Systematics of Serinus canaries and the status of Cape and Yellow-crowned Canaries inferred from mtDNA and morphology

Ostrich

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 288-294

  Ryan, P G ^a   Wright, D ^a   Oatley, G ^a   Wakeling, J ^a   Cohen, C ^a   Nowell, T L ^a   Bowie, R C K ^b   Ward, V ^a   Crowe, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CARDUELIS; SERINUS; SERINUS CANARIA; SERINUS CANICOLLIS; SERINUS SERINUS;

EID: 13444304501     PISSN: 00306525     EISSN: 1727947X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/00306520409485457     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Arnaiz-Villena A, Alvarez-Tejado M, Ruiz-del-Valle V, Garcia-dela-Torre C, Varela P, Recio MJ, Ferre S and Martinez-Laso J 1999. Rapid radiation of canaries (Genus: Serinus). Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 2–11
2. Avise JC 2000. Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, USA
3. Avise JC and Ball M 1990. Mitochondrial DNAand avian microevolution. Proceedings of the 20th International Ornithological Congress 1: 514–524
4. Bowie RCK, Bloomer P, Clancey PA and Crowe TM 2003. The Karoo Thrush (Turdus smithi), a southern African endemic. Ostrich 74: 1–7
5. Bowie RCK, Fjeldsa J, Hackett SJ and Crowe TM 2004. Systematics and biogeography of the Double-collared Sunbirds of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Auk 121: 660–681
6. Chiappe LM 1995. The first 85 million years of avian evolution. Nature 378: 349–354
7. Clement P, Harris A and Davis J 1993. Finches and Sparrows: An Identification Guide. Russel Friedman Books, Johannesburg, South Africa
8. Farris JS 1969. A successive approximations approach to character weighting. Systematic Zoology 18: 374–385
9. Farris JS, Albert VA, Kallersjo M, Lipscomb D and Kluge AG 1996. Parsimony jackknifing outperforms neighbour-joining. Cladistics 12: 99–124
10. Hall BP and Moreau RE 1970. An Atlas of Speciation in African Passerine Birds. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London
11. Johns GC and Avise JC 1998. A comparative summary of genetic distances in the vertebrates from mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15: 1481–1490
12. Nicolai J 1960. Verhaltensstudien an einigen afrikanischen un palaearktischen Girlitzen. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 87: 317–361
13. Paynter RA 1968. Checklist of Birds of the World, Vol. 14. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, USA
14. Posada D and Crandall KA 1998. Model test: testing the model of DNA substitution. Bioinformatics 14: 817–818
15. Roberts A 1922. Review of the nomenclature of South African birds. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 8: 187–272
16. Sibley CG and Monroe BL 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. Yale University Press, New Haven
17. Skead CJ 1960. The Canaries, Seed-eaters and Buntings of Southern Africa. Cape Times Limited, Cape Town
18. Swofford DL 2001. PAUP* (Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony) (*and other methods). Ver. 4. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland
19. Swofford DL, Olsen GJ, Waddell PJ and Hillis DM 1996. Phylogenetic inference. In: Hillis DM, Moritz C and Mable BK (eds) Molecular Systematics, 2nd edn. pp 407–514. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland
20. MA Van den Elzen R 1985. Systematics and evolution of African canaries and seed-eaters (Aves: Carduelidae). In: Schuchmann K-L (ed) Proceedings of the International Symposium on African Vertebrates. pp 435–451. Zoologisches Forsch. und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn
21. Van den Elzen R, Nemeschkal HL and Classen H 1987. Morphological variation of skeletal characters in the bird family Cardulidae I: general size and shape patterns in African canaries shown by principal component analysis. Bonner Zoologische Beitraege 38: 221–239
22. Wells MG 1998. World Bird Species Checklist, with Alternative English and Scientific Names. Worldlist, Bushey, UK
23. Winterbottom JM 1973. Notes on the ecology of Serinus species in the Western Cape. Ostrich 44: 31–33
24. Wolters HE 1982. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Paul Parey, Hamburg