Ficedula (6 Viewers)

[Richard Klim]

Robb & The Sound Approach 2015. Call identification of European Pied, Iberian Pied and Atlas Pied Flycatcher. Dutch Birding 37(3): 161–163. [Dutch summary]

Sound recordings.

 

[Richard Klim]

Nater et al

Nater, Burri, Kawakami, Smeds & Ellegren (in press). Resolving evolutionary relationships in closely related species with whole-genome sequencing data. Syst Biol. [abstract] [pdf]

 

[Richard Klim]

Narcissus Flycatcher complex

Dong, Wei, Alström, Huang, Olsson, Shigeta, Zhang & Zheng (in press). Taxonomy of the Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina complex: an integrative approach using morphological, bioacoustic and multilocus DNA data. Ibis. [abstract]

Dong et al 2015. Ibis 157(2): 312–325. [pdf]

 

[Richard Klim]

Atlas Flycatcher

Corso, Janni, Viganò & Starnini 2015. Atlas Pied Flycatcher: variability of identification characters. Dutch Birding 37(3): 141–160. [Dutch summary] [sound recordings]
(Includes 47 photos, plus two beautiful plates by Lorenzo Starnini depicting variability of speculigera.)

Corso et al 2015. [pdf]

 

[Richard Klim]

Narcissus Flycatcher complex

Dong, Wei, Alström, Huang, Olsson, Shigeta, Zhang & Zheng (in press). Taxonomy of the Narcissus Flycatcher Ficedula narcissina complex: an integrative approach using morphological, bioacoustic and multilocus DNA data. Ibis. [abstract]

Dong et al 2015. Ibis 157(2): 312–325. [pdf]

Birdwatch, 16 Nov 2015: Splits make four on the fly.

 

[Richard Klim]

Pied Flycatcher migration

Ouwehand, Ahola, Ausems, Bridge, Burgess, Hahn, Hewson, Klaassen, Laaksonen, Lampe, Velmala & Both (in press). Light-level geolocators reveal migratory connectivity in European populations of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca. J Avian Biol. [abstract]

Free access at the moment...

Ouwehand et al 2016. J Avian Biol 47(1): 69–83. [pdf]

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Fidecula luzoniensis

Moyle, Hosner, Jones & Outlaw (in press). Phylogeny and biogeography of Ficedula flycatchers (Aves: Muscicapidae): novel results from fresh source material. Mol Phylogenet Evol. [abstract] [Fig 1]

• Ficedula (hyperythra) luzoniensis – Philippine Snowy-browed Flycatcher
  ref Clement 2006 (HBW 11).

IOC Updates Diary Jan 18

Accept split of Bundok Flycatcher

 

[Richard Klim]

Black-and-white Ficedula flycatchers

Nadachowska-Brzyska, Burri, Smeds & Ellegren (in press). PSMC-analysis of effective population sizes in molecular ecology and its application to black-and-white Ficedula flycatchers. Mol Ecol. [abstract & supp info]

 

[Richard Klim]

Ficedula luzoniensis

Moyle, Hosner, Jones & Outlaw (in press). Phylogeny and biogeography of Ficedula flycatchers (Aves: Muscicapidae): novel results from fresh source material. Mol Phylogenet Evol. [abstract] [Fig 1]

• Ficedula (hyperythra) luzoniensis – Philippine Snowy-browed Flycatcher
  ref Clement 2006 (HBW 11).

IOC Updates Diary Jan 18
Accept split of Bundok Flycatcher

Inskipp & Collar 2015. Notable taxonomic changes proposed for Asian birds in 2014. BirdingASIA 24: 64–71.

Ogilvie-Grant's Flycatcher Ficedula luzoniensis
...
However, what are the geographical limits to F. luzoniensis? Taxa from Palawan (race rara), Sulawesi (jugosae, annalisa) and the Moluccas (negroides, pallidipectus, alifura) were not sampled, and the subspecies descriptions in Clement (2006) do not cover chin colour or the presence/absence of white patches at the tail-base. The conclusion appears incontestable ..., but the application of the finding will require more museum work and, almost inevitably, a fuller genetic sampling of taxa.

 

[Richard Klim]

Collared & Pied Flycatchers

Uebbing, Künstner, Mäkinen, Backström, Bolivar, Burri, Dutoit, Mugal, Nater, Aken, Flicek, Martin, Searle & Ellegren (in press). Divergence in gene expression within and between two closely related flycatcher species. Mol Ecol. [abstract & supp info]

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Rusty-tailed Flycatcher

Daniel M. Hooper, Urban Olsson, Per Alström. The Rusty-tailed Flycatcher (Muscicapa ruficauda; Aves: Muscicapidae) is a member of the genus Ficedula. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 May 2016.

[abstract]

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Ripleyornis, I suspected that this replacement name was unnecessary.

 

[l_raty]

Daniel M. Hooper, Urban Olsson, Per Alström. The Rusty-tailed Flycatcher (Muscicapa ruficauda; Aves: Muscicapidae) is a member of the genus Ficedula. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 May 2016.

[abstract]

[fig.1]

Related thread: [Robins are flycatchers?] (with more trees [here] and [here]).

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Daniel M. Hooper, Urban Olsson, Per Alström. The Rusty-tailed Flycatcher (Muscicapa ruficauda; Aves: Muscicapidae) is a member of the genus Ficedula. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 May 2016.

[abstract]

[fig.1]

Related thread: [Robins are flycatchers?] (with more trees [here] and [here]).

TiF Update May 29, 2016

Ficedula Flycatchers: I've made some adjustments to the Ficedula tree based on Hooper et al. (2016). They added some samples from the Black-and-orange Flycatcher, Ficedula nigrorufa, and provided further evidence that the Rusty-tailed Flycatcher belongs in Ficedula, which we already knew from Raty's analysis on BirdForum.

 

[l_raty]

Atlas Flycatcher again

Potti, Copete, Gutiérrez-Expósito, Camacho. [In press.] Morphological and sexual traits in Atlas and Iberian Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca speculigera and F. h. iberiae: a comparison. Bird Study 63.
[abstract] [pdf here]

 

[l_raty]

Collared x Pied Flycatcher hybrid zone - post-copulatory pre-zygotic barriers

Cramer, Ålund, McFarlane, Johnsen, Qvarnström. [in press.] Females discriminate against heterospecific sperm in a natural hybrid zone. Evolution.
[abstract]

 

[l_raty]

Collared x Pied Flycatcher - hybrid dysfunction

McFarlane SE, Sirkiä PM, Ålund M, Qvarnström A. 2016. Hybrid Dysfunction Expressed as Elevated Metabolic Rate in Male Ficedula Flycatchers. PLoS ONE 11(9):e0161547.
[full article]

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Ludovic Dutoit, Reto Burri, Alexander Nater, Carina F. Mugal, Hans Ellegren. Genomic distribution and estimation of nucleotide diversity in natural populations: perspectives from the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) genome. Molecular Ecology Resources, Accepted manuscript online: 26 September 2016.

[abstract]

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Alexander Suh, Linnéa Smeds, Hans Ellegren. The dynamic landscape of transposition across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016.

Abstract:

Birds have the smallest genomes among land vertebrates. Their genome sizes are roughly a third of the human genome due to massive genome compaction in their dinosaur ancestors, potentially resulting from the metabolic requirements of powered flight. Consequently, transposable elements are relatively scarce in avian genomes and it has been suggested that rarity of transposition explains the stability of genome size and chromosomal organization across extant birds. Here we show that avian genomes instead have a dynamic and diverse landscape of transposition-derived structural variation. We analyzed 201 re-sequenced genomes of six species of Ficedula flycatchers and a three-generation pedigree of eleven collared flycatchers for transposable element variation (TEV). Following read mapping and stringent filtering, we discovered >10,000 transposon presence/absence polymorphisms. These TEVs include many which are shared between multiple species, however, around two thirds of the TEVs are private alleles. In combination with our pedigree data, this suggests that transposition occurs relatively frequently in flycatchers. Most TEVs belong to eight different families of long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons from the major groups of endogenous retroviruses (ERV); ERV1, ERV2, and ERV3. We further find that chromosomal recombination rate and density of sites under selection are predictors of TEV abundance. Altogether, we suggest that transposition is relatively frequent and diverse in birds, and that the overall scarcity of fixed transposable elements in avian genomes results from rare retention of TEVs due to low population frequencies.

 

[Acrocephalus]

Collared Flycatcher

Evans, S. R. & Gustafsson, L. 2017. Climate change upends selection on ornamentation in a wild bird. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 1: 0039.
(free access)