Journal
EVOLUTION
Volume 62, Issue 5, Pages 1182-1191Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00345.x
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Colescent methods; evolution of migration; founder event speciation; Icterus abeillei; Icterus galbula; isolation with migration; recent speciation
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A widely accepted paradigm is that sedentary Neotropical bird species are a reservoir that gives rise to temperate-tropical migratory species. Recently, an alternative theory has been proposed, that developmental plasticity can allow some individuals within a migratory species to establish a disjunct breeding range through loss of migration, thus facilitating the founding of a new sedentary species. We used mtDNA and two nuclear introns to perform coalescent analyses for two closely related New World oriole species, one a long-distance temperate-tropical migrant and the other a short-distance intratropical migrant. Our results suggest that the short-distance migrant recently diverged from the long-distance migrant via a founder event. In this species pair, the widely accepted paradigm is not supported. These results are consistent with a model of speciation through reduction of migratory distance.
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