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Dufour P, Sayol F, Cooke R, Blackburn TM, Gallien L, Griesser M, Steinbauer MJ, Faurby S. The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds. Proc Biol Sci 2024; 291:20232926. [PMID: 38628117 PMCID: PMC11021927 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
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Seasonal migration is an underappreciated driver of animal diversification. Changes in migratory behaviour may favour the establishment of sedentary founder populations and promote speciation if there is sufficient reproductive isolation between sedentary and migratory populations. From a systematic literature review, we here quantify the role of migratory drop-off-the loss of migratory behaviour-in promoting speciation in birds on islands. We identify at least 157 independent colonization events likely initiated by migratory species that led to speciation, including 44 cases among recently extinct species. By comparing, for all islands, the proportion of island endemic species that derived from migratory drop-off with the proportion of migratory species among potential colonizers, we showed that seasonal migration has a larger effect on island endemic richness than direct dispersal. We also found that the role of migration in island colonization increases with the geographic isolation of islands. Furthermore, the success of speciation events depends in part on species biogeographic and ecological factors, here positively associated with greater range size and larger flock sizes. These results highlight the importance of shifts in migratory behaviour in the speciation process and calls for greater consideration of migratory drop-off in the biogeographic distribution of birds.
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- Paul Dufour
- Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), E08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London NW1 4RY, UK
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- LECA, CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Department of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany
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- Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) & Bayreuth Center of Sport Science (BaySpo), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Bourgeois Y, Warren BH, Augiron S. The burden of anthropogenic changes and mutation load in a critically endangered harrier from the Reunion biodiversity hotspot, Circus maillardi. Mol Ecol 2024; 33:e17300. [PMID: 38372440 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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Anthropogenic impact is causing the decline of a large proportion of species worldwide and reduces their genetic diversity. Island species typically have smaller ranges than continental species. As a consequence, island species are particularly liable to undergo population bottlenecks, giving rise to conservation challenges such as inbreeding and unmasking of deleterious genetic load. Such challenges call for more detailed assessments of the genetic make-up of threatened island populations. The Mascarene islands (Indian Ocean) present many prime examples, being unusual in having been pristine until first human arrival ~400 years ago, following which anthropogenic pressure was unusually intense. A threatened harrier (Circus maillardi) endemic to the westernmost island of the archipelago is a good example of the challenges faced by species that have declined to small population size following intense anthropogenic pressure. In this study, we use an extensive set of population genomic tools to quantify variation at near-neutral and coding loci, in order to test the historical impact of human activity on this species, and evaluate the species' (mal)adaptive potential. We observed low but significant genetic differentiation between populations on the West and North-East sides of the island, echoing observations in other endemic species. Inbreeding was significant, with a substantial fraction of samples being first or second-degree relatives. Historical effective population sizes have declined from ~3000 to 300 individuals in the past 1000 years, with a more recent drop ~100 years ago consistent with human activity. Based on our simulations and comparisons with a close relative (Circus melanoleucos), this demographic history may have allowed purging of the most deleterious variants but is unlikely to have allowed the purging of mildly deleterious variants. Our study shows how using relatively affordable methods can reveal the massive impact that human activity may have on the genetic diversity and adaptive potential of island populations, and calls for urgent action to closely monitor the reproductive success of such endemic populations, in association with genetic studies.
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- Yann Bourgeois
- DIADE, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier, France
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, UA, Paris, France
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- Société d'Études Ornithologiques de La Réunion, Saint-André, France
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Negro JJ, Rodríguez-Rodríguez EJ, Rodríguez A, Bildstein K. Generation of raptor diversity in Europe: linking speciation with climate changes and the ability to migrate. PeerJ 2022; 10:e14505. [PMID: 36523450 PMCID: PMC9745957 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Europe holds a rich community of diurnal birds of prey, and the highest proportion of transcontinental migratory raptorial species of any landmass. This study will test the hypotheses that the high diversification of the raptor assemblage in Europe is a recent event, that closely related species sharing the same trophic niches can only coexist in sympatry during the breeding period, when food availability is higher, and finally that migration is a function of size, with the smaller species in every trophic group moving further. A consensus molecular phylogeny for the 38 regular breeding species of raptors in Europe was obtained from BirdTree (www.birdtree.org). For the same species, a trophic niche cluster dendrogram was constructed. Size and migratory strategy were introduced in the resulting phylogeny, where trophic groups were also identified. Multispecific trophic groups tended to be composed of reciprocal sister species of different sizes, while monospecific groups (n = 3) were composed of highly specialized species. Many speciation events took place recently, during the glacial cycles of the Quaternary, and size divergence among competing species may be due to character displacement. Nowadays, the smaller species in every trophic group migrate to sub-Saharan Africa. This investigation illustrates how the rich assemblage of diurnal birds of prey in Europe, more diverse and more migratory than, for instance, the North American assemblage at equivalent latitudes, has emerged recently due to the multiplication of look-alike species with similar trophic ecologies, possibly in climate refugia during cold periods.
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- Juan J. Negro
- Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Sevilla, Spain
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- Grupo de Ornitología e Historia Natural de las islas Canarias (GOHNIC), C/La Malecita s/n, Buenavista del Norte, Canary Islands, Spain,Terrestrial Ecology Group (TEG-UAM), Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain,Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Urantówka AD, Kroczak A, Strzała T, Zaniewicz G, Kurkowski M, Mackiewicz P. Mitogenomes of Accipitriformes and Cathartiformes Were Subjected to Ancestral and Recent Duplications Followed by Gradual Degeneration. Genome Biol Evol 2021; 13:6357707. [PMID: 34432018 PMCID: PMC8435663 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The rearrangement of 37 genes with one control region, firstly identified in Gallus gallus mitogenome, is believed to be ancestral for all Aves. However, mitogenomic sequences obtained in recent years revealed that many avian mitogenomes contain duplicated regions that were omitted in previous genomic versions. Their evolution and mechanism of duplication are still poorly understood. The order of Accipitriformes is especially interesting in this context because its representatives contain a duplicated control region in various stages of degeneration. Therefore, we applied an appropriate PCR strategy to look for duplications within the mitogenomes of the early diverged species Sagittarius serpentarius and Cathartiformes, which is a sister order to Accipitriformes. The analyses revealed the same duplicated gene order in all examined taxa and the common ancestor of these groups. The duplicated regions were subjected to gradual degeneration and homogenization during concerted evolution. The latter process occurred recently in the species of Cathartiformes as well as in the early diverged lineages of Accipitriformes, that is, Sagittarius serpentarius and Pandion haliaetus. However, in other lineages, that is, Pernis ptilorhynchus, as well as representatives of Aegypiinae, Aquilinae, and five related subfamilies of Accipitriformes (Accipitrinae, Circinae, Buteoninae, Haliaeetinae, and Milvinae), the duplications were evolving independently for at least 14–47 Myr. Different portions of control regions in Cathartiformes showed conflicting phylogenetic signals indicating that some sections of these regions were homogenized at a frequency higher than the rate of speciation, whereas others have still evolved separately.
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- Adam Dawid Urantówka
- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland.,Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Faculty of Biotechnology, Wrocław University, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
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- Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology, Avian Ecophysiology Unit, University of Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Genetics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Faculty of Biotechnology, Wrocław University, Poland
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Kim KY, Park YC, Yoon YJ, Yoon KB. The complete mitochondrial genome of Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae). MITOCHONDRIAL DNA PART B-RESOURCES 2021; 6:713-714. [PMID: 33763557 PMCID: PMC7954417 DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1851154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The mitogenome of the Accipiter nisus is a circular module of 18,352 bp, which consists of 39 genes, containing 2 rRNA genes (12S rRNA and 16S rRNA), 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two non-coding regions (control region and pseudo control region). The mitogenome of A. nisus is composed of 31.3% A, 25.5% T, 30.4% C, 12.8% G, and 76.3% AT. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that A. nisus individuals was well grouped in Accipitridae and more closely related to genus Circus than other Accpiter species.
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- Ki-Yoon Kim
- Division of Forest Science, College of Forest & Environmental Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Forest Science, College of Forest & Environmental Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Research Center for Endangered Species, National Institute of Ecology, Republic of Korea
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- Research Center for Endangered Species, National Institute of Ecology, Republic of Korea
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Nagai K, Manawatthana S, Tokita KI, Nualsri C, Pierce AJ, Sutasha K, Sribuarod K, Takehara K, Round PD, Higuchi H. Genetic Structure in Japanese and Thai Populations of the Japanese Sparrowhawk Accipiter gularis. Zoolog Sci 2020; 37:232-239. [PMID: 32549537 DOI: 10.2108/zs190104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The Japanese sparrowhawk Accipiter gularis is a small raptor that breeds in Northeast Asia. The species consists of the widespread and mostly migratory subspecies A. g. gularis that is common in East Asia, including Japan, and the resident and endangered subspecies A. g. iwasakii which inhabits the Ryukyu and Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa, southern Japan. Given the minimal knowledge about the migration of the species, in this study we sought to compare the genetic variation of the populations breeding in Japan with those migrating through Southeast Asia. We sequenced 761 bp of mitochondrial DNA Control Region from each of 21 A. gularis collected during the breeding season in Japan and from 20 individuals intercepted on migration in Thailand. We detected 26 haplotypes among the 41 individuals which differed significantly between Japan and Thailand. Migrants in Thailand were presumed to have originated from a wide area in Eastern Eurasia. The phylogenetic and network analyses demonstrated that the haplotypes of all A. g. gularis detected in Japan were genetically close. Moreover, the Okinawa haplotypes of A. g. iwasakii were clustered with moderate genetic variation. The information presented here can be used towards implementing future conservation actions.
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- Kazuya Nagai
- Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan.,Research and Education Centre for Natural Sciences, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, Japan,
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Research and Education Centre for Natural Sciences, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, Japan
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- Monnang Subdistrict Municipality, Monnang, Phanat Nikhom, Chonburi 20140, Thailand
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- Conservation Ecology Program, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkhunthien, Bangkok 10150, Thailand
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- Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
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- Khlong Saeng Wildlife Research Station, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation, Khao Phang, Ban Tha Khun, Surat Thani 84230, Thailand
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Research and Education Centre for Natural Sciences, Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, Japan
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Fernández-Bellon D. Limited accessibility and bias in wildlife-wind energy knowledge: A bilingual systematic review of a globally distributed bird group. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 737:140238. [PMID: 32783846 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Revised: 06/10/2020] [Accepted: 06/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Wind energy is a key component of climate action strategies aimed at reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Despite providing environmental benefits, there are increasing concerns surrounding the impact of wind farms on wildlife, with research indicating that effects on wildlife can be highly variable between species, regions, and sites. In light of this variability and the accelerating growth of the wind energy sector globally, a comprehensive understanding of wind farm effects on wildlife and ease of access to this knowledge are pivotal to inform best practice if wind energy is to become a truly sustainable source of energy. This review evaluates interactions between a globally distributed bird genus (harriers, Circus sp.) and wind farms to assess broader patterns in wildlife-wind energy knowledge accessibility and bias. A systematic review of grey and peer-reviewed literature across two multidisciplinary and two field-specific databases in two languages (English and Spanish) yielded 235 relevant sources, covering 12 harrier species and 31 countries. Findings indicate that harriers are considered to have high sensitivity to wind farms, with greatest impacts expected from habitat effects rather than from turbine collisions. In the broader wildlife-wind energy context, this study underscores (i) the predominance of grey literature and of sources solely documenting species-wind farm overlaps; (ii) limitations in grey literature availability and peer-reviewed publication accessibility; (iii) lack of standardized research and monitoring practices; and (iv) evidence of language, taxonomic, and geographic bias in literature sources. Overall, findings demonstrate that limited accessibility to wildlife-wind energy knowledge risks widening the research-implementation gap. Widespread implementation of open practices that allow researchers and practitioners to build on existing knowledge (e.g. national and international online repositories and databases, knowledge sharing and collaborative initiatives, open access publications) is crucial if ongoing wind energy development efforts are to be successfully aligned with conservation priorities.
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Valente L, Etienne RS, Garcia-R JC. Deep Macroevolutionary Impact of Humans on New Zealand's Unique Avifauna. Curr Biol 2020; 29:2563-2569.e4. [PMID: 31386837 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 05/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Islands are at the frontline of the anthropogenic extinction crisis [1]. A vast number of island birds have gone extinct since human colonization [2], and an important proportion is currently threatened with extinction [3]. While the number of lost or threatened avian species has often been quantified [4], the macroevolutionary consequences of human impact on island biodiversity have rarely been measured [5]. Here, we estimate the amount of evolutionary time that has been lost or is under threat due to anthropogenic activity in a classic example, New Zealand. Half of its bird taxa have gone extinct since humans arrived [6, 7] and many are threatened [8], including lineages forming highly distinct branches in the avian tree of life [9-11]. Using paleontological and ancient DNA information, we compiled a dated phylogenetic dataset for New Zealand's terrestrial avifauna. We extend the method DAISIE developed for island biogeography [12] to allow for the fact that many of New Zealand's birds are evolutionarily isolated and use it to estimate natural rates of speciation, extinction, and colonization. Simulating under a range of human-induced extinction scenarios, we find that it would take approximately 50 million years (Ma) to recover the number of species lost since human colonization of New Zealand and up to 10 Ma to return to today's species numbers if currently threatened species go extinct. This study puts into macroevolutionary perspective the impact of humans in an isolated fauna and reveals how conservation decisions we take today will have repercussions for millions of years.
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- Luis Valente
- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Understanding Evolution Group, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, the Netherlands; University of Groningen, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- University of Groningen, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, P.O. Box 11103, 9700 CC Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Hopkirk Research Institute, School of Veterinary Science, Massey University, Private Bag, 11 222, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
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Fuchs J, Alström P, Yosef R, Olsson U. Miocene diversification of an open‐habitat predatorial passerine radiation, the shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes: Laniidae). ZOOL SCR 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Jérôme Fuchs
- UMR7205 Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Sorbonne Université Paris France
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- Department of Ecology and Genetics, Animal Ecology, Evolutionary Biology Centre Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
- Swedish Species Information Centre Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- Department of Biology and Environmental Science University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden
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Redondo T, Romero JM, Díaz‐Delgado R, Nagy J. Broodmate aggression and life history variation in accipitrid birds of prey. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:9185-9206. [PMID: 31463015 PMCID: PMC6706193 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Revised: 06/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Aggressive sibling competition for parental food resources is relatively infrequent in animals but highly prevalent and extreme among certain bird families, particularly accipitrid raptors (Accipitriformes). Intense broodmate aggression within this group is associated with a suite of traits including a large adult size, small broods, low provisioning rates, and slow development. In this study, we apply phylogenetic comparative analyses to assess the relative importance of several behavioral, morphological, life history, and ecological variables as predictors of the intensity of broodmate aggression in 65 species of accipitrid raptors. We show that intensity of aggression increases in species with lower parental effort (small clutch size and low provisioning rates), while size effects (adult body mass and length of nestling period) are unimportant. Intense aggression is more closely related to a slow life history pace (high adult survival coupled with a restrained parental effort), rather than a by-product of allometry or food limitation. Consideration of several ecological variables affecting prey abundance and availability reveals that certain lifestyles (e.g., breeding in aseasonal habitats or hunting for more agile prey) may slow a species' life history pace and favor the evolution of intense broodmate aggression.
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- Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human BiologyUniversity of DebrecenDebrecenHungary
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Kunz F, Gamauf A, Zachos FE, Haring E. Mitochondrial phylogenetics of the goshawk
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- Florian Kunz
- Central Research Laboratories Natural History Museum Vienna Vienna Austria
- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna Vienna Austria
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- 1st Zoological Department Natural History Museum Vienna Vienna Austria
- Department of Integrative Zoology University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- 1st Zoological Department Natural History Museum Vienna Vienna Austria
- Department of Integrative Zoology University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Central Research Laboratories Natural History Museum Vienna Vienna Austria
- Department of Integrative Zoology University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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Mitogenomic evidence of close relationships between New Zealand's extinct giant raptors and small-sized Australian sister-taxa. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 134:122-128. [PMID: 30753886 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2018] [Revised: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Prior to human arrival in the 13th century, two large birds of prey were the top predators in New Zealand. In the absence of non-volant mammals, the extinct Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei), the largest eagle in the world, and the extinct Eyles' harrier (Circus teauteensis) the largest harrier in the world, had filled ecological niches that are on other landmasses occupied by animals such as large cats or canines. The evolutionary and biogeographic history of these island giants has long been a mystery. Here we reconstruct the origin and evolution of New Zealand's giant raptors using complete mitochondrial genome data. We show that both Eyles' harrier and Haast's eagle diverged from much smaller, open land adapted Australasian relatives in the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene. These events coincided with the development of open habitat in the previously densely forested islands of New Zealand. Our study provides evidence of rapid evolution of island gigantism in New Zealand's extinct birds of prey. Early Pleistocene climate and environmental changes were likely to have triggered the establishment of Australian raptors into New Zealand. Our results shed light on the evolution of two of the most impressive cases of island gigantism in the world.
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Ribout C, Villers A, Ruault S, Bretagnolle V, Picard D, Monceau K, Gauffre B. Fine-scale genetic structure in a high dispersal capacity raptor, the Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus), revealed by a set of novel microsatellite loci. Genetica 2019; 147:69-78. [PMID: 30671744 DOI: 10.1007/s10709-019-00053-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus) is a semi-colonial raptor species widely but patchily distributed across the Palearctic region with recorded cases of philopatry and presence of extra-pair copulation. In order to assess Montagu's harrier spatial genetic structure and contemporary gene flow, we developed 16 new microsatellite markers using 454 pyrosequencing. Genotypes of 117 chicks sampled in a 200 × 300 km farmland area in Central Western France were analyzed to characterize genetic polymorphism at each locus and regional and fine-scale genetic structure. Fourteen markers were found polymorphic, with a number of alleles ranging from 3 to 11. The expected and observed heterozygosities ranged from 0.36 to 0.856 and from 0.35 to 0.868, respectively. A single genetic unit was found at the regional scale with higher genetic similarity observed at a small spatial scale (up to 10 km). Our results are consistent with overall large-scale juvenile and adult dispersal together with small-scale male philopatry. Cross-species amplification of this set of microsatellites makers has been successful in two closely related harrier species: the marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) and the Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) for which 14 and 12 markers were polymorphic, respectively. These new microsatellite markers could be used to study the population genetic structure, contemporary gene flow and parentage analyses in these three species and to conduct microsatellite-based demographic inferences on the Montagu's harrier.
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- C Ribout
- CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, UMR 7372 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France
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- CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, UMR 7372 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France
- LTSER "Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sèvre", CNRS-CEBC, 79360, Beauvoir sur Niort, France
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- CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, UMR 7372 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France
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- CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, UMR 7372 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France
- LTSER "Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sèvre", CNRS-CEBC, 79360, Beauvoir sur Niort, France
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- Département de Biologie UFR Sciences, Université d'Angers, Angers, France
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- CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, UMR 7372 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France
- LTSER "Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sèvre", CNRS-CEBC, 79360, Beauvoir sur Niort, France
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- CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, UMR 7372 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France.
- LTSER "Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sèvre", CNRS-CEBC, 79360, Beauvoir sur Niort, France.
- INRA, USC1339 CEBC, 79360, Villiers en Bois, France.
- UR1115 Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles, INRA, Avignon, France.
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Nabholz B, Lanfear R, Fuchs J. Body mass-corrected molecular rate for bird mitochondrial DNA. Mol Ecol 2016; 25:4438-49. [PMID: 27483387 DOI: 10.1111/mec.13780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2016] [Revised: 07/22/2016] [Accepted: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Mitochondrial DNA remains one of the most widely used molecular markers to reconstruct the phylogeny and phylogeography of closely related birds. It has been proposed that bird mitochondrial genomes evolve at a constant rate of ~0.01 substitution per site per million years, that is that they evolve according to a strict molecular clock. This molecular clock is often used in studies of bird mitochondrial phylogeny and molecular dating. However, rates of mitochondrial genome evolution vary among bird species and correlate with life history traits such as body mass and generation time. These correlations could cause systematic biases in molecular dating studies that assume a strict molecular clock. In this study, we overcome this issue by estimating corrected molecular rates for birds. Using complete or nearly complete mitochondrial genomes of 475 species, we show that there are strong relationships between body mass and substitution rates across birds. We use this information to build models that use bird species' body mass to estimate their substitution rates across a wide range of common mitochondrial markers. We demonstrate the use of these corrected molecular rates on two recently published data sets. In one case, we obtained molecular dates that are twice as old as the estimates obtained using the strict molecular clock. We hope that this method to estimate molecular rates will increase the accuracy of future molecular dating studies in birds.
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- Benoit Nabholz
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, UMR 5554, Université Montpellier place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier Cedex 5, 34095, France.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, 57 rue Cuvier, CP5175005, Paris, France
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Heneberg P, Dolinay M, Matušík H, Pfeiffer T, Nachtigall W, Bizos J, Šimčíková D, Literák I. Conservation of the Red Kite Milvus milvus (Aves: Accipitriformes) Is Not Affected by the Establishment of a Broad Hybrid Zone with the Black Kite Milvus migrans migrans in Central Europe. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0159202. [PMID: 27463515 PMCID: PMC4962980 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Among Accipitriformes sensu stricto, only a few species have been reported to form hybrid zones; these include the red kite Milvus milvus and black kite Milvus migrans migrans. M. milvus is endemic to the western Palearctic and has an estimated total population of 20-24,000 breeding pairs. The species was in decline until the 1970s due to persecution and has declined again since the 1990s due to ingestion of rodenticide-treated baits, illegal poisoning and changes in agricultural practices, particularly in its core range. Whereas F1 M. milvus × M. migr. migrans hybrid offspring have been found, F2 and F3 hybrids have only rarely been reported, with low nesting success rates of F1 hybrids and partial hybrid sterility likely playing a role. Here, we analyzed the mitochondrial (CO1 and CytB) and nuclear (Myc) DNA loci of 184 M. milvus, 124 M. migr. migrans and 3 F1 hybrid individuals collected across central Europe. In agreement with previous studies, we found low heterozygosity in M. milvus regardless of locus. We found that populations of both examined species were characterized by a high gene flow within populations, with all of the major haplotypes distributed across the entire examined area. Few haplotypes displayed statistically significant aggregation in one region over another. We did not find mitochondrial DNA of one species in individuals with the plumage of the other species, except in F1 hybrids, which agrees with Haldane´s Rule. It remains to be investigated by genomic methods whether occasional gene flow occurs through the paternal line, as the examined Myc gene displayed only marginal divergence between M. milvus and M. migr. migrans. The central European population of M. milvus is clearly subject to free intraspecific gene flow, which has direct implications when considering the origin of individuals in M. milvus re-introduction programs.
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- Petr Heneberg
- Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany and Zoology, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Czech Society for Ornithology, Working Group for Protection and Research of Raptors and Owls, Březolupy, Czech Republic
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- Förderverein Sächsische Vogelschutzwarte Neschwitz e. V., Neschwitz, Germany
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- Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, Department of Biology and Wildlife Diseases, Brno, Czech Republic
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Rutkowski R, Krupiński D, Kitowski I, Popović D, Gryczyńska A, Molak M, Dulisz B, Poprach K, Müller S, Müller R, Gierach KD. Genetic structure and diversity of breeding Montagu’s harrier (Circus pygargus) in Europe. EUR J WILDLIFE RES 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10344-015-0943-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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