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The relationships of the Accentors(Prunella) as indicated by DNA-DNA hybridization

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Most avian systematists of the past century have thought that the accentors(Prunella) are most closely related to the thrushes (Turdinae). A few have favored the fringillids, and others have suggested the sylviids, parids, troglodytids, motacillids, mimids, cinclids or timaliids as close relatives ofPrunella.

Comparisons were made between the single-copy DNA sequences of the Dunnock(Prunella modularis) and those of 28 other species of Passeres representing all major groups of oscines. The ploceine finches were found to be most closely related toPrunella and the next nearest relatives include the motacillids, sunbirds,Passer, and the fringillids. These groups are members of the superfamily Fringilloidea. The thrushes, starlings, mockingbirds, muscicapine flycatchers, and dippers (= Muscicapoidea); the sylviine warblers, babblers, and tits (= Sylvioidea), and the monarch flycatchers, wrens, larks, waxwings, and Australian scrub-robins(Drymodes), are not closely related toPrunella.

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Die meisten Systematiker des vergangenen Jahrhunderts haben die Braunellen(Prunella) als nächst verwandt mit den Drosseln (Turdinae) angesehen. Einige haben die Finken, andere Grasmücken, Meisen, Zaunkönige, Stelzen, Spottdrosseln, Wasseramseln oder die Timalien als nächste Verwandte vonPrunella eingestuft.

Es wird die Methode der DNS/DNS-Hybridisierung beschrieben. Singuläre DNS-Sequenzen der Heckenbraunelle(Prunella modularis) wurden mit denen von 28 anderen, alle hauptsächlichen Oscinesgruppen repräsentierenden Passeres-Spezies verglichen. Die Ploceinen erwiesen sich hierbei als die nächsten Verwandten vonPrunella. In zweiter Linie zeigten die Stelzen, Sonnenvögel,Passer und die Finken Verwandtschaften zuPrunella. Diese Gruppen sind in der Überfamilie Fringilloidea zusammengefaßt. Nicht so eng verwandt mitPrunella erscheinen die Drosseln, Spottdrosseln, Fliegenschnäpper und Wasseramseln (= Muscicapoidea), die Grasmücken, Timalien und Meisen (= Sylvioidea) sowie die Monarchfliegenschnäpper, Zaunkönige, Lerchen, Seidenschwänze und die Australischen Malleevögel(Drymodes).

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Sibley, C.G., Ahlquist, J.E. The relationships of the Accentors(Prunella) as indicated by DNA-DNA hybridization. J Ornithol 122, 369–378 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01652925

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