Longspurs and snow buntings: phylogeny and biogeography of a high-latitude clade (Calcarius)

Klicka, John; Zink, Robert M.; Winker, Kevin

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“…Subsequently (Paynter 1970;AOU 1983AOU , 1998, Rhynchophanes was merged with Calcarius, evidently on the basis of a hybrid R. mccownii × C. ornatus (Sibley and Pettingill 1955). Klicka et al (2003), using mitochondrial data, found Calcarius as presently recognized to be paraphyletic: mccownii is more closely related to the Plectrophenax buntings than to the other species in Calcarius, consistent with some evidence of morphological differences among these three groups (Baird 1858 Notes.-Analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA (Yuri and Mindell 2002, Klicka et al 2003, Alström et al 2008 have shown that Calcarius, Rhynchophanes, and Plectrophenax are not closely allied to buntings in the genus Emberiza, nor to other members of the Emberizidae, where they were formerly placed (e.g., AOU 1983AOU , 1998. Instead, species in these genera were found to form a well-supported clade that diverged early in the radiation of the New World nine-primaried oscines.…”

Section: Peucaea Sumichrasti Peucaea Carpalis Peucaea Ruficauda Peucamentioning

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Barker

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The Auk

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Section: Peucaea Sumichrasti Peucaea Carpalis Peucaea Ruficauda Peucamentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Buntings in the genus Plectrophenax and the longspurs ( Calcarius ) represent a clade of comparatively high‐latitude origin in the family Emberizidae (Klicka et al. 2003).…”

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“…hyperboreus ) and snow buntings ( P . nivalis ) are the least‐differentiated members of the clade, both morphologically and genetically (Lyon & Montgomerie 1995; Klicka et al. 2003).…”

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Diversification at high latitudes: speciation of buntings in the genusPlectrophenaxinferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers

Maley

Winker

2010

Molecular Ecology

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High-latitude diversification is a process characterized by speciation and extinction due to climatically driven vicariance and dispersal events. McKay's buntings (Plectrophenax hyperboreus) are high-latitude island endemic songbirds, and their global range is restricted to Beringia. Snow buntings (P. nivalis), their closest relatives, are distributed throughout the Holarctic, breeding in available habitat surrounding the island range of McKay's buntings. We sequenced 1123 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA for 40 individuals of each species and analysed a total of 913 AFLPs for 57 individuals. Both marker types suggested weak but significant genetic differentiation. Analysis of sequence data indicated divergence occurring when the current breeding range of McKay's buntings was a hill on the Beringian steppe (approximately 18,400 to approximately 73,700 years before present), suggesting that snow buntings were restricted to lower latitudes by ice sheets. Ancestral effective population size estimates indicate a founder event in McKay's buntings followed by an expansion and then a reduction in effective size. Rising sea levels and asymmetric hybridization from McKay's buntings into the postglacially-colonizing population of snow buntings could account for this reduction. Reproductive isolation is likely maintained through differential arrival dates on breeding grounds and the high breeding density of McKay's buntings. This recent, high-latitude divergence best fits a model of founder event speciation driven by vicariance and oscillations in habitat due to climate change.

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“…This gene has proved to be helpful in defining evolutionary relationships among relatively distant and closely related birds, even at the subspecies level (Questiau et al 1998;Friesen et al 1996). Songbird genera (about 6,000 worldwide species) have been thus surveyed; also superfamilies and other groups have been more precisely defined, such as (1) Corvoidea [logrunners , ravens (Omland et al 2000), crows (Kriukov and Suzuki 2000), vireos (Cicero and Johnson 1998), African monarchs (Pasquet et al 2002)], (2) Polioptilidae [gnatcatchers ], Sylvioidea [reed warblers (Helbig and Seibold 1999), swallows (Whittingham et al 2002), babblers (Cibois et al 1999), crests and kinglets (Packert et al 2003), tits (Salzburger et al 2002a, b)], (3) Menuroidea, lyrebirds (Ericson et al 2002), and (4) Passeroidea [siskins (Arnaiz-Villena et al 1998), canaries (Arnaiz-Villena et al 1999), and others members of tribe Carduelini / Emphasis> , Old-World sparrows , tanagers (Burns 1997;Hackett 1996), towhees , pipits (Voelker 1999), longspurs and snow buntings (Klicka et al 2003), warbling-finches (Lougheed et al 2000), Darwin's finches (Sato et al 1999(Sato et al , 2001 as well as many others groups of the Fringillidae family (Yuri and Mindell 2002)]. …”

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Rhodopechys obsoleta (desert finch): a pale ancestor of greenfinches (Carduelis spp.) according to molecular phylogeny

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The evolutionary history of three out of four birds traditionally classified into the genus Rhodopechys birds has been studied by comparing their mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequence with that of greenfinches and other genus Carduelis finches. The desert finch (Rhodopechys obsoleta) or a sister extinct species seems to have existed about 6 million years ago in Asian and perhaps African desert-like areas. This bird has no molecular relationship with other Rhodopechys birds and seems to have given rise to the greenfinches radiation, probably by allopatry of marginal or isolated groups; the latter would have evolved to green plumage colours and more simple song modulations (i.e., greenfinches). The possible role of assortative mating and the newly postulated acquired phenotypic characters in greenfinches speciation are discussed.

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Longspurs and snow buntings: phylogeny and biogeography of a high-latitude clade (Calcarius)

Cited by 37 publications

References 37 publications

Fifty-First Supplement to the American Ornithologists' UnionCheck-List of North American Birds

Fifty-First Supplement to the American Ornithologists' UnionCheck-List of North American Birds

Diversification at high latitudes: speciation of buntings in the genusPlectrophenaxinferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers

Rhodopechys obsoleta (desert finch): a pale ancestor of greenfinches (Carduelis spp.) according to molecular phylogeny

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