Molecular Evidence That the Bonin Islands "Honeyeater" Is a White-eye

Springer, Mark S.; Higuchi, Hiroyoshi; Ueda, Keisuke; Minton, Jason; Sibley, Charles G.

doi:10.3312/jyio1952.27.66

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“…The Kishino-Hasegawa test did not indicate a significant difference between the best maximum-likelihood tree and the maximum-likelihood tree that includes all of the scDNA hybridization constraints. Our study falls in line with others where DNA hybridization and DNA sequence results are in general agreement (31,32).…”

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Old World fruitbat phylogeny: Evidence for convergent evolution and an endemic African clade

Hollar

Springer²

1997

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Knud Andersen (1912, Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collections of the British Museum: I. Megachiroptera, British Museum of Natural History, London) divided Old World fruitbats (family Pteropodidae) into the rousettine, cynopterine, epomophorine, eonycterine, and notopterine sections. The latter two sections comprise the subfamily Macroglossinae; members of this subfamily exhibit specializations for nectarivory (e.g., elongated, protrusible, brushy tongues) and cluster together in cladistic analyses based on anatomical characters. Other evidence, including single-copy DNA hybridization, suggests that macroglossines are either paraphyletic or polyphyletic; this implies that adaptations for pollen and nectar feeding evolved independently in different macroglossine lineages or were lost in nonmacroglossines after evolving in a more basal common ancestor. Hybridization data also contradict Andersen's phylogeny in providing support for an endemic African clade that includes representatives of three of Andersen's sections. Here, we present complete mitochondrial 12S rRNA and valine tRNA gene sequences for 20 pteropodids, including representatives of all of Andersen's sections, and examine the aforementioned controversies. Maximum likelihood, minimum evolution, and maximum parsimony analyses all contradict macroglossine monophyly and provide support for an African clade that associates Megaloglossus and Lissonycteris and those two with Epomophorus. In conjunction with the DNA hybridization results, there are now independent lines of molecular evidence suggesting: (i) convergent evolution of specializations for nectarivory, at least in Megaloglossus versus other macroglossines, and (ii) a previously unrecognized clade of endemic Africa taxa. Estimates of divergence time based on 12S rRNA and DNA hybridization data are also in good agreement and suggest that extant fruitbats trace back to a common ancestor 25 million to 36 million years ago.

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Old World fruitbat phylogeny: Evidence for convergent evolution and an endemic African clade

Hollar

Springer²

1997

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…A. familiare was described originally by von Kittlitz (1831) as a bulbul (Pycnonotidae), but later was placed variously in Timaliidae (Bonaparte 1854), Sylviidae (Sharpe 1882) and Meliphagidae (Deignan 1958). Recently, Springer et al . (1995) studied the 12S rRNA sequence of this species and showed that A. familiare is a member of the White‐eye family (Zosteropidae).…”

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“…They are known from the Izu Islands and the Volcano Islands, which lie to the north and south of the Bonin Islands, respectively. Thus it was considered unusual that they were absent from the Bonin Islands until the discovery by Springer et al . (1995).…”

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Interspecific interactions between the native and introduced White‐eyes in the Bonin Islands

Kawakami

Higuchi

2003

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The impact of the introduced White‐eye Zosterops japonicus on the endemic White‐eye Apalopteron familiare was studied on Hahajima and Chichijima of the Bonin Islands. A. familiare preferred primary forests whereas Z. japonicus preferred open habitats, but their distribution greatly overlapped in secondary forests. The population density of A. familiare was stable whereas the Z. japonicus population had increased in number over the last 20 years, probably because of an increase in the area of open habitats. The data suggested that the population density of A. familiare had not been affected by the spreading Z. japonicus. The body weight of fledgling A. familiare was not affected significantly by the presence of Z. japonicus. Food items taken by A. familiare were similar to those of Z. japonicus. Where the species did not coexist, A. familiare foraged at all heights of the forest, but in the area of overlap, this species reduced its use of higher parts of the forest canopy where Z. japonicus foraged frequently. The food selection of A. familiare, however, did not change in the presence of Z. japonicus. This study detected almost no negative ecological relationship between Z. japonicus and A. familiare and suggests that competition is not a significant threat to either species. A. familiare may, if anything, benefit from Z. japonicus by forming a mixed‐species flock in the non‐breeding season.

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“…Compared with white‐eyes, the bill is strong (Hachisuka 1930, Mees 1969), conical and slightly curved, and has round nasal openings entirely closed posteriorly by an operculum, as in most granivorous passeroid groups, but unlike white‐eyes, which have long, slit‐like nostrils placed below an elongate horizontal operculum. Open nostrils are also seen in the Bonin White‐eye Apalopteron familiare , which may be related to the Golden White‐eye Cleptornis marchei (Springer et al. 1995) or the Stachyris group of babblers (Moyle et al.…”

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The Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus is a forest canopy sparrow

Fjeldså

Irestedt

Ericson

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The Cinnamon Ibon inhabits the canopy of cloud‐forest of Mindanao Island in the Philippines, and has until now been classified as an aberrant member of the Zosteropidae (white‐eyes). We assessed the systematic position of this enigmatic species using DNA sequence data (two mitochondrial markers, two nuclear introns and two nuclear exons) and broad taxon sampling. The species was robustly placed among the granivorous passeroid clades, as a basal branch in the family of true sparrows, Passeridae. Morphological data lend further support, as the Cinnamon Ibon shows similar specialization of the skull as other granivorous passeroids. The species’ restricted distribution in the montane cloud‐forest of the island of Mindanao, which is of oceanic origin, is difficult to explain without assuming an over‐water dispersal event.

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Molecular Evidence That the Bonin Islands "Honeyeater" Is a White-eye

Cited by 12 publications

References 20 publications

Old World fruitbat phylogeny: Evidence for convergent evolution and an endemic African clade

Old World fruitbat phylogeny: Evidence for convergent evolution and an endemic African clade

Interspecific interactions between the native and introduced White‐eyes in the Bonin Islands

The Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus is a forest canopy sparrow

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