Audrey Miranda Prasetya

Australian National University | ANU · Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics

Upstream colonisations from islands to continents have played an important role in the evolution of at least two major global bird radiations – the oscine passerines and the pigeons. Here we investigate the dynamics of insular diversification and upstream dispersal of pigeons(Columbiformes) within the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Based on a superma...

Aim Birds are often coloured yellow, olive, orange or red by carotenoids, which are plant pigments that are ingested with food. Here we test whether there are consistent patterns of intraspecific geographic variation in male carotenoid‐based plumage coloration linked to latitude, temperature, precipitation and primary productivity. It has been sugg...

For over two decades, assessments of geographic variation in mtDNA and small numbers of nuclear loci have revealed morphologically similar, but genetically divergent, intraspecific lineages in lizards from around the world. Subsequent morphological analyses often find subtle corresponding diagnostic characters to support the distinctiveness of line...