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ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 1-8Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00401.x
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- American Museum of Natural History, New York
- British Museum of Natural History, Tring
- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Carmagnola, Carmagnola
- Museum National d'histoire Naturelle, Paris
- Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
- National Museum of Natural History, Leiden
- National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
- Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle
- Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jonsson, K. A., Irestedt, M., Ericson, P. G. P. & Fjeldsa, J. (2010). A molecular phylogeny of minivets (Passeriformes: Campephagidae: Pericrocotus): implications for biogeography and convergent plumage evolution.-Zoologica Scripta, 39, 1-8. Minivets are conspicuous and mostly intensely colourful birds inhabiting wooded environments in tropical and subtropical South and Southeast Asia and temperate East Asia. We present a robust phylogeny of the group based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA data including all 12 recognized species and also many subspecies representing disjunct populations in the Oriental mainland and in Indonesia. The study indicates that minivets radiated within mainland Asia and dispersed to the Indonesian archipelago. We also demonstrate that in accordance with studies on other bird groups, plumage characters are highly plastic and that the diversity of plumage patterns and colouration represents an example of convergent evolution.
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