Alström, Per
- SLU Artdatabanken, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Uppsala universitet
Sammanfattning
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.
Nyckelord
Taxonomy; Phylogeny; Systematics; Passeriformes
Publicerad i
Journal of Ornithology
2016, volym: 157, nummer: 3, sidor: 913-918
Utgivare: SPRINGER
SLU författare
UKÄ forskningsämne
Biologisk systematik
Bioinformatik och beräkningsbiologi (Metodutveckling under 10203)
Evolutionsbiologi
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-016-1340-8
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/77901