Continental phylogeography of an ecologically and morphologically diverse neotropical songbird, Zonotrichia capensis

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. Ph...

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Autores: Lougheed, Stephen C., Campagna, Leonardo, Dávila, José A., Tubaro, Pablo Luis, Lijtmaer, Dario Alejandro, Handford, Paul
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/1675
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/1675
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:COLONIZATION
DEMOGRAPHIC EXPANSION
INTRASPECIFIC DIVERGENCE
DNA SEQUENCES
PLEISTOCENE
RUFOUS-COLLARED SPARROW
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Sumario: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 continentwide 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).