Two pulses of diversification across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in a montane Mexican bird fauna.
Understanding the evolutionary history of the species in a particular region provides insights into how that fauna was formed. Of particular interest to biogeographers is examining the impact a geographical barrier had in generating temporal genetic diversity among codistributed species. We examined the impact a major New World barrier, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (IT) in southern Mexico, had on a regional bird fauna. Specifically, genetic data from 10 montane-forest bird taxa were analysed using approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) to test the hypothesis of simultaneous intraspecific diversification at the IT. Because effective population size (N(e)) has the greatest impact on coalescent times, thereby affecting tests of divergence among codistributed taxa, we chose priors for both current and ancestral N(e) using empirical estimates of theta. The ABC method detected two discrete diversification events. Subsequent analysis with the number of diversification events constrained to two suggests that four taxa diverged in an older event, with the remaining six diverging more recently. Application of a range of mutation rates from 2.0 to 5.0% Myr(-1) places both events within the Pleistocene or Late Pliocene, suggesting that fluctuations in montane habitat induced by climate cycles and a late Pliocene seaway may have fractured this montane bird fauna. The results presented here suggest this avian fauna responded in a relatively concerted fashion over the last several million years.
Barber
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BR
Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA. brbarber76@gmail.com
Klicka
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D000818:Animals; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D044822:Biodiversity; D001717:Birds / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D051456:Gene Flow; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D005843:Geography; D008800:Mexico; D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011156:Population Density; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012934:Social Isolation
D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase
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