Agelaius
Scott Lanyon
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close boxTree from Johnson and Lanyon (1999; Figure 4). Placement of Agelaius assimilis is based on an as yet unpublished study by Barker, Vandergon, and Lanyon.
This clade is the subject of an NSF funded "Assembling the Tree of Life" grant (DEB-0316092) to Keith Barker (University of Minnesota), Kevin Burns (San Diego State University), John Klicka (University of Nevada-Las Vegas), Scott Lanyon (University of Minnesota), and Irby Lovette (Cornell University). Our goal is to sequence multiple genes for every species of "nine-primaried oscine" and to construct a robust phylogeny from these data. This page will be updated once this research has been completed.
References
Johnson, K.P. and S.M. Lanyon 1999. Molecular systematics of the grackles and allies, and the effect of additional sequence (CYT-b and ND2). Auk 116:759-768.
Lanyon, S.M. 1994. Polyphyly of the blackbird genus Agelaius and the importance of assumptions of monophyly in comparative studies. Evolution 48:679-693.
Title Illustrations
| Scientific Name | Agelaius tricolor |
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| Location | Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, Siskiou County, California, USA |
| Comments | tricolored blackbird |
| Creator | Dave Menke |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Sex | Male |
| Source Collection | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Online Digital Media Library |
| Scientific Name | Agelaius phoeniceus |
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| Location | Forest Lake, MN |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Identified By | Scott M. Lanyon |
| Sex | Male |
| Life Cycle Stage | adult |
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| Copyright |
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| Scientific Name | Agelaius humeralis |
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| Location | Zapata Swamp, Cuba |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Identified By | Arthur Grosset |
| Source | Tawny-shouldered Blackbird (Agelaius humeralis) |
| Copyright |
© 2005 Arthur Grosset
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Scott Lanyon
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- First online 13 October 2006
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Lanyon, Scott. 2006. Agelaius. Version 13 October 2006 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Agelaius/67409/2006.10.13 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
