PUBLICATIONS
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 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)

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.