On the genetic distinctiveness of tailorbirds(Cisticolidae:Orthotomus)from the South-east Asian mainland with the description of a new subspecies

作     者：Jerome Fuchs Dario Zuccon 

作者机构：Institut de SystématiqueEvolutionBiodiversitéUMR7205 CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHESorbonne UniversitéMuséum National d’Histoire NaturelleCP 5157 rue Cuvier75231 Paris Cedex 05France 

出 版 物：《Avian Research》 (鸟类学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第9卷第3期

页      面：214-225页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 09[农学] 

基　　金：support by a Synthesys grant made available to J.Fuchs by the European Community-Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 Structuring the European Research Area Program(SE-TAF-7153) 

主　　题：Orthotomus Differentiation Subspecies Taxonomy 

摘      要：Background: The Cambodian Tailorbird(Orthotomus chaktomuk) was one of the most recent major ornithological discoveries in South-east Asia as it originated from lowland seasonally flooded scrub within the densely inhabited floodplain around the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers(Cambodia). The Cambodian Tailorbird is sister to the Dark-necked Tailorbird(O. atrogularis) with very limited genetics and biometric differentiation. Between 2004 and 2012, evidences of a new population of Ashy Tailorbird(O. ruficeps) in SE Cambodia/Vietnam accumulated but no museum specimens were ever reported. The Ashy Tailorbird currently consists of eight subspecies among which the closest geographical populations, O. r. cineraceus(SE Burma to Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka and Belitung) and O. r. borneoensis(Borneo), are allopatric. Subspecific identification of the Cambodian Ashy Tailorbirds individuals was not possible because of the limited differences in plumage among ***: We inspected the Orthotomus ruficeps specimens housed at the Museum National d Histoire Naturelle(Paris) and discovered five specimens of O. ruficeps collected by Louis Rodolphe Germain in ‘Cochinchina (corresponding to southern Vietnam) during the nineteenth century. We sequenced one mitochondrial locus and gathered biometric data from these specimens and compared them with other Orthotomus ***: The Ashy Tailord population from SE Cambodia and Vietnam is distinct from the two geographically close subspecies O. r. borneoensis(1.7%) and O. r. cineraceus(1.3%). O. chaktomuk is nested within O. atrogularis in the mitochondrial gene tree. The SE Cambodia/Vietnam population of O. ruficeps is distinct from the two other subspecies in bill ***: Our study described the biometric and molecular distinctiveness of a recently re-discovered population of Ashy Tailord in SE Cambodia and Vietnam and suggests that this population constitutes an independent evolutionary lineage that we de