Contemporary genetic, historical genetic and morphological data sets for the Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops

Understanding the evolutionary history of threatened populations can improve their conservation management. Re-establishment of past but recent gene flow could re-invigorate threatened populations and replenish genetic diversity, necessary for population persistence. One of the four nominal subspecies of the common yellow-tufted honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops cassidix, is critically endangered despite substantial conservation efforts over 55 years. Using a combination of morphometric, genetic and modelling approaches we tested for its evolutionary distinctiveness and conservation merit. We confirmed that cassidix has at least one morphometric distinction. It also differs genetically from the other subspecies in allele frequencies but not phylogenetically, implying that its evolution was recent. Modelling historical distribution supported the lack of vicariance and suggested a possibility of gene flow among subspecies at least since the late Pleistocene. Multi-locus coalescent analyses indicated that cassidix diverged from its common ancestor with neighbouring subspecies gippslandicus sometime from the mid-Pleistocene to the Holocene, and that it has the smallest historical effective population size of all subspecies. It appears that cassidix diverged from its ancestor with gippslandicus through a combination of drift and local selection. From patterns of genetic subdivision on two spatial scales and morphological variation we concluded that cassidix, gippslandicus and (melanops + meltoni) are diagnosable as subspecies. Low genetic diversity and effective population size of cassidix may translate to low genetic fitness and evolutionary potential, thus managed gene flow from gippslandicus is recommended for its recovery.

Pan Michael, an historical novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey;

Translation of Pan Wołodyjowski.

Mariamne, the last of the Asmonean princessess : a historical novel of Palestine / by Nathaniel Ogle, Esq.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Huguenot exiles; or, The times of Louis XIV. A historical novel.

Mode of access: Internet.

The bargain: a historical novel on the defense of Londonderry.

Mode of access: Internet.

The romance of a Jesuit mission; a historical novel,

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Magdalen: or, The penitant of Godstow. An historical novel.

Paged continuously: v. 1: 98 p.; v. 2: 4 p. . [101]-196 p.; v. 3: p. ., [199]-294 p.

Reinventing Liberty : Nation, Commerce and the British Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott /

Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and early 19th century. For the first time placing these works in the context of British politics and British history writing, this book redefines the historical novel, revealing a genre which seeks to manage political change through historiographical experimentation. It explores how historical novelists participated in a contentious debate concerning the nature of commercial modernity, the formulation of political progress and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty uncovers how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as ‘land of liberty’. Reading Scott in relation to this tradition, Reinventing Liberty demonstrates the genre’s troubled role in the construction of the myth of Britain as a nation of gradual, safe political change.

The astrologer's daughter; an historical novel.

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The prince-duke and the page; a historical novel.

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The secret foe : an historical novel /

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The knight in grey; a historical novel,

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Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia; an historical novel,

Tr. of Napoleon und konigen Louise.

The lion's skin; a historical novel and a novel history,

"Published, March, 1905."

The daughter of an empress; an historical novel,

Mode of access: Internet.