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INTRODUCTION

Birds may exhibit sexual dimorphism in their plumage, morphometry or behavior (^{Fuchs and Montalti 2016}), reflecting the influence of natural selection (^{Selander 1966}) and/or sexual selection (^{Andersson 1994}, ^{Székely et al. 2004}). In the presence of intersexual differences in size and shape, the occupancy of different niches within a given habitat is possible. This may lead each sex to exploit a different part of the habitat, resulting in spatial segregation. In this context, morphometric traits may also vary systematically between juveniles and adults, and between males and females (^{Senay et al. 2017}).

Although about half of all bird species are dimorphic, their sex differences become apparent only in their adult stage (^{Griffiths et al. 1998}). Considering that, a fundamental problem for the evaluation of the role of sexual dimorphism in the ecology of these organisms are the difficulties in assigning immature individuals to the correct sex. One of the most reliable and widely-used sexing methods is the amplification by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) of an intronic segment of the chromo-helicase DNA binding gene (CHD), which is linked to the bird sex chromosomes ZZ/ZW (^{Griffiths et al. 1998}). The differences in the length of the two alleles can be used to identify the individual’s gender. Females have two distinct fragments (CHDZ/CHDW), whereas the males have only one (CHDZ). In most bird species, the CHDW fragment, found only in the female, has the longest amplicon, although in some species, such as the Rock Pigeon, Columba livia Gmelin, 1789 (Columbidae), CHDZ is the longest amplicon (^{Griffiths et al. 1998}). The size and sequence of the amplified fragments vary among different species, but are normally homogeneous in individuals of the same species, although some intraspecific polymorphisms have been described (^{Dawson et al. 2001}).

The sequences of these intronic regions have been described in only a few Brazilian bird species up to now. For example, the CHDZ/CHDW intronic fragments of only one of the 67 species of Rhynchocyclidae Berlepsch, 1907, the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus (Lichtenstein, 1823), have been described (Caio S. Ferreira unpublished data). In this species, the CHDZ fragment has approximately 360 base pairs (bp) and the CHDW fragment, 390 bp. The rhynchocyclid genus Hemitriccus Cabanis & Heine, 1859 has 22 species (^{Piacentini et al. 2015}) and, given its phylogenetic proximity to Mionectes, a similar configuration of the CHDZ/CHDW intronic fragments would be expected in Hemitriccus, including the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant, Hemitriccus nidipendulus (Wied, 1831).

Rhynchocyclidae comprises exclusively Neotropical species, which are often classified as a subfamily of the Tyrannidae Vigors, 1825. Based on an extensive analysis of the DNA sequence data of the tyrannid clade, however, ^{Tello et al. (2009}) proposed that a group of rhynchocycline flycatchers (including Hemitriccus) should be considered a distinct family, an arrangement that has been upheld since 2010 by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee (see ^{Piacentini et al. 2015} for the current checklist of the birds of Brazil). With no apparent sexual dimorphism, the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant is an insectivorous species endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (^{Bencke et al. 2006}, ^{Vale et al. 2018}), where it occurs in coastal “restingas” and humid evergreen forests, particularly in dense and secondary habitats (^{Sick 1997}, ^{Clock 2018}). The analysis of morphometric differences between the sexes in phylogenetically close species has identified variation in body dimensions, such as the wing and tail, with males showing larger measurements than females in both the Rhynchocyclidae (^{Botero-Delgadillo 2010}) and Tyrannidae (^{Cueto et al. 2015}). Differences in beak dimensions have also been found in some rhynchocyclids (^{Botero-Delgadillo 2010}).

In the present study, the CHDZ/CHDW gene fragments of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant were investigated to confirm the sex of individuals and to evaluate potential morphometric measurements that could be used to reliably identify the sex of individuals without the need for molecular analyses, and in particular, parameters that can be applied to other species of the same family. As males are typically larger than females, and have larger beaks, as observed in other rhynchocyclid species (^{Botero-Delgadillo 2010}) and most other birds (^{Székely et al. 2007}), we hypothesized that a similar pattern may be found in the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Individuals were sampled in the restinga habitat (sandy coastal plain associated with the Atlantic Forest) of the Massambaba region in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is considered an Important Bird Area (IBA RJ08: “Restinga de Massambaba and Ilha de Cabo Frio”) of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest domain, due to the presence of the local endemic, Restinga Antwren, Formicivora littoralis Gonzaga & Pacheco, 1990 (^{Bencke et al. 2006}). In the present study, we sampled three locations in the Costa do Sol State Park: Ponta das Coroinhas (22°55’3”S; 42°16’34”W) and Brejo do Espinho (22°55’40”S; 42°16’12”W), in the municipality of Arraial do Cabo, and Praia do Vargas (22°56’14”S; 42°17’30”W), in the municipality of Araruama. The distance between sample sites ranged from 2 to 6 km, and all the sites are covered with shrubby and dense restinga vegetation.

The Hangnest Tody-Tyrant individuals were captured regularly using mist-nets (12 x 2.5 m, 36 mm mesh) between October 2011 and September 2014. The nets were set randomly along trails and in natural gaps in the vegetation in the morning (6:00-10:00 am) and afternoon (3:00-6:00 pm). We banded each captured individual with a metal ring (CEMAVE license number: 14210), measured it, and collected 10-50 µl of blood from the tarsal vein with a disposable needle (13 x 4.5 mm). Using a Pesola dynamometer (precision of 0.5 g), a ruler (precision 1 mm), and a caliper (precision 0.1 mm), one of the authors (RTM) took the following morphometric measurements: weight, total length, tail length, wing length, nostril-beak tip, exposed culmen, beak depth at the nostril and the base, beak width at the nostril and the base, tarsus length and length of the head to beak tip. Each individual was released near the site of its capture, usually less than one hour after being processed. The present study was conducted under the approval of Institutional Ethic Commitee at UERJ (CEUA - Comissão de Ética no Uso de Animais) #065/2018.

The DNA was extracted using the salting-out method (^{FitzSimmons et al. 1995}). All individuals were sexed by amplifying the highly conserved ZW chromosome-linked CHD gene, using the primers P2 and P8 (^{Griffiths et al. 1998}). The CHDW and CHDZ alleles were amplified by PCR in a 10 μl reaction volume containing 10 ng of DNA, 1X buffer (75 mM Tris-HCl pH 9.0, 20 mM(NH4)2SO₄, 0.01% Tween 20), 0.25 U Taq DNA polymerase (Thermoprime plus, Advanced Biotechnologies), 200 μM of dNTPs (Gibco), 2 mM of MgCl₂ and 1 µM of each primer, P2 (5’-TCT GCA TCG CTA AAT CCT TT- 3’) and P8 (5’-CTC CCA AGG ATG AGR AAY TG-3’). The alleles were amplified in a Hybaid Touchdown thermal cycler (Thermo Hybaid, Ashford, Middlesex, UK). The PCR protocol used here was an initial denaturation at 94 °C for 2 min, followed by 40 cycles of 94 °C for 45 s, 50 °C for 45 s and 72 °C for 45 s, with a final extension of 5 min at 72 °C. PCR products were analyzed by electrophoresis in 2.5% agarose gel in 1X TBE buffer at 70V for three hours, stained with 5% ethidium bromide solution (10 mg/ml) and visualized in a transilluminator with UV light.

Student’s t test for independent samples, run in Statistica 10, was used to compare the morphometric measurements between the two sexes, and a standard discriminant analysis was used to evaluate the proportion of individuals whose sex was identified correctly, and which variable contributed most to the identification of the sex of the individuals. Discriminant analysis is sensitive to sample size (^{Hair et al. 2005}, ^{Dechaume-Moncharmont et al. 2011}), requiring a minimum of 20 individuals for each predictor variable (^{Hair et al. 2005}), but smaller sample sizes has been used successfully in a number of studies (reviewed in ^{Dechaume-Moncharmont et al. (2011}). Therefore, we performed this test, even with the small sample size for females (n = 16). We used a jackknife validation, following ^{Dechaume-Moncharmont et al. (2011}), to estimate the proportion of individuals sexed correctly by the discriminant analysis. This procedure was run in the R program ^{(R Core Team 2011}).

RESULTS

Fifty-six adult Hangnest Tody-Tyrant were captured and banded. The molecular genetic analysis revealed that 40 of these individuals were males and 16 were females. The intronic CHDZ fragment had approximately 360 bp, while the CHDW fragment had 400 bp (Fig. 1). Based on this molecular analysis, we compared the morphometric traits of the two genders. Males had significantly longer wings and tarsi than females (Table 1), while larger values were recorded for the nostril-tip and beak depth of females (at the base). The discriminant analysis showed that males and females differed in their morphometry (Wilks’ Lambda = 0.60, F = 2.54, p <0.01) with tarsus length being the morphometric trait that most contributed to the differentiation of the sexes (Table 2). The jackknife cross-validation process revealed that 60% of the females (10 of 16 individuals) and 90% of the males (36 of 40 individuals) were sexed correctly based on their morphometric traits.

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Table 1 Mean, standard deviation (sd), t-test result, and corresponding probabilities of morphometric measurements (mm) and weight (g) of 56 individuals of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant (40 males and 16 females) in Costa do Sol State Park, southeastern Brazil.

Measurements	Males ± sd (range)	Females ± sd (range)	Student’s t-test	Probability (p)
Weight	7.90 ± 0.68 (6.5-9.7)	7.58 ± 0.55 (6.5-8.5)	0.71	0.47
Total length	90.4 ± 2.97 (85-97)	89.3 ± 3.01 (83-94)	0.88	0.38
Wing length*	45.2 ± 1.27 (43-48)	44.4 ± 1.54 (41-47)	2.00	0.04
Length of tail	39.4 ± 1.31 (35-39)	38.9 ± 0.86 (33-36)	0.10	0.91
Tarsus length*	19.0 ± 0.55 (18-19.8)	18.5 ± 0.43 (17.8-19.4)	3.16	0.002
Exposed culmen	11.2 ± 0.51 (9.9-12.3)	11.4 ± 0.52 (10.2-11.9)	-1.06	0.29
Nostril-tip*	8.1 ± 0.33 (7.5-8.9)	8.3 ± 0.44 (7.9-8.9)	-2.10	0.04
Beak depth in nostril	2.8 ± 0.14 (2.5-3.2)	2.9 ± 0.15 (2.8-3.4)	-1.72	0.08
Beak width in nostril	3.7 ± 0.19 (3.4-4.1)	3.8 ± 0.19 (3.5-4.2)	-0.79	0.43
Beak height in base*	3.1 ± 0.13 (2.8-3.4)	3.2 ± 0.21 (3.0-3.9)	-2.38	0.02
Beak width in base	8.0 ± 0.72 (7.0-9.0)	8.0 ± 0.65 (7.1-9.7)	0.02	0.97
Head to beak tip	29.3 ± 0.44 (28.4-30)	29.3 ± 0.41 (28.2-29.9)	-0.72	0.47

*Significant results.

Table 2 Discriminant analysis for all morphometric measurements of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant (Males = 40 and females = 16) captured in Costa do Sol State Park, southeastern Brazil.

Measurements	Wilk’s lambda	p-level
Weight	0.60	0.96
Total length	0.62	0.18
Wing length	0.63	0.11
Length of tail	0.61	0.53
Tarsus length*	0.67	0.02
Exposed culmen	0.60	0.67
Nostril-tip	0.65	0.06
Beak depth in nostril	0.62	0.20
Beak width in nostril	0.61	0.50
Beak height in base	0.61	0.36
Beak width in base	0.60	0.92
Head to beak tip	0.60	0.69

*Significant results.

DISCUSSION

The amplification of the intronic region of the CHD gene of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant revealed that the CHDW allele is the largest amplicon, as observed in most bird species (^{Griffiths et al. 1998}). A similar pattern has been recorded in a second rhynchocyclid, the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher (Caio S. Ferreira unpublished data), supporting that phylogenetically close species have a similar configuration of the CHDZ/CHDW alleles, when amplified with the P2/P8 primers (^{Griffiths et al. 1998}). The male and female Hangnest Tody-Tyrant were morphometrically different, with males having larger body size parameters (tarsus and wing length), while the females had larger beaks (nostril-tip and beak height at the base). Theoretically this difference may reflect different selection pressures influencing the morphometry of each sex. In males, larger tarsi and wings can be beneficial for longer and faster flight, allowing a more efficient exploration of habitats, even though smaller wings may enhance maneuverability (^{Anderson and Norberg 1981}), which may favor territorial defense, for example, and might be advantageous if females prefer more acrobatic males (^{Hakkarainen et al. 1996}). It is important to note that differences in tarsal morphometry, as observed in the present study, may be associated with gender-based niche partitioning, given the importance of the tarsus in tyrannid foraging behavior (^{Fitzpatrick 1985}). An enhanced tarsus may be beneficial for ambushing arthropods by pouncing, which would be important for an insectivorous bird such as the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant.

In the females, morphometric traits may have evolved in response to the need to avoid intraspecific competition with males for food resources. In this specific case, larger beaks may facilitate the capture of a more diverse array of arthropods by the females, in particular, larger prey. Unfortunately, this hypothesis cannot be tested empirically due to the lack of data on the diet of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant. ^{Selander (1966}) argued that gender-based differences in size should be reflected in differences in the diets of the two sexes. However, variation in beak morphometry may also be related to mate choice and sexual selection, as observed in four subspecies of the Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790), in which females mated preferentially with males that had larger beaks (^{Olsen et al. 2013}).

Morphometric differences between males and females have been recorded in a number of other Neotropical birds, such as the Creamy-bellied Thrush, Turdus amaurochalinus Cabanis, 1850, a migrant that overwinters in the same habitat as the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant. The males of this thrush have larger wings than the females, which could allow them to fly faster and arrive first at their breeding grounds (^{Silva et al. 2011}). In resident species, larger wing size has been recorded in male Chestnut-capped foliage-gleaner Clibanornis rectirostris (Wied, 1831) in the Serra do Cipó National Park, in the Brazilian Cerrado savanna (^{Faria et al. 2007}), and in the male Restinga Antwren in the coastal restinga (^{Chaves and Alves 2013}). The males of both species defend their territories to guarantee access to potential mates. We were unable to confirm the existence of territorial behavior in the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant, but when playback was used to detect the species, these birds tended to answer promptly, possibly reflecting potential territoriality (unpublished data).

Gender differences in beak morphometry have also been found for the Restinga Antwren (^{Chaves and Alves 2013}), reflecting habitat partitioning, with males foraging higher up in the vegetation than females (^{Chaves et al. 2017}), even though the two sexes had a similar diet. In addition to body size, male Restinga Antwren had larger beaks than females in two parameters - nostril-tip and beak width at the nostril (^{Chaves and Alves 2013}). The Restinga Antwren occurs in the same habitat (sandy coastal plain) in which the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant was sampled in the present study. Here, the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant females had longer and deeper beaks than the males, the opposite pattern to that observed in the previous study, and in all other studies of rhynchocyclid morphometry. In the Ochre-bellied Flycatcher, for example, males were heavier and had longer bodies, wings, and tails than the females (Caio S. Ferreira unpublished data), but no significant differences in beak parameters, while males Olive-striped Flycatchers, Mionectes olivaceus Lawrence, 1868, studied in Colombia by ^{Botero-Delgadillo (2010}), had deeper beaks than the females, as well as larger wings and tails.

Although clear gender differences were observed in the morphometry of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant, the larger beak of the females did contradict our hypothesis. Further research should focus on the diet of the species, and in particular, the possible partitioning of feeding niches between the sexes. It will also be important to investigate the morphometry of other rhynchocyclids to determine in which species the females have larger beaks than the males, and the possible ecological implications of this morphometric difference. Despite the relatively small sample size of our study, our results indicate that body size measurements can be useful for sexing the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant, given the correct classification of 90% of males. Higher confidence level can be achieved, however, by applying the P2 and P8 primers, which can provide for this species a 100% certainty of individual sexing.

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Reinaldo T. Medeiros¹

Flávia G. Chaves²³

Maurício B. Vecchi⁴

Denise M. Nogueira⁵

Maria Alice S. Alves⁴^*

¹Graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Veiga de Almeida. Rua Ibituruna 108, 20271-020 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

²Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-011 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

³Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica. Avenida José Ruschi 4, 29650-000 Santa Teresa, ES, Brazil.

⁴Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 20550-011 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

⁵Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. Rodovia BR 465, km 7, 23897-000 Seropédica, RJ, Brazil.

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Molecular sexing and intersexual differences in the morphometry of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus

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Medeiros, Reinaldo T; Chaves, Flávia G; Vecchi, Maurício B; Nogueira, Denise M; Alves, Maria Alice S

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Molecular sexing and intersexual differences in the morphometry of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus

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