The systematics and biogeography of African tailorbirds (Cisticolidae: Artisornis) with comment on the choice of Bayesian branch-length prior when analyzing heterogeneous data

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Graphical abstractDisplay OmittedHighlights?A. moreauiis sister toA. metopias; considerable intraspecific genetic divergence.?Disjunct distribution ofA. moreauiis not a consequence of competitive exclusion.?Monophyly of the generaArtisornisandOreolaisare supported.?Mis-specification of the branch-length prior is problematic for mtDNA analyses.AbstractThe Long-billed Tailorbird (Artisornis moreaui), one of Africa’s rarest birds, has a strikingly disjunct distribution, the