Resolving taxonomic uncertainty and historical biogeographic patterns in Muscicapa flycatchers and their allies
Abstract
We use mitochondrial and nuclear genes to resolve relationships in Muscicapa and allies. We use our phylogenetic results to reconstruct biogeographic history in the group. We find several genera to be non-monophyletic. The group originated in Africa, and subsequently colonized Eurasia. The Congolian region of Africa is ancestral for one of the two major clades in the group.
- Publication:
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2016MolPE..94..618V
- Keywords:
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- Africa;
- Eurasia;
- Historical biogeography;
- Muscicapa;
- Muscicapidae;
- Systematics