Towards a phylogenetic framework for the evolution of shakes, rattles, and rolls in Myiarchus tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae)

Joseph, Leo; Wilke, Thomas; Bermingham, Eldredge; Alpers, Deryn; Ricklefs, Robert E.

doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00259-8

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“…Indeed, a number of phylogenetic studies have uncovered genetically distinct lineages within many currently named lowland species (Aleixo 2002(Aleixo , 2004Marks et al 2002;Joseph et al 2003;Burns and Naoki 2004;Joseph et al 2004;Lovette 2004b;Armenta et al 2005;Cheviron et al 2005b). However, detailed population level sampling was not available for most species in my dataset.…”

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Divergent Timing and Patterns of Species Accumulation in Lowland and Highland Neotropical Birds

Weir¹

2006

Evolution

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Abstract. Late Pliocene and Pleistocene climatic instability has been invoked to explain the buildup of Neotropical biodiversity, although other theories date Neotropical diversification to earlier periods. If these climatic fluctuations drove Neotropical diversification, then a large proportion of species should date to this period and faunas should exhibit accelerated rates of speciation. However, the unique role of recent climatic fluctuations in promoting diversification could be rejected if late Pliocene and Pleistocene rates declined. To test these temporal predictions, dateable molecular phylogenies for 27 avian taxa were used to contrast the timing and rates of diversification in lowland and highland Neotropical faunas. Trends in diversification rates were analyzed in two ways. First, rates within taxa were analyzed for increasing or decreasing speciation rates through time. There was a significant trend within lowland taxa towards decreasing speciation rates, but no significant trend was observed within most highland taxa. Second, fauna wide diversification rates through time were estimated during one-million-year intervals by combining rates across taxa. In the lowlands, rates were highest during the late Miocene and then decreased towards the present. The decline in rates observed both within taxa and for the fauna as a whole probably resulted from density dependent cladogenesis. In the highlands, faunawide rates did not vary greatly before the Pleistocene but did increase significantly during the last one million years of the Pleistocene following the onset of severe glacial cycles in the Andes. These contrasting patterns of species accumulation suggest that lowland and highland regions were affected differently by recent climatic fluctuations. Evidently, habitat alterations associated with global climate change were not enough to promote an increase in the rate of diversification in lowland faunas. In contrast, direct fragmentation of habitats by glaciers and severe altitudinal migration of montane vegetation zones during climatic cycles may have resulted in the late Pleistocene increase in highland diversification rates. This increase resulted in a fauna with one third of its species dating to the last one million years.

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Divergent Timing and Patterns of Species Accumulation in Lowland and Highland Neotropical Birds

Weir¹

2006

Evolution

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“…More than a third of the studies show evidence of reverse colonization, revealing continental lineages nested within island clades (shown in bold in Table 1). The clearest examples included birds (bananaquit [30], flycatchers [31], monarch flycatchers [10], parrots [32], Darwin's finches [33], catbirds [34] and orioles [35]), lizards [11,36], frogs [9,37], short-faced bats [38], drosophilid flies [39] and turtles [40]. Only a few of these studies explicitly discussed the phenomenon of reverse colonization [10,11,39].…”

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Are islands the end of the colonization road?

Bellemain¹,

Ricklefs²

2008

Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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“…In stark contrast to bird taxonomy in temperate zones, genetic evidence for species limits in the Neotropics is often discordant with traditional taxonomy due to the high incidence of species complexes. These complexes commonly feature gradual variation in morphological and behavioural characters, masking the occurrence of similar species that can be uncovered with genetic analyses [11], [12], [13], [14], [15].…”

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DNA Barcode Detects High Genetic Structure within Neotropical Bird Species

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BackgroundTowards lower latitudes the number of recognized species is not only higher, but also phylogeographic subdivision within species is more pronounced. Moreover, new genetically isolated populations are often described in recent phylogenies of Neotropical birds suggesting that the number of species in the region is underestimated. Previous COI barcoding of Argentinean bird species showed more complex patterns of regional divergence in the Neotropical than in the North American avifauna.Methods and FindingsHere we analyzed 1,431 samples from 561 different species to extend the Neotropical bird barcode survey to lower latitudes, and detected even higher geographic structure within species than reported previously. About 93% (520) of the species were identified correctly from their DNA barcodes. The remaining 41 species were not monophyletic in their COI sequences because they shared barcode sequences with closely related species (N = 21) or contained very divergent clusters suggestive of putative new species embedded within the gene tree (N = 20). Deep intraspecific divergences overlapping with among-species differences were detected in 48 species, often with samples from large geographic areas and several including multiple subspecies. This strong population genetic structure often coincided with breaks between different ecoregions or areas of endemism.ConclusionsThe taxonomic uncertainty associated with the high incidence of non-monophyletic species and discovery of putative species obscures studies of historical patterns of species diversification in the Neotropical region. We showed that COI barcodes are a valuable tool to indicate which taxa would benefit from more extensive taxonomic revisions with multilocus approaches. Moreover, our results support hypotheses that the megadiversity of birds in the region is associated with multiple geographic processes starting well before the Quaternary and extending to more recent geological periods.

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Towards a phylogenetic framework for the evolution of shakes, rattles, and rolls in Myiarchus tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae)

Cited by 37 publications

References 33 publications

Divergent Timing and Patterns of Species Accumulation in Lowland and Highland Neotropical Birds

Divergent Timing and Patterns of Species Accumulation in Lowland and Highland Neotropical Birds

Are islands the end of the colonization road?

DNA Barcode Detects High Genetic Structure within Neotropical Bird Species

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