2025

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Lutgen, D., Peona, V., Chase, M.A., Alaei Kakhki, N., et al. 2025. A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado8005

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Javaheri Tehrani, S., Rezazadeh, E., Alaei Kakhki, N., Nourani, L., Ebadi, V., Karimi, S., Karami, M., Ashouri, F., Sarshar, A., Gossmann, T.I., Aliabadian, M. 2025. DNA barcoding of passerine birds in Iran. ZooKeys. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1236.143336

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Tang, Q., Alaei Kakhki, N., Liu, Y., et al. 2025. Past Environmental Change and Seasonal Migration Shaped Pronounced Variability in the Phylogenomic History of a Morphologically Cryptic Bird Radiation. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70021

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2023

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Alaei Kakhki, N., Schweizer, M., Lutgen, D., Bowie, R. C., Shirihai, H., Suh, A., Schielzeth, H., Burri, R. 2023. A Phylogenomic Assessment of Processes Underpinning Convergent Evolution in Open-Habitat Chats. Molecular biology and evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac278

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Peona, V., Palacios-Gimenez O.V., Lutgen, D., Olsen, R.A., Alaei Kakhki, N., Andriopoulos, P., Bontzorlos, V., Manuel Schweizer, M., Suh, A., Burri, R. 2023. An annotated chromosome-scale reference genome for Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe melanoleuca). G3, Genes Genomes Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad088​​

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2022

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Schweizer, M*., Warmuth, V*., Alaei Kakhki, N*., Aliabadian, M., Förschler, M., Shirihai, H., Ewels, P., Gruselius, J., Olsen, R., Schielzeth, H., Suh, A., Burri, R. 2022. Genome-wide evidence supports mitochondrial relationships and pervasive parallel phenotypic evolution in open-habitat chats. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106568

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Schweizer, M*., Warmuth, V*., Alaei Kakhki, N*, Aliabadian, M., Förschler, M., Shirihai, H., Suh, A., Burri, R. 2022. Parallel plumage color evolution and introgressive hybridization in wheatears. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13401

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2019

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Alaei Kakhki, N., Aliabadian, M., Forschler, M.I., Ghasempouri, S.M., Kiabi, B., Verde Arregoitia, L.D., Schweizer, M. 2019. Phylogeography of the Oenanthe hispanica pleschanka–cypriaca complex (Aves, Muscicapidae: Saxicolinae): Diversification history of open-habitat specialists based on climate niche models, genetic data, and morphometric data. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 119: 904–918. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12206

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2016

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Alaei Kakhki, N., Aliabadian, M., Schweizer, M. 2016. Out of Africa: biogeographic history of the open-habitat chats (Aves, Muscicapidae: Saxicolinae) across arid areas of the old world. Zoologica Scripta, 45, 237–251. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12151​

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Aliabadian, M*., Alaei Kakhki, N*., Mirshamsi, O., Nijman, V., Roulin, A. 2016. Phylogeny, biogeography, and diversification of barn owls (Aves: Strigiformes). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12824

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2014

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Haddadian shad, H., Darvish, J., Mohammadian, T., Mahmoudi, A., Alaei Kakhki, N., Ghanbarifardi, M., Molavi, F., Barani-Beiranvand, H. 2014. Preliminary study of rodents using pellets of predatory birds in Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics. 10.22067/IJAB.V10I1.36911

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2012​

Aliabadian, M*., Alaei Kakhki, N*., Darvish, J. 2012. Phylogenetic systematics of Barn Owl (Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769)) complex inferred from mitochondrial rDNA (16S rRNA) taxonomic implication. Taxonomy and Biosystematics, 11: 1-12.

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2011

Alaei Kakhki, N., Aliabadian, M. 2011. Mitochondrial DNA (CYTB) divergences in two distinct, Old World and New World Barn Owls. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 18: 47-55.​​​