RECENT SPECIATION BETWEEN THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE AND THE BLACK-BACKED ORIOLE
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 106 (3) , 674
- https://doi.org/10.1650/7496
Abstract
A recent phylogenetic survey of the New World orioles (genus Icterus; Omland et al. 1999) suggested that the Baltimore Oriole (I. galbula) and the Black-backed Oriole (I. abeillei) are sister taxa. That survey examined mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from a single representative of each species in the genus. Here, we examine mtDNA sequences from 15 Black-backed and 20 Baltimore Orioles. The two species appear to be very recently diverged, with average sequence divergences for both cytochrome b (cyt b) and the control region indicating a probable late Pleistocene split. Despite this very recent divergence, there is one fixed base-pair difference between the species in cyt b and another in the control region, suggesting that one or both species have undergone a bottleneck during or since speciation. This molecular evidence of recent divergence suggests that male plumage differences between Black-backed and Baltimore Orioles evolved very rapidly. Especiación Reciente entre Icterus galbula y Icterus abeillei Resumen. Un estudio filogenético reciente de los orioles del Nuevo Mundo (género Icterus; Omland, et al. 1999) sugiere que Icterus galbula e I. abeillei son taxa hermanos. En aquel estudio se examinó el ADN mitocondrial de un sólo representante de cada especie del género. En este estudio examinamos secuencias de ADN mitocondrial de 15 individuos de I. abeillei y 20 de I. galbula. Las dos especies parecen haber divergido recientemente con una separación promedio de las secuencias nucleotídicas en citocromo b y la región de control que indica que la divergencia ocurrió probablemente a fines del Pleistoceno. A pesar de haber divergido tan recientemente, existe una diferencia fija de un par de bases en la secuencia nucleotídica entre las dos especies en citocromo b y otra diferencia fija en la secuencia nucleotídica de la región de control, lo cual sugiere que una o ambas especies han sufrido un efecto de cuello de botella desde o durante el proceso de especiación. Esta evidencia molecular de divergencia reciente sugiere que los elementos del plumaje en los machos evolucionaron muy rápidamente entre I. abeillei e I. galbula.Keywords
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