| multi-locus sequence data illuminate demographic drivers of pleistocene speciation in semi-arid southern australian birds (cinclosoma spp.). | during the pleistocene, shifts of species distributions and their isolation in disjunct refugia led to varied outcomes in how taxa diversified. some species diverged, others did not. here, we begin to address another facet of the role of the pleistocene in generating today's diversity. we ask which processes contributed to divergence in semi-arid southern australian birds. we isolated 11 autosomal nuclear loci and one mitochondrial locus from a total of 29 specimens of the sister species pair, c ... | 2016 | 27770777 |
| evolution of arid zone birds in australia: leapfrog distribution patterns and mesic-arid connections in quail-thrush (cinclosoma, cinclosomatidae). | the quail-thrush, cinclosoma, include between five and seven species distributed broadly across arid and semi-arid inland australia, mesic forests of south-eastern australia and new guinea. it has been suggested that the arid zone species of quail-thrush arose from forest ancestors as australia changed from a warm wet climate to a cooler drier climate since the late-miocene. we generated multilocus (mitochondrial nd2 and eight nuclear loci) gene and species trees with complete taxon sampling of ... | 2012 | 22040766 |
| robbery in progress: historical museum collections bring to light a mitochondrial capture within a bird species widespread across southern australia, the copperback quail-thrush cinclosoma clarum. | we surveyed mitochondrial, autosomal, and z chromosome diversity within and between the copperback quail-thrush cinclosoma clarum and chestnut quail-thrush c. castanotum, which together span the arid and semi-arid zones of southern australia, and primarily from specimens held in museum collections. we affirm the recent taxonomic separation of the two species and then focus on diversity within the more widespread of the two species, c. clarum. to guide further study of the system and what it offe ... | 2020 | 32724551 |