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Genetic consequences of sequential founder events by an island-colonizing bird.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 11 Jun 2002
Clegg Sonya M, Degnan Sandie M, Kikkawa Jiro, Moritz Craig, Estoup Arnaud, Owens Ian P F
Abstract excerpt
The importance of founder events in promoting evolutionary changes on islands has been a subject of long-running controversy. Resolution of this debate has been hindered by a lack of empirical evidence from naturally founded island populations. Here we undertake a genetic analysis of a series of historically documented, natural colonization events by the silvereye species-complex (Zosterops lateralis), a group...
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