The radiation of Austral teals and the evolution of flightlessness
Rosinger, H. S.; Kardialsky, O.; Kennedy, M.; Spencer, H. G.; Steiner, F. M.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Rawlence, N.; Knapp, M.
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The origin and evolution in the Southern Hemisphere of the Austral teals, consisting of the grey-teal and brown-teal species complexes, remains poorly understood due to limited molecular data. With the group containing multiple independent examples of flight loss, understanding the evolutionary history of the group is of significant interest for functional genomic studies into the evolution of flightlessness. Here we present the first whole mitogenome-based phylogeny of the Austral teals. We show that the group diverged from a common ancestor with mallards in the late Miocene and soon after radiated into the brown-teal and grey-teal lineages, as well as the widely distributed pintails and green-winged ducks. The brown-teal species complex, which includes the volant brown and Chatham Island teals as well as the flightless, sub-Antarctic Auckland and Campbell Island teals, radiated within the past 0.9 - 2.2 million years. The divergence of the extinct Chatham Island teal, and the stepping-stone colonisation of the Auckland and Campbell Islands occurred from mainland New Zealand. Morphological changes towards flightlessness are also present in the volant brown teal on mainland New Zealand, suggesting that this group was on the pathway to flightlessess, which accelerated in some insular island lineages.
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