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Containing group: Passeriformes

Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships

Suboscines are divided geographically into New World and Old World clades, Tyrannides and Eurylaimides (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990; Irestedt et al. 2001; Barker et al. 2002, 2004; Chesser 2004; Beresford et al. 2005). The geographic separation is not quite perfect: there is one species of Eurylaimides in the New World, Sapayoa aenigma. New World suboscines can be divided into two clades, Tyranni and Furnarii (Lovette and Bermingham 2000; Irestedt et al. 2001; Barker et al. 2002, 2004; Chesser 2004; note that Sibley and Ahlquist 1990 gave the name Tyranni to a different group).

References

Barker, F. K., G. F. Barrowclough, and J. G. Groth. 2002. A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds; Taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269:295-308.

Barker, F. K., A. Cibois, P. Schikler, J. Feinstein, and J. Cracraft. 2004. Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:11040-11045.

Beresford, P., F. K. Barker, P. G. Ryan, and T. M. Crowe. 2005. African endemics span the tree of songbirds (Passeri): Molecular systematics of several evolutionary "enigmas". Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 272:849-858.

Chesser, R. T. 2004. Molecular systematics of New World suboscine birds. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 32:11-24.

Harshman, J. 2006. Classification and phylogeny of birds. Pages 1-36 in Reproductive biology and phylogeny of birds (B. G. M. Jamieson, ed.). Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, NH.

Irestedt, M., U. S. Johansson, T. J. Parsons, and P. G. P. Ericson. 2001. Phylogeny of major lineages of suboscines (Passeriformes) analysed by nuclear DNA sequence data. J. Avian Biol. 32:15-25.

Lovette, I. J., and E. Bermingham. 2000. c-mos variation in songbirds: Molecular evolution, phylogenetic implications, and comparisons with mitochondrial differentiation. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:1569-1577.

Sibley, C. G., and J. A. Ahlquist. 1990. Phylogeny and classification of birds, Yale U. Press, New Haven.