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- Title
Recent Range Expansion and Divergence among North American Prairie Grouse.
- Authors
Johnson, Jeff A.
- Abstract
Prairie grouse (genus: Tympanuchus) once existed throughout much of North America but have recently experienced significant population declines, isolation, and extinction. In previous molecular studies, contrasting patterns or an unresolved polytomy among Tympanuchus taxa (Tympanuchus phasianellus, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, and Tympanuchus cupido) have resulted from traditional phylogenetic methods. As an alternative approach, the timing of expansion and the demographic processes that may have lead to this association among haplotypes, namely incomplete lineage sorting or migration, were explicitly investigated by comparing pairwise mitochondrial DNA control region nucleotide differences and through the use of a isolation with migration coalescent model. The timing of geographic expansion and population divergence time estimates generated under these models support previous inferences that Tympanuchus experienced a rapid expansion and diversification in the late Pleistocene 10,000-80,000 years before present. Further, morphological and behavioral differences originally used to describe Tympanuchus species were substantiated with little or no migration identified since population divergence. However, estimates of population divergence and migration between a number of morphologically similar subspecific taxa, including the greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus Cupido pinnatus), the endangered Attwater's prairie chicken (Tympanuchus Cupido attwateri), and the extinct heath hen (Tympanuchus Cupido cupido), suggest these taxa are as differentiated with each other as they are from other Tympanuchus species. This information will prove useful in conservation efforts by providing estimates of demographic history that have helped shape the evolutionary relationships among Tympanuchus grouse.
- Subjects
NORTH America; BIOLOGICAL divergence; TYMPANUCHUS; PHYLOGENY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDES
- Publication
Journal of Heredity, 2008, Vol 99, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
0022-1503
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhered/esn002