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Citation title: "Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves)".

Study name: "Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves)".

This study is part of submission 15185 (Status: Published).

Citation

Ericson P.G., Klopfstein S., Irestedt M., Nguyen J.M., & Nylander J.A. 2014. Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14(8).

Authors

• Ericson P.G.
• Klopfstein S.
• Irestedt M.
• Nguyen J.M.
• Nylander J.A. +460851954056

Abstract

Background: The avian Order Passeriformes is an enormously species-rich group, which comprises almost 60% of all living bird species. This diverse order is believed to have originated before the break-up of Gondwana in the late Cretaceous. However, previous molecular dating studies have relied heavily on the geological split between New Zealand and Antarctica, assumed to have occurred 85?82 Mya, for calibrating the molecular clock and might thus be circular in their argument. Results: This study provides a time-scale for the evolution of the major clades of passerines using seven nuclear markers, five taxonomically well-determined passerine fossils, and an updated interpretation of the New Zealand split from Antarctica 85?52 Mya in a Bayesian relaxed-clock approach. We also assess how different interpretations of the New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance event influence our age estimates. Our results suggest that the diversification of Passeriformes began in the late Cretaceous or early Cenozoic. Removing the root calibration for the New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance event (85?52 Mya) dramatically increases the 95% credibility intervals and leads to unrealistically old age estimates. We assess the individual characteristics of the seven nuclear genes analyzed in our study. Our analyses provide estimates of divergence times for the major groups of passerines, which can be used as secondary calibration points in future molecular studies. Conclusions: Our analysis, which takes recent paleontological and geological findings into account, provides the best estimate of the passerine evolutionary time-scale currently available. This time-scale provides a temporal framework for further biogeographical, ecological, and co-evolutionary studies of the largest bird radiation, and adds to the growing support for a Cretaceous origin of Passeriformes.

Keywords

Passeriformes, Molecular dating, Fossil calibrations, New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance

External links

• DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-8
• PMID: 244226
• Other URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/8

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S15185
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref22734,
  	 author = {Per G. P. Ericson and Seraina  Klopfstein and Martin  Irestedt and Jacqueline  M. T. Nguyen and Johan A. A. Nylander},
  	 title = {Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves)},
  	 year = {2014},
  	 keywords = {Passeriformes, Molecular dating, Fossil calibrations, New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance},
  	 doi = {10.1186/1471-2148-14-8},
  	 url = {http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/8},
  	 pmid = {244226},
  	 journal = {BMC Evolutionary Biology},
  	 volume = {14},
  	 number = {8},
  	 pages = {},
  	 abstract = {Background: The avian Order Passeriformes is an enormously species-rich group, which comprises almost 60% of all living bird species. This diverse order is believed to have originated before the break-up of Gondwana in the late Cretaceous. However, previous molecular dating studies have relied heavily on the geological split between New Zealand and Antarctica, assumed to have occurred 85?82 Mya, for calibrating the molecular clock and might thus be circular in their argument.
  Results: This study provides a time-scale for the evolution of the major clades of passerines using seven nuclear markers, five taxonomically well-determined passerine fossils, and an updated interpretation of the New Zealand split from Antarctica 85?52 Mya in a Bayesian relaxed-clock approach. We also assess how different interpretations of the New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance event influence our age estimates. Our results suggest that the diversification of Passeriformes began in the late Cretaceous or early Cenozoic. Removing the root calibration for the New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance event (85?52 Mya) dramatically increases the 95% credibility intervals and leads to unrealistically old age estimates. We assess the individual characteristics of the seven nuclear genes analyzed in our study. Our analyses provide estimates of divergence times for the major groups of passerines, which can be used as secondary calibration points in future molecular studies.
  Conclusions: Our analysis, which takes recent paleontological and geological findings into account, provides the best estimate of the passerine evolutionary time-scale currently available. This time-scale provides a temporal framework for further biogeographical, ecological, and co-evolutionary studies of the largest bird radiation, and adds to the growing support for a Cretaceous origin of Passeriformes.
  }
  }
  		

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  		TY  - JOUR
  ID  - 22734
  AU  - Ericson,Per G. P.
  AU  - Klopfstein,Seraina 
  AU  - Irestedt,Martin 
  AU  - Nguyen,Jacqueline  M. T.
  AU  - Nylander,Johan A. A.
  T1  - Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves)
  PY  - 2014
  KW  - Passeriformes
  KW  - Molecular dating
  KW  - Fossil calibrations
  KW  - New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance
  UR  - http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/8
  N2  - Background: The avian Order Passeriformes is an enormously species-rich group, which comprises almost 60% of all living bird species. This diverse order is believed to have originated before the break-up of Gondwana in the late Cretaceous. However, previous molecular dating studies have relied heavily on the geological split between New Zealand and Antarctica, assumed to have occurred 85?82 Mya, for calibrating the molecular clock and might thus be circular in their argument.
  Results: This study provides a time-scale for the evolution of the major clades of passerines using seven nuclear markers, five taxonomically well-determined passerine fossils, and an updated interpretation of the New Zealand split from Antarctica 85?52 Mya in a Bayesian relaxed-clock approach. We also assess how different interpretations of the New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance event influence our age estimates. Our results suggest that the diversification of Passeriformes began in the late Cretaceous or early Cenozoic. Removing the root calibration for the New Zealand?Antarctica vicariance event (85?52 Mya) dramatically increases the 95% credibility intervals and leads to unrealistically old age estimates. We assess the individual characteristics of the seven nuclear genes analyzed in our study. Our analyses provide estimates of divergence times for the major groups of passerines, which can be used as secondary calibration points in future molecular studies.
  Conclusions: Our analysis, which takes recent paleontological and geological findings into account, provides the best estimate of the passerine evolutionary time-scale currently available. This time-scale provides a temporal framework for further biogeographical, ecological, and co-evolutionary studies of the largest bird radiation, and adds to the growing support for a Cretaceous origin of Passeriformes.
  
  L3  - 10.1186/1471-2148-14-8
  JF  - BMC Evolutionary Biology
  VL  - 14
  IS  - 8
  ER  -