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Article Dans Une Revue Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution Année : 2012

Hybridization and barriers to gene flow in an island bird radiation

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While reinforcement may play a role in all major modes of speciation, relatively little is known about the timescale over which species hybridize without evolving complete reproductive isolation. Birds have high potential for hybridization, and islands provide simple settings for uncovering speciation and hybridization patterns. Here we develop a phylogenetic hypothesis for a phenotypically diverse radiation of finch-like weaver-birds (Foudia) endemic to the western Indian Ocean islands. We find that unlike Darwin's finches, each island-endemic Foudia population is a monophyletic entity for which speciation can be considered complete. In explaining the only exceptionsmismatches between taxonomy, mitochondrial, and nuclear dataphylogenetic and coalescent methods support introgressive hybridization rather than incomplete lineage sorting. Human introductions of known timing of one island-endemic species, to all surrounding archipelagos provide two fortuitous experiments; (1) population sampling at known times in recent evolutionary history, (2) bringing allopatric lineages of an island radiation into secondary contact. Our results put a minimum time bound on introgression (235 years), and support hybridization between species in natural close contact (parapatry), but not between those in natural allopatry brought into contact by human introduction. Time in allopatry, rather than in sympatry, appears key in the reproductive isolation of Foudia species.

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hal-01199334 , version 1 (15-09-2015)

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Ben H. Warren, Eldredge Bermingham, Yann Bourgeois, Laura K. Estep, Robert P. Prys-Jones, et al.. Hybridization and barriers to gene flow in an island bird radiation. Evolution - International Journal of Organic Evolution, 2012, 66 (5), pp.1490--1505. ⟨10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01550.x⟩. ⟨hal-01199334⟩
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