TY - JOUR
T1 - From the Himalayas to a continental Island
T2 - Integrative species delimitation in the Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes complex
AU - Wei, Chentao
AU - Dong, Lu
AU - Li, Shou Hsien
AU - Alström, Per
AU - Liu, Yang
AU - Xia, Canwei
AU - Yao, Cheng Te
AU - Zhang, Yanyun
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Trevor D. Price and Urban Olsson for sharing samples with us. We thank Janet Hinshaw at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Jeremiah Trimble and Katherine Eldridge at Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ben Marks and Mary Hennen at the Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago, and Xiaojun Yang at Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology for generous help in access to their museum collections. We thank Ning Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Jonathan Schmitt and Kadeem Gilbert for logistic help to C. W. We thank Yuying Lin for generating the ML tree. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31172098 to Y.Z., No. 31471987 to L.D. and No. 31601868 to C.X.), and China Scholarship Council (No. 201506040160 to C.W.) and Swedish Research Council ( 2015-04402 ), Jornvall Foundation and Mark and Mo Constantine (to P.A.). We gratefully acknowledge the comments from two anonymous reviewers, which greatly improved the manuscript.
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PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - As species serve as basic units of study in many fields of biology, assessments of species limits are fundamental for such studies. Here, we used a multilocus dataset and different coalescent-based methods to analyze species delimitation and phylogenetic relationships in the Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes complex, which is widespread in the Sino-Himalayan region. We also examined the vocal and morphometric divergence within this complex. Our genetic results suggested that Horornis fortipes is composed of at least three independently evolving lineages, which diverged 1.1–1.8 million years ago. However, these lineages have hardly diverged in song or morphometrics and only very slightly in plumage. Our result indicate that there are three incipient species in Horonis fortipes complex diverged in central Himalayas and Hengduan Mountains, but not between the continent and Taiwan island.
AB - As species serve as basic units of study in many fields of biology, assessments of species limits are fundamental for such studies. Here, we used a multilocus dataset and different coalescent-based methods to analyze species delimitation and phylogenetic relationships in the Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler Horornis fortipes complex, which is widespread in the Sino-Himalayan region. We also examined the vocal and morphometric divergence within this complex. Our genetic results suggested that Horornis fortipes is composed of at least three independently evolving lineages, which diverged 1.1–1.8 million years ago. However, these lineages have hardly diverged in song or morphometrics and only very slightly in plumage. Our result indicate that there are three incipient species in Horonis fortipes complex diverged in central Himalayas and Hengduan Mountains, but not between the continent and Taiwan island.
KW - Coalescent-based species delimitation
KW - Horornis fortipes
KW - Incipient species
KW - Multispecies coalescent
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.009
DO - 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.009
M3 - Article
C2 - 30316948
AN - SCOPUS:85057793024
SN - 1055-7903
VL - 131
SP - 219
EP - 227
JO - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
JF - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
ER -