Peer-reviewed Publications:

Feel free to email Melody at dbswmy@nus.edu.sg or Frank Rheindt at dbsrfe@nus.edu.sg for any softcopy.

2022

Rheindt FE, Wu MY, Movin N, Jønsson KA. 2022. Cryptic species-level diversity in Dark-throated Oriole Oriolus xanthonotus. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142(2):254-267.

Wu MY, Rheindt FE. 2022. A distinct new subspecies of the white-rumped shama Copsychus malabaricus at imminent risk of extinction. Journal of Ornithology 163:659-669.

Wu MY, Schodde R, Rheindt FE. 2022. Integrating voice and phenotype in a revision of the brush cuckoo Cacomantis variolosus (Aves: Cuculidae) complex. Zootaxa 5091(1):69-106.

Garg KM, Chattopadhyay B, Cros E, Tomassi S, Benedick S, Edwards DP, Rheindt FE. 2022. Island biogeography revisited: Museomics reveals affinities of shelf island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(1):msab340.

Sin YCK, Kristensen NP, Gwee CY, Chisholm RA, Rheindt FE. 2022. Bird diversity on shelf islands does not benefit from recent land‐bridge connections. Journal of Biogeography 49(1):189-200.

Tony JA, Sah HH, Sin YCK, Movin N, Berman LM, Grafe UT, Rheindt FE. 2022. Birding in Brunei: Borneo’s hidden gem. Birding Asia 37:43-56. Online PDF

2021

Berman LM, Sin YCK, Rheindt FE. 2021. Overturning more than a century of mistaken notions on the plumage of sub-adult Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Dicrurus paradiseus. Journal of Asian Ornithology 37:44-47. Online PDF

Lane DF, Aponte Justiniano MA, Terrill RS, Rheindt FE, Klicka LB, Rosenberg GH, Schmitt CJ, Burns KJ. 2021. A new genus and species of tanager (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) from the lower Yungas of western Bolivia and southern Peru. The Auk 138(4):ukab059.

Chattopadhyay B, Forcina G, Garg KM, Irestedt M, Guerrini M, Barbanera F, Rheindt FE. 2021. Novel genome reveals susceptibility of popular gamebird, the red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa, Phasianidae), to climate change. Genomics 113(5):3430-8.

Loong S, Sin YCK, Jones P, Plowden T, Yong DL, Lee J, Jain A. Nest predation by Oriental Pied Hornbills Anthracoceros albirostris in urban Singapore. BirdingASIA 35: 86–91. Online PDF

Sin YCK, Yap F, Kennewell M, White R. The first records of Common Swift Apus apus in Singapore, with notes on their identification. BirdingASIA 35:114–116. Online PDF

Tang Q, Shingate P, Wardiatno Y, John A, Tay BH, Tay YC, Yap LM, Lim J, Tong HY, Tun K, Venkatesh B, Rheindt FE. 2021. The different fates of two Asian horseshoe crab species with different dispersal abilities. Evolutionary Applications. Online PDF

Rheindt FE, Ng EYX. 2021. Avian taxonomy in turmoil: The 7-point rule is poorly reproducible and may overlook substantial cryptic diversity. Ornithology 138: 1–11. Online PDF

Forcina G, Tang Q, Cros E, Guerrini M, Rheindt FE, Barbanera F. 2021. Genome-wide markers redeem the lost identity of a heavily managed gamebird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20210285. Online PDF

Hung LM, Ng EYX, Wu S, Tung DQ, Tien BD, Son LV, Sun H, Rheindt FE. 2020. Bidoup Nui Ba National Park and the Dalat Plateau, Vietnam: an extraordinary South-East Asian hotspot of endemism. BirdingAsia 34: 84–109. Online PDF

Ng YJD, Svejcarova T, Sadanandan KR, Ferasyi TR, Lee JGH, Prawiradilaga DM, Ouhel T, Ng EYX, Rheindt FE. 2021. Genomic and morphological data help uncover extinction-in-progress of an unsustainably traded hill myna radiation. Ibis 163(1): 38–51. Online PDF

2020

Gwee CY, Garg KM, Chattopadhyay B, Sadanandan KR, Prawiradilaga DM, Irestedt M, Lei F, Bloch LM, Lee JGH, Irham M, Haryoko T, Soh MCG, Peh KSH, Rowe KMC, Ferasyi TR, Wu S, Wogan GOU, Bowie RCK, Rheindt FE. 2020. Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a ‘great speciator’, reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity. eLife 9: e62765. Online PDF

Gwee CY, Lee QL, Mahood SP, Hung LM, Tizard R, Eiamampai K, Round PD, Rheindt FE. 2020. The interplay of color and bioacoustic traits in the differentiation of a Southeast Asian songbird complex. Molecular Ecology 00:1–13. Online PDF

Chiok WX, Ng EYX, Tang Q, Lee JGH, Rheindt FE. 2020. A distance sampling survey of the Critically Endangered Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus in Singapore. Bird Conservation International 1-13. Online PDF

Baveja P, Garg KM, Chattopadhyay B, Sadanandan KR, Prawiradilaga DM, Yuda P, Lee JGH, Rheindt FE. 2020. Using historical genome‐wide DNA to unravel the confused taxonomy in a songbird lineage that is extinct in the wild. Evolutionary Applications 00:1–12. Online PDF

Yue AY, Ng EYX, Eaton JA, Rheindt FE. 2020. Species limits in the Elegant Pitta (Pitta elegans) complex from Wallacea based on bioacoustic and morphometric analysis. Avian Res 11: 42. Online PDF

Sin YCK, Ng D, Kennewell M. 2020. An unprecedented influx of vagrants into Malaysia and Singapore during the 2019–2020 winter period. 2020. BirdingAsia 33: 142-147. PDF

Sadanandan KR, Low GW, Sridharan S, Gwee CY, Ng EYX, Yuda P, Prawiradilaga DM, Lee JGH, Tritto A, Rheindt FE. 2020. The conservation value of admixed phenotypes in a critically endangered species complex. Scientific Reports 10: 15549. Online PDF

Garg KM, Chattopadhyay B, Koane B, Sam K, Rheindt FE. Last Glacial Maximum led to community-wide population expansion in a montane songbird radiation in highland Papua New Guinea. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20(1): 1–10.

Ng EYX, Yue AY, Eaton JA, Gwee CY, van Balen B, Rheindt RE. 2020. Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic robin lineage in the Greater Sunda Islands. Treubia 47(1): 39–52. PDF

O’Connell DP, Kelly DJ, Kelly SBA, Analuddin K, Karya A, Marples NM, Rheindt FE, Martin TE. 2020. An assessment of the avifauna of the Wakatobi Islands, South-east Sulawesi, Indonesia: species recorded and taxonomic considerations. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68: 574–587. PDF

Rheindt FE, Gwee CY, Baveja P, Ferasyi TR, Nurza A, Rosa TS, Haminuddin. 2020. A taxonomic and conservation re-appraisal of all the birds on the island of Nias. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68: 496-528. PDF

Cros E, Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Ng NSR, Tomassi S, Benedick S, Edwards DP, Rheindt FE. 2020. Quaternary land bridges have not been universal conduits of gene flow. Molecular Ecology 29: 2692-2706. PDF

Tan HZ, Low GW, Sadanandan KR, Rheindt FE. 2020. Population assessment of the house crow, Corvus splendens, in Singapore. Malayan Nature Journal 72(2): 133-142.

Wu MY, Low GW, Forcina G, van Grouw H, Lee BP, Oh RR, Rheindt FE. 2020. Historic and modern genomes unveil a domestic introgression gradient in a wild red junglefowl population. Evolutionary Applications. Online PDF

Shingate P, Ravi V, Prasad A, Tay BH, Garg KM, Chattopadhyay B, Yap LM, Rheindt FE, Venkatesh B. 2020. Chromosome-level assembly of the horseshoe crab genome provides evidence for three rounds of whole-genome duplication. Nature Communications 11:1–13. PDF

Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Ray R, Mendenhall IH, Rheindt FE. 2020. Novel de novo genome of Cynopterus brachyotis reveals evolutionarily abrupt shifts in gene family composition across fruit bats. Genome Biology and Evolution 12(4):259–272. PDF

Cros E, Ng EYX, Oh RRY, Tang Q, Benedick S, Edwards DP, Tomassi S, Irestedt M, Ericson PGP, Rheindt FE. 2020. Fine-scale barriers to connectivity across a fragmented Southeast Asian landscape in six songbird species. Evolutionary Applications. Online PDF (early access)

Verma M, Symes WS, Watson JEM, Jones KR, Allan JR, Venter O, Rheindt FE, Edwards DP, Carrasco LR. 2020. Severe human pressures in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Science and Practice e169. Online PDF

Rheindt FE, Prawiradilaga MD, Ashari H, Suparno, Gwee CY, Lee GWX, Wu MY, Ng NSR. (2020). A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna. Science. 367(6474):167-170. [Abstract][Reprint][Full Text][Supplementary Materials]

2019

Chiok WX, Miller AE, Pang SEH, Eaton JA, Rao M, Rheindt FE. 2019. Regional and local extirpation of a formerly common Sundaic passerine, the Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus. Forktail 35: 3-11.

Rheindt FE, Baveja P, Ferasyi TR, Nurza A, Rosa TS, Haminuddin, Ramadhan R, Gwee CY. The extinction-in-progress in the wild of the Barusan Shama Copsychus (malabaricus) melanurus. 2019. Forktail 35:28-35. PDF

Tang Q, Fung T, Rheindt FE. 2019, ResDisMapper: An R package for fine‐scale mapping of resistance to dispersal. Molecular Ecology Resources. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13127

Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Mendenhall IH, Rheindt FE. 2019. Historic DNA reveals Anthropocene threat to a tropical urban fruit bat. Current Biology. 29(24):R1299-300.

Tan HZ, Ng EYX, Tang Q, Allport GA, Jansen JJFJ, Tomkovich PS, Rheindt FE. 2019. Population genomics of two congeneric Palaearctic shorebirds reveals differential impact of Quaternary climate oscillations across habitats types. Scientific Reports. 9: 18172. Online PDF

Irham M, Ashari H, Trainor CR, Verbelen P, Wu MY, Rheindt FE. 2019. A new Myzomela honeyeater (Meliphagidae) from the highlands of Alor Island, Indonesia. Journal of Ornithology. Online PDF (Early access)

Ng EYX, Hung LM, Wu S, Rheindt FE. 2019. First nest description and altitudinal range extension of the south Indochinese endemic Black-headed Parrotbill Psittiparus margaritae. BirdingAsia 31: 91-93.  PDF

Chia A, Yong DL, Lim KC, Nyanasengeran M, Sin YCK, Lim KK, Yeo SB. 2019. First confirmed breeding record of Plume-toed Swiftlet Collocalia affinis in Singapore. BirdingAsia 31: 85-87. PDF

Rheindt FE, Eaton JA. 2019. The taxonomy of the Blood-breasted Flowerpecker Dicaeum sanguinolentum complex. BirdingASIA 31: 36-39. PDF

Gwee CY, Eaton JA, Ng EYX, Rheindt FE. 2019. Species delimitation within the Glaucidium brodiei owlet complex using bioacoustic tools. Avian Research 10(1): 36. Online PDF

Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Ray R, Rheindt FE. 2019. Fluctuating fortunes: genomes and habitat reconstructions reveal global climate-mediated changes in bats’ genetic diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286(1911): 20190304.

Zhang D, Tang L, Cheng Y, Hao Y, Xiong Y, Song G, Qu Y, Rheindt FE, Alström P, Jia C, Lei F. 2019. “Ghost introgression” as a cause of deep mitochondrial divergence in a bird species complex. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36(11): 2375-2386. PDF (early access)

Garg KM, Sam K, Chattopadhyay B, Sadanandan KR, Koane B, Ericson PGP, Rheindt FE. 2019. Gene flow in the Müllerian mimicry ring of a poisonous Papuan songbird clade (Pitohui; Aves). Genome Biology and Evolution 11(8): 2332-2343. Online PDF. This paper has been covered by a journal Highlight section: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz169

Ericson PGP, Qu Y, Rasmussen PC, Blom MP, Rheindt FE, Irestedt M. 2019. Genomic differentiation tracks earth-historic isolation in an Indo-Australasian archipelagic pitta (Pittidae; Aves) complex. BMC evolutionary biology 19: 151. Online PDF

Çilingir GF, Seah A, Horne BD, Som S, Bickford DP, Rheindt FE. 2019. Last exit before the brink: Conservation genomics of the cambodian population of the critically endangered southern river terrapin. Ecology and Evolution. Online PDF

Sadanandan KR, Küpper C, Low GW, Yao CT, Li Y, Xu T, Rheindt FE, Wu S. 2019. Population divergence and gene flow in two East Asian shorebirds on the verge of speciation. Scientific reports 9(1): 8546. Online PDF

Gwee CY, Eaton JA, Garg KM, Alström P, van Balen S, Hutchinson RO, Prawiradilaga DM, Le HM, Rheindt FE. 2019. Cryptic diversity in Cyornis (Ave: Muscicapidae) jungle-flycatchers flagged by simple bioacoustic approaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186: 725-741.

Koh JJ-M, Rheindt FE, Ng EYX, Webb EL. 2019. Evidence of genetic connectivity between fragmented pig population in a tropical urban city-state. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67: 14-31. Online PDF

Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Soo YJ, Low GW, Frechette J, Rheindt FE. 2019. Conservation genomics in the fight to help the recovery of the critically endangered Siamese crocodile Crocodylus siamensis. Molecular Ecology 28: 936-950. Online PDF

Baveja P, Tang Q, Lee JGH, Rheindt FE. 2019. Impact of genomic leakage on the conservation of the endangered Milky Stork. Biological Conservation 229: 59-66.

Lim BT, Sadanandan KR, Dingle C, Leung YY, Prawiradilaga DM, Irham M, Ashari H, Lee JGH, Rheindt FE. 2019. Molecular evidence suggests radical revision of species limits in the great speciator white-eye genus Zosterops. Journal of Ornithology 160.

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2018

Rheindt FE, Eaton JA. 2018. Notes of the taxonomy of Cream-throated White-eye Zosterops atriceps and the biogeography of the Moluccas. Birding Asia30: 48-53. PDF

Ashari H, Prawiradilaga DM, Eaton JA, Suparno S, Rheindt FE. 2018. New records and range extensions of birds from Timor, Alor and Rote. Treubia 45: 47-64. PDF

Symes WS, Edwards DP, Miettinen J, Rheindt FE, Carrasco LR. 2018. Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated. Nature Communications 9(1): 4052. Online PDF

Ng NSR, Prawiradilaga DM, Ng EYX, Trainor C, Verbelen P, Rheindt FE. 2018. A strikingly new species of leaf warbler from the Lesser Sundas as uncovered through morphology and genomics. Scientific Reports 8: 15646. Online PDF

Tan DJ, Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Cros E, Ericson PG, Irestedt M, Rheindt FE. 2018. Novel genome and genome-wide SNPs reveal early fragmentation effects in an edge-tolerant songbird population across an urbanized tropical metropolis. Scientific Reports 8: 12804. Online PDF

Nash H, Wirdateti T, Low GW, Choo SW, Chong JL, Semiadi G, Hari R, Sulaiman MH, Turvey S, Evans T, Rheindt FE. 2018. Conservation genomics reveals possible illegal trade routes and admixture across pangolin lineages in Southeast Asia. Conservation Genetics 19:1083–1095. Online PDF

Tang Q, Low GW, Lim JY, Gwee CY, Rheindt FE. 2018. Human activities and landscape features interact to closely define the distribution and dispersal of an urban commensal. Evolutionary Applications 11: 1598–1608. Online PDF

Tang Q, SV Edwards, FE Rheindt. 2018. Rapid diversification and hybridization have shaped the dynamic history of the genus Elaenia. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 127: 522-533.

Alström P, Rheindt FE, Zhang R, Zhao M, Wang J, Zhu X, Gwee CY, Hao Y, Ohlson J, Jia C, Prawiradilaga DM. 2018. Complete species-level phylogeny of the leaf warbler (Aves: Phylloscopidae) radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126: 141-152.

Garg KM, Chattopadhyay B, Wilton PR, Prawiradilaga DM, Rheindt FE. 2018. Pleistocene land bridges act as semipermeable agents of avian gene flow in Wallacea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 196-203.

Thomson SA, Pyle RL, Ahyong ST, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Ammirati J,  Araya JF, … Rheindt FE, … Zhou HZ. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLoS Biology 16(3): e2005075. PDF

Sadanandan KR, Olsson U, Tizard R, Khan AA, Thet Zaw Naing, Naing Lin, Nila Pwint, Rheindt FE. 2018. Genetic and biometric variation across the fragmented range of Jerdon’s Babbler, Chrysomma altirostre, a threatened Oriental grassland specialist. Journal of Ornithology 159: 575-579.

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2017

Le MH, Low GW, Sadanandan KR, Ng WQ, Nguyen QH, Rheindt FE. 2017. Survey of the avifauna of Giang Man proposed nature reserve, Quang Binh province, Vietnam. Forktail 33: 8-13.

Eaton JA, Rheindt FE. 2017. New avifaunal records from the Flores Sea islands, Indonesia, including a novel Phylloscopus leaf warbler. BirdingASIA 28: 97-106.

Prawiradilaga MD, Baveja P, Suparno, Ashari H , Ng NS, Gwee CY, Verbelen P, Rheindt FE. 2017. A colourful new species of Myzomela honeyeater from Rote Island in eastern Indonesia. Treubia 44: 77-100.

Low GW, Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Irestedt M, Ericson PGP, Yap G, Tang Q, Wu S, Rheindt FE. 2017. Urban landscape genomics identifies fine-scale gene flow patterns in an avian invasive. Heredity 120: 138-153. Online PDF

Ng NS, Christidis L, Olsen J, Norman J, Rheindt FE. 2017. A new subspecies of Short-toed Snake-eagle from Wallacea determined from morphological and DNA comparison. Zootaxa 4358: 365-374.

Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Gwee CY, Edwards SV, Rheindt FE. 2017. Gene flow during glacial habitat shifts facilitates character displacement in a Neotropical flycatcher radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17(1): 210.

Liu L, Zhang J, Rheindt FE, Lei F, Qu Y, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Sullivan C, Nie W, Wang J, Yang F, Chen J, Edwards SV, Meng J, Wu S. 2017. Reply to Gatesy and Springer: Claims of homology errors and zombie lineages do not compromise the dating of placental diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(45): E9433-E9434.

Liu L, Zhang J, Rheindt FE, Lei F, Qu Y, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Sullivan C, Nie W, Wang J, Yang F, Chen J, Edwards SV, Meng J, Wu S. 2017. Genomic evidence reveals a radiation of placental mammals uninterrupted by the KPg boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(35): E7282-E7290.

Le MH, Nguyen QH, Low GW, Sadanandan KR, Ng WQ, Rheindt FE. 2017. The first record of Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica for Vietnam. BirdingASIA 17: 122-123.

Ng EYX, Garg KM, Low GW, Chattopadhyay B, Oh RRY, Lee JGH, Rheindt FE. 2017. Conservation genomics identifies impact of trade in a threatened songbird. Biological Conservation 214: 101-108.

Ng NS, Wilton PR, Prawiradilaga DM, Tay YC, Indrawan M, Garg KM, Rheindt FE. 2017. The effects of Pleistocene climate change on biotic differentiation in a montane songbird clade from Wallacea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 114: 353-366.

Çilingir FG, Rheindt FE, Garg KM, Platt K, Platt SG, Bickford DP. 2017. Conservation genomics of the endangered Burmese roofed turtle. Conservation Biology 31(6): 1469-1476.

Rheindt FE, Christidis L, Norman JA, Eaton JA, Sadanandan KR, Schodde R. 2017. Speciation in Indo-Pacific swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae): integrating molecular and phenotypic data for a new provisional taxonomy of the Collocalia esculenta. Zootaxa 4250(5): 401-433.

Robin VV, Vishnudas CK, Gupta P, Rheindt FE, Hooper DM, Ramakrishnan U, Reddy S. 2017. Two new genera of songbirds represent endemic radiations from the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17(1):31.

Gwee CY, Christidis L, Eaton JA, Norman JA, Trainor CR, Verbelen P, Rheindt FE. 2017. Bioacoustic and multi-locus DNA data of Ninox owls support high incidence of extinction and recolonisation on small, low-lying islands across Wallacea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109: 246-258.

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2016

Cros E, Rheindt FE. 2016. Massive bioacoustic analysis suggests introgression across Pleistocene land bridges in Mixornis tit-babblers. Journal of Ornithology.:1-3.

Turvey ST, Bryant JV, Duncan C, Wong MHG, Guan Z, Fei H, Ma C, Hong X, Nash HC, Chan BPL, Jiang H, Fan P. 2016. How many remnant gibbon populations are left on Hainan? Testing the use of local ecological knowledge to detect cryptic threatened primates. American Journal of Primatology 79(2): e22593.

Tay YC, Chng MWP, Sew WWG, Rheindt FE, Tun KPP, Meier R (2016) Beyond the Coral Triangle: high genetic diversity and near panmixia in Singapore’s populations of the broadcast spawning sea star Protoreaster nodosus. Royal Society Open Science 3(8): 160253.

Eaton JA, Mitchell SL, Navario Gonzalez Bocos C, Rheindt FE. 2016.A short survey of the Meratus Mountains, South Kalimantan province, Indonesia: two undescribed avian species discovered. BirdingASIA 26: 107-113.

Ng EYX, Eaton JA, Verbelen P, Hutchinson RO, Rheindt FE. 2016. Using bioacoustic data to test species limits in an Indo-Pacific island radiation of Macropygia cuckoo doves. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118 (4): 786-812.

Chisholm RA, Giam X, Sadanandan KR, Fung T, Rheindt FE. 2016. A robust non-parametric method for quantifying undetected extinctions. Conservation Biology 30 (3): 610-617.

Garg KM, Tizard R, Ng NS, Cros E, Dejtaradol A, Chattopadhyay B, Pwint N, Päckert M, Rheindt FE. 2016. Genome-wide data help identify an avian species-level lineage that is morphologically and vocally cryptic. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102: 97-103.

Suh A, Witt CC, Menger J, Sadanandan KR, Podsiadlowski L, Gerth M, Weigert A, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Edwards SV, Rheindt FE. 2016. Ancient horizontal transfers of retrotransposons between birds and ancestors of human pathogenic nematodes. Nature Communications 7.

Nash HC, Wong MHG, Turvey ST. 2016. Using local ecological knowledge to determine status and threats of the critically endangered Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) in Hainan, China. Biological Conservation  196 (2016): 189-195.

Chattopadhyay B, Garg KM, Kumar AV, Doss DP, Rheindt FE, Kandula S, Ramakrishnan U. 2016. Genome-wide data reveal cryptic diversity and genetic introgression in an Oriental cynopterine fruit bat radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:1

Ng S, Rheindt FE. 2016. Species delimitation in the white-faced cuckoo-dove Turacoena manadensis: bioacoustic data corroborate Pleistocene land connections. Avian Research 7:2.

Tang GSY, Sadanandan KR, Rheindt FE. 2016. Population genetics of a tropical frugivore in an urban-fragmented landscape: the olive-winged bulbul (Pycnonotus plumosus) in Singapore. Ecology and Evolution 6 (1): 78-90.

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2015

Eaton JA, Shepherd CR, Rheindt FE, Harris JBC, van Balen S, Wilcove DS, Collar NJ. 2015. Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia. Forktail – Journal of Asian Ornithology 31: 1-12.

Sadanandan KRS, Tan DJX, Schjølberg K, Round PD, Rheindt FE. 2015. DNA reveals long-distance partial migratory behavior in a cryptic owl lineage. Avian Research 6: 1-7.

Rheindt FE, Krabbe N, Wee AKS, Christidis L. 2015. Cryptic speciation in the Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Zootaxa 4032: 251-263.

Sadanandan KR, Rheindt FE. 2015. Genetic diversity of a tropical rainforest understory bird in an urban fragmented landscape. Condor 117: 447-459.

Tin M, Rheindt FE, Cros E, Mikheyev A. 2015 Degenerate adaptor sequences for detecting PCR duplicates in reduced representation sequencing data improve genotype-calling accuracy. Molecular Ecology Resources 15: 329-336.

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2014

Rheindt FE, Tizard R, Nila Pwint, Naing Lin. 2014. The rediscovery of Myanmar’s Jerdon’s Babbler Chrysomma altirostre altirostre. BirdingASIA 22: 15-17.

Rheindt FE, Prawiradilaga DM, Suparno, Ashari H, Wilton PR. 2014. New and significant island records, range extensions and elevational extensions of birds in eastern Sulawesi, its nearby satellites, and Ternate. Treubia 41: 61-90.

Harris JBC, Rasmussen PC, Yong DL, Prawiradilaga DM, Putra DD, Round PD, Rheindt FE. 2014. A new species of Muscicapa flycatcher from Sulawesi, Indonesia. PLoS ONE 9(11): e112657. doi:101371/journal.pone.0112657.

Jarvis ED, Mirarab S, Aberer AJ, Li B, Houde P, Li C, Ho SYW, Faircloth BC, Nabholz B, Howard JT, Suh A, Weber CC, da Fonseca RR, Li J, Zhang F, Li H, Zhou L, Narula N, Liu L, Ganapathy G, Boussau B, Bayzid MS, Zavidovych V, Subramanian S, Gabaldón T, Capella-Gutiérrez S, Huerta-Cepas J, Rekepalli B, Munch K, Schierup M, Lindow B, Warren WC, Ray D, Green RE, Bruford M, Zhan X, Dixon A, Li S, Li N, Huang Y, Derryberry EP, Bertelsen MF, Sheldon FH, Brumfield RT, Mello CV, Lovell PV, Wirthlin M, Cruz Schneider MP, Prosdocimi F, Samaniego JA, Vargas Velazquez AM, Alfaro-Núñez A, Campos PF, Petersen B, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Pas A, Bailey T, Scofield P, Bunce M, Lambert DM, Zhou Q, Perelman P, Driskell AC, Shapiro B, Xiong Z, Zeng Y, Liu S, Li Z, Liu B, Wu K, Xiao J, Yinqi X, Zheng Q, Zhang Y, Yang H, Wang J, Smeds L, Rheindt FE, Braun M, Fjeldså J, Orlando L, Barker K, Jønsson KA, Johnson W, Koepfli K-P, O’Brien S, Haussler D, Ryder OA, Rahbek C, Willerslev E, Graves GR, Glenn TC, McCormack J, Burt D, Ellegren H, Alström P, Edwards SV, Stamatakis A, Mindell DP, Cracraft J, Braun EL, Warnow T, Jun W, Gilbert MTP, Zhang G. 2014. Whole genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science 346(6215): 1320-1331.

Yap F, Yong DL, Low B, Cros E, Foley C, Lim KK, Rheindt FE. 2014. First wintering record of the Sakhalin Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus borealoides) in South-east Asia, with notes on vocalisations. Birding Asia 21: 76-81.

Rheindt FE, Christidis L, Kuhn S, de Kloet S, Norman JA, Fidler A. 2014. The timing of diversification within the most divergent parrot clade. Journal of Avian Biology 45: 140-148.

Rheindt FE, Norman JA, Christidis L. 2014. Extensive diversification across islands in the echolocating Aerodramus swiftlets. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 89-99.

Rheindt FE, Fujita MK, Wilton PR, Edwards SV. 2014. Introgression and phenotypic assimilation in Zimmerius flycatchers (Tyrannidae): population genetic and phylogenetic inferences from genome-wide SNPs. Systematic Biology 63: 134-152.

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2013

Christidis L, Rheindt FE, Boles WE, Norman JA. 2013. A re-appraisal of species diversity within the Australian grasswrens Amytornis (Aves: Maluridae). Australian Zoologist 36(4): 429-437.

Rheindt FE, Cuervo AM, Brumfield RT. 2013. Rampant polyphyly indicates cryptic diversity in a clade of Neotropical flycatchers (Aves: Tyrannidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 108: 889-900.

Rheindt FE, Hutchinson RO. 2013. The discovery of a new Locustella bush warbler on the island of Taliabu, Indonesia. Birding Asia 19: 109-110.

Van Balen B, Eaton JA, Rheindt FE. 2013. Biology, taxonomy and conservation status of the Short-tailed Green Magpie Cissa thalassina from Java. Bird Conservation International 23: 91-109.

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Select previous publications

Rheindt FE. 2006. Splits galore: the revolution in Asian leaf warbler systematics. Birding Asia 5: 25-39  PDF (please scroll to page 25)