Tag: Striped Woodcreeper

MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, AND POPULATION GENETICSOF XIPHORHYNCHUS (AVES: DENDROCOLAPTIDae) IN THE AMAZON BASIN

Straight-billed Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus picus) Science Article 1 abstract Among those few hypotheses amenable to falsification by phylogenetic methods concerning the diversification of the Amazonian biota, three can be singled out because of their verifiable predictions: the riverine barrier, the gradient, and the basal trichotomy hypotheses. I used phylogenetic and population genetics methods to reconstruct the […]