| an empirical comparison of character-based and coalescent-based approaches to species delimitation in a young avian complex. | the process of discovering species is a fundamental responsibility of systematics. recently, there has been a growing interest in coalescent-based methods of species delimitation aimed at objectively identifying species early in the divergence process. however, few empirical studies have compared these new methods with character-based approaches for discovering species. in this study, we applied both a character-based and a coalescent-based approaches to delimit species in a closely related avia ... | 2013 | 24073650 |
| lineages differentiation and population structure of the light-vented bulbul pycnonotus sinensis in china based on mitochondrial dna and microsatellite analysis. | the light-vented bulbul pycnonotus sinensis is a small resident passerine that is found widely in central and south china, north vietnam, and some east asian islands, including hainan, taiwan and the ryukyu islands. its subspecies status has been under considerable debate. a total of 10 subspecies have been proposed, but only 4 are widely recognized, including 1 continental taxon, p. s. sinensis, and 3 insular subspecies: p. s. hainanus, p. s. formosae and p. s. orii. two mitochondrial dna genes ... | 2011 | 22182330 |