Alström, Per
- SLU Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Uppsala University
Abstract
The Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria is usually placed in a monotypic family or subfamily within the superfamily Certhioidea, with assumed close relationships to Certhia (treecreepers), Sitta (nuthatches) and Salpornis (spotted creepers). Previous studies have suggested that Tichodroma is most closely related to Sitta, alternatively to Salpornis. We analysed the relationships of Tichodroma using two mitochondrial and five nuclear loci. The tree based on concatenated sequences strongly supported a sister relationship between Tichodroma and Sitta, as well as between Salpornis and Certhia. However, species tree analysis (MP-EST) was unable to resolve these relationships, and although the concatenation tree remains the best hypothesis, more data are needed to corroborate this.
Keywords
Taxonomy; Phylogeny; Systematics; Passeriformes
Published in
Journal of Ornithology
2016, volume: 157, number: 3, pages: 913-918
Publisher: SPRINGER
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Biological Systematics
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Methods development to be 10203)
Evolutionary Biology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-016-1340-8
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/77901