| a multi-gene approach reveals a complex evolutionary history in the cyanistes species group. | quaternary climatic oscillations have been considered decisive in shaping much of the phylogeographic structure around the mediterranean basin. within this paradigm, peripheral islands are usually considered as the endpoints of the colonization processes. here, we use nuclear and mitochondrial markers to investigate the phylogeography of the blue tit complex (blue tit cyanistes caeruleus, canary blue tit c. teneriffae and azure tit c. cyanus), and assess the role of the canary islands for the ge ... | 2011 | 21880092 |
| paraphyly of the blue tit (parus caeruleus) suggested from cytochrome b sequences. | the phylogenetic relationships of the blue tit-azure tit assemblage (genus parus; aves: passeriformes) were studied using mitochondrial dna sequences of 24 specimens representing seven subspecies from eurasia and north africa. previous work based on comparative morphological and acoustic data suggested a division of the blue tit (parus caeruleus) into two species. our analyses clearly indicate that the blue tit represents a paraphyletic assemblage, including a european/middle asian clade that is ... | 2002 | 12128025 |
| the evolutionary history of afrocanarian blue tits inferred from genomewide snps. | a common challenge in phylogenetic reconstruction is to find enough suitable genomic markers to reliably trace splitting events with short internodes. here, we present phylogenetic analyses based on genomewide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) of an enigmatic avian radiation, the subspecies complex of afrocanarian blue tits (cyanistes teneriffae). the two sister species, the eurasian blue tit (cyanistes caeruleus) and the azure tit (cyanistes cyanus), constituted the out-group. we generated ... | 2015 | 25407440 |