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DNA barcoding of birds at a migratory hotspot in Eastern Turkey highlights continental phylogeographic relationships

dc.contributor.kuauthorŞekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Sciences
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T12:27:49Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe combination of habitat loss, climate change, direct persecution, introduced species and other components of the global environmental crisis has resulted in a rapid loss of biodiversity, including species, population and genetic diversity. Birds, which inhabit a wide spectrum of different habitat types, are particularly sensitive to and indicative of environmental changes. The Caucasus endemic bird area, part of which covers northeastern Turkey, is one of the world's key regions harboring a unique bird community threatened with habitat loss. More than 75% of all bird species native to Turkey have been recorded in this region, in particular along the Kars-Igdir migratory corridor, stopover, wintering and breeding sites along the Aras River, whose wetlands harbor at least 264 bird species. In this study, DNA barcoding technique was used for evaluating the genetic diversity of land bird species of Aras River Bird Paradise at the confluence of Aras River and Igdir Plains key biodiversity areas. Seventy three COI sequences from 33 common species and 26 different genera were newly generated and used along with 301 sequences that were retrieved from the Barcoding of Life Database (BOLD). Using the sequences obtained in this study, we made global phylogeographic comparisons to define four categories of species, based on barcoding suitability, intraspecific divergence and taxonomy. Our findings indicate that the landbird community of northeastern Turkey has a genetical signature mostly typical of northern Palearctic bird communities while harboring some unique variations. The study also provides a good example of how DNA barcoding can build upon its primary mission of species identification and use available data to integrate genetic variation investigated at the local scale into a global framework. However, the rich bird community of the Aras River wetlands is highly threatened with the imminent construction of the Tuzluca Dam by the government.
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dc.description.issue6
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dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.sponsorshipChristensen Fund
dc.description.sponsorshipWhitley Fund
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Geographic Society
dc.description.sponsorshipKafkas University
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Utah
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch Fund of Boğaziçi University
dc.description.versionPublisher version
dc.description.volume11
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0154454
dc.identifier.eissn1932-6203
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dc.identifier.filenameinventorynoIR00822
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/1775
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dc.keywordsPhylogenetic-relationships
dc.keywordsClimate-change
dc.keywordsHistory
dc.keywordsIntrogression
dc.keywordsPopulations
dc.keywordsSpeciation
dc.keywordsPatterns
dc.keywordsGenetics
dc.keywordsSaxicola
dc.keywordsAves
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.relation.grantno09S101
dc.relation.grantno15Y00R4
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dc.relation.urihttp://cdm21054.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/IR/id/824
dc.subjectMultidisciplinary sciences
dc.titleDNA barcoding of birds at a migratory hotspot in Eastern Turkey highlights continental phylogeographic relationships
dc.typeJournal Article
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local.contributor.kuauthorŞekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı
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