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Bolívar‐Leguizamón SD, Bocalini F, Silveira LF, Bravo GA. The role of biogeographical barriers on the historical dynamics of passerine birds with a circum-Amazonian distribution. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e10860. [PMID: 38450322 PMCID: PMC10915597 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024] Open
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Common distributional patterns have provided the foundations of our knowledge of Neotropical biogeography. A distinctive pattern is the "circum-Amazonian distribution", which surrounds Amazonia across the forested lowlands south and east of the basin, the Andean foothills, the Venezuelan Coastal Range, and the Tepuis. The underlying evolutionary and biogeographical mechanisms responsible for this widespread pattern of avian distribution have yet to be elucidated. Here, we test the effects of biogeographical barriers in four species in the passerine family Thamnophilidae by performing comparative demographic analyses of genome-scale data. Specifically, we used flanking regions of ultraconserved regions to estimate population historical parameters and genealogical trees and tested demographic models reflecting contrasting biogeographical scenarios explaining the circum-Amazonian distribution. We found that taxa with circum-Amazonian distribution have at least two main phylogeographical clusters: (1) Andes, often extending into Central America and the Tepuis; and (2) the remaining of their distribution. These clusters are connected through corridors along the Chaco-Cerrado and southeastern Amazonia, allowing gene flow between Andean and eastern South American populations. Demographic histories are consistent with Pleistocene climatic fluctuations having a strong influence on the diversification history of circum-Amazonian taxa, Refugia played a crucial role, enabling both phenotypic and genetic differentiation, yet maintaining substantial interconnectedness to keep considerable levels of gene flow during different dry/cool and warm/humid periods. Additionally, steep environmental gradients appear to play a critical role in maintaining both genetic and phenotypic structure.
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- Sergio D. Bolívar‐Leguizamón
- Seção de AvesMuseu de Zoologia da Universidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
- Laboratório de Zoologia de Vertebrados, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” –ESALQ–Universidade de São PauloPiracicabaBrazil
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- Seção de AvesMuseu de Zoologia da Universidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
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- Seção de AvesMuseu de Zoologia da Universidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
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- Seção de AvesMuseu de Zoologia da Universidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
- Sección de Ornitología, Colecciones Biológicas, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von HumboldtClaustro de San AgustínVilla de Leyva, BoyacáColombia
- Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyHarvard UniversityCambridgeMassachusettsUSA
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Wacker KS, Winger BM. An Elevational Phylogeographic Diversity Gradient in Neotropical Birds Is Decoupled from Speciation Rates. Am Nat 2024; 203:362-381. [PMID: 38358813 DOI: 10.1086/728598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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AbstractA key question about macroevolutionary speciation rates is whether they are controlled by microevolutionary processes operating at the population level. For example, does spatial variation in population genetic differentiation underlie geographical gradients in speciation rates? Previous work suggests that speciation rates increase with elevation in Neotropical birds, but underlying population-level gradients remain unexplored. Here, we characterize elevational phylogeographic diversity between montane and lowland birds in the megadiverse Andes-Amazonian system and assess its relationship to speciation rates to evaluate the link between population-level differentiation and species-level diversification. We aggregated and georeferenced nearly 7,000 mitochondrial DNA sequences across 103 species or species complexes in the Andes and Amazonia and used these sequences to describe phylogeographic differentiation across both regions. Our results show increased levels of both discrete and continuous metrics of population structure in the Andean mountains compared with the Amazonian lowlands. However, higher levels of population differentiation do not predict higher rates of speciation in our dataset. Multiple potential factors may lead to our observed decoupling of initial population divergence and speciation rates, including the ephemerality of incipient species and the multifaceted nature of the speciation process, as well as methodological challenges associated with estimating rates of population differentiation and speciation.
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Machkour-M’Rabet S, Santamaría-Rivero W, Dzib-Chay A, Torres Cristiani L, MacKinnon-Haskins B. Multi-character approach reveals a new mangrove population of the Yellow Warbler complex, Setophaga petechia, on Cozumel Island, Mexico. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0287425. [PMID: 37347741 PMCID: PMC10287016 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
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The Setophaga petechia complex includes 43 subspecies distributed within the new world, of which some are migratory and others are resident, with only two resident subspecies in the Mexican Caribbean: Setophaga petechia bryanti a mangrove subspecies belonging to the erithachorides group resident on the mainland of the Yucatan Peninsula and Setophaga petechia rufivertex endemic to Cozumel Island and belonging to the petechia group. Recently, a new population of individuals presenting intermediate phenotypic traits and living in mangrove ecosystems was discovered and reported for Cozumel Island. In this study, we used a multi-character approach including genetic (five ISSR genetic markers), morphometric (eight traits), phenotypic (four characteristics of males), and acoustic dataset (11 parameters) to understand the process of differentiation and the status of these new island individuals in relation to the two well-established subspecies using a total of 60 individuals (20 for each group). Through multivariate analyses based on different dataset used in our study, we show how the new population is related to the endemic island subspecies, S. p. rufivertex and to the mainland subspecies, S. p. bryanti while demonstrating finite differences. We conclude that the new population of S. petechia on Cozumel Island is a well-established population with high level of differentiation.
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- Salima Machkour-M’Rabet
- Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular y Conservación, Departamento de Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular y Conservación, Departamento de Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
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E Luzuriaga-Aveiga V, Ugarte M, Weir JT. Distinguishing genomic homogenization from parapatric speciation in an elevationally replacing pair of Ramphocelus tanagers. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:5517-5529. [PMID: 34403554 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Geographically connected species pairs with weakly differentiated genomes could either represent cases of genomic homogenization in progress or of incipient parapatric speciation. Discriminating between these processes is difficult because intermediate stages of either may produce weakly differentiated genomes that diverge at few locations. We used coalescent modelling applied to a genome-wide sample of SNPs to discriminate between speciation with gene flow and genomic homogenization in two phenotypically distinct but genomically weakly diverged species of elevationally replacing Ramphocelus tanagers, forming a hybrid zone in the Andean foothills. We found overwhelming support for a model of genomic homogenization following secondary contact. Simulating under this model suggested that our species pair was differentiated (FST = 0.30) at secondary contact but that most of the genome has rapidly homogenized during 254 Ky of high gene flow towards the present (FST = 0.02). Despite extensive genome-wide homogenization, plumage remains distinctive with a narrower than expected geographic cline width, indicating divergent selection on colour. We found two SNPs significantly associated with plumage colour, which retain moderately high FST . We conclude that the majority of the genome has fused, but that divergent selection on select loci probably maintains the geographically structured colour differences between these incipient species.
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- Vanessa E Luzuriaga-Aveiga
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Área de Ornitología, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Museo de Historia Natural Arequipa, Peru
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Ornithology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Raposo do Amaral F, Thom G, Lima-Ribeiro MS, Alvarado-Serrano DF, Montesanti JAC, Pellegrino KCM, Miyaki CY, Hickerson MJ, Maldonado-Coelho M. Rugged relief and climate promote isolation and divergence between two neotropical cold-associated birds. Evolution 2021; 75:2371-2387. [PMID: 34375460 DOI: 10.1111/evo.14318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2020] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The role of historical factors in establishing patterns of diversity in tropical mountains is of interest to understand the buildup of megadiverse biotas. In these regions, the historical processes of range fragmentation and contraction followed by dispersal are thought to be mediated by the interplay between rugged relief (complex topography) and climate fluctuations and likely explain most of the dynamics of diversification in plants and animals. Although empirical studies addressing the interaction between climate and topography have provided invaluable insights into population divergence and speciation patterns in tropical montane organisms, a more detailed and robust test of such processes in an explicit spatio-temporal framework is still lacking. Consequently, our ability to gain insights into historical range shifts over time and the genomic footprint left by them is limited. Here, we used niche modeling and subgenomic population-level datasets to explore the evolution of two species of warbling finches (genus Microspingus) disjunctly distributed across the Montane Atlantic Forest, a Neotropical region with complex geological and environmental histories. Population structure inferences suggest a scenario of three genetically differentiated populations, which are congruent with both geography and phenotypic variation. Demographic simulations support asynchronous isolation of these populations as recently as ∼40,000 years ago, relatively stable population sizes over recent time, and past gene flow subsequent to divergence. Throughout the last 800,000 years, niche models predicted extensive expansion into lowland areas with increasing overlap of species distributions during glacial periods, with prominent retractions and isolation into higher altitudes during interglacials, which are in line with signs of introgression of currently isolated populations. These results support a dual role of cyclical climatic changes: population divergence and persistence in mountain tops during warm periods followed by periods of expansion and admixture in lower elevations during cold periods. Our results underscore the role of the interplay between landscape and climate as an important mechanism in the evolution of the Neotropical montane biota.
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- Fábio Raposo do Amaral
- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Diadema, SP, 09972-270, Brazil
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- Department of Ornithology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192, USA
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Jataí, CP 03, Jataí, GO, 75804-020, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, Life Sciences Building R219, Athens, OH, 45701, USA
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Diadema, SP, 09972-270, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Diadema, SP, 09972-270, Brazil
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- Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 277, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, City College of New York, 160, Convent Avenue, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Professor Artur Riedel, 275, Diadema, SP, 09972-270, Brazil.,Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, SE-223 62, Sweden
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Gutierrez-Pinto N, Londoño GA, Chappell MA, Storz JF. A test of altitude-related variation in aerobic metabolism of Andean birds. J Exp Biol 2021; 224:1-6. [PMID: 34060605 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.237990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Endotherms at high altitude face the combined challenges of cold and hypoxia. Cold increases thermoregulatory costs, and hypoxia may limit both thermogenesis and aerobic exercise capacity. Consequently, in comparisons between closely related highland and lowland taxa, we might expect to observe consistent differences in basal metabolic rate (BMR), maximal metabolic rate (MMR) and aerobic scope. Broad-scale comparative studies of birds reveal no association between BMR and native elevation, and altitude effects on MMR have not been investigated. We tested for altitude-related variation in aerobic metabolism in 10 Andean passerines representing five pairs of closely related species with contrasting elevational ranges. Mass-corrected BMR and MMR were significantly higher in most highland species relative to their lowland counterparts, but there was no uniform elevational trend across all pairs of species. Our results suggest that there is no simple explanation regarding the ecological and physiological causes of elevational variation in aerobic metabolism.
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Icesi, Cali 760031, Colombia
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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Linck E, Freeman BG, Dumbacher JP. Speciation and gene flow across an elevational gradient in New Guinea kingfishers. J Evol Biol 2020; 33:1643-1652. [PMID: 32916016 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.13698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Closely related species with parapatric elevational ranges are ubiquitous in tropical mountains worldwide. The gradient speciation hypothesis proposes that these series are the result of in situ ecological speciation driven by divergent selection across elevation. Direct tests of this scenario have been hampered by the difficulty inferring the geographic arrangement of populations at the time of divergence. In cichlids, sticklebacks and Timema stick insects, support for ecological speciation driven by other selective pressures has come from demonstrating parallel speciation, where divergence proceeds independently across replicated environmental gradients. Here, we take advantage of the unique geography of the island of New Guinea to test for parallel gradient speciation in replicated populations of Syma kingfishers that show extremely subtle differentiation across elevation and between historically isolated mountain ranges. We find that currently described high-elevation and low-elevation species have reciprocally monophyletic gene trees and form nuclear DNA clusters, rejecting this hypothesis. However, demographic modelling suggests selection has likely maintained species boundaries in the face of gene flow following secondary contact. We compile evidence from the published literature to show that although in situ gradient speciation in labile organisms such as birds appears rare, divergent selection and post-speciation gene flow may be an underappreciated force in the origin of elevational series and tropical beta diversity along mountain slopes.
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- Ethan Linck
- Department of Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Ornithology & Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Zamudio-Beltrán LE, Licona-Vera Y, Hernández-Baños BE, Klicka J, Ornelas JF. Phylogeography of the widespread white-eared hummingbird (Hylocharis leucotis): pre-glacial expansion and genetic differentiation of populations separated by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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AbstractThe Pleistocene glacial cycles had a strong influence on the demography and genetic structure of many species, particularly on northern-latitude taxa. Here we studied the phylogeography of the white-eared hummingbird (Hylocharis leucotis), a widely distributed species of the highlands of Mexico and Central America. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences was combined with ecological niche modelling (ENM) to infer the demographic and population differentiation scenarios under present and past conditions. Analyses of 108 samples from 11 geographic locations revealed population structure and genetic differentiation among populations separated by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (IT) and the Motagua-Polochic-Jocotán (MPJ) fault barriers. ENM predicted a widespread distribution of suitable habitat for H. leucotis since the Last Inter Glacial (LIG), but this habitat noticeably contracted and fragmented at the IT. Models for historical dispersal corridors based on population genetics data and ENM revealed the existence of corridors among populations west of the IT; however, the connectivity of populations across the IT has changed little since the LIG. The shallow geographic structure on either side of the isthmus and a star-like haplotype network, combined with the long-term persistence of populations across time based on genetic data and potential dispersal routes, support a scenario of divergence with migration and subsequent isolation and differentiation in Chiapas and south of the MPJ fault. Our findings corroborate the profound effects of Pleistocene climatic fluctuations on the evolutionary history of montane taxa but challenge the generality of expanded suitable habitat (pine-oak forests) during glacial cycles.
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- Luz E Zamudio-Beltrán
- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Asociación Civil (INECOL), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, Asociación Civil (INECOL), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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Origin of Elevational Replacements in a Clade of Nearly Flightless Birds: Most Diversity in Tropical Mountains Accumulates via Secondary Contact Following Allopatric Speciation. NEOTROPICAL DIVERSIFICATION: PATTERNS AND PROCESSES 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Gutiérrez‐Pinto N, McCracken KG, Tubaro P, Kopuchian C, Astie A, Cadena CD. Molecular and morphological differentiation among Torrent Duck (
Merganetta armata
) populations in the Andes. ZOOL SCR 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Natalia Gutiérrez‐Pinto
- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva de Vertebrados, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia
- School of Biological Sciences University of Nebraska Lincoln Nebraska
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- Department of Biology University of Miami Coral Gables Florida
- Department of Marine Biology and Ecology Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Miami Florida
- Institute of Arctic Biology University of Alaska Museum Fairbanks Alaska
- Department of Biology and Wildlife University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks Alaska
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- División Ornitología Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN ‐ CONICET) Buenos Aires Argentina
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- División Ornitología Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN ‐ CONICET) Buenos Aires Argentina
- Centro de Ecología Aplicada del Litoral (CECOAL‐CONICET) Corrientes Argentina
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- Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (CONICET‐CCT Mendoza) Mendoza Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Biología Evolutiva de Vertebrados, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia
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Tsai WL, Mota-Vargas C, Rojas-Soto O, Bhowmik R, Liang EY, Maley JM, Zarza E, McCormack JE. Museum genomics reveals the speciation history of Dendrortyx wood-partridges in the Mesoamerican highlands. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 136:29-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 03/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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