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Barker F.K., 2017. Molecular phylogenetics of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), with comments on the relationships of Ferminia. Amer. Mus. Novit. 3887: 1-28.

ABSTRACT
The superfamily Certhioidea is distributed on four continents and while comprising relatively few species, includes forms as diverse as creepers, nuthatches, gnatcatchers, and wrens. Previous attempts to infer the phylogeny of this lineage have focused on its higher-level relationships, consequently undersampling the New World wrens. This study reports the first nearly genus-level sampling of certhioids, based on concatenated and species tree analyses of 8520 bases of DNA sequence data from six gene regions. These analyses, while failing to completely resolve basal certhioid relationships, corroborate the monophyly of a diverse New World clade of gnatcatchers, gnatwrens, and wrens, and significantly improve our understanding of wren relationships. The inferred relationships among certhioids and wrens support an Old World origin for these lineages, with dispersal of the New World clade in the mid-Miocene, suggesting expansion and early diversification of the lineage through North America. This scenario suggests a minimum of six independent dispersal events into South America in this lineage, at least some likely to have been made prior to the Pliocene.
 
Daniel Philippe said:
Barker F.K., 2017. Molecular phylogenetics of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), with comments on the relationships of Ferminia. Amer. Mus. Novit. 3887: 1-28.

The inferred relationships among certhioids and wrens support an Old World origin for these lineages, with dispersal of the New World clade in the mid-Miocene, suggesting expansion and early diversification of the lineage through North America.
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The fossil records agrees with this, the only Certhioidea which is classified as Certhioidea Incertae Sedis is Certhiops rummeli Manegold, 2008 from the Early Miocene (MN 3) of Germany.

Albrecht Manegold, 2008

Earliest fossil record of the Certhioidea (treecreepers and allies) from the early Miocene of Germany

Journal of Ornithology, Volume 149, Issue 2, April 2008, 223-228
 
Daniel Philippe said:
Barker F.K., 2017. Molecular phylogenetics of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), with comments on the relationships of Ferminia. Amer. Mus. Novit. 3887: 1-28.

ABSTRACT
The superfamily Certhioidea is distributed on four continents and while comprising relatively few species, includes forms as diverse as creepers, nuthatches, gnatcatchers, and wrens. Previous attempts to infer the phylogeny of this lineage have focused on its higher-level relationships, consequently undersampling the New World wrens. This study reports the first nearly genus-level sampling of certhioids, based on concatenated and species tree analyses of 8520 bases of DNA sequence data from six gene regions. These analyses, while failing to completely resolve basal certhioid relationships, corroborate the monophyly of a diverse New World clade of gnatcatchers, gnatwrens, and wrens, and significantly improve our understanding of wren relationships. The inferred relationships among certhioids and wrens support an Old World origin for these lineages, with dispersal of the New World clade in the mid-Miocene, suggesting expansion and early diversification of the lineage through North America. This scenario suggests a minimum of six independent dispersal events into South America in this lineage, at least some likely to have been made prior to the Pliocene.
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TiF Update December 11

Certhiodea: Based on Barker (2017), the spotted creepers Salpornis have been returned to the treecreeper family, Certhiidae; the position of the wallcreepr family has been slightly adjusted; and the wrens have been rearranged at genus level.

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Joseph D Manthey, Garth M Spellman (2024). Recombination rate variation shapes genomic variability of phylogeographic structure in a widespread North American songbird (Aves: Certhia americana). bioRxiv 2022.09.25.509431; doi: Recombination rate variation shapes genomic variability of phylogeographic structure in a widespread North American songbird (Aves: Certhia americana)

Abstract
The nonrandom distribution of chromosomal characteristics and functional elements-genomic architecture-impacts the relative strengths and impacts of population genetic processes across the genome. Due to this relationship, genomic architecture has the potential to shape variation in population genetic structure across the genome. Population genetic structure has been shown to vary across the genome in a variety of taxa, but this body of work has largely focused on pairwise population genomic comparisons between closely related taxa. Here, we used whole genome sequencing of seven phylogeographically structured populations of a North American songbird, the Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), to determine the impacts of genomic architecture on phylogeographic structure variation across the genome. Using multiple methods to infer phylogeographic structure-ordination, clustering, and phylogenetic methods-we found that recombination rate variation explained a large proportion of phylogeographic structure variation. Genomic regions with low recombination showed phylogeographic structure consistent with the genome-wide pattern. In regions with high recombination, we found strong phylogeographic structure, but with discordant patterns relative to the genome-wide pattern. In regions with high recombination rate, we found that populations with small effective population sizes evolve relatively more rapidly than larger populations, leading to discordant signatures of phylogeographic structure. These results suggest that the interplay between recombination rate variation and effective population sizes shape the relative impacts of linked selection and genetic drift in different parts of the genome. Overall, the combined interactions of population genetic processes, genomic architecture, and effective population sizes shape patterns of variability in phylogeographic structure across the genome of the Brown Creeper.
 
Tyler S Imfeld, F Keith Barker, Hernán Vázquez-Miranda, Jaime A Chaves, Patricia Escalante, Garth M Spellman, John Klicka, Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), Ornithology, 2024;, ukae007, Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea)

Abstract
The passerine superfamily Certhioidea lacks a complete phylogeny despite decades of recognition as a clade and extensive systematic work within all its constituent families. Here, we inferred a near-complete species-level phylogeny of Certhioidea from a molecular supermatrix, including the first comprehensive sampling of the wrens (Troglodytidae), and used this phylogeny to infer its biogeographic and diversification histories. We also inferred an expanded phylogeny including nearly 100 putative phylospecies previously documented in the literature, and we found that including this diversity had notable impacts on the inferred evolutionary history of Certhioidea. This phylospecies-level tree documented a few instances of species paraphyly, some previously described in the literature and some novel. We found that Certhioidea originated largely in Eurasia and dispersed into North America five times in the last 20 million years, including at the origin of the “New World certhioids”, wrens and gnatcatchers, a clade herein named Orthourae. After this initial dispersal event, both wrens and gnatcatchers diversified extensively across the hemisphere, with both lineages repeatedly crossing between continents. However, we detected no notable impact of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on the frequency of dispersal events between North and South America. The inclusion of phylospecies altered this biogeographic inference in some portions of the tree but overall was largely consistent. With species-level sampling, we found that diversification rates within Certhioidea were largely constant through time with a detectable deceleration toward the present. By contrast, phylospecies-level sampling recovered a different diversification history with a significant rate increase at the crown node of Orthourae after dispersing into the Americas and increased speciation rates particularly within the genera Polioptila and Henicorhina. This largely resolved phylogeny for Certhioidea has yielded important insights into the evolutionary history of this group and provides a framework for future comparative work on this fascinating clade.


I need this one.
 
Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
Tyler S Imfeld, F Keith Barker, Hernán Vázquez-Miranda, Jaime A Chaves, Patricia Escalante, Garth M Spellman, John Klicka, Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), Ornithology, 2024;, ukae007, Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea)

I need this one.
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You are usually one of the first people I know to get ahold of many papers. If you get this one, you know my email address, and I will appreciate a copy very much! Merci!
 
Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
Tyler S Imfeld, F Keith Barker, Hernán Vázquez-Miranda, Jaime A Chaves, Patricia Escalante, Garth M Spellman, John Klicka, Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), Ornithology, 2024;, ukae007, Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea)

Abstract
The passerine superfamily Certhioidea lacks a complete phylogeny despite decades of recognition as a clade and extensive systematic work within all its constituent families. Here, we inferred a near-complete species-level phylogeny of Certhioidea from a molecular supermatrix, including the first comprehensive sampling of the wrens (Troglodytidae), and used this phylogeny to infer its biogeographic and diversification histories. We also inferred an expanded phylogeny including nearly 100 putative phylospecies previously documented in the literature, and we found that including this diversity had notable impacts on the inferred evolutionary history of Certhioidea. This phylospecies-level tree documented a few instances of species paraphyly, some previously described in the literature and some novel. We found that Certhioidea originated largely in Eurasia and dispersed into North America five times in the last 20 million years, including at the origin of the “New World certhioids”, wrens and gnatcatchers, a clade herein named Orthourae. After this initial dispersal event, both wrens and gnatcatchers diversified extensively across the hemisphere, with both lineages repeatedly crossing between continents. However, we detected no notable impact of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on the frequency of dispersal events between North and South America. The inclusion of phylospecies altered this biogeographic inference in some portions of the tree but overall was largely consistent. With species-level sampling, we found that diversification rates within Certhioidea were largely constant through time with a detectable deceleration toward the present. By contrast, phylospecies-level sampling recovered a different diversification history with a significant rate increase at the crown node of Orthourae after dispersing into the Americas and increased speciation rates particularly within the genera Polioptila and Henicorhina. This largely resolved phylogeny for Certhioidea has yielded important insights into the evolutionary history of this group and provides a framework for future comparative work on this fascinating clade.


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This phylogeny goes against the AOU suggestion of placing Cantorchilus elutus as a subspecies of modestus
 

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