Alicia Toon, Jeremy J. Austin, Gaynor Dolman, Lynn Pedler, Leo Joseph,
The quail-thrush, Cinclosoma, include between five and seven species distributed broadly across arid and semi-arid inland Australia, mesic forests of south-eastern Australia and New Guinea. It has been suggested that the arid zone species of quail-thrush arose from forest ancestors as Australia changed from a warm wet climate to a cooler drier climate since the late-Miocene. We generated multilocus (mitochondrial ND2 and eight nuclear loci) gene and species trees with complete taxon sampling of Cinclosoma ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2011 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Janette A. Norman, Per G. P. Ericson, Knud A. Jønsson, Jon Fjeldså, Les Christidis,
... with no clearly defined affinities. Ptilorrhoa and Cinclosoma (Cinclosomatidae) formed a clade separate from Psophodes (Psophodidae) but ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2009 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Jacqueline M. T. Nguyen, Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand,
Quail-thrushes (Passeriformes: Cinclosomatidae: Cinclosoma) are ground-dwelling corvoid songbirds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.Until now, the only known quail-thrush ... a minimum age of ~18 million years for Cinclosomatidae.They cannot be confidently assigned to the crown ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2018 - Institute of Paleobiology | Acta Palaeontologica Polonica