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A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data

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Barker, F. Keith, Barrowclough, George F., Groth, Jeff G.·2002·Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2001.1883PMC PMC1690884
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Passerine birds comprise over half of avian diversity, but have proved difficult to classify. Despite a long history of work on this group, no comprehensive hypothesis of passerine family-level relationships was available until recent analyses of DNA-DNA hybridization data. Unfortunately, given the value of such a hypothesis in comparative studies of passerine ecology and behaviour, the DNA-hybridization results have not been well tested using independent data and analytical approaches. Therefore, we analysed nucleotide sequence variation at the nuclear RAG-1 and c-mos genes from 69 passerine taxa, including representatives of most currently recognized families. In contradiction to previous DNA-hybridization studies, our analyses suggest paraphyly of suboscine passerines because the suboscine New Zealand wren Acanthisitta was found to be sister to all other passerines. Additionally, we reconstructed the parvorder Corvida as a basal paraphyletic grade within the oscine passerines. Finally, we found strong evidence that several family-level taxa are misplaced in the hybridization results, including the Alaudidae, Irenidae, and Melanocharitidae. The hypothesis of relationships we present here suggests that the oscine passerines arose on the Australian continental plate while it was isolated by oceanic barriers and that a major northern radiation of oscines (i.e. the parvorder Passerida) originated subsequent to dispersal from the south.

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Authors
Barker, F. K., Barrowclough, G. F., & Groth, J. G.
Affiliations
American Museum of Natural History (US)
Corresponding author
Barker, F. Keith
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
Publisher
The Royal Society
Published
2002-02-07
Volume
269
Issue
1488
Pages
295-308
ISSN
  • 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
  • 0962-8452
  • 1471-2954
DOI
10.1098/rspb.2001.1883
PMC
PMC1690884
OpenAlex
W2112388934
Cited by
377
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123
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FWCI
36.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • University of Washington
  • Field Museum
  • Burke Museum, University of Washington
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 › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
Passeriformes, phylogenetic relationships, nuclear DNA sequences, suboscine passerines, oscine passerines, Alaudidae, biogeography, dispersal, family-level classification, paraphyly
MeSH terms
Animals, Base Sequence, Geography, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Genetic Variation, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Evolution, Molecular, Songbirds

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