Systematic and Historical Biogeography of Conopophagidae (Aves: Passeriformes): Speciation in South American forests / Sistemática e biogeografia histórica da família Conopophagidae (Aves: Passeriformes): especiação nas florestas da América do Sul

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

In order to identify the historical processes of diversification of the gender textitConopophaga in South America, especially in the Atlantic forest, methods of phylogenetic and phylogeography inference were used in the present thesis. The genus phylogeny and the phylogeographic structure of two species ( textitConopophaga lineata and textitC. melanops) which occurs in the Southeast of the Atlantic forest were tested using sequences of mithocondrial DNA. Two matrixes were used to perform the phylogenetic analyses. The first one comprising 2270 bp (941 bp of ND2, 343 bp of ND3 and 986 bp of cytochrome b) and the second one comprising of 878 bp (461 bp of ND2 and 417 bp of cytochrome b). The phylogeography analyses of textitC. lineata and textitC. melanops were done using sequences from the control region consisting of 472 bp and 439 bp, respectively. The results demonstrated that the genus textitConopophaga is monophyletic and probably after textitC. melanogaster and textitC. melanops speciation, a rapid diversification had occurred in this genus. Following this event two distinct groups were recovered: (1) a group distributed in Amazonian, which maintains the ancestral characteristic of black jaw and (2) a group possessing white jaw occurring in the Amazonian and also in the Atlantic forest. In the last group, the subspecies C. l. cearae did not grouped with textitC. lineata demonstrating that this species is not monophyletic. Moreover, the distribution pattern of species presenting white jaw indicates a plausible a connection between the east of the Amazonian and the Atlantic forest in the past. The phylogeographic study of textitC. lineata revealed the existence of possible vicariant events: (1) in the area of Vale do Rio Paraíba do Sul and (2) in the west of São Paulo and Paraná, separating the southern south populations. Although the phylogeographic structure observed in textitC. melanops and in textitC. lineata are not in total agreement, the occurrence of vicariant events still remains as a possible explanation for the phylogeographic patterns in this region. Finally, the occurrence of these vicariant events like, geological events and climatic oscilations, may have influenced the diversification of the family Conopophagidae. Moreover, dispersion events and/or selection should also be considered for the understanding of biogeographic history of this group and also other ones in South America.

ASSUNTO(S)

filogeografia phylogeography speciation especiação vicariância dipersion vicariance dispersão

ACESSO AO ARTIGO

Documentos Relacionados