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In review

Cramer E et al. (In review) Macroevolution of sperm size in perching birds.

Nordén KK, Cooney CR, Babarović F, Stoddard MC (In review) Historical contingency influences the diversity of feather nanostructures in cuckoos.

Chen YC,  Vendrami DLJ, Huber ML, Handel LEY,  Cooney CR,  Hoffman J,  Gossmann T (In review) Phylonumtonics uncovers diverse evolutionary trajectories of mitogenomic fossils buried in mammalian and avian genomes
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Reiss AR, Cooney CR, Thomas GH (In review) Decoupling of rates of ecomorphological evolution and speciation in shorebirds (Charadriiformes).

Published

Stankowski S et al. (2024) Toward the integration of speciation research. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society 3, 1-24. Link

Shaw KL, Cooney CR, Mendelson TC, Ritchie MG, Roberts NS, Yusuf LH (2024) How important is sexual isolation to speciation? Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Link

Wiethase J, Mostert P, Cooney CR, O'Hara R, Beale C (Accepted) Spatio-temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Link

Guillerme T, Bright JA, Cooney CR, Hughes EC, Varley ZK, Cooper N, Beckerman AP, Thomas GH (2023) Innovation and elaboration on the avian tree of life. Science Advances 9, eadg1641. Link

Babarovic F, Cooney CR, Varley ZK, Nouri L, Nadeau N, Thomas GH (2023) The effects of ecology and behaviour on the evolution of colouration in Coraciiformes. Behavioral Ecology 34, 387-398. Link

He Y, Cooney CR, Maddock S, Thomas GH (2023) Using pose estimation to identify regions and points on natural history specimens. PLoS Computational Biology 19, e1010933. Link

Hardie JL, Cooney CR (2023) Sociality, ecology and developmental constraints predict variation in brain size across birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 36, 144-155. Link
             — Top downloaded article in JEB

He Y, Varley ZK, Nouri LO, Moody CJA, Jardine MD, Maddock S, Thomas GH, Cooney CR (2022) Deep learning image segmentation reveals patterns of UV reflectance evolution in passerine birds. ​Nature Communications 13, 5068. Link

Price PD, Palmer Droguett DP, Taylor JA, Kim DW, Place ES, Rogers TF, Mank JE, Cooney CR*, Wright AE* (2022) Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6, 1035-1045. (* Joint senior authors) Link

Cooney CR, He Y, Varley ZK, Nouri LO, Moody CJA, Jardine MD, Liker A, Székely T, Thomas GH (2022) Latitudinal gradients in avian colourfulness. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6, 622-629. Link
             — Associated 'News & Views' article: A colourful tropical world
             — Associated 'The Conversation' article: Why are tropical birds more colourful?

             — Selected media coverage: The Economist, The Times, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, New Scientist, Popular Science, NHM
 

Hughes EC, Edwards DP, Bright JA, Capp EJR, Cooney CR, Varley ZK, Thomas GH (2022) Global biogeographic patterns of avian morphological diversity. Ecology Letters 25, 598-610. Link

Tobias JA et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographic data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25, 581-597. Link


Rombaut LMK, Capp EJR, Cooney CR, Hughes EC, Varley, ZK, Thomas GH (2022) Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks. Evolution Letters 6, 83-91. Link

Cooney CR, Mank JE, Wright AE (2021) Constraint and divergence in the evolution of male and female recombination rates in fishes. Evolution 75, 2857-2866. Link

Cooney CR, Thomas GH (2021) Heterogeneous relationships between rates of speciation and body size evolution across vertebrate clades. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5, 101-110. Link
             — Scientific American article

Chira AM, Cooney CR,  Bright JA, Capp JR, Hughes EC, Moody CJA, Nouri LO, Varley ZK, Thomas GH (2020) The signature of competition in ecomorphological traits across the avian radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287, 20201585. Link

Cooney CR, Sheard C, Clark AD, Healy SD, Liker A, Street SE, Troisi CA, Thomas GH, Székely T, Hemmings N, Wright AE (2020) Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations. Nature Communications 11, 2383. Link
             — Media coverage: The Guardian
             — Associated 'Behind the Paper' blogpost

Yusuf L, Heatley M, Palmer JPG, Barton HJ, Cooney CR*, Gossmann TI* (2020) Noncoding regions underpin avian bill shape diversification at macroevolutionary scales. Genome Research 30, 553-565. (* Joint corresponding authors) Link

Navalon G, Bright JA, Marugán-Lobón J, Cooney CR, Rayfield EJ (2020) The consequences of craniofacial integration for the adaptive radiations of Darwin's finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 270-278. Link
             — 'Behind the Paper' blogpost

Cooney CR, Varley ZK, Nouri LO, Moody CJA, Jardine MD, Thomas GH (2019) Sexual selection predicts the rate and direction of colour divergence in a large avian radiation. Nature Communications 10, 1773. Link
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Wright AE, Rogers T, Fumagalli M, Cooney CR, Mank, J (2019) Phenotypic sexual dimorphism is associated with genomic signatures of resolved sexual conflict. Molecular Ecology 28, 2860-2871. Link

Marki PZ, Kennedy JD, Cooney CR, Rahbek C, Fjeldså J (2019) Adaptive radiation and the evolution of nectarivory in a large songbird clade. Evolution 73, 1226-1240. Link

Cooney CR, MacGregor HEA, Seddon N, Tobias JA (2018) Multimodal signal evolution in birds: re-examining a standard proxy for sexual selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285, 20181557 Link
             — Media coverage: New Scientist, IFL Science, Daily Mail
             — F1000Prime recommended

Chira AM, Cooney CR, Bright JA, Capp EJR, Hughes EC, Moody CJA, Nouri LO, Varley ZK, Thomas GH (2018) Correlates of rate heterogeneity in avian ecomorphological traits. Ecology Letters 21, 1505-1515 Link

Afanasyeva A, Bockwoldt M, Cooney CR, Heiland I, Gossmann TI (2018) Human long intrinsically disordered protein regions are frequent targets of positive selection. Genome Research 28, 975-982 Link

Wright AE, Fumagalli M, Cooney CR, Bloch NI, Vieira FG, Buechel SD, Kolm N, Mank JE (2018) Male-biased gene expression resolves sexual conflict through the evolution of sex-specific genetic architecture. Evolution letters 2, 52-61 Link
             — Evolution Letters Editors' pick 

Thomas GH, Cooney CR, Bright JA (2017) Crowd-sourcing bird evolution. Cell Systems 4, 252 Link

Cooney CR, Tobias JA, Weir JT, Botero CA, Seddon N (2017) Sexual selection, speciation, and constraints on geographical range overlap in birds. Ecology Letters 20, 863-871 Link
 
Cooney CR*, Bright JA*, Capp EJR, Chira AM, Hughes EC, Moody CJA, Nouri LO, Varley ZK, Thomas GH (2017) Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds. Nature 542, 344-347 (* Joint first authors) Link
             
— News coverage: BBC,  New York Times,  Audubon,  NHM
             — Radio: BBC World Service,  BBC Inside Science
 
Cooney CR, Seddon N, Tobias JA (2016) Widespread correlations between climatic niche evolution and species diversification in birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 85, 869-878 Link
 
Brulez K, Mikšík I, Cooney CR, Hauber ME, Lovell PG, Maurer G, Portugal SJ, Russell D, Reynolds SJ, Cassey P (2016) Eggshell pigment composition covaries with phylogeny but not with life history or with nesting ecology traits of British passerines. Ecology and Evolution 6, 1637-1645 Link
 
Horváthová T*, Cooney CR*, Fitze PS, Oksanen TA, Jelić D, Ghira I, Uller T, Jandzik D (2013) Length of activity season drives geographic variation in body size of a widely distributed lizard. Ecology and Evolution 3, 2424-2442 (* Joint first authors) Link
 
Salisbury CL, Seddon N, Cooney CR, Tobias JA (2012) The latitudinal gradient in dispersal constraints: ecological specialisation drives diversification in tropical birds. Ecology Letters 15, 847-855 Link
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