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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2005

Prioritizing species conservation: does the Cape Verde kite exist?

Jeff A Johnson, Richard T Watson, David P Mindell

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Population Genomics of the Critically Endangered Brazilian Merganser.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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  7. Precision animal breeding.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2008
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jeff A JohnsonThe Peregrine Fund, 5668 West Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, ID 83709, USA. jeffaj@umich.edu
Richard T Watson
David P Mindell

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Cape Verde kite (Milvus milvus fasciicauda) is considered to be one of the rarest birds of prey in the world and at significant risk of extinction. For this reason there is great interest in both the taxonomic and the population status of this group. To help resolve its taxonomic status, we provide phylogenetic analyses based on three mitochondrial genes for a sampling of kites in the genus Milvus, including a broad geographical sampling of black kites (Milvus migrans), red kites (Milvus milvus), Cape Verde kite museum specimens collected between 1897 and 1924, and five kites trapped on the Cape Verde Islands during August 2002. We found that the historical Cape Verde kites, including the type specimen, were non-monophyletic and scattered within a larger red kite clade. The recently trapped kites from the Cape Verde Islands were all phylogenetically diagnosed as black kites. Our findings suggest that the traditional Cape Verde kite is not a distinctive evolutionary unit, and the case for species status, as recently suggested by others, is not supported. We do find support for recognition of at least one clade of yellow-billed kites, traditionally considered as a black kite subspecies, as a distinctive phylogenetic species.

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Conservation of Natural ResourcesPhylogenyAfrica, WesternAnimalsBase SequenceBayes TheoremDNA, MitochondrialFalconiformesGeographyModels, GeneticMolecular Sequence DataSequence Analysis, DNASpecies SpecificityDNA, Mitochondrial

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PMID16006325
PMCPMC1560339

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