Evolution in Australasian Mangrove Forests: Multilocus Phylogenetic Analysis of the Gerygone Warblers (Aves: Acanthizidae)
dc.contributor.author | Nyári, Árpád S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Joseph, Leo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-19T20:34:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-19T20:34:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-02-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Nyári, Á. S., & Joseph, L. (2012). Evolution in Australasian Mangrove Forests: Multilocus Phylogenetic Analysis of the Gerygone Warblers (Aves: Acanthizidae). PLoS ONE, 7(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031840 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13275 | |
dc.description.abstract | The mangrove forests of Australasia have many endemic bird species but their evolution and radiation in those habitats has been little studied. One genus with several mangrove specialist species is Gerygone (Passeriformes: Acanthizidae). The phylogeny of the Acanthizidae is reasonably well understood but limited taxon sampling for Gerygone has constrained understanding of its evolution and historical biogeography in mangroves. Here we report on a phylogenetic analysis of Gerygone based on comprehensive taxon sampling and a multilocus dataset of thirteen loci spread across the avian genome (eleven nuclear and two mitochondrial loci). Since Gerygone includes three species restricted to Australia's coastal mangrove forests, we particularly sought to understand the biogeography of their evolution in that ecosystem. Analyses of individual loci, as well as of a concatenated dataset drawn from previous molecular studies indicates that the genus as currently defined is not monophyletic, and that the Grey Gerygone (G. cinerea) from New Guinea should be transferred to the genus Acanthiza. The multilocus approach has permitted the nuanced view of the group's evolution into mangrove ecosystems having occurred on multiple occasions, in three non-overlapping time frames, most likely first by the G. magnirostris lineage, and subsequently followed by those of G. tenebrosa and G. levigaster. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | CSIRO Ecosystems Science (CES), Atlas of Living Australia provided funding for laboratory work, consumables and travel within Australia. The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute provided funding for laboratory consumables, sequencing fees and data analysis. The American Museum of Natural History Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund provided funding for laboratory consumables and sequencing fees. | |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | |
dc.rights | © 2012 Nyári, Joseph. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Genetic lovi | |
dc.subject | Genome evolution | |
dc.subject | Mangrove swamps | |
dc.subject | Mitochondria | |
dc.subject | Phylogenetics | |
dc.subject | Phylogeography | |
dc.subject | Topology | |
dc.subject | Trees | |
dc.title | Evolution in Australasian Mangrove Forests: Multilocus Phylogenetic Analysis of the Gerygone Warblers (Aves: Acanthizidae) | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Nyári, Árpád S. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | |
kusw.kudepartment | Biodiversity Institute | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0031840 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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