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Rallidae (1 Viewer)

By the way:
García-R J.C., Gibb G. & Trewick S., 2014. Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. In press
García-R J.C., Gibb G. & Trewick S., 2014. Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 81:96-108. [pdf]
 
Juan Carlos Garcia Ramirez, 2014. The influence of space and time on the genetic architecture of rail species (Aves: Rallidae). Ph.D. Thesis, Massey University.

PDF [here]
 
Buff-banded Rail

Garcia–Ramirez, J.C., Joseph, L., Lux, F., Adcock, G., Reid, J. and Trewick, S.A. Gene flow and island colonisation of the buff-banded rail (Aves: Rallidae) in Oceania and its implications for insular endemism. Submitted to Molecular Ecology, 3 February 2016.
 
Acoustic adaptation

Ręk & Kwiatkowska (in press). Habitat complexity and the structure of vocalizations: a test of the acoustic adaptation hypothesis in three rail species (Rallidae). Ibis. [abstract] [supp info]
 
Amaurornis

Oldish paper but not mentioned here

Luzhang Ruan, Yushi Wang, Jinrun Hu & Yi Ouyang. Polyphyletic Origin of the Genus Amaurornis Inferred from Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Rails. Biochem Genet (2012) 50:959–966.
Four main well-supported clades were found. Clade 1 consisted of the genera Gallirallus and Rallus. Clade 2 included the genera Gallinula and Fulica. Clade 3 contained Porzana and Amaurornis akool. Clade 4 consisted of Gallicrex cinerea and A. phoenicurus. Notably, the genus Amaurornis appeared to be polyphyletic in all phylogenetic trees supported by substantial bootstrap values. Interspecific sequence divergence values of the Rallidae ranged from 7.9 % (Porzana fusca to P. paykullii) to 21.4 % (A. akool to Gallicrex cinerea), with a mean of 17.59 ± 0.74 %.
 
Buff-banded Rail

Garcia–Ramirez, J.C., Joseph, L., Lux, F., Adcock, G., Reid, J. and Trewick, S.A. Gene flow and island colonisation of the buff-banded rail (Aves: Rallidae) in Oceania and its implications for insular endemism. Submitted to Molecular Ecology, 3 February 2016.

Juan C. Garcia-R, Leo Joseph, Greg Adcock, Julian Reid & Steven A. Trewick. Interisland gene flow among populations of the buff-banded rail (Aves: Rallidae) and its implications for insular endemism in Oceania. Journal of Avian Biology, Accepted manuscript online: 18 October 2016.

[abstract]
 
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With thanks to Kimball Garrett on NEOORN
Maley, J. M., J. E. McCormack, W. L. E. E. Tsai, E. M. Schwab, J. van Dort, R. C. Juárez, and M. D. Carling. 2016. Fonseca Mangrove Rail: A New Subspecies from Honduras. Western Birds 47:262-273; doi 10.21199/WB47.4.1

Abstract: Large rails were discovered in the mangroves along the Pacific coast of Honduras in 2010, and confirmed as local breeders in 2012. Their taxonomic affinity was unclear because the region is far from yet between the ranges of several other species in the Clapper Rail complex. So we collected eight specimens in July 2013, recorded their vocalizations, video-recorded a duetting pair, and documented a nest. By sequencing a portion of their mitochondrial DNA we were able to place them unambiguously within the Mangrove Rail (Rallus longirostris). The specimens differ in plumage, being the only Mangrove Rails with a dusky breast band and light gray edging to their back feathers. Males, at least, are significantly larger than other male Mangrove Rails. We found one base pair among 650 of mtDNA in which the Honduras specimens differ from specimens from Peru and Venezuela. Therefore, we describe this population as a new subspecies, the Fonseca Mangrove Rail (R. l. berryorum). This discovery extends the Mangrove Rail’s known range ~1500 km northwest along the Pacific coast.

Niels
 
More 'collecting', did they have to be killed to get the required samples?

Old argument done to death I know........


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Yep - why on earth 8? Couldn't they be satisfied with one for a type specimen, and feather samples for DNA for the rest? Gross overkill.
 

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