Click here for publication statistics in Google Scholar
Updated 2024-12-20
To request a PDF please email me at b.mila@csic.es
Scientific articles:
*: authors contributed equally
Recuerda, M., J. C. Hernández Montoya, G. Blanco, B. Milá. 2024. Repeated evolution on oceanic islands: comparative genomics reveals species-specific processes in birds. BMC Ecology & Evolution, 24:140.
Freitas, B., P. B. D’Amelio, B. Milá, C. Thébaud, T. Janicke. 2024. Meta-analysis of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis reveals no support for the effect of vegetation structure on acoustic signaling across terrestrial vertebrates. Biological Reviews, in press.
Loera, Y., C. Gruppi, K. Swing, S. C. Campbell‐Staton, B. Milá, T. B. Smith. 2024. Heavy metal contamination in birds from protected regions in the Amazon. Environmental Toxicology, 43(12):2601-2607.
Gabrielli, M., T. Leroy, J. Salmona, B. Nabholz, B. Milá*, C. Thébaud*. 2024. Demographic responses of oceanic island birds to local and regional ecological disruptions revealed by whole-genome sequencing. Molecular Ecology, 33:e17243.
Recuerda, M., M. Palacios, O. Frías, K. Hobson, B. Nabholz, G. Blanco, B. Milá. 2023. Adaptive phenotypic and genomic divergence in the common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) following niche expansion within a small oceanic island. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36:1226-1241.
Mould, M. C., M. Huet, L. Senegas, B. Milá, C. Thébaud, Y. Bourgeois, A. S. Chaine. 2023. Beyond morphs: genetic and plastic influences on patterns of inter-individual variation in a color polymorphic bird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 36(1): 82-94.
Friis, G, J. W. Atwell, A. M. Fudickar, T. J. Greives, P. J. Yeh, T. D. Price, E. D. Ketterson, B. Milá. 2022. Rapid evolutionary divergence of a songbird population following recent colonization of an urban area. Molecular Ecology, 31(9): 2625-2643.
Friis, G., J. Vizueta, E. Ketterson, B. Milá. 2022. A high-quality genome assembly and annotation of the dark-eyed junco Junco hyemalis, a recently diversified songbird. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 12(6): jkac083.
Martínez-Renau, E., N. Rojas-Estévez, G. Friis, J. C. Hernández-Montoya, P. Elizondo, B. Milá. 2022. Haemosporidian parasite diversity and prevalence in the songbird genus Junco across Central and North America. Ornithology, 139: 1-17.
Recuerda, M., J. C. Illera, G. Blanco, R. Zardoya, B. Milá. 2021. Sequential colonization of oceanic archipelagos led to a species-level radiation in the common chaffinch complex (Aves: Fringilla coelebs). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 164:107291. PDF
Milá, B., J. Bruxaux, G. Friis, K. Sam, H. Ashari, C. Thébaud. 2021. A new, undescribed species of Melanocharis berrypecker from western New Guinea and the evolutionary history of the family Melanocharitidae. Ibis, 163(4):1310-1329. PDF
Arida, E., H. Ashari, H. Dahruddin, Y. Sulistya Fitriana, A. Hamidy, M. Irham, Kadarusman, A. Riyanto, S. Wiantoro, M. Syamsul Arifin Zein, R. K. Hadiaty, Apandi, F. Krey, Kurnianingsih, E. H. P. Melmambessy, Mulyadi, H. L. Ohee, Saidin, A. Salamuk, S. Sauri, Suparno, N. Supriatna, A. M. Suruwaky, W. Tri Laksono, E. L. Warikar, H. Wikanta, A. M. Yohanita, J. Slembrouck, M. Legendre, P. Gaucher, C. Cochet, E. Delrieu-Trottin, C. Thébaud, B. Milá, A. Fouquet, A. Borisenko, D. Steinke, R. Hocdé, G. Semiadi, L. Pouyaud and N. Hubert. 2021. Exploring the vertebrate fauna of the Bird’s Head Peninsula (Indonesia, West Papua) through DNA barcodes. Molecular Ecology Resources, 21:2369-2387.
Benítez-López, A., L. Santini, J. Gallego-Zamorano, B. Milá, P. Walkden, M. A. J. Huijbregts, J. A. Tobias. 2021. The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution across terrestrial vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5:768-786.
Salinas, P., F. Morinha, J. García, I. Literák, B. Milá, G. Blanco. 2021. Genetic diversity, differentiation and historical origin of the isolated population of rooks (Corvus frugilegus) in Iberia. Journal of Avian Biology, 2021:e02689.
Recuerda, M.*, J. Vizueta*, C. Cuevas-Caballé, G. Blanco, J. Rozas, B. Milá. 2021. Chromosome-level genome assembly of the common chaffinch (Aves: Fringilla coelebs): a valuable resource for evolutionary biology. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(4):evab34. PDF
Leroy, T., M. Rousselle, M. Tilak, A. Caizergues, C. Scornavacca, G. Blanco, M. Recuerda, J. Fuchs, J. C. Illera, D. H. De Swardt, C. Thébaud, B. Milá, B. Nabholz. 2021. Island songbirds as windows into evolution in small populations. Current Biology, 31(6):1303-1310.
Morinha, F.*, B. Milá*, J. A. Dávila, J. A. Fargallo, J. Potti, G. Blanco. 2020. The ghost of connections past: a role for mainland vicariance in the isolation of an insular population of the red-billed chough (Aves: Corvidae). Journal of Biogeography, 47(12): 2567-2583.
Friis, G. & B. Milá. 2020. Change in sexual signaling traits outruns morphological divergence in a recent avian radiation across an ecological gradient. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 33(9):1276-1293.
Feng, S.*, J. Stiller*, Y. Deng*, J. Armstrong*, Q. Fang, A. H. Reeve, D. Xie, G. Chen, C. Guo, B. C. Faircloth, B. Petersen, Z. Wang, Q. Zhou, M. Diekhans, W. Chen, S. Andreu-Sánchez, A. Margaryan, J. T. Howard, C. Parent, G. Pacheco, M.-H. S. Sinding, L. Puetz, E. Cavill, A. M. Ribeiro, L. Eckhart, J. Fjeldså, P. A. Hosner, R. T. Brumfield, L. Christidis, M. F. Bertelsen, T. Sicheritz-Ponten, D. T. Tietze, B. C. Robertson, G. Song, G. Borgia, S. Claramunt, I. J. Lovette, S. J. Cowen, P. Njoroge, J. Philip Dumbacher, O. A. Ryder, J. Fuchs, M. Bunce, D. W. Burt, J. Cracraft, G. Meng, S. J. Hackett, P. G. Ryan, K. A. Jønsson, I. G. Jamieson, R. R. da Fonseca, E. L. Braun, P. Houde, S. Mirarab, A. Suh, B. Hansson, S. Ponnikas, H. Sigeman, M. Stervander, P. B. Frandsen, H. van der Zwan, R. van der Sluis, C. Visser, C. N. Balakrishnan, A. G. Clark, J. W. Fitzpatrick, R. Bowman, N. Chen, A. Cloutier, T. B. Sackton, S. V. Edwards, D. J. Foote, S. B. Shakya, F.k H. Sheldon, A. Vignal, A. E. R. Soares, B. Shapiro, J. González-Solís, J. Ferrer-Obiol, J. Rozas, M. Riutort, A. Tigano, V. Friesen, L. Dalén, A. O. Urrutia, T. Székely, Y. Liu, M. G. Campana, A. Corvelo, R. C. Fleischer, K. M. Rutherford, N. J. Gemmell, N. Dussex, H. Mouritsen, N. Thiele, K. Delmore, M. Liedvogel, A. Franke, M. P. Hoeppner, O. Krone, A. M. Fudickar, B. Milá, E. D. Ketterson, A. E. Fidler, G. Friis, Á. M. Parody-Merino, P. F. Battley, M. P. Cox, N. Costa Barroso Lima, F. Prosdocimi, T. L. Parchman, B. A. Schlinger, B. A. Loiselle, J. G. Blake, H. Chuan Lim, L. B. Day, M. J. Fuxjager, M. W. Baldwin, M. J. Braun, M. Wirthlin, R. B. Dikow, T. B. Ryder, G. Camenisch, L. F. Keller, J. M. DaCosta, M. E. Hauber, M. I. M. Louder, C. C. Witt, J. A. McGuire, J. Mudge, L. C. Megna, M. D. Carling, B. Wang, S. A. Taylor, G. Del-Rio, A. Aleixo, A. T. Ribeiro Vasconcelos, C. V. Mello, J. T. Weir, D. Haussler, Q. Li, H. Yang, J. Wang, F. Lei, C. Rahbek, M. T. P. Gilbert, G. R. Graves, E. D. Jarvis, B. Paten, G. Zhang. 2020. Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature, 587(7833):252–257.
Bourgeois, Y., J. Bertrand, B. Delahaie, H. Holota, C. Thébaud*, B. Milá*. 2020. Local adaptation and sexual selection drive intra-island diversification in a songbird lineage: differential divergence in autosomes and sex chromosomes. Molecular Ecology, 29:1137–1153.
Gabrielli, M., B. Nabholz, T. Leroy, B. Milá*, C. Thébaud*. 2020. Within-island diversification in a passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287:20192999.
Hernández-Baños, B., L. E. Zamudio-Beltrán, B. Milá. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of a subclade of Mesoamerican emerald hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Trochilini). Zootaxa, 4748(3):581-591.
Truchado, D. A., A. Llanos-Garrido, D. A. Oropesa-Olmedo, B. Cerrada, P. Cea, M. A. J. Moens, E. Gomez-Lucia, A. Doménech, B. Milá, J. Pérez-Tris, D. Cadar, L. Benítez. 2020. Comparative metagenomics of Palearctic and Neotropical avian cloacal viromes reveal geographic bias in virus discovery. Microorganisms, 8: 1869.
Gefaell, J., T. Prieto, M. Abdelaziz, I. Álvarez, J. Antón, J. Arroyo, J. L. Bella, M. Botella, A. Bugallo, V. Claramonte, J. Gijón, E. Lizarte, R. M. Maroto, M. Megías, B. Milá, C. Ramón, M. Vila, E. Rolán-Alvarez. 2020. Acceptance and knowledge of evolutionary theory among third-year university students in Spain. PLoS ONE, 15(9): e0238345.
Truchado, D. A., J. M. Diaz-Piqueras, E. Gómez-Lucia, A. Doménech, B. Milá, J. Pérez-Tris, J. Schmidt-Chanasit, D. Cadar, L. Benítez. 2019. A novel and divergent Gyrovirus with unusual genomic features detected in wild passerine birds from a remote rainforest in French Guiana. Viruses, 11(12):1148
Leroy, T., A. Anselmetti A., M.K. Tilak, S. Bérard, L. Csukonyi, M. Gabrielli, C. Scornavacca, B. Milá, C. Thébaud and B. Nabholz. 2019. A bird’s white-eye view on neo-sex chromosome evolution. BioRxiv 505610, ver. 4 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Evolutionary Biology, DOI: 10.1101/505610.
Friis, G., G. Fandos, A. Zellmer, J. McCormack, B. Faircloth, B. Milá. 2018. Genome-wide signals of drift and local adaptation during rapid lineage divergence in a songbird. Molecular Ecology, 27:5137-5153.
Irwin, D. E., B. Milá, D. P. L. Toews, A. Brelsford, H. L. Kenyon, A. N. Porter, C. Grossen, K. E. Delmore, M. Alcaide, J. H Irwin. 2018. A comparison of genomic islands of differentiation across three young avian species pairs. Molecular Ecology, 27:4839-4855.
Abolins-Abols, M., E. Kornobis, P. Ribeca, K. Wakamatsu, M. P Peterson, E. Ketterson, B. Milá. 2018. A role for differential gene regulation in the rapid diversification of melanic plumage coloration in the dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis). Molecular Ecology, 27:4501-4515.
Bruxaux, J, M. Gabrielli, H. Ashari, R. Prŷs-Jones, L. Joseph, B. Milá, G. Besnard, C. Thébaud. 2018. Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 120:248-258.
Delahaie, B., J. Cornuault, C. Masson, J. A. M. Bertrand, Y. X. C. Bourgeois, B. Milá*, C. Thébaud*. 2017. Narrow hybrid zones in spite of very low population differentiation in neutral markers in an island bird species complex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 30:2132-2145.
Bourgeois, Y.X.C., B. Delahaie, M. Gautier, E. Lhuillier, P.-J. G. Malé, J. A.M. Bertrand, J. Cornuault, K. Wakamatsu, O. Bouchez, C. Mould, J. Bruxaux, H. Holota, B. Milá*, C. Thébaud*. 2017. A novel locus on chromosome 1 underlies the evolution of a melanic plumage polymorphism in a wild songbird. Royal Society Open Science, 4(2):160805. *: senior co-authors. PDF
Milá, B., J. L. Van Tassell, J. A. Calderón, L. Rüber, R. Zardoya. 2017. Cryptic lineage divergence in marine environments: genetic differentiation at multiple spatial and temporal scales in the widespread intertidal goby Gobiosoma bosc. Ecology and Evolution, 7:5514-5523. PDF
Morinha, F., J. A. Dávila, E. Bastos, J. A. Cabral, O. Frías, J. L. González, P. Travassos, D. Carvalho, B. Milá*, G. Blanco*. 2017. Extreme genetic structure in a social bird species despite high dispersal capacity. Molecular Ecology, 26:2812-2825.
Moens, M., J. Perez-Tris, B. Milá, L. Benítez. 2017. The biological background of a recurrently emerging infectious disease: prevalence, diversity and host specificity of Avipoxvirus in wild Neotropical birds. Journal of Avian Biology, 48:1-6.
Caminer, M. A., B. Milá, M. Jansen, A. Fouquet, P. J. Venegas, G. Chávez, A. Chek, S. R. Ron. 2017. Systematics of the Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species complex (Anura: Hylidae): cryptic diversity and the description of two new species. PLoS One, 12(3): e0171785. PDF
Friis, G., P. Aleixandre, R. Rodríguez-Estrella, A. Navarro-Sigüenza, B. Milá. 2016. Rapid postglacial diversification and long-term stasis within the songbird genus Junco: phylogeographic and phylogenomic evidence. Molecular Ecology, 25: 6175–6195.
Toews, D., A. Brelsford, C. Grossen, B. Milá, D. Irwin. 2016. Genomic variation across the yellow-rumped warbler species complex. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 133:698-717.
Bourgeois, Y.X.C, J. A.M. Bertrand, B. Delahaie, J. Cornuault, T. Duval, B. Milá*, C. Thébaud*. 2016. Candidate gene analysis suggests untapped genetic complexity in melanin-based pigmentation in birds. Journal of Heredity, 2016:327-335.
Bertrand, J.A.M., B. Delahaie, Y.X.C. Bourgeois, T. Duval, R. García-Jiménez, J. Cornuault, B. Pujol, C. Thébaud, B. Milá. 2016. The role of selection and historical factors in driving population differentiation along an elevational gradient in an island bird. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29:824-836.
Alvarez, S., J. F. Salter, J. E. McCormack and B. Milá. 2016. Speciation in mountain refugia: phylogeography and demographic history of the pine siskin and black-capped siskin complex. Journal of Avian Biology, 47: 335–345.
Cornuault, J., B. Delahaie, J.A.M. Bertrand, Y.X.C. Bourgeois, B. Milá, P. Heeb, C. Thébaud. 2015. Morphological and plumage colour variation in the Réunion grey white-eye (Aves: Zosterops borbonicus): assessing the role of selection. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 114(2):459-473.
San-José, L. M., M. Peñalver-Alcázar, B. Milá, V. González-Jimena, P. S. Fitze. 2014. Cumulative frequency-dependent selective episodes allow for rapid morph cycles and rock-paper-scissors dynamics in species with overlapping generations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281:20140976.
Horreo, J. L., J. C. Alonso, C. Palacín, B. Milá. 2014. Genetic structure in Iberian and Moroccan populations of the globally threatened great bustard Otis tarda: a microsatellite perspective. Journal of Avian Biology, 45:1-7.
Horreo, J. L., J. C. Alonso, B. Milá. 2014. DNA sequences from the Little Brown Bustard Eupodotis humilis suggest its close phylogenetic relationship to the Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax. Ostrich, 85(1):1-5.
Arbeláez-Cortés, E., B. Milá, A. G. Navarro-Sigüenza. 2014. Multilocus analysis of intraspecific differentiation in three endemic bird species from the northern Neotropical dry forest. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 70:362-377.
Bertrand, J. A. M., Y. X. Bourgeois, B. Delahaie, T. Duval, R. García-Jiménez, J. Cornuault, P. Heeb, B. Milá, B. Pujol, C. Thébaud. 2014. Extremely reduced dispersal and gene flow in an island bird. Heredity, 112:190-196.
Cornuault, J., J. Bertrand, B. Warren, B. Milá, C. Thébaud, P. Heeb. 2013. Timing and number of colonizations but not diversification rates affect diversity patterns in hemosporidian lineages on a remote oceanic archipelago. The American Naturalist, 182:820-833.
Horreo, J. L., C. Palacín, J. C. Alonso, B. Milá. 2013. A link between historical population decline in the threatened great bustard and human expansion in Iberia: evidence from genetic and demographic data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 110(3):518-527.
Milá, B., Y. Surget-Groba, B. Heulin, A. Gosá, P. S. Fitze. 2013. Multilocus phylogeography of the common lizard Zootoca vivipara at the Ibero-Pyrenean suture zone reveals lowland barriers and high-elevation introgression. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13:192. PDF
Bourgeois, Y. X. C., E. Lhuillier, T. Cézard, J. A. M. Bertrand, B. Delahaie, J. Cornuault, T. Duval, O. Bouchez, B. Milá, C. Thébaud. 2013. Mass production of SNP markers in a nonmodel passerine bird through RAD sequencing and contig mapping to the zebra finch genome. Molecular Ecology Resources, 13(5):899-907.
Aleixandre, P., J. Hérnandez-Montoya, B. Milá. 2013. Speciation on oceanic islands: rapid adaptive divergence vs. cryptic speciation in a Guadalupe Island songbird (Aves: Junco). PLOS ONE, 8(5): e63242. PDF
Cornuault, J., A. Khimoun, R. J. Harrigan, Y. Bourgeois, B. Milá, C. Thébaud, P. Heeb. 2013. The role of ecology in the geographical separation of blood parasites infecting an insular bird. Journal of Biogeography, 40(7):1313-1323.
Horreo, J. L., J. C. Alonso, B. Milá. 2013. Identification of polymorphic microsatellite loci for the endangered great bustard (Otis tarda) by high-throughput sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources, 5(2):549-551.
Fuller, T., H. Thomassen, M. Peralvo, W. Buermann, B. Milá, C. Kieswetter, P. Jarrin, S. Cameron-Devitt, E. Mason, R. Schweizer, J. Schlunegger, J. Chan, O. Wang, C. Schneider, J. Pollinger, S. Saatchi, C. Graham, R. K. Wayne, T. B. Smith. 2013. Intraspecific morphological and genetic variation of common species predicts ranges of threatened ones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280:20130423.
Peterson, M.P., M. Abolins-Abols, J.W. Atwell, R.J. Rice, B. Milá, E.D. Ketterson. 2013. Variation in candidate genes CLOCK and ADCYAP1 does not consistently predict differences in migratory behavior in the songbird genus Junco. F1000Research, 2:115. PDF
Bourgeois, Y., J. A.M. Bertrand, C. Thébaud, B. Milá. 2012. Investigating the role of the Melanocortin-1 receptor gene in an extreme case of microgeographical variation in the pattern of melanin-based plumage pigmentation. PLOS ONE, 7(12):e50906. PDF
Milá, B., E. S. Tavares, A. Muñoz Saldaña, T. B. Smith, J. Karubian, A. J. Baker. 2012. A trans-Amazonian screening of mtDNA reveals deep intraspecific divergence in forest birds and suggests a vast underestimation of species diversity. PLOS ONE, 7(7): e40541. PDF
Cornuault, J., A. Bataillard, B. Warren, A. Lootvoet, P. Mirleau, T. Duval, B. Milá, C. Thébaud, P. Heeb. 2012. The role of immigration and in-situ radiation in explaining blood parasite assemblages in an island bird clade. Molecular Ecology, 21:1438-1452.
Barrera-Guzmán, A. O., B. Milá, L. A. Sánchez-González, A. G. Navarro-Sigüenza. 2012. Speciation in an avian complex endemic to the mountains of Middle America (Ergaticus, Aves: Parulidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62(3):907-920.
Oliveras de Ita, A., T. B. Smith, R. K. Wayne, K. Oyama Nakagawa, B. Milá. 2012. Genetic evidence for recent range fragmentation and severely restricted dispersal in the critically endangered Sierra Madre sparrow Xenospiza baileyi. Conservation Genetics, 13:283-291.
De la Hera, I., D. DeSante, B. Milá. 2012. Feather growth rate and mass in Nearctic passerines with a variable migratory behavior and molt pattern. The Auk, 129(2):222-230.
Bertrand, J. A. M., R. García-Jiménez, Y. Bourgeois, T. Duval, P. Heeb, C. Thébaud, B. Milá. 2012. Isolation and characterization of twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci for investigating an extreme case of microgeographical variation in an island bird (Zosterops borbonicus). Conservation Genetics Resources, 4(2):323-326.
Pavón-Gozalo, P., B. Milá, P. Aleixandre, J. A. Calderón, A. Zaldívar-Riverón, J. Hernández-Montoya, M. García-París. 2011. Long-distance invasion and high altitude acclimation of the European earwig, Forficula auricularia (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) in two distant areas of Mexico. Florida Entomologist, 94(4):1088-1090.
Milá, B., D. P. L. Toews, T. B. Smith, R. K. Wayne. 2011. A cryptic contact zone between divergent mtDNA lineages in southwestern North America supports past introgressive hybridisation in the yellow-rumped warbler complex (Aves: Dendroica coronata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103:696-706.
Brelsford, A., B. Milá, D. Irwin. 2011. Hybrid origin of Audubon’s warbler. Molecular Ecology, 20(11):2380-2389.
Smith, T.B., H. A. Thomassen, A. Freedman, R. Sehgal, W. Buermann, S. Saatchi, J. Pollinger, B. Milá, D. Pires, G. Valkiunas, R. K. Wayne. 2011. Patterns of divergence in the olive sunbird Cyanomitra olivacea (Aves: Nectariniidae) across the African rainforest-savanna ecotone. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103:821-835.
Thomassen, H. A., T. Fuller, W. Buermann, B. Milá, C. M. Kieswetter, P. A. Menéndez-Guerrero, C. H. Graham, S. E. Cameron, J. Chan, E. Mason, R. Schweizer, J. Schlunegger, C. J. Schneider, O. Wang, M. Peralvo, J. P. Pollinger, S. Saatchi, R. K. Wayne, T. B. Smith. 2011. Mapping evolutionary process: a multi-taxa approach to conservation prioritization. Evolutionary Applications, 4(2):397-413. PDF
Milá, B., B. H. Warren, P. Heeb, C. Thébaud. 2010. The geographic scale of diversification on islands: genetic and morphological divergence at a very small spatial scale in the Mascarene grey white-eye (Aves: Zosterops borbonicus). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:158. PDF
Milá, B., S. Carranza, O. Guillaume and J. Clobert. 2010. Marked genetic structuring and extreme dispersal limitation in the Pyrenean brook newt Calotriton asper (Amphibia: Salamandridae) revealed by genome-wide AFLP but not mtDNA. Molecular Ecology, 19:108-120.
Thomassen, H. A., W. Buermann, B. Milá, C. H. Graham, S. E. Cameron, C. J. Schneider, J. P. Pollinger, S. Saatchi, R. K. Wayne and T. B. Smith. 2009. Modeling environmentally associated morphological and genetic variation in a rainforest bird, and its application to conservation prioritization. Evolutionary Applications, 3(1):1-16. PDF
Milá, B., R. K. Wayne, P. S. Fitze and T. B. Smith. 2009. Divergence with gene flow and fine-scale phylogeographic structure in the wedge-billed woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus, a Neotropical rainforest bird. Molecular Ecology, 18:2979-2995.
Bonneaud, C., I. Sepil, B. Milá, W. Buermann, J. P. Pollinger, R. N. M. Sehgal, G. Valkiūnas, T. A. Iezhova, S. Saatchi and T. B. Smith. 2009. The prevalence of avian Plasmodium is higher in undisturbed tropical forests of Cameroon. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 25:439-447.
Milá, B., R. K. Wayne and T. B. Smith. 2008. Ecomorphology of migratory and sedentary populations of the yellow-rumped warbler (Dendroica coronata). Condor, 110(2):335-344.
Buermann, W., S. Saatchi, T. B. Smith, B. R. Zutta, J. A. Chaves, B. Milá and C. H. Graham. 2008. Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data. Journal of Biogeography, 35(7):1160-1176.
Smith, T.B., B. Milá, G. F. Grether, H. Slabbekoorn, I. Sepil, W. Buermann, S. Saatchi and J. P. Pollinger. 2008. Evolutionary consequences of human disturbance in a rainforest bird species from Central Africa. Molecular Ecology, 17:58-71.
Brown, D. M., R. A. Brenneman, K. P. Koepfli, J. P. Pollinger, B. Milá, N. J. Georgiadis, E. E. Louis Jr., G. F. Grether, D. K. Jacobs and R. K. Wayne. 2007. Extensive genetic structure in the giraffe. BMC Biology, 5:57. PDF
Milá, B., J. E. McCormack, G. Castañeda, R. K. Wayne and T. B. Smith. 2007. Recent postglacial range expansion drives the rapid diversification of a songbird lineage in the genus Junco. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274:2653-2660.
Milá, B., T. B. Smith and R. K. Wayne. 2007. Speciation and rapid phenotypic differentiation in the yellow-rumped warbler (Dendroica coronata) complex. Molecular Ecology, 16:159-173.
Milá, B., T. B. Smith, R. K. Wayne. 2006. Postglacial population expansion drives the evolution of long-distance migration in a songbird. Evolution, 60(11):2403-2409.
Milá, B. and C. Bardeleben. 2005. Isolation of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the wedge-billed woodcreeper Glyphorynchus spirurus. Molecular Ecology Notes, 5:844-845.
McCormack, J. E., G. Castañeda-Guayasamín, B. Milá, and F. Heredia-Pineda. 2005. Slate-throated redstarts (Myioborus miniatus) breeding in Maderas del Carmen, Coahuila, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist, 50(4):501-503.
Hobson, K.A., L. I. Wassenaar, B. Milá, I. Lovette, C. Dingle, T. B. Smith. 2003. Stable isotopes as indicators of altitudinal distributions and movements in an Ecuadorean hummingbird community. Oecologia, 136(2):302-308.
Outlaw, D.C., G. Voelker, B. Milá, D. J. Girman. 2003. Evolution of long-distance migration and historical biogeography of Catharus thrushes: a molecular phylogenetic approach. The Auk, 120(2):299-310.
Kimura, M., S. M. Clegg, I. J. Lovette, K. R. Holder, D. J. Girman, B. Milá, P. Wade, T. B. Smith. 2002. Phylogeographical approaches to assessing demographic connectivity between breeding and overwintering regions in a Nearctic-Neotropical warbler (Wilsonia pusilla). Molecular Ecology, 11:1605-1616.
Valenzuela, D., B. Milá, F. Urbina, K. Renton, A. García and R. Castro. 2002. Range extensions for lineated (Dryocopus lineatus) and pale-billed (Campephilus guatemalensis) woodpeckers, and first records for the state of Morelos, Mexico. Cotinga, 17:12-14.
Milá, B., D.J. Girman, M. Kimura, T.B. Smith. 2000. Genetic evidence for the effect of a post-glacial population expansion on the phylogeography of a North American songbird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 267:1033-1040.
Other scientific publications
Rouco, M., J. L. Copete, E. de Juana, M. Gil-Velasco, J. A. Lorenzo, M. Martín, B. Milá, B. Molina, D. M. Santos. 2019. Lista de las aves de España. Sociedad Española de Ornitología, SEO-BirdLife.
Hocdé, R., Vimono, I., Suruwaki, A. M., Tuti, Y., Utama, R., Mohammad, A., Boli, P., Ashari, H., Wikanta, H., Juhel, J.-B., Cochet, C., Thébaud, C., Milá, B., Abdul, G., Leblond, J., Bahuet, E., Diraimondo, G., Fromento, B., Chevallard, J., Sumanta, S., Crew team, Pouyaud, B., Kadarusman, K., Pouyaud, L. 2020. Mission report: Lengguru 2017 Expedition ‘Biodiversity assessment in reef twilight zone and cloud forests’, R/V AIRAHA 2, 1st October 2017 – 30th November 2017, Kaimana Regency, West Papua, Indonesia. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France; Pusat Penelitian Oseanografi, Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan (LIPI-P2O), Indonesia; Politeknik Kelautan Dan Perikanan Sorong (Politeknik-KP-Sorong), Papua Barat, Indonesia. HAL Archives Ouvertes, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal–02565651
Milá, B. 2017. Book review: Beehler, B. M., and Pratt, T. K. 2016. Birds of New Guinea: distribution, taxonomy and systematics. Princeton University Press. Sección Bibliográfica, Ardeola 64(1):145-147.
Milá, B., P. Aleixandre, S. Alvarez-Nordstrom and John McCormack. 2016. More than meets the eye: lineage diversity and evolutionary history of dark-eyed and yellow-eyed juncos. In Snowbird: Integrative biology and evolutionary diversity in the junco. Ellen D. Ketterson and Jonathan W. Atwell (Eds.). Chicago University Press, Chicago.
Milá, B. 2005. The role of Pleistocene glacial cycles in driving speciation and the evolution of migration in songbirds: Inferring evolutionary processes from mitochondrial DNA and morphological data. Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Smith, T. B., S. M. Clegg, M. Kimura, K. Ruegg, B. Milá, and I. J. Lovette. 2005. Molecular genetic approaches to linking breeding and overwintering areas for five Neotropical migrant passerines. In Birds of Two Worlds: The Ecology and Evolution of Migration, Greenberg, R. and P. Marra, Eds., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 222-234.
Milá, B., S. M. Clegg, M. Kimura, K. Ruegg, I. Lovette, and T. B. Smith. 2005. Linking breeding and overwintering areas of five Nearctic-Neotropical migratory passerines using molecular genetic markers. General Technical Report #191, pp. 889-892. USDA Forest Service, Albany, CA, USA.
DeSante, D. F., T. S. Sillett, R. B. Siegel, J. F. Saracco, C. A. Romo de Vivar Alvarez, S. Morales, A. Cerezo, D. R. Kaschube, M. Grosselet and B. Milá. 2005. MoSI (Monitoreo de Sobrevivencia Invernal): Assessing habitat-specific overwintering survival of neotropical migratory landbirds. In Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas: Proceedings of the Third International Partners in Flight Conference, Asilomar, CA, March 2002; Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture; pp. 926-936.
Larison, B., T.B. Smith, D. Girman, D. Stauffer, B. Milá, R.C. Drewes, C.E. Griswold, J.V. Vindum, D. Ubick, K. O´Keefe, J. Nguema, L. Henwood. 1999. Biotic surveys of Bioko and Rio Muni, Equatorial Guinea. Report submitted to the Biodiversity Support Program, USAID, USA. http://hdl.handle.net/1834/303
Ralph, C.J., G.R. Geupel, P. Pyle, T.E. Martin, D.F. DeSante and B. Milá. 1996. Manual de métodos de campo para el monitoreo de aves terrestres (Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds). General Technical Report #159. PSW, USDA Forest Service, Albany, CA.
Milá, B., B. D. Hardesty. 1994. Winter bird population study: Disturbed coastal scrub. Journal of Field Ornithology, 65(2):33 Suppl.
Noel, M., B. Milá, and B. D. Hardesty. 1994. Breeding bird census: Coastal scrub. Journal of Field Ornithology, 65(2):111-112 Suppl.
*: authors contributed equally