Species limits in the Le Conte's thrasher

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 132-138

  Zink, Robert M ^a   Blackwell, Rachelle C ^a   Rojas Soto, Octavio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

colorimetric variation; mtDNA; phylogeography; sequence analysis; species limits; T. arenicola; Toxostoma lecontei

Indexed keywords

ARENICOLA; MIMIDAE; TOXOSTOMA LECONTEI;

EID: 0030972703     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370231     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 1899. Ninth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union check-list of North American birds. Auk 16:97-133.
2. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 1957. Check-list of North American birds, 5th. ed. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC.
3. ANTHONY, A. W. 1897. New birds from the islands and peninsula of Lower California. Auk 14:164-168.
4. ATWOOD, J. L. 1988. Speciation and geographic variation in Black-tailed Gnatcatchers. Ornithol. Monogr. 42.
5. AVISE, J. C. 1994. Molecular markers, natural history and evolution. Chapman and Hall, New York.
6. BROWN, J. W., H. G. REAL, AND D. K. FAULKNER. 1992. Butterflies of Baja California, faunal survey, natural history, conservation biology. The Lepidoptera Research Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA.
7. CICERO, C. 1996. Sibling species of titmice in the Parus inornatus complex (Aves: Paridae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 128:1-217.
8. EDWARDS, S. V. 1993. Mitochondrial gene genealogy and gene flow among island and mainland populations of a sedentary songbird, the Greycrowned Babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis). Evolution 47:1118-1137.
9. ELLEGREN, H. 1992. Polymerase-chain-reaction (PCR) analysis of microsatellites - a new approach to studies of genetic relationships in birds. Auk 109:886-895.
10. FELSENSTEIN, J. 1993. PHYLIP, version 3.5c. Computer program distributed by the author. Univ. Washington, Seattle, WA.
11. GOMEZ-POMPA, A., AND R. DIRZO. 1995. Reservas de la Biosfera y otras areas naturales protegidas de Mexico. SEMARNAP, INE, CONABIO. Mexico City, Mexico.
12. HACKETT, S. J. 1992. Phytogenies and biogeography of Central American birds. Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA.
13. HILLIS, D. M., A. LARSON, S. K. DAVIS, AND E. A. ZIMMER. 1990. DNA sequencing, p. 318-370. In D. M. Hillis and C. Moritz [eds.], Molecular systematics. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
14. KISHINO, H., AND M. HASEGAWA. 1989. Evaluation of the maximum likelihood estimate of the evolutionary tree topologies from DNA sequence data, and the branching order in Hominoidea. J. Mol. Evol. 29:170-179.
15. KOCHER, T. D., W. K. THOMAS, A. MEYER, S. V. EDWARDS, S. PAABO, F. X. VILLABLANCA, AND A. C. WILSON. 1989. Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 86:6196-6200.
16. KUMAR, S., K. TAMURA, AND M. NEI. 1993. MEGA: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis, vers. 1.01. The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA.
17. JOHNSON, N. K. 1980. Character variation and evolution of sibling species in the Empidonax difficilis-flavescens complex (Aves: Tyrannidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. 112:1-151.
18. JOHNSON, N. K., AND R. M. ZINK. 1983. Speciation in sapsuckers (Sphyrapicus). I. Genetic differentiation. Auk 100:871-884.
19. LANSMAN, R. A., R. O. SHADE, J. F. SHAPIRA, AND J. C. AVISE. 1981. The use of restriction endonucleases to measure mitochondrial DNA sequence relatedness in natural populations III. Techniques and potential applications. J. Mol. Evol. 17:214-226.
20. LEE, L. G. 1994. The origin and evolution of the peninsular herpetofauna of Baja California, Mexico. Herp. Nat. Hist. 2:51-106.
21. MILLER, A. H., H. FRIEDMANN, L. GRISCOM, AND R. T. MOORE. 1957. Distributional check-list of the birds of Mexico, part II. Pacific Coast Avifauna 33.
22. NEIGEL, J. E., AND J. C. AVISE. 1986. Phylogenetic relationships of mitochondrial DNA under various demographic models of speciation, p. 515-534. In E. Nevo and S. Karlin [eds.], Evolutionary processes and theory. Academic Press, New York.
23. ORETAGA, A., AND L. ARRIAGA [EDS.]. 1991. La reserva de la biosfera del Vizcaino en la peninsula de Baja California. Centro de investigaciones biologicas de Baja California Sur, Mexico.
24. PHILLIPS, A. R. 1964 (1965). Notas sistematicas sobre aves Mexicanas, III. Rev. Soc. Mex. Hist. Nat. 25:217-242.
25. SAS INSTITUTE INC. 1989. SAS/STAT user's guide, ver. 6, 4th ed., vol. 1. SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC.
26. SCOTT, H. G. 1978. The agaves of Baja California. Cal. Acad. Sci., San Francisco.
27. SHEPPARD, J. M. 1973. An initial study of Le Conte's Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei). M.A. thesis, Calif. State Univ., Long Beach, CA.
28. SHEPPARD, J. M. 1996. Le Conte's Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei). In A. Poole and F. Gill [eds.], The birds of North America, No. 230. The Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC.
29. TARR, C. L. 1995. Primers for amplification and determination of mitochondrial control-region sequences in oscine passerines. Mol. Ecol. 4:527-529.
30. WILEY, E. O. 1978. The evolutionary species concept reconsidered. Syst. Zool. 27:17-26.
31. ZHANG, D-X., AND G. M. HEWITT. 1996. Nuclear integrations: challenges for mitochondrial DNA markers. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11:247-251.
32. ZINK, R. M., AND J. V. REMSEN. 1986. Evolutionary processes and patterns of geographic variation in birds. Current Ornithol. 4:1-69.
33. ZINK, R. M., AND M. C. MCKITRICK. 1995. The debate over species concepts and its implications for ornithology. Auk 112:701-719.