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Continental phylogeography of an ecologically and morphologically diverse Neotropical songbird, Zonotrichia capensis.
Lougheed, Stephen C; Campagna, Leonardo; Dávila, José A; Tubaro, Pablo L; Lijtmaer, Darío A; Handford, Paul.
Afiliação
  • Lougheed SC; Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada. steve.lougheed@queensu.ca
BMC Evol Biol ; 13: 58, 2013 Mar 01.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23452908
BACKGROUND: The Neotropics are exceptionally diverse, containing roughly one third of all extant bird species on Earth. This remarkable species richness is thought to be a consequence of processes associated with both Andean orogenesis throughout the Tertiary, and climatic fluctuations during the Quaternary. Phylogeographic studies allow insights into how such events might have influenced evolutionary trajectories of species and ultimately contribute to a better understanding of speciation. Studies on continentally distributed species are of particular interest because different populations of such taxa may show genetic signatures of events that impacted the continent-wide biota. Here we evaluate the genealogical history of one of the world's most broadly-distributed and polytypic passerines, the rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis). RESULTS: We obtained control region DNA sequences from 92 Zonotrichia capensis individuals sampled across the species' range (Central and South America). Six additional molecular markers, both nuclear and mitochondrial, were sequenced for a subset of individuals with divergent control region haplotypes. Median-joining network analysis, and Bayesian and maximum parsimony phylogenetic analyses all recovered three lineages: one spanning Middle America, the Dominican Republic, and north-western South America; one encompassing the Dominican Republic, Roraima (Venezuela) and La Paz (Bolivia) south to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina; and a third, including eastern Argentina and Brazil. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the Middle American/north-western South American clade is sister to the remaining two. Bayesian and maximum likelihood coalescent simulations used to study lineage demographic history, diversification times, migration rates and population expansion together suggested that diversification of the three lineages occurred rapidly during the Pleistocene, with negligible gene flow, leaving genetic signatures of population expansions. CONCLUSIONS: The Pleistocene history of the rufous-collared sparrow involved extensive range expansion from a probable Central American origin. Its remarkable morphological and behavioral diversity probably represents recent responses to local conditions overlying deeper patterns of lineage diversity, which are themselves produced by isolation and the history of colonization of South America.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Aves Canoras / Filogeografia Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America do sul Idioma: En Revista: BMC Evol Biol Assunto da revista: BIOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Canadá País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Aves Canoras / Filogeografia Limite: Animals País/Região como assunto: America do sul Idioma: En Revista: BMC Evol Biol Assunto da revista: BIOLOGIA Ano de publicação: 2013 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Canadá País de publicação: Reino Unido