Mitogenomes resolve the phylogeography and divergence times within the endemic New Zealand Callaeidae (Aves: Passerida)

Lubbe, Pascale; Rawlence, Nicolas J.; Kardailsky, Olga; Robertson, Bruce C.; Day, Robert C.; Knapp, Michael; Dussex, Nicolás

doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac060

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“…Earlier divergence dates, coincident with the narrowing of the Manawatu Strait 5 – 1.5 million years ago, which separated the South Island and lower North Island from the upper North Island (Trewick & Bland, 2012), have been seen in other birds (e.g. Lubbe et al ., 2022). If the Chatham Islands merganser (Williams et al ., 2014) is genetically distinct from mainland mergansers, it should date to no older than the emergence of the islands three million years ago (Campbell, 2008), as observed for other endemic lineages (McCulloch & Waters, 2019 and references therein).…”

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Ancient mitogenomes reveal evidence for the late Miocene dispersal of mergansers to the Southern Hemisphere

Rawlence,

Verry,

Cole

et al. 2023

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Mergansers are riverine and coastal piscivorous ducks that are widespread throughout North America and Eurasia but uncommon in the Southern Hemisphere. One species occurs in South America and at least two extinct species from New Zealand. It has been proposed that Southern Hemisphere mergansers were founded by independent dispersal events from the Northern Hemisphere. However, some morphological and behavioural evidence suggests that Southern Hemisphere mergansers may be closely related to one another. They share several characteristics that differ from Northern Hemisphere mergansers (e.g., non-migratory vs. migratory, sexual monochromatism vs. sexual dichromatism, long vs. short pair bonds). We sequenced complete mitogenomes from the Brazilian merganser and an extinct merganser from New Zealand—the Auckland Island merganser. Our results show the Brazilian and Auckland Island mergansers form a monophyletic clade with the common merganser, and that a sister relationship between Southern Hemisphere mergansers cannot be rejected. We cannot exclude the possibility that the Brazilian and Auckland Island mergansers descend from a single dispersal event from the Northern Hemisphere at least seven million years ago. Nuclear (palaeo)genomic data may help to resolve the relationship between living and extinct mergansers, including merganser fossils from New Zealand that have not been subjected to palaeogenetic analysis.

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Ancient mitogenomes reveal evidence for the late Miocene dispersal of mergansers to the Southern Hemisphere

Rawlence,

Verry,

Cole

et al. 2023

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“…Phylogeographic and discrete trait evolution studies have successfully been applied for resolving evolutionary histories in many bird groups when carried out accurately (Garcia‐R et al 2014). Given that different mitochondrial genes tend to have distinct substitution rates, generally faster than slowly‐evolving nuclear genes, mitogenome sequences have been particularly useful in this kind of works as well as for intraspecific evolution studies (Ruiz‐García et al 2018, Lubbe et al 2022).…”

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Genetic differentiation between two subspecies of Emberiza schoeniclus and open forest bunting's evolution inferred from mitogenomes

Alambiaga

González

Vera

et al. 2023

Journal of Avian Biology

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The reed bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus (Linnaeus 1758), is the only member of the genus adapted to Mediterranean wetlands, where some subspecies are critically endangered. The first complete mitogenome of the eastern Iberian reed bunting (E. s. witherbyi) is presented here and compared with an unpublished mitogenome obtained in northeast Asia (most likely E. s. pyrrhulina). Genetic distance analyses are consistent with the new reed bunting data corresponding to two distinct lineages of E. schoeniclus. A new fossil-calibrated phylogeny suggests that open forest buntings have suffered two rapid speciation events from Late Miocene to Pleistocene, that seem to be correlated with major climatic changes and habitat shifts. Adaptation to a new ecological niche (i.e. wetlands) could have favoured the reed bunting expansion across the Palearctic. The high intraspecific variation observed today could result from the establishment of resident populations within small areas, potentially acting as a climatic refuge.

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“…), New Zealand robins ( Petroica spp.) and New Zealand wattlebirds (Callaeidae) (Boast et al., 2019; Bunce et al., 2009; Kearns et al., 2019; Lubbe et al., 2022; Parker et al., 2014). The suggested non‐sister relationship of takahē and moho (Trewick, 1997) would thus represent a surprising exception to this common phylogenetic pattern.…”

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Ancient mitochondrial genomes unveil the origins and evolutionary history of New Zealand's enigmatic takahē and moho

Verry,

Mas‐Carrió,

Gibb

et al. 2023

Molecular Ecology

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Many avian species endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand were driven to extinction or reduced to relict populations following successive waves of human arrival, due to hunting, habitat destruction and the introduction of mammalian predators. Among the affected species were the large flightless South Island takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) and the moho (North Island takahē; P. mantelli), with the latter rendered extinct and the former reduced to a single relictual population. Little is known about the evolutionary history of these species prior to their decline and/or extinction. Here we sequenced mitochondrial genomes from takahē and moho subfossils (12 takahē and 4 moho) and retrieved comparable sequence data from takahē museum skins (n = 5) and contemporary individuals (n = 17) to examine the phylogeny and recent evolutionary history of these species. Our analyses suggest that prehistoric takahē populations lacked deep phylogeographic structure, in contrast to moho, which exhibited significant spatial genetic structure, albeit based on limited sample sizes (n = 4). Temporal genetic comparisons show that takahē have lost much of their mitochondrial genetic diversity, likely due to a sudden demographic decline soon after human arrival (~750 years ago). Time‐calibrated phylogenetic analyses strongly support a sister species relationship between takahē and moho, suggesting these flightless taxa diverged around 1.5 million years ago, following a single colonisation of New Zealand by a flighted Porphyrio ancestor approximately 4 million years ago. This study highlights the utility of palaeogenetic approaches for informing the conservation and systematic understanding of endangered species whose ranges have been severely restricted by anthropogenic impacts.

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Mitogenomes resolve the phylogeography and divergence times within the endemic New Zealand Callaeidae (Aves: Passerida)

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Ancient mitogenomes reveal evidence for the late Miocene dispersal of mergansers to the Southern Hemisphere

Ancient mitogenomes reveal evidence for the late Miocene dispersal of mergansers to the Southern Hemisphere

Genetic differentiation between two subspecies of Emberiza schoeniclus and open forest bunting's evolution inferred from mitogenomes

Ancient mitochondrial genomes unveil the origins and evolutionary history of New Zealand's enigmatic takahē and moho

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