the National Swedish Research Council(grants No.2015-04402,2019-04486);the Carl Trygger Foundation(CTS 20:6);the Jornvall Foundation;Julian Francis for financial support;the National Genomics Infrastructure in Stockholm funded by Science for Life Laboratory,the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation;the Research/Scientific Computing teams at The James Hutton Institute and NIAB for providing computational resources and technical support for the"UK's Crop Diversity Bioinformatics HPC"(BBSRC grant BB/S019669/1)。
The family Alaudidae,larks,comprises 93-100 species(depending on taxonomy)that are widely distributed across Africa and Eurasia,with single species extending their ranges to North and northernmost South America and Au...
We would like to thank the numerous individuals who provided specimens for DNA sequencing for this study,including A.Acton,A.Aptroot,C.Björk,B.Coppins,G.Kantvilas,J.McCarthy,B.McCune,L.Muggia,O.Peksa,S.Pérez-Ortega,T.Tønsberg,P.van den Boom and the curators of F,GZU,O and UPS.Thanks go to Walter Obermayer,Graz,for performing thin layer chromatography on several specimens.Fernando Fernández-Mendoza and Martin Grube provided helpful comments at earlier stages of this project.We also thank Joseph Ryan for help with troubleshooting the SOWHAT analyses.DNA sequencing of Alaskan specimens was funded in part by a materials contribution from the Tongass National Forest,U.S.Department of Agriculture,courtesy of K.Dillman,for which we are grateful.The project was funded by the Austrian Science Foundation(FWF grant P25237,BEvolution of Substrate Specificity in Lichens^).The work by MW was financed by the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative(Svenska Artprojektet,administered by the Swedish Species Information Centre/ArtDatabanken).CP gratefully acknowledges financial support through the program BLOEWE-LandesOffensive zur Entwicklung wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz^of the Hessen Ministry of Higher Education,Research,and the Arts.ZP thanks for the support by the Czech Academy of Science(AV0Z60050516,RVO 67985939)and the Minsitry of Education,Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.
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