Molecular phylogeny and insular biogeography of the lowland tailorbirds of Southeast Asia (Cisticolidae: Orthotomus)

• Main Authors: Sheldon, Frederick H., Oliveros, Carl H., Taylor, Sabrina S., McKay, Bailey, Haw, Chuan Lim, Mustafa, Abdul Rahman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2012
• Subjects: SB Plant culture
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17701/1/Sheldon.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17701/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790312002011

The lowland tailorbirds of Southeast Asia (Orthotomus) offer an excellent opportunity for comparative biogeography because of their diversity in the Greater Sunda and Philippine islands. We reconstructed the phylogeny of all species in the genus using maximum likelihood, Bayesian, and coalescent met...