Phylogenetic relationships of typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) and test of incongruence based on Bayes factors -: art. no. 23

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Irestedt, M
Fjeldså, J
Nylander, JAA
Ericson, PGP
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[1] Swedish Museum Nat Hist, Dept Vertebrate Zool, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Swedish Museum Nat Hist, Mol Systemat Lab, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden
[3] Univ Stockholm, Dept Zool, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[4] Univ Copenhagen, Zool Museum, Vertebrate Dept, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
[5] Uppsala Univ, Evolutionary Biol Ctr, Dept Systemat Zool, Uppsala, Sweden
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10.1186/1471-2148-4-23
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Q [生物科学];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Background: The typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) form a monophyletic and diverse family of suboscine passerines that inhabit neotropical forests. However, the phylogenetic relationships within this assemblage are poorly understood. Herein, we present a hypothesis of the generic relationships of this group based on Bayesian inference analyses of two nuclear introns and the mitochondrial cytochrome beta gene. The level of phylogenetic congruence between the individual genes has been investigated utilizing Bayes factors. We also explore how changes in the substitution models affected the observed incongruence between partitions of our data set. Results: The phylogenetic analysis supports both novel relationships, as well as traditional groupings. Among the more interesting novel relationship suggested is that the Terenura antwrens, the wing-banded antbird (Myrmornis torquata), the spot-winged antshrike (Pygiptila stellaris) and the russet antshrike (Thamnistes anabatinus) are sisters to all other typical antbirds. The remaining genera fall into two major clades. The first includes antshrikes, antvireos and the Herpsilochmus antwrens, while the second clade consists of most antwren genera, the Myrmeciza antbirds, the "professional" ant-following antbirds, and allied species. Our results also support previously suggested polyphyly of Myrmotherula antwrens and Myrmeciza antbirds. The tests of phylogenetic incongruence, using Bayes factors, clearly suggests that allowing the gene partitions to have separate topology parameters clearly increased the model likelihood. However, changing a component of the nucleotide substitution model had much higher impact on the model likelihood. Conclusions: The phylogenetic results are in broad agreement with traditional classification of the typical antbirds, but some relationships are unexpected based on external morphology. In these cases their true affinities may have been obscured by convergent evolution and morphological adaptations to new habitats or food sources, and genera like Myrmeciza antbirds and the Myrmotherula antwrens obviously need taxonomic revisions. Although, Bayes factors seem promising for evaluating the relative contribution of components to an evolutionary model, the results suggests that even if strong evidence for a model allowing separate topology parameters is found, this might not mean strong evidence for separate gene phylogenies, as long as vital components of the substitution model are still missing.
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