Data from: Genomic data resolves gene tree discordance in spiderhunters (Nectariniidae, Arachnothera)

Reduced representation genomic sequencing methods efficiently gather
sequence data from thousands of loci throughout the genome. These data can
be used to test previous phylogenetic hypotheses produced from limited
numbers of mitochondrial and nuclear loci that often reveal intriguing,
but conflicting results. In this paper, we use phylogenomic data to
revisit recent molecular phylogenetic work that clarified many taxonomic
relationships within spiderhunters, but also questioned monophyly of this
distinctive genus of sunbirds (AVES: Nectariniidae; Arachnothera). DNA
sequence data were produced by target-capture sequencing of ultraconserved
elements (UCEs) to infer the evolutionary history of 11 species of
Arachnothera and six outgroups, including the Purple-naped Sunbird
(Hypogramma hypogrammicum), which previous work suggested might lie within
Arachnothera. Although we recovered many different gene tree topologies,
concatenated and coalescent methods of analysis converged on a species
tree that strongly supports the monophyly of Arachnothera, with Hypogramma
as its sister taxon.