TY - JOUR A1 - Stelbrink, Björn A1 - von Rintelen, Thomas A1 - Richter, Kirsten A1 - Finstermeier, Knut A1 - Frahnert, Sylke A1 - Cracraft, Joel A1 - Hofreiter, Michael T1 - Insights into the geographical origin and phylogeographical patterns of Paradisaea birds-of-paradise JF - Zoological journal of the Linnean Society N2 - Birds-of-paradise represent a textbook example for geographical speciation and sexual selection. Perhaps the most iconic genus is Paradisaea, which is restricted to New Guinea and a few surrounding islands. Although several species concepts have been applied in the past to disentangle the different entities within this genus, no attempt has been made so far to uncover phylogeographical patterns based on a genetic dataset that includes multiple individuals per species. Here, we applied amplicon sequencing for the mitochondrial fragment Cytb for a total of 69 museum specimens representing all seven Paradisaea species described and inferred both phylogenetic relationships and colonization pathways across the island. Our analyses show that the most recent common ancestor of the diverging lineages within Paradisaea probably originated in the Late Miocene in the eastern part of the Central Range and suggest that tectonic processes played a key role in shaping the diversification and distribution of species. All species were recovered as monophyletic, except for those within the apoda-minor-raggiana clade, which comprises the allopatric and parapatric species P. apoda, P. minor and P. raggiana. The comparatively young divergence times, together with possible instances of mitochondrial introgression and incomplete lineage sorting, suggest recent speciation in this clade. KW - amplicon sequencing KW - Cytb KW - historical DNA KW - molecular clock KW - molecular phylogeny KW - museomics KW - New Guinea KW - Paradisaeidae Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac010 SN - 0024-4082 SN - 1096-3642 VL - 196 IS - 4 SP - 1394 EP - 1407 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER -