Molecular systematics of the grackles and allies, and the effect of additional sequence (cyt B and ND2)

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 759-768

  Johnson, Kevin P ^a,b   Lanyon, Scott M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PASSERINE; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES; ICTERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; QUISCALUS;

EID: 0032873056     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089336     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. BELETSKY, L. D., AND D. BEADLE. 1996. The Red-winged Blackbird: The biology of a strongly polygynous songbird. Academic Press, London.
2. BJÖRKLUND, M. 1991. Evolution, phylogeny, sexual dimorphism and mating system in the grackles (Quiscalus spp.: Icterinae). Evolution 45:608-621.
3. BOND, J. 1950. Some remarks on West Indian Icteridae. Wilson Bulletin 62:216-217.
4. BULL, J. J., J. P. HUELSENBECK, C. W. CUNNINGHAM, D. L. SWOFFORD, AND P. J. WADDELL. 1993. Partitioning and combining data in phylogenetic analysis. Systematic Biology 42:384-397.
5. FARRIS, J. S., M. KALLERSJO, A. G. KLUGE, AND C. BULT. 1994. Testing significance of incongruence. Cladistics 10:315-319.
6. FELSENSTEIN, J. 1978. Cases in which parsimony and compatibility will be positively misleading. Systematic Zoology 27:401-410.
7. FELSENSTEIN, J. 1985. Confidence limits on phylogenies: An approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39:783-791.
8. FREEMAN, S., AND R. M. ZINK. 1995. A phylogenetic study of the blackbirds based on variation in mitochondrial DNA restriction sites. Systematic Biology 44:409-420.
9. FRIEDMANN, H., AND L. F. KIFF. 1985. The parasitic cowbirds and their hosts. Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology 2: 225-304.
10. GRAY, D. A., AND J. C. HAGELIN. 1996. Song repertoires and sensory exploitation: Reconsidering the case of the Common Grackle. Animal Behaviour 52:795-800.
11. HACKETT, S. J. 1996. Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of tanagers in the genus Ramphocelus (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5:368-382.
12. HILLIS, D. M. 1996. Inferring complex phylogenies. Nature 383:130-131.
13. IRWIN, R. E. 1994. The evolution of plumage dichromatism in the New World blackbirds: Social selection on female brightness? American Naturalist 144:890-907.
14. JOHNSON, K. P., AND M. D. SORENSON. 1998. Comparing molecular evolution in two mitochondrial protein coding genes (cytochrome b and ND2) in the dabbling ducks (tribe: Anatini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 10:82-94.
15. KUMAR, S., K. TAMURA, AND M. NEI. 1993. MEGA: Molecular evolutionary genetics analysis, version 1.02. Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
16. LANYON, S. M. 1985. Detecting internal inconsistencies in distance data. Systematic Zoology 34: 397-403.
17. LANYON, S. M. 1992. Interspecific brood parasitism in blackbirds (Icterinae): A phylogenetic perspective. Science 255:77-79.
18. LANYON, S. M. 1994. Polyphyly of the blackbird genus Agelaius and the importance of assumptions of monophyly in comparative studies. Evolution 48:679-693.
19. LANYON, S. M., AND K. E. OMLAND. 1999. A molecular phylogeny of the blackbirds (Icteridae): Five lineages revealed by cytochrome-b sequence. Auk 116:629-639.
20. MAYFIELD, H. 1965. The Brown-headed Cowbird, with old and new hosts. Living Bird 4:13-28.
21. MILTON, J. S., AND J. C. ARNOLD. 1990. Introduction to probability and statistics, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, New York.
22. ORIANS, G. 1985. Blackbirds of the Americas. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
23. POST, W., A. CRUZ, AND D. B. MCNAIR. 1993. The North American invasion pattern of the Shiny Cowbird. Journal of Field Ornithology 64:32-41.
24. ROTHSTEIN, S. I. 1990. A model system for coevolution: Avian brood parasitism. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 21:481-508.
25. SANDERSON, M. J. 1996. How many taxa must be sampled to identify the root node of a large clade? Systematic Biology 45:168-173.
26. SEARCY, W. A., AND K. YASUKAWA. 1995. Polygyny and sexual selection in Red-winged Blackbirds. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
27. SIBLEY, C. G., AND B. L. MONROE, JR. 1990. Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.
28. STURMBAUER, C., AND A. MEYER. 1992. Genetic divergence, speciation, and morphological stasis in a lineage of African cichlid fishes. Nature 358: 578-581.
29. SWOFFORD, D. L. 1997. PAUP*. Phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, version 4.0. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
30. WEBSTER, M. S. 1992. Sexual dimorphism, mating system and body size in New World blackbirds (Icterinae). Evolution 46:1621-1641.
31. WILEY, E. O. 1988. Parsimony analysis and vicariance biogeography. Systematic Zoology 37:271-290.
32. WILEY, R. H., AND M. S. WILEY. 1980. Spacing and timing in the nesting ecology of a tropical blackbird: Comparison of populations in different environments. Ecological Monographs 50:153-178.