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Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation

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Moyle, Robert G., Oliveros, Carl H., Andersen, Michael J., Hosner, Peter A., Benz, Brett W., Manthey, Joseph D., Travers, Scott L., Brown, Rafe M. +1 more·2016·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/ncomms12709PMC PMC5013600
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Songbirds (oscine passerines) are the most species-rich and cosmopolitan bird group, comprising almost half of global avian diversity. Songbirds originated in Australia, but the evolutionary trajectory from a single species in an isolated continent to worldwide proliferation is poorly understood. Here, we combine the first comprehensive genome-scale DNA sequence data set for songbirds, fossil-based time calibrations, and geologically informed biogeographic reconstructions to provide a well-supported evolutionary hypothesis for the group. We show that songbird diversification began in the Oligocene, but accelerated in the early Miocene, at approximately half the age of most previous estimates. This burst of diversification occurred coincident with extensive island formation in Wallacea, which provided the first dispersal corridor out of Australia, and resulted in independent waves of songbird expansion through Asia to the rest of the globe. Our results reconcile songbird evolution with Earth history and link a major radiation of terrestrial biodiversity to early diversification within an isolated Australian continent.

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Moyle, R. G., Oliveros, C. H., Andersen, M. J., Hosner, P. A., Benz, B. W., Manthey, J. D., Travers, S. L., Brown, R. M., & Faircloth, B. C.
Affiliations
  • University of Kansas (US)
  • University of New Mexico (US)
  • University of Florida (US)
  • American Museum of Natural History (US)
  • Louisiana State University (US)
Corresponding author
Moyle, Robert G.
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Venue
Nature Communications
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-08-30
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
12709-12709
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/ncomms12709
PMC
PMC5013600
OpenAlex
W2510851398
Cited by
240
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Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1146345, 1241181, P20GM103638, 1337899)
  • Yale University
  • University of Washington
  • Louisiana State University
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Burke Museum, University of Washington
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P20GM103638)
  • Division of Environmental Biology (1241181, 1146345)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
Keywords
songbirds, oscine passerines, avian diversification, Wallacea, tectonic collision, uplift, island formation, biogeography, dispersal corridors, Oligocene, Miocene, fossil calibration, genome-scale phylogeny, global radiation
MeSH terms
Animals, Asia, Australia, Fossils, Phylogeny, Population Dynamics, Genome, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Songbirds, Genomics, Biodiversity, Genetic Speciation

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