Phylogeography of the Vermilion Flycatcher species complex: Multiple speciation events, shifts in migratory behavior, and an apparent extinction of a Galápagos-endemic bird species
Abstract
The earliest divergence separates Galápagos and continental forms. Migratory behavior was present in ancestor but lost multiple times subsequently. Genetic data support recognition of two species in the Galápagos, nanus and dubius. The species dubius, from San Cristóbal Island, is a recently extinct species. Genetic and song data support species status for the austral subspecies, rubinus.
- Publication:
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Pub Date:
- September 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.029
- Bibcode:
- 2016MolPE.102..152C
- Keywords:
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- Galápagos;
- Island colonization;
- Neotropical biogeography;
- Phylogenetics;
- Pyrocephalus rubinus;
- Tyrannidae