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- Title
Phylogenetic patterns of a nightingale population in a contact zone of Luscinia megarhynchos and L. luscinia in Hungary.
- Authors
ÁCS, Zoltán; KOVÁTS, Dávid
- Abstract
Phylogenetic patterns of two closely related nightingale species the Luscinia megarhynchos and the L. luscinia were investigated in north-eastern part of Hungary. The mitochondrial cytochrome-c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced directly to set up their phylogenetic relationships. In eastern Hungary (Szatmár-Beregi Landscape Protected Area, Vámosatya, Bockerek forest 48°11'N, 22°23'E), a new haplotype of L. luscinia is discovered. Based on our molecular result, however, no individual of L. luscinia was found in the Upper-Tisza Region (especially between Tiszabercel and Tiszatelek), where its old breeding stands formerly occurred. It suggests its population might extinct from this region, or partially shifted to undisturbed territories, probably due to ecological impoverishment of floodplain forest associations. Furthermore, it appears that range expansion of L. megarhynchos increased in those of fragmented habitats
- Subjects
HUNGARY; FORESTS &; forestry; PHYLOGENY; BIOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL evolution
- Publication
North-Western Journal of Zoology, 2013, Vol 9, Issue 2, p365
- ISSN
1584-9074
- Publication type
Article