Publications
Papers:
Imfeld, T.S. and F.K. Barker. In press. Passerine sister clade comparisons reveal variable macroevolutionary outcomes of interhemispheric dispersal. Submitted to Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Imfeld, T.S. and F.K. Barker. 2022. Songbirds of the Americas show uniform morphological evolution despite heterogeneous diversification. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35: 1335-1351.
Barker, F.K. 2021. A shift in taste [Perspective]. Science 373(6551): 154-155.
Vázquez-Miranda, H., and F.K. Barker. 2021. Autosomal, sex-linked and mitochondrial loci resolve evolutionary relationships among Neotropical wrens of the genus Campylorhynchus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163: 107242.
Imfeld, T.S., F.K. Barker, and R.T. Brumfield. 2020. Mitochondrial genomes and thousands of ultraconserved elements resolve the taxonomy and historical biogeography of the Euphonia and Chlorophonia finches (Passeriformes: Fringillidae). The Auk. doi: 10.1093/auk/ukaa016
Kimball, R.T., C.H. Oliveros, N. Wang, N.D. White, F.K. Barker, D.J. Field, D.T. Ksepka, R.T. Chesser, R.G. Moyle, M.J. Braun, R.T. Brumfield, et al. 2019. A phylogenomic supertree of birds. Diversity 11(7):35. doi: 10.3390/d11070109
Oliveros, C.H., D.J. Field, D.T. Ksepka, F.K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M.J. Andersen, P. Alström, B.W. Benz, E.L. Braun, M.J. Braun, Gustavo A. Bravo, R.T. Brumfield, R.T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A.M. Cuervo, E.P. Derryberry, T.C. Glenn, M.G. Harvey, P.A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. Kimball, A.L. Mack, Colin M. Miskelly, A. Townsend Peterson, M.B. Robbins, F.H. Sheldon, L. Fábio Silveira, B.T. Smith, N.D. White, R.G. Moyle, B.C. Faircloth. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA 116:7916. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813206116
Shaw, A., J. Sherman, F.K. Barker, and M. Zuk. 2018. Metrics matter: the effect of parasite richness, intensity and prevalence on the evolution of host migration. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. B. 285(1891): 20182147. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2147.
Barker, F.K. 2017. Molecular phylogenetics of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), with comments on the relationships of Ferminia. American Museum Novitates No. 3887: 27 pp.
Wells, M.T. and F.K. Barker. 2017. Big groups attract bad eggs: brood parasitism correlates with but does not cause cooperative breeding. Animal Behavior 133: 47-56.
Avendaño, J.E., F.K. Barker, and C.D. Cadena. 2016. The Yellow-green Bush-tanager is neither a bush-tanager nor a sparrow: Molecular phylogenetics reveals that Chlorospingus flavovirens is a tanager (Aves: Passeriformes; Thraupidae). Zootaxa 4136 (2): 373-381.
Remsen, J.V., Jr., A.F.L.A. Powell, R. Schodde, F.K. Barker, and S.M. Lanyon. 2016. A revised classification of the Icteridae (Aves) based on DNA sequence data. Zootaxa 4093 (2): 285-292. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.9
Barker, F.K., S. Oyler-McCance, and D.F. Tomback. 2015. Blood from a turnip: tissue origin of low-coverage shotgun sequencing libraries affects recovery of mitogenome sequences. Mitochondrial DNA 26(3): 384-388. doi: 10.3109/19401736.2013.840588
Barker, F.K., K.J. Burns, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and I.J. Lovette. 2015. New insights into New World biogeography: an integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132: 333-348. doi: 10.1642/AUK-14-110.1
Jarvis, E.D., S. Mirarab, A.J. Aberer, B. Li, P. Houde, C. Li, S.Y.W. Ho, B.C. Faircloth, B. Nabholz, J.T. Howard, A. Suh, C.C. Weber, R.R. da Fonseca, J. Li, F. Zhang, H. Li, L. Zhou, N. Narula, L. Liu, G. Ganapathy, B. Boussau, Md.S. Bayzid, V. Zavidovych, S. Subramanian, T. Gabaldón, S. Capella-Gutiérrez, J. Huerta-Cepas, B. Rekepalli, K. Munch, M. Schierup, B. Lindow, W.C. Warren, D. Ray, R.E. Green, M. Bruford, X. Zhan, A. Dixon, S. Li, N. Li, Y. Huang, E.P. Derryberry, M.F. Bertelsen, F. Sheldon, R.T. Brumfield, C. Mello, P.V. Lovell, M. Wirthlin, J.A. Samaniego, A.M.V. Velazquez, A. Alfaro-Núñez, P.F. Campos, T. Sicheritz-Ponten, A. Pas, T. Bailey, P. Scofield, M. Bunce, D. Lambert, Q. Zhou, P. Perelman, A.C. Driskell, G. Ruby, B. Shapiro, Z. Xiong, Y. Zeng, S. Liu, Z. Li, B. Liu, K. Wu, J. Xiao, X. Yinqi, Q. Zheng, Y. Zhang, H. Yang, J. Wang, L. Smeds, F.E. Rheindt, M. Braun, J. Fjeldsa, L. Orlando, F.K. Barker, K.A. Jønsson, W. Johnson, K.-P. Koepfli, S. O'Brien, D. Haussler, O.A. Ryder, C. Rahbek, E. Willerslev, G.R. Graves, T.C. Glenn, J. McCormack, D. Burt, H. Ellegren, P. Alström, S. Edwards, A. Stamatakis, D.P. Mindell, J. Cracraft, E.L. Braun, T. Warnow, W. Jun, M.T.P. Gilbert, G. Zhang. 2014. Whole genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science 346(6215): 1320-1331. doi: 10.1126/science.1253451
Winger, B.M., R.H. Ree, and F.K. Barker. 2014. Temperate origins of long-distance seasonal migration in New World birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111(33): 12115-12120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1405000111
Barker, F.K. 2014. Mitogenomic data resolve basal relationships among passeriform and passeridan birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 313-324.
Klicka, J., F.K. Barker, K.J. Burns, S.M. Lanyon, I.J. Lovette, J.A. Chaves, and RW. Bryson, Jr. 2014. A comprehensive multilocus assessment of sparrow (Family Passerellidae) relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 177-182.
Pasquet, E., F.K. Barker, J. Martens, J., A. Tillier, C. Cruaud, and A. Cibois. 2014. Evolution within the nuthatches (Sittidae: Aves, Passeriformes): molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and morphological perspectives. Journal of Ornithology 155(3): 755-765.
Burns, K.J., A.J. Shultz, P.O. Title, N.A. Mason, F.K. Barker, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and I.J. Lovette. 2014. Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 75: 41-77. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006
Jansa, S.A., F.K. Barker, and R.S. Voss. 2014. The early diversification history of didelphid marsupials: a window into South America’s “splendid isolation”. Evolution 68(3): 684-695. doi: 10.1111/evo.12290
Powell, A.F.L.A., F.K. Barker, Scott M. Lanyon, K.J. Burns, J. Klicka, and I.J.L. Lovette. 2014. A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71(1): 94-112. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.009
Dufort, M.J. and F.K. Barker. 2013. Range dynamics, rather than convergent selection, explain the mosaic distribution of red-winged blackbird phenotypes. Ecology and Evolution 3(15): 4851-5126. doi: 10.1002/ece3.859.
Alström, P., K. Barnes, U. Olsson, F.K. Barker, P. Bloomer, A. Ahmed Khan, M. Ahmed Qureshi, and P.G. Ryan. 2013. Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 1043-1056. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.005
Ryan, P.G., L.B. Klicka, F.K. Barker, and K.J. Burns. 2013. The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 299-305. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.026
Barker, F.K. K.J. Burns, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and I.J. Lovette. 2013. Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine birds. Systematic Biology 62(2): 298-320. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys094
Powell, A.F.L.A., F.K. Barker, S.M. Lanyon. 2013. Empirical evaluation of partitioning schemes for phylogenetic analyses of mitogenomic data: an avian case study. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 69-79. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.006.
Barker, F.K., M.K. Benesh, A.J. Vandergon, and S.M. Lanyon. 2012. Contrasting evolutionary dynamics and information content of the avian mitochondrial control region and ND2 gene. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46403. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0046403
Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium, F.K. Barker, J.J. Bell, S.M. Bogdanowicz, S.L. Bonatto, F. Cezilly, S.M. Collins, C. Dubreuil, M. Dufort, C. Eraud, R. Fuseya, E.A. Heap, N. Jacobsen, M. Madders, R. McEwing, Andrew P. Michel, F. Mougeot, R. S. Ogden, Lucia C. Orantes, A.S. Othman, E. Parent, P. Pulido-Santacruz, R. Rioux-Paré , M.F. Roberts, R. Rosazlina, T. Sakamoto, P. Salinas-De-León, J.-M. Sévigny, P. St-Onge, J. Terraube, R.E. Tingay, R. Tremblay, S. Watanabe and R.A. Wattier. 2011. Permanent genetic resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 June 2011-31 July 2011. Molecular Ecology Resources 11(6): 1124-1126.
Barker, F.K. 2011. Phylogeny and diversification of modern passerines. Pp. 235-256 in G. Dyke and G. Kaiser, eds. Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds. J. Wiley and Sons.
Lovette, I.J., J.L. Perez-Emán, J. Sullivan, R.C. Banks, I. Fiorentino, S. Córdoba-Córdoba, M. Echeverry-Galvis, F.K. Barker, K. Burns, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and E. Bermingham. 2010. A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57: 753-770.
McKay, Bailey D., F.K. Barker, H.L. Mays, Jr., S.M. Doucet and G.E. Hill. 2010. A molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(2): 733-737. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.02.024
Fujishin, L.M., F.K. Barker, D.D. Huff, and L.M. Miller. 2009. Isolation of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci for slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus). Conservation Genetics Resources 1(1): 429-432. DOI:10.1007/s12686-009-9099-3.
Schmitt, I., and F.K. Barker. 2009. Phylogenetic methods in natural product research. Natural Product Reports 26: 1585-1602. DOI:10.1039/b910458p.
Genome 10K Community of Scientists. 2009. Genome 10K: A proposal to obtain whole-genome sequence for 10,000 vertebrate species. Journal of Heredity 100(6): 659-674. DOI:10.1093/jhered/esp086.
Cracraft, J., and F.K. Barker. 2009. Passeriformes. Pp. 423-431 in S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar, eds., The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
Kimball, R.T., E.L. Braun., F.K. Barker, R.C.K. Bowie, M.J. Braun, J.L. Chojnowski, S.J. Hackett, K.-L. Han, J. Harshman, V. Heimer-Torres, W. Holznagel, C.J. Huddleston, B.D. Marks, K.J. Miglia, W.S. Moore, S. Reddy, F.H. Sheldon, J.V. Smith, C.C. Witt, and T. Yuri. 2009. A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 654-660.
Mann, N.I., K.A. Dingess, F.K. Barker, J.A. Graves, and P.J.B. Slater. 2009. A comparative study of song form and duetting in neotropical Thryothorus wrens. Behaviour 146: 1-43. PDF
Spellman, G., A. Cibois, R. Moyle, and K. Winker and F.K. Barker. 2008. Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a Bombycillid? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(3): 2036-2040.
Powell, A.F.L.A., F.K. Barker and S.M. Lanyon. 2008. A complete species-level phylogeny of the grackles (Quiscalus spp.), including the extinct Slender-billed Grackle, inferred from mitochondrial DNA. The Condor 110: 718-728. PDF
Spellman, G.M., A. Cibois, R.G. Moyle, K. Winker, and F.K. Barker. 2008. Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a Bombycillid? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 2036-2040. PDF
Barker, F.K., A.J. Vandergon, and S.M. Lanyon. 2008. Assessment of species limits among yellow-breasted meadowlarks (Sturnella spp.) using mitochondrial and sex-linked markers. The Auk 125: 869-879. PDF
Barker, F.K., A.J. Vandergon, and S.M. Lanyon. 2008. Species status of the Red-shouldered Blackbird: implications for ecological, morphological, and behavioral evolution in Agelaius. The Auk 125: 87-94. PDF
Jansa, S.A., V. Soarimalala, S.M. Goodman, and F.K. Barker. 2008. Morphometric variation and phylogeographic structure in Macrotarsomys bastardi (Rodentia: Nesomyidae), an endemic Malagasy dry forest rodent. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 316-324.
Chesser, R.T., F.K. Barker, and R.T. Brumfield. 2007. Four-fold polyphyly of the genus formerly known as Upucerthia, with notes on the systematics and evolution of the avian subfamily Furnariinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 1320-1332. PDF
Driskell, A.L. Christidis, B.J. Gill, W.E. Boles, F.K. Barker, and N.W. Longmore. 2007. A new endemic family of New Zealand passerine birds: adding heat to a biodiversity hotspot. Australian Journal of Zoology 55(7): 73-78.
Barker, F.K. 2007. Avifaunal interchange across the Panamanian Isthmus: insights from Campylorhynchus wrens. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90: 687-702.
Mann, N.I., F.K. Barker, J.A. Graves, K. Dingess-Mann, and P.J.B. Slater. 2006. Molecular data delineate four genera of “Thryothorus” wrens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 750-759. PDF Data
LeCroy, M., and F.K. Barker. 2006. A new species of bush-warbler from Bougainville Island and a monophyletic origin for southwest Pacific Cettia. American Museum Novitates 3511: 1-20. PDF Data Specimen photo with KODAK Color Separation Guide Q-13 (1.1 Mb) Morphometric Data (Excel)
Jansa, S.A., F.K. Barker, and L.R. Heaney. 2006. The pattern and timing of diversification of Philippine endemic rodents: Evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences. Systematic Biology 55(1): 73-88. PDF
Beresford, P., F.K. Barker, P.G. Ryan, and T.M. Crowe. 2005. African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary ‘enigmas.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 272: 849-858. PDF Electronic Appendix Data
Barker, F.K., A. Cibois, P.A. Schikler, J. Feinstein, and J. Cracraft. 2004. Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101(30): 11040-11045. PDF Supporting Information Data Mapping of Sibley/Ahlquist/Monroe Taxonomy (MacClade) Biogeographic Database (Excel) Biogeographic Database (Tab-delimited Text) NPRS Tree PL Tree NPRS Bootstrap Trees PL Bootstrap Trees
Barker, F.K. 2004. Monophyly and relationships of wrens (Aves: Troglodytidae): a congruence analysis of heterogeneous mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(2): 486-504. PDF Erratum Data Annotated Intron Alignment
Cracraft, J., F.K. Barker, M. Braun, J. Harshman, G.J. Dyke, J. Feinstein, S. Stanley, A. Cibois, P. Schikler, P. Beresford, J. García-Moreno, M.D. Sorenson, T. Yuri and D.P. Mindell. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): toward an avian tree of life. Pp. 468-489 in J. Cracraft and M. J. Donoghue, eds. Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York. PDF
Barker, F.K., and F.M. Lutzoni. 2002. The utility of the incongruence length difference test. Systematic Biology 51(4): 625-637. PDF
Barker, F.K., G.F. Barrowclough, and J. G. Groth. 2002. A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 269: 295-308. PDF Data
Barker, F.K., and S.M. Lanyon. 2000. The impact of parsimony weighting schemes on inferred relationships among toucans and Neotropical barbets (Aves: Piciformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15(2): 215-234. PDF Data
Lutzoni, F., and F.K. Barker. 1999. Sampling confidence envelopes of phylogenetic trees for combinability testing: A reply to Rodrigo. Systematic Biology 48(3): 596-603. PDF
Popular press:
Cracraft, J., F.K. Barker, and A. Cibois. 2003. Avian higher-level phylogenetics and the Howard and Moore Checklist of Birds. In E. Dickinson, ed. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World: Third Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Barker, F.K. 2001. Wrens. Pp. 440-444 in C. Elphick, J.B. Dunning, Jr., and D.A. Sibley, eds. The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior. Chanticleer Press, New York, NY.
Imfeld, T.S. and F.K. Barker. In press. Passerine sister clade comparisons reveal variable macroevolutionary outcomes of interhemispheric dispersal. Submitted to Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Imfeld, T.S. and F.K. Barker. 2022. Songbirds of the Americas show uniform morphological evolution despite heterogeneous diversification. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35: 1335-1351.
Barker, F.K. 2021. A shift in taste [Perspective]. Science 373(6551): 154-155.
Vázquez-Miranda, H., and F.K. Barker. 2021. Autosomal, sex-linked and mitochondrial loci resolve evolutionary relationships among Neotropical wrens of the genus Campylorhynchus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163: 107242.
Imfeld, T.S., F.K. Barker, and R.T. Brumfield. 2020. Mitochondrial genomes and thousands of ultraconserved elements resolve the taxonomy and historical biogeography of the Euphonia and Chlorophonia finches (Passeriformes: Fringillidae). The Auk. doi: 10.1093/auk/ukaa016
Kimball, R.T., C.H. Oliveros, N. Wang, N.D. White, F.K. Barker, D.J. Field, D.T. Ksepka, R.T. Chesser, R.G. Moyle, M.J. Braun, R.T. Brumfield, et al. 2019. A phylogenomic supertree of birds. Diversity 11(7):35. doi: 10.3390/d11070109
Oliveros, C.H., D.J. Field, D.T. Ksepka, F.K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M.J. Andersen, P. Alström, B.W. Benz, E.L. Braun, M.J. Braun, Gustavo A. Bravo, R.T. Brumfield, R.T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A.M. Cuervo, E.P. Derryberry, T.C. Glenn, M.G. Harvey, P.A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. Kimball, A.L. Mack, Colin M. Miskelly, A. Townsend Peterson, M.B. Robbins, F.H. Sheldon, L. Fábio Silveira, B.T. Smith, N.D. White, R.G. Moyle, B.C. Faircloth. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA 116:7916. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813206116
Shaw, A., J. Sherman, F.K. Barker, and M. Zuk. 2018. Metrics matter: the effect of parasite richness, intensity and prevalence on the evolution of host migration. Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. B. 285(1891): 20182147. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2147.
Barker, F.K. 2017. Molecular phylogenetics of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), with comments on the relationships of Ferminia. American Museum Novitates No. 3887: 27 pp.
Wells, M.T. and F.K. Barker. 2017. Big groups attract bad eggs: brood parasitism correlates with but does not cause cooperative breeding. Animal Behavior 133: 47-56.
Avendaño, J.E., F.K. Barker, and C.D. Cadena. 2016. The Yellow-green Bush-tanager is neither a bush-tanager nor a sparrow: Molecular phylogenetics reveals that Chlorospingus flavovirens is a tanager (Aves: Passeriformes; Thraupidae). Zootaxa 4136 (2): 373-381.
Remsen, J.V., Jr., A.F.L.A. Powell, R. Schodde, F.K. Barker, and S.M. Lanyon. 2016. A revised classification of the Icteridae (Aves) based on DNA sequence data. Zootaxa 4093 (2): 285-292. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.9
Barker, F.K., S. Oyler-McCance, and D.F. Tomback. 2015. Blood from a turnip: tissue origin of low-coverage shotgun sequencing libraries affects recovery of mitogenome sequences. Mitochondrial DNA 26(3): 384-388. doi: 10.3109/19401736.2013.840588
Barker, F.K., K.J. Burns, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and I.J. Lovette. 2015. New insights into New World biogeography: an integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132: 333-348. doi: 10.1642/AUK-14-110.1
Jarvis, E.D., S. Mirarab, A.J. Aberer, B. Li, P. Houde, C. Li, S.Y.W. Ho, B.C. Faircloth, B. Nabholz, J.T. Howard, A. Suh, C.C. Weber, R.R. da Fonseca, J. Li, F. Zhang, H. Li, L. Zhou, N. Narula, L. Liu, G. Ganapathy, B. Boussau, Md.S. Bayzid, V. Zavidovych, S. Subramanian, T. Gabaldón, S. Capella-Gutiérrez, J. Huerta-Cepas, B. Rekepalli, K. Munch, M. Schierup, B. Lindow, W.C. Warren, D. Ray, R.E. Green, M. Bruford, X. Zhan, A. Dixon, S. Li, N. Li, Y. Huang, E.P. Derryberry, M.F. Bertelsen, F. Sheldon, R.T. Brumfield, C. Mello, P.V. Lovell, M. Wirthlin, J.A. Samaniego, A.M.V. Velazquez, A. Alfaro-Núñez, P.F. Campos, T. Sicheritz-Ponten, A. Pas, T. Bailey, P. Scofield, M. Bunce, D. Lambert, Q. Zhou, P. Perelman, A.C. Driskell, G. Ruby, B. Shapiro, Z. Xiong, Y. Zeng, S. Liu, Z. Li, B. Liu, K. Wu, J. Xiao, X. Yinqi, Q. Zheng, Y. Zhang, H. Yang, J. Wang, L. Smeds, F.E. Rheindt, M. Braun, J. Fjeldsa, L. Orlando, F.K. Barker, K.A. Jønsson, W. Johnson, K.-P. Koepfli, S. O'Brien, D. Haussler, O.A. Ryder, C. Rahbek, E. Willerslev, G.R. Graves, T.C. Glenn, J. McCormack, D. Burt, H. Ellegren, P. Alström, S. Edwards, A. Stamatakis, D.P. Mindell, J. Cracraft, E.L. Braun, T. Warnow, W. Jun, M.T.P. Gilbert, G. Zhang. 2014. Whole genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science 346(6215): 1320-1331. doi: 10.1126/science.1253451
Winger, B.M., R.H. Ree, and F.K. Barker. 2014. Temperate origins of long-distance seasonal migration in New World birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111(33): 12115-12120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1405000111
Barker, F.K. 2014. Mitogenomic data resolve basal relationships among passeriform and passeridan birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 313-324.
Klicka, J., F.K. Barker, K.J. Burns, S.M. Lanyon, I.J. Lovette, J.A. Chaves, and RW. Bryson, Jr. 2014. A comprehensive multilocus assessment of sparrow (Family Passerellidae) relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 77: 177-182.
Pasquet, E., F.K. Barker, J. Martens, J., A. Tillier, C. Cruaud, and A. Cibois. 2014. Evolution within the nuthatches (Sittidae: Aves, Passeriformes): molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and morphological perspectives. Journal of Ornithology 155(3): 755-765.
Burns, K.J., A.J. Shultz, P.O. Title, N.A. Mason, F.K. Barker, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and I.J. Lovette. 2014. Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 75: 41-77. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.006
Jansa, S.A., F.K. Barker, and R.S. Voss. 2014. The early diversification history of didelphid marsupials: a window into South America’s “splendid isolation”. Evolution 68(3): 684-695. doi: 10.1111/evo.12290
Powell, A.F.L.A., F.K. Barker, Scott M. Lanyon, K.J. Burns, J. Klicka, and I.J.L. Lovette. 2014. A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71(1): 94-112. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.11.009
Dufort, M.J. and F.K. Barker. 2013. Range dynamics, rather than convergent selection, explain the mosaic distribution of red-winged blackbird phenotypes. Ecology and Evolution 3(15): 4851-5126. doi: 10.1002/ece3.859.
Alström, P., K. Barnes, U. Olsson, F.K. Barker, P. Bloomer, A. Ahmed Khan, M. Ahmed Qureshi, and P.G. Ryan. 2013. Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 1043-1056. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.005
Ryan, P.G., L.B. Klicka, F.K. Barker, and K.J. Burns. 2013. The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69: 299-305. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.026
Barker, F.K. K.J. Burns, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and I.J. Lovette. 2013. Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine birds. Systematic Biology 62(2): 298-320. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys094
Powell, A.F.L.A., F.K. Barker, S.M. Lanyon. 2013. Empirical evaluation of partitioning schemes for phylogenetic analyses of mitogenomic data: an avian case study. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 69-79. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.006.
Barker, F.K., M.K. Benesh, A.J. Vandergon, and S.M. Lanyon. 2012. Contrasting evolutionary dynamics and information content of the avian mitochondrial control region and ND2 gene. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46403. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0046403
Molecular Ecology Resources Primer Development Consortium, F.K. Barker, J.J. Bell, S.M. Bogdanowicz, S.L. Bonatto, F. Cezilly, S.M. Collins, C. Dubreuil, M. Dufort, C. Eraud, R. Fuseya, E.A. Heap, N. Jacobsen, M. Madders, R. McEwing, Andrew P. Michel, F. Mougeot, R. S. Ogden, Lucia C. Orantes, A.S. Othman, E. Parent, P. Pulido-Santacruz, R. Rioux-Paré , M.F. Roberts, R. Rosazlina, T. Sakamoto, P. Salinas-De-León, J.-M. Sévigny, P. St-Onge, J. Terraube, R.E. Tingay, R. Tremblay, S. Watanabe and R.A. Wattier. 2011. Permanent genetic resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 June 2011-31 July 2011. Molecular Ecology Resources 11(6): 1124-1126.
Barker, F.K. 2011. Phylogeny and diversification of modern passerines. Pp. 235-256 in G. Dyke and G. Kaiser, eds. Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds. J. Wiley and Sons.
Lovette, I.J., J.L. Perez-Emán, J. Sullivan, R.C. Banks, I. Fiorentino, S. Córdoba-Córdoba, M. Echeverry-Galvis, F.K. Barker, K. Burns, J. Klicka, S.M. Lanyon, and E. Bermingham. 2010. A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57: 753-770.
McKay, Bailey D., F.K. Barker, H.L. Mays, Jr., S.M. Doucet and G.E. Hill. 2010. A molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(2): 733-737. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.02.024
Fujishin, L.M., F.K. Barker, D.D. Huff, and L.M. Miller. 2009. Isolation of 13 polymorphic microsatellite loci for slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus). Conservation Genetics Resources 1(1): 429-432. DOI:10.1007/s12686-009-9099-3.
Schmitt, I., and F.K. Barker. 2009. Phylogenetic methods in natural product research. Natural Product Reports 26: 1585-1602. DOI:10.1039/b910458p.
Genome 10K Community of Scientists. 2009. Genome 10K: A proposal to obtain whole-genome sequence for 10,000 vertebrate species. Journal of Heredity 100(6): 659-674. DOI:10.1093/jhered/esp086.
Cracraft, J., and F.K. Barker. 2009. Passeriformes. Pp. 423-431 in S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar, eds., The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
Kimball, R.T., E.L. Braun., F.K. Barker, R.C.K. Bowie, M.J. Braun, J.L. Chojnowski, S.J. Hackett, K.-L. Han, J. Harshman, V. Heimer-Torres, W. Holznagel, C.J. Huddleston, B.D. Marks, K.J. Miglia, W.S. Moore, S. Reddy, F.H. Sheldon, J.V. Smith, C.C. Witt, and T. Yuri. 2009. A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 654-660.
Mann, N.I., K.A. Dingess, F.K. Barker, J.A. Graves, and P.J.B. Slater. 2009. A comparative study of song form and duetting in neotropical Thryothorus wrens. Behaviour 146: 1-43. PDF
Spellman, G., A. Cibois, R. Moyle, and K. Winker and F.K. Barker. 2008. Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a Bombycillid? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(3): 2036-2040.
Powell, A.F.L.A., F.K. Barker and S.M. Lanyon. 2008. A complete species-level phylogeny of the grackles (Quiscalus spp.), including the extinct Slender-billed Grackle, inferred from mitochondrial DNA. The Condor 110: 718-728. PDF
Spellman, G.M., A. Cibois, R.G. Moyle, K. Winker, and F.K. Barker. 2008. Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a Bombycillid? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 2036-2040. PDF
Barker, F.K., A.J. Vandergon, and S.M. Lanyon. 2008. Assessment of species limits among yellow-breasted meadowlarks (Sturnella spp.) using mitochondrial and sex-linked markers. The Auk 125: 869-879. PDF
Barker, F.K., A.J. Vandergon, and S.M. Lanyon. 2008. Species status of the Red-shouldered Blackbird: implications for ecological, morphological, and behavioral evolution in Agelaius. The Auk 125: 87-94. PDF
Jansa, S.A., V. Soarimalala, S.M. Goodman, and F.K. Barker. 2008. Morphometric variation and phylogeographic structure in Macrotarsomys bastardi (Rodentia: Nesomyidae), an endemic Malagasy dry forest rodent. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 316-324.
Chesser, R.T., F.K. Barker, and R.T. Brumfield. 2007. Four-fold polyphyly of the genus formerly known as Upucerthia, with notes on the systematics and evolution of the avian subfamily Furnariinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44: 1320-1332. PDF
Driskell, A.L. Christidis, B.J. Gill, W.E. Boles, F.K. Barker, and N.W. Longmore. 2007. A new endemic family of New Zealand passerine birds: adding heat to a biodiversity hotspot. Australian Journal of Zoology 55(7): 73-78.
Barker, F.K. 2007. Avifaunal interchange across the Panamanian Isthmus: insights from Campylorhynchus wrens. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90: 687-702.
Mann, N.I., F.K. Barker, J.A. Graves, K. Dingess-Mann, and P.J.B. Slater. 2006. Molecular data delineate four genera of “Thryothorus” wrens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 750-759. PDF Data
LeCroy, M., and F.K. Barker. 2006. A new species of bush-warbler from Bougainville Island and a monophyletic origin for southwest Pacific Cettia. American Museum Novitates 3511: 1-20. PDF Data Specimen photo with KODAK Color Separation Guide Q-13 (1.1 Mb) Morphometric Data (Excel)
Jansa, S.A., F.K. Barker, and L.R. Heaney. 2006. The pattern and timing of diversification of Philippine endemic rodents: Evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences. Systematic Biology 55(1): 73-88. PDF
Beresford, P., F.K. Barker, P.G. Ryan, and T.M. Crowe. 2005. African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): molecular systematics of several evolutionary ‘enigmas.’ Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 272: 849-858. PDF Electronic Appendix Data
Barker, F.K., A. Cibois, P.A. Schikler, J. Feinstein, and J. Cracraft. 2004. Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101(30): 11040-11045. PDF Supporting Information Data Mapping of Sibley/Ahlquist/Monroe Taxonomy (MacClade) Biogeographic Database (Excel) Biogeographic Database (Tab-delimited Text) NPRS Tree PL Tree NPRS Bootstrap Trees PL Bootstrap Trees
Barker, F.K. 2004. Monophyly and relationships of wrens (Aves: Troglodytidae): a congruence analysis of heterogeneous mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(2): 486-504. PDF Erratum Data Annotated Intron Alignment
Cracraft, J., F.K. Barker, M. Braun, J. Harshman, G.J. Dyke, J. Feinstein, S. Stanley, A. Cibois, P. Schikler, P. Beresford, J. García-Moreno, M.D. Sorenson, T. Yuri and D.P. Mindell. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): toward an avian tree of life. Pp. 468-489 in J. Cracraft and M. J. Donoghue, eds. Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York. PDF
Barker, F.K., and F.M. Lutzoni. 2002. The utility of the incongruence length difference test. Systematic Biology 51(4): 625-637. PDF
Barker, F.K., G.F. Barrowclough, and J. G. Groth. 2002. A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 269: 295-308. PDF Data
Barker, F.K., and S.M. Lanyon. 2000. The impact of parsimony weighting schemes on inferred relationships among toucans and Neotropical barbets (Aves: Piciformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15(2): 215-234. PDF Data
Lutzoni, F., and F.K. Barker. 1999. Sampling confidence envelopes of phylogenetic trees for combinability testing: A reply to Rodrigo. Systematic Biology 48(3): 596-603. PDF
Popular press:
Cracraft, J., F.K. Barker, and A. Cibois. 2003. Avian higher-level phylogenetics and the Howard and Moore Checklist of Birds. In E. Dickinson, ed. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World: Third Edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Barker, F.K. 2001. Wrens. Pp. 440-444 in C. Elphick, J.B. Dunning, Jr., and D.A. Sibley, eds. The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior. Chanticleer Press, New York, NY.