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Nasuelli M, Ilahiane L, Boano G, Cucco M, Galimberti A, Pavia M, Pioltelli E, Shafaeipour A, Voelker G, Pellegrino I. Phylogeography of Lanius senator in its breeding range: conflicts between alpha taxonomy, subspecies distribution and genetics. THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2022.2099989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022] Open
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- M. Nasuelli
- Dipartimento per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile e la Transizione Ecologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
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- Dipartimento per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile e la Transizione Ecologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
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- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, Torino, Italy
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- Dipartimento per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile e la Transizione Ecologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
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- ZooPlantLab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- ZooPlantLab, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Dipartimento di Scienze ed Innovazione Tecnologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy
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Warudkar A, Goyal N, Kher V, Vinay KL, Chanda R, Bandi RS, Jenkins CN, Robin VV, Pimm S. Using the area of habitat to assess the extent of protection of India's birds. Biotropica 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.13132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ashwin Warudkar
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati Tirupati India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati Tirupati India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati Tirupati India
- Wildlife Institute of India Dehradun Uttarakhand India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati Tirupati India
- Salim Ali Center for Ornithology and Natural History Coimbatore India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati Tirupati India
- Centre for Ecological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati Tirupati India
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- Department of Earth and Environment & Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center Florida International University Miami Florida USA
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati Tirupati India
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- Nicholas School of the Environment Durham North Carolina USA
- Saving Nature Durham North Carolina USA
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Roux Klem J, Bouwman H, Rijke AM. Do the contour feathers of Cisticolae exhibit adaptations to annual rainfall in their habitats? Afr J Ecol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/aje.12535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Jana Roux Klem
- Research Unit: Environmental Sciences and Management North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa
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- Research Unit: Environmental Sciences and Management North‐West University Potchefstroom South Africa
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Alström P, Rheindt FE, Zhang R, Zhao M, Wang J, Zhu X, Gwee CY, Hao Y, Ohlson J, Jia C, Prawiradilaga DM, Ericson PGP, Lei F, Olsson U. Complete species-level phylogeny of the leaf warbler (Aves: Phylloscopidae) radiation. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2018; 126:141-152. [PMID: 29631054 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Revised: 02/24/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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The leaf warbler radiation (Aves: Phylloscopidae) has undergone a c. 50% increase in the number of recognised species over the last three decades, mainly as a result of analyses of vocalisations and DNA. Using a multilocus dataset for all of the species in this family, and multispecies coalescent-based as well as concatenation methods, we provide the first complete species-level phylogeny for this important group, as well as an estimate of the timing of diversification. The most recent common ancestor for the family was dated at 11.7 million years ago (mya) (95% highest posterior density 9.8-13.7 mya), and divergence times between sister species ranged from 0.5 mya (0.3-0.8 mya) to 6.1 mya (4.8-7.5 mya). Based on our results, we support synonymising Seicercus with Phylloscopus, which results in a monogeneric Phylloscopidae. We discuss the pros and cons of this treatment,and we argue againstproliferation of taxonomic names,and conclude that a large monogeneric Phylloscopidae leads to the fewest taxonomic changes compared to traditional classifications. We briefly discuss morphological evolution in the light of the phylogeny. The time calibrated phylogeny is a major improvement compared to previous studies based on a smaller number of species and loci and can provide a basis for future studies of other aspects of phylloscopid evolution.
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- Per Alström
- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden; Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Box 7007, Uppsala SE-750 07, Sweden; Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, 117558 Singapore, Singapore
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 16 Science Drive 4, 117558 Singapore, Singapore
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm SE-10405, Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Research Centre for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Cibinong Science Centre, Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor KM 46, Bogor 16911, Indonesia
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm SE-10405, Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Bowie RCK, Pasquet E, McEntee JP, Njilima F, Fjeldså J. The systematics and biogeography of African tailorbirds (Cisticolidae: Artisornis) with comment on the choice of Bayesian branch-length prior when analyzing heterogeneous data. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017; 118:172-183. [PMID: 28834700 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2017] [Accepted: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
The Long-billed Tailorbird (Artisornis moreaui), one of Africa's rarest birds, has a strikingly disjunct distribution, the origin of which has long puzzled biogeographers. One small population (subspecies moreaui) occurs in sub-montane forest in the East Usambara Mountains, a sky island near the coast of northern Tanzania, and another (subspecies sousae) on Serra Jeci in northwestern Mozambique, 950km away. The African Tailorbird, the putative sister-species of Long-billed Tailorbird, also occurs in the East Usambara Mountains and on Serra Jeci, but in addition occupies all the Eastern Arc Mountain forests between these disjunct sites. Stuart (1981) hypothesized that the two tailorbird distributions could be explained by strong ecological competition, with African Tailorbird populations having eliminated Long-billed Tailorbird populations via competitive exclusion in montane forests between the East Usambara and Serra Jeci. If such competitive exclusion explains these geographic distributions, the co-occurrence of the two species in the East Usambara and at Serra Jeci may be ephemeral, with the status of Long-billed Tailorbird especially in doubt. We sought to (1) determine whether the two species of African tailorbirds are indeed sister-species, and (2) test predictions from Stuart's (1981) competitive exclusion hypothesis using genetic data. Phylogenetic analyses of our seven gene dataset (3 mtDNA, 4 introns; 4784bp) indeed place these two species together in the genus Artisornis. Instead of finding shallow divergence among African Tailorbird populations and deep divergence between Long-billed Tailorbird populations as expected from Stuart's hypothesis, we recover deep genetic divergence and geographic structure among populations of both tailorbird species. This result is consistent with long-term co-existence of the two species at East Usambara and Serra Jeci. Observational data from both the East Usambara and Serra Jeci suggest that the two species have diverged in use of forest canopy strata. From a conservation standpoint, our results suggest that extinction of the Long-billed Tailorbird as a function of competition with African Tailorbird is highly unlikely, and should not be viewed as imminent. Threats to its survival are instead anthropogenic, and conservation measures should take this into account. Finally, our empirical results suggest that mis-specification of the branch-length prior in Bayesian analyses of mitochondrial DNA data can have a profound effect on the overall tree-length (sum of branch-lengths), whereas the topology and support values tend to remain more stable. In contrast, mis-specification of the branch-length prior had a lesser impact on all aspects of the nuclear-only DNA analyses. This problem may be exacerbated when mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses are combined in a total evidence approach.
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- Rauri C K Bowie
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Science Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3160, USA.
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- UMR7205 CNRS, «Origine, Structure et Evolution de la Biodiversité», Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France; UMS2700 CNRS, «Outils et Méthodes de la Systématique Intégrative», Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 43, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
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- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Science Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3160, USA
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- Udzungwa Forest Project, P.O. Box 99, Mangúla-Morogoro, Tanzania
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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