Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae

A new genus for the Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata Sundevall, 1850 (Aves, Rallidae)

“…1. the topology is identical to that of García-r et al (2014a) (Livezey 1998) and Dna sequences (García-r et al 2014a), which showed that G. mortierii and G. ventralis are not closely related to other species of Gallinula (lineage 2 in Fig. 1 1998).…”

“…we conducted a phylogenetic analysis of the Fulica-clade using the same sequences and methods as García-r et al (2014a), but also including an available cytochrome b sequence of G. nesiotis obtained from GenBank (eF681998) which is the only marker shared between the datasets of Groenenberg et al (2008) and García-r et al (2014a). thus, we conducted Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood analyses of ~2900 bp of mitochondrial Dna (partial sequences of the mitochondrial genes cytochrome b, cytochrome oxidase subunit i and 16S ribosomal rna) and ~1900 bp of nuclear Dna (fragments of beta-fibrinogen intron 7 and Recombination Activating Gene 1).…”

“…thus, we conducted Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood analyses of ~2900 bp of mitochondrial Dna (partial sequences of the mitochondrial genes cytochrome b, cytochrome oxidase subunit i and 16S ribosomal rna) and ~1900 bp of nuclear Dna (fragments of beta-fibrinogen intron 7 and Recombination Activating Gene 1). We rooted the tree using an outgroup comprising species within the "Aramides" clade (García-r et al 2014a). …”

“…However, this strategy requires additional adjustments (some of which have already been adopted) to reconcile the systematic status of the gallinules, which are not a natural group. in this paper, we provide an updated molecular phylogeny of the "Fulica" clade (sensu García-r et al 2014a), including a member of the putative genus "Porphyriornis" (Gallinula nesiotis) which was not previously sampled (García-r et al 2014a), and a description of morphological characters to propose a new genus for the Lesser Moorhen.…”

“…Recent molecular phylogenetic analysis has clarified the relationships among rails and has shown that several currently recognized genera are not monophyletic (García-r et al 2014a). the study included nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data representing 70 species of rails in 22 of the 33 extant genera, including seven species traditionally placed in Gallinula Brisson, 1760.…”