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- Title
Phylogeny of the nuthatches of the Sitta canadensis group and its evolutionary and biogeographic implications.
- Authors
PASQUET, ERIC
- Abstract
A phylogeny of ten species of nuthatch (Sittidae), including the newly described Kabylie Nuthatch Sitta ledanti of North Africa, was constructed using a sequence of 491 bp of the cytochrome-b gene of mtDNA. On the basis of trees derived using parsimony analysis and neighbour-joining methods, and assessments of robustness based on bootstrap analysis, the following phylogenetic relationships were inferred: the five species of the Sitta canadensis group are a monophyletic group, within which S. canadensis, S. whiteheadi and S. villosa form the sister clade of S. krueperi and S. ledanti; the other relations are not so well supported. These phylogenetic relationships are congruent with morphology. Differences in behavioural and ecological characters as well as biogeographic patterns are discussed.
- Publication
Ibis, 1998, Vol 140, Issue 1, p150
- ISSN
0019-1019
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1474-919X.1998.tb04553.x