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Las secuencias completas del genoma mitocondrial de dos moas extintos aclaran la evolución de las ratitas.
A Cooper1, C Lalueza-Fox, S Anderson
1Department of Biological Anthropology and Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, University of Oxford, UK. alan.cooper@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Nature
|February 24, 2001
Resumen
El ADN de aves antiguas revela que las ratitas se dividieron en el Cretácico Tardío, soportando la tectónica de placas.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología evolutiva Biología evolutiva.
- Filogenética molecular Filogenética molecular
- La paleogeografía es la paleogeografía.
Sus antecedentes:
- El origen y la diversificación de las ratitas (aves grandes que no pueden volar) y sus parientes voladores (tinamos) son cruciales para comprender la evolución de las aves y el impacto de la tectónica de placas en la biogeografía.
- La datación precisa de la divergencia de las ratitas es esencial para establecer las líneas de tiempo evolutivas de las órdenes aviares modernas.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para resolver la filogenia de las ratitas y sus taxones hermanos, los tinamos.
- Proporcionar datos biogeográficos para investigar el papel de la tectónica de placas en la distribución de las aves.
- Establecer fechas de divergencia molecular para grupos aviares clave.
Principales métodos:
- Secuenciación de genomas mitocondriales completos de dos generaciones extintas de moa de Nueva Zelanda.
- Secuenciación del ADN mitocondrial de un extinto pájaro elefante de Madagascar.
- Generación de extensos datos de secuencias (12 kilobases) de kiwi, casuario, emú y dos generaciones de tinamou existentes.
Principales resultados:
- Las fechas de divergencia molecular estadísticamente precisas se estimaron utilizando un conjunto de datos amplio y completo.
- Los resultados apoyan un evento de especiación vicariante para taxones de ratitas durante el Cretácico Tardío.
- La evidencia sugiere una posterior dispersión del kiwi a Nueva Zelanda.
Conclusiones:
- Este estudio proporciona los primeros conocimientos moleculares sobre la ruptura del supercontinente Gondwana.
- Se establece un nuevo marco temporal para los eventos de especiación en otros biotas de Gondwana.
- Los hallazgos ofrecen una base para evaluar hipótesis biogeográficas competidoras con respecto a la diversificación aviar.
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