caa a22 4500 44585717X CHVBK 20180317145431.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10592-011-0237-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10592-011-0237-6 Phylogeography of a vanishing North American songbird: the Painted Bunting ( Passerina ciris ) [Elektronische Daten] [Connie Herr, Paul Sykes Jr., John Klicka] The breeding distribution of Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris) is comprised of two allopatric populations separated by a 550-km distributional gap in the southeastern United States. Curiously, the boundary between the two recognized P. ciris subspecies does not separate the two allopatric breeding populations but instead runs roughly through the center of the interior population. Genetic relationships among these subspecies, and the allopatric breeding populations of Painted Bunting, have not been assessed. Given the recent decline in overall abundance of this species, such an assessment is warranted. We sampled birds from 15 localities (138 individuals) and identified 35 distinct haplotypes, six belonging to the Atlantic Coast population and 26 to the interior population, with three shared by both populations. AMOVA results showed that a significantly greater portion of the total genetic variance is explained when grouping birds by the interior and Atlantic Coast populations rather than by subspecies. Furthermore, our data indicate that the Atlantic Coast and interior populations represent independently evolving taxa, with no measureable gene flow between them. Although recently diverged (26,000-115,000years ago), these isolated bunting populations represent incipient species. For development of conservation strategies, we suggest that the Atlantic Coast and interior populations be recognized as separate management units. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Passerina ciris nationallicence Painted Bunting nationallicence Phylogeography nationallicence ND2 nationallicence Conservation genetics nationallicence Herr Connie School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, 89154, Las Vegas, NV, USA aut Sykes Jr. Paul USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Warnell School of Forest and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, GA, USA aut Klicka John Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, 89154-4012, Las Vegas, NV, USA aut Conservation Genetics Springer Netherlands 12/6(2011-12-01), 1395-1410 1566-0621 12:6<1395 2011 12 10592 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0237-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-011-0237-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Herr Connie School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, 89154, Las Vegas, NV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sykes Jr Paul USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Warnell School of Forest and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, 30602, Athens, GA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Klicka John Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, 89154-4012, Las Vegas, NV, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Conservation Genetics Springer Netherlands 12/6(2011-12-01), 1395-1410 1566-0621 12:6<1395 2011 12 10592 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer