Kentish versus snowy Plover: PhenotyPic and Genetic analyses of Charadrius alexandrinus reveal diverGence of eurasian and american subsPecies

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  • Clemens Küpper
  • JaKob augustin
  • andrás Kosztolányi
  • terry burKe
  • Jordi Figuerola
  • tamás széKely
چکیده

Resumen.—Muchas especies de playeros tienen distribuciones amplias que incluyen continentes diferentes. Debido a que los playeros son excelentes voladores y tienen la capacidad de migrar largas distancias, muchas veces no está claro si existen barreras reproductivas entre poblaciones o subespecies de diferentes continentes. Charadrius alexandrinus es una especie cosmopolita. Hace mucho tiempo se ha debatido si las subespecies que se encuentran en las Américas y en Eurasia forman una sola especie. Para examinar su estado taxonómico, investigamos la divergencia entre las poblaciones de América y de Eurasia en características genéticas y fenotípicas de la subespecies C. a. nivosus (que se encuentra en América) y C. a. alexandrinus (que se encuentra en Eurasia) en siete poblaciones. Los análisis genéticos muestran que las poblaciones de América y Eurasia están marcadamente diferenciadas y que las poblaciones de Eurasia están más relacionadas con C. marginatus que con C. a. nivosus. Estos resultados genéticos fueron consistentes de acuerdo a todos los marcadores nucleares examinados (26 microsatélites y una parte del gen CHD) y a dos marcadores mitocondriales (ND3 y ATPasa 6/8). Dentro las subespecies, las poblaciones investigadas que estaban separadas por distancias grandes no estuvieron diferenciadas genéticamente (todos los valores de Fst ≤ 0.01 y de Φst ≤ 0.06), lo que sugiere que existe panmixia. Morfológicamente, C. a. nivosus presentó tarsos y alas más cortos que C. a. alexandrinus. El plumaje de los polluelos y las llamadas también pueden servir como

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تاریخ انتشار 2009