The uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and glacial oscillations triggered the diversification of Tetraogallus (Galliformes, Phasianidae).

ABSTRACT: The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) plays an important role in avian diversification. To reveal the relationship between the QTP uplift and avian diversification since the Late Cenozoic, here, we analyzed the phylogenetic relationship and biogeographical pattern of the genus Tetraogallus (Galliformes, Phasianidae) and the probable factors of speciation in the period of the QTP uplift inferred from concatenated data of four nuclear and five mitochondrial genes using the method of the Bayesian inference. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that T. himalayensis had a close relationship with T. altaicus and conflicted with the previous taxonomy of dark-bellied and white-bellied groups. The molecular clock showed that the speciation of Tetraogallus was profoundly affected by the uplift of the QTP and g

SUBMITTER: Ding L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7029067 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature