DNA Barcoding Neotropical Birds:

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Barcoding the birds of Mesoamerica and the
Caribbean
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DNA Barcoding of Neotropical BirdsHarvard
University, 8-9 September 2005Cristina Mayaki,
Universidade Sao Paulo, BrazilEldredge
Bermingham, STRI, PanamaJoel Cracraft, American
Museum of Natural HistoryPer Ericson, Swedish
Museum of Natural HistoryDario Lijtmaer, Natural
History Museum, ArgentinaDavid Mindell,
University of MichiganKevin Omland, Univ of
Maryland/BaltimoreRichard Prum, Yale
UniversityNate Rice, ANSPMaria Paula Cruz
Schneider, Univ Federal do Para, BrazilJuan
Diego Palacio Mejia, Instituto HumboldtAna Maria
Umana, Instituto HumboldtCarolina Villafane
Palau, Instituto Humboldt
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• Why barcode Neotropical birds?
• Leverage local enthusiasm for DNA-based
  scientific inference to promote ornithological
  discovery
• Use ornithological discovery and interest in
  Neotropical birds to accelerate molecular
  systematics training for Latin American
  scientists
• Promote phylogenetic analysis of Neotropical
  birds through availability of high-quality DNA
• BOLD facilitates collaboration among
  geographically dispersed investigators
• GENBANK barcodes provide an additional window
  into a students science
• COI barcodes provide an additional 600 bp of DNA
  sequence data, which in combination with
  additional genes distributed around the
  mitochondrial molecule (e.g. cytochrome b and ATP
  synthase) increase the likelihood of detecting
  pseudogenes and contribute to the 2000 bp
  needed for a robust phylogenetic estimate of
  mtDNA relationship

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mtDNA phylogeographic structure of a rainforest
bird Mionectes oleagineus
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Comparative phylogeographic separation between
conspecific northern and southern populations of
Mesoamerican birds
Belize
Central Panama
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extinct
extinct
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch Loxigilla noctis
Grey Kingbird Tyrannus domincensis
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Adelaides Warbler Dendroica adelaidae
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Cumulative number of lineages of Lesser Antillean
birds with increasing genetic distance
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Heterogeneous colonization model or homogeneous
colonization model with a 90 extinction event
d 0.011
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Non-colonists
Group A
Group B
Group C
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Group D
Average habitat diversity (0-7)
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Trinidad Lesser Antilles
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Summary of Habitat Distribution and Local
Abundance Comparisons
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Estimated exponential rate of extinction of group
C and D populations ( distance-1)
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