Latest papers

Gender-specific reproductive tissue in ratites and Tyrannosaurus rex.

Reconstructing the tempo and mode of evolution in an extinct clade of birds with ancient DNA: the giant moas of New Zealand.

Meiotic recombination in the ZW pair of a tinamid bird shows a differential pattern compared with neognaths.

Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous.

Enzymatic properties of rhea lysozyme.

Is a large-scale DNA-based inventory of ancient life possible?

Moa were many.

Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa.

Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis.

Clarification of emu serum for peptide hormone assay using polyethylene glycol precipitation.

Avian cryptococcosis.

Pre- and postnatal energetics of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli).

A DNA test to sex ratite birds.

DMRT1 in a ratite bird: evidence for a role in sex determination and discovery of a putative regulatory element.

Complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequences of extinct birds: ratite phylogenetics and the vicariance biogeography hypothesis.

Chicken microchromosomes are hypermethylated and can be identified by specific painting probes.

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae, and cross-species amplification within Ratitae.

Differentiation of Z and W chromosomes revealed by replication banding and FISH mapping of sex-chromosome-linked DNA markers in the cassowary (Aves, Ratitae).

Jurisprudence for ratite practitioners.

Infectious diseases and parasites of ratites.