The African warbler genus Hyliota as a lost lineage in the Oscine songbird tree: molecular support for an African origin of the Passerida. Academic Article

abstract

• The African genus Hyliota includes three or four species of warbler-like birds of uncertain phylogenetic affinities, as it has historically been placed in different avian families that are now known to represent unrelated lineages: Malaconotidae (bush-shrikes), Platysteiridae (batises and wattle-eyes), Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers) and Sylviidae (Old-World Warblers). To assess the affinities of Hyliota we sequenced a mitochondrial protein-coding gene (ND2, 1018bp) and a nuclear intron (myoglobin intron-2, 685bp). Our analyses suggest that all previous hypotheses concerning the affinities of Hyliota are erroneous. Instead, Hyliota represents a basal branch in the Passerida radiation with no close relatives. Our results, which also include analyses of relationships among other of other atypical songbird genera, lend support to an African origin of the Passerida songbird radiation.

authors

• Voelker, Gary

published proceedings

• Mol Phylogenet Evol

altmetric score

• 13

author list (cited authors)

• Fuchs, J., Fjelds, J., Bowie, R., Voelker, G., & Pasquet, E.

citation count

• 57

complete list of authors

• Fuchs, Jérôme||Fjeldså, Jon||Bowie, Rauri CK||Voelker, Gary||Pasquet, Eric

publication date

• April 2006

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution  Journal

keywords

• Africa
• Animals
• Bayes Theorem
• DNA, Mitochondrial
• Introns
• Myoglobin
• Nadh Dehydrogenase
• Passeriformes
• Phylogeny
• Songbirds
• Sparrows

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.07.020

start page

• 186

end page

• 197

volume

• 39

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2005.07.020