shed light on the evolution of migration in a model avian system

scientific article published on 25 May 2013

Genetic and morphological evidence for two species in the Udzungwa forest partridge Xenoperdix udzungwensis

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Genome-wide analyses reveal drivers of penguin diversification

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Genome-wide diversity in the California condor tracks its prehistoric abundance and decline

Genomic Variation and Recent Population Histories of Spotted (Strix occidentalis) and Barred (Strix varia) Owls

scientific article published on 01 May 2021

Geographically structured plumage variation among populations of White-headed Black Chat (Myrmecocichla arnotti) in Tanzania confirms the race collaris to be a valid taxon

scholarly article by Robert Glen et al published 17 July 2010 in Journal of Ornithology

Gut microbial diversity across a contact zone for California voles: implications for lineage divergence of hosts and mito-nuclear mismatch in the assembly of the mammalian gut microbiome

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Habitat-driven diversification, hybridization and cryptic diversity in the Fork-tailed Drongo (Passeriformes: Dicruridae: Dicrurus adsimilis )

scientific article published in 2018

Hidden Diversity—A New Speciose Gall Midge Genus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) Associated with Succulent Aizoaceae in South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 January 2022

Historical biogeography of an Indo-Pacific passerine bird family (Pachycephalidae): different colonization patterns in the Indonesian and Melanesian archipelagos

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Historical demographic dynamics underlying local adaptation in the presence of gene flow

scientific article (publication date: November 2012)

Homoplastic microinversions and the avian tree of life

scientific article (publication date: 25 May 2011)

Host and habitat specialization of avian malaria in Africa

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

Insights and approaches using deep learning to classify wildlife.

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Integrative taxonomy and geographic sampling underlie successful species delimitation

scientific article published in 2021

Isolation and characterization of 10 tetranucleotide microsatellite loci from the yellow-streaked greenbul (Phyllastrephus flavostriatus) and cross-species amplification in four closely related taxa

scientific article

Lack of mtDNA genetic diversity in the Black HarrierCircus maurus, a Southern African endemic

scientific article published in 2013

Latitude, elevational climatic zonation and speciation in New World vertebrates

scientific article published in June 2011

Levels of extra-pair paternity are associated with parental care in penduline tits (Remizidae)

scientific article published in 2017

Long tails matter in sugarbirds—positively for extrapair but negatively for within-pair fertilization success

scientific article published in 2009

Macrogeographical variation in the song of a widely distributed African warbler

scientific article

Microgeographic socio-genetic structure of an African cooperative breeding passerine revealed: integrating behavioural and genetic data.

scientific article

Microsatellite markers for the Cape Robin-Chat (Cossypha caffra) and the Red-capped Robin-Chat (Cossypha natalensis) for use in demographic and landscape genetics analyses

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Microsatellites in the Karoo scrub-robin, Cercotrichas coryphaeus (Passeriformes: Muscicapinae): isolation and characterization of 13 autosomal and two sex-linked loci.

scientific article

Migration, pathogens, and the avian microbiome: a comparative study in sympatric migrants and residents

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Mito‐nuclear discordance across a recent contact zone for California voles.

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Molecular evidence that the Channel Islands populations of the orange-crowned warbler (Oreothlypis celata; Aves: Passeriformes: Parulidae) represent a distinct evolutionary lineage

scientific article published on 06 August 2019

Molecular evolution in space and through time: mtDNA phylogeography of the Olive Sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea/obscura) throughout continental Africa

scientific article

Molecular phylogenetics and diversification within one of the most geographically variable bird species complexesPachycephala pectoralis/melanura

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Molecular phylogeny of African bush-shrikes and allies: tracing the biogeographic history of an explosive radiation of corvoid birds

scientific article

Molecular phylogeography reveals island colonization history and diversification of western Indian Ocean sunbirds (Nectarinia: Nectariniidae).

scientific article published on October 2003

Molecular systematics of a speciose, cosmopolitan songbird genus: defining the limits of, and relationships among, the Turdus thrushes

scientific article

More than the eye can see: Genomic insights into the drivers of genetic differentiation in Royal/Macaroni penguins across the Southern Ocean

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

Movement ecology and sex are linked to barn owl microbial community composition

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Multilocus molecular DNA variation in Winifred’s Warbler Scepomycter winifredae suggests cryptic speciation and the existence of a threatened species in the Rubeho-Ukaguru Mountains of Tanzania

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Mutualism in museums: A model for engaging undergraduates in biodiversity science.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

New perspectives on the origin and diversification of Africa’s forest avifauna

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Niche dynamics modulate population connectivity between disjunct ranges of the Cape Robin-chat (Cossypha caffra) supporting an aridlands species pump

scientific article published in 2024

Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) Genome: Divergence with the Barred Owl (Strix varia) and Characterization of Light-Associated Genes

scientific article published on October 2017

Novel tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA markers for members of the Henicorhina Wood-wren species complex (Aves, Troglodytidae)

PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES: Isolation and characterization of 10 tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in an enigmatic East African bird, the spot-throat (Modulatrix stictigula).

scientific article

Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2013)

Phenotypic and genetic introgression across a moving woodpecker hybrid zone

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Phylogenetic affinities of evolutionarily enigmatic African galliforms: the Stone PartridgePtilopachus petrosusand Nahan's FrancolinFrancolinus nahani,and support for their sister relationship with New World quails

scholarly article by Callan Cohen et al published 18 September 2012 in Ibis

Phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic Bare-faced Bulbul Pycnonotus hualon with description of a new genus

scholarly article by Jérôme Fuchs et al published 6 April 2018 in Ibis

Phylogenetic and morphologic evidence confirm the presence of a new montane cloud forest associated bird species in Mexico, the Mountain Elaenia (Elaenia frantzii; Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae).

scientific article published in February 2016

Phylogenetic relationships of the African bush-shrikes and helmet-shrikes (Passeriformes: Malaconotidae).

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): a review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers

scientific article

Phylogenetics, biogeography and classification of, and character evolution in, gamebirds (Aves: Galliformes): effects of character exclusion, data partitioning and missing data

scholarly article by Timothy M. Crowe et al published December 2006 in Cladistics

Phylogenomic evidence for multiple losses of flight in ratite birds

scientific article

Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a 'great speciator', reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Phylogeny and biogeography of Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes)

scholarly article by Knud A. Jønsson et al published May 2010 in Ecography

Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Illadopsis (Passeriformes: Timaliidae) reveal the complexity of diversification of some African taxa

scholarly article by Billy Nguembock et al published March 2009 in Journal of Avian Biology

Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomy of the African wattle-eyes (Aves: Passeriformes: Platysteiridae).

scientific article published on 24 January 2008

Phylogeography of the fiscal shrike (Lanius collaris): a novel pattern of genetic structure across the arid zones and savannas of Africa

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Pliocene forest dynamics as a primary driver of African bird speciation

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Polyphyletic origin of toxic Pitohui birds suggests widespread occurrence of toxicity in corvoid birds

scientific article

Population genetic structure of Grauer's Swamp Warbler Bradypterus graueri , an Albertine Rift endemic

scientific article published in 2017

Ptilopachinae: a new subfamily of the Odontophoridae (Aves: Galliformes).

scientific article published in January 2013

Repeated trans-Atlantic dispersal catalysed a global songbird radiation

scientific article published in 2009

Replacement names for Chapinia and Ripleyia (Aves: Passeriformes: Muscicapidae)

scientific article

Resolving nomenclatural ‘confusion’ vis-à-vis Latham’s Francolin (Francolinus/Peliperdix/Afrocolinus lathami) and the ‘Red-tailed’ francolins (Francolinus/Ortygornis/Peliperdix spp.)

scientific article published on 2 April 2020

Resolving taxonomic uncertainty and historical biogeographic patterns in Muscicapa flycatchers and their allies

scientific article

Review of the genus Amblymelanoplia Dombrow, 2002 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Hopliini) with the description of ninety-three new species from South Africa and observations on its biogeography and phylogeny

scientific article published in 2022

SYSTEMATICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF DOUBLE-COLLARED SUNBIRDS FROM THE EASTERN ARC MOUNTAINS, TANZANIA

scholarly article by Rauri C. K. Bowie et al published 2004 in The Auk

Sequence capture using PCR-generated probes: a cost-effective method of targeted high-throughput sequencing for nonmodel organisms.

scientific article

Shall we chat? Evolutionary relationships in the genus Cercomela (Muscicapidae) and its relation to Oenanthe reveals extensive polyphyly among chats distributed in Africa, India and the Palearctic

scientific article

Significant population structure and asymmetric gene flow patterns amidst expanding populations of Clinus cottoides (Perciformes, Clinidae): application of molecular data to marine conservation planning in South Africa.

scientific article

Social selection parapatry in Afrotropical sunbirds

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Spatial variation in population genomic responses to over a century of anthropogenic change within a tidal marsh songbird

scientific article published in 2024

Specific Status of Populations in the Mascarene Islands Referred to Mormopterus acetabulosus (Chiroptera: Molossidae), with Description of a New Species ⬇️

scientific article

Specimen collection: an essential tool

scientific article

Systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific ground-doves

scientific article

Systematics of the olive thrush Turdus olivaceus species complex with reference to the taxonomic status of the endangered Taita thrush T. helleri

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Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Utility of Variation in Advertising Calls of Francolins and Spurfowls (Galliformes: Phasianidae)

scholarly article by Tshifhiwa G. Mandiwana-Neudani et al published April 2014 in African Zoology

Taxonomic revision of the Square-tailed Drongo species complex (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) with description of a new species from western Africa

scientific article

Taxonomy based on limited genomic markers may underestimate species diversity of rockhopper penguins and threaten their conservation

scientific article

Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of ‘true’ francolins: Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Gallini; Francolinus, Ortygornis, Afrocolinus gen. nov., Peliperdix and Scleroptila spp.

scholarly article by Tshifhiwa G Mandiwana-Neudani et al published 2 September 2019 in Ostrich

The African warbler genus Hyliota as a lost lineage in the Oscine songbird tree: molecular support for an African origin of the Passerida

scientific article published on 22 September 2005

The Role of Mountain Ranges in the Diversification of Birds

scientific article published in 2012

The allometry of proboscis length in Melittidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidae) and an estimate of their foraging distance using museum collections

scientific article published on 07 June 2019

The ecological and geographic context of morphological and genetic divergence in an understorey-dwelling bird

scientific article

The forest batis, Batis mixta, is two species: description of a new, narrowly distributed Batis species in the Eastern Arc biodiversity hotspot

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The influence of spatially heterogeneous anthropogenic change on bill size evolution in a coastal songbird

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes

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The phylogenetic affinities of Crossley's babbler (Mystacornis crossleyi): adding a new niche to the vanga radiation of Madagascar

scientific article published on December 2008

The relevance of data on genetic diversity for the conservation of Afro-montane regions

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The role of history and ecology as drivers of song divergence in Bell’s and Sagebrush sparrows (Artemisiospiza, Aves: Passerellidae)

article by Benjamin R Karin et al published 14 August 2018 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

The systematics and biogeography of African tailorbirds (Cisticolidae: Artisornis) with comment on the choice of Bayesian branch-length prior when analyzing heterogeneous data

scientific article

The utility of contemporary and historical estimates of dispersal in determining response to habitat fragmentation in a tropical forest‐dependent bird community ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Tracing the colonization history of the Indian Ocean scops-owls (Strigiformes: Otus) with further insight into the spatio-temporal origin of the Malagasy avifauna

scientific article

Variation in sperm morphology among Afrotropical sunbirds

scientific article published in 2015

Whole-Genome Analysis of Introgression Between the Spotted Owl and Barred Owl (Strix occidentalis and Strix varia, Respectively; Aves: Strigidae) in Western North America

scientific article published on 10 December 2018

Whole-genome sequences suggest long term declines of spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) populations in California

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