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Reconciling actual and inferred population histories in the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) by AFLP analysis.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2003
Wang Zhenshan, Baker Allan J, Hill Geoffrey E, Edwards Scott V
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The house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) is a native songbird of western North America that was introduced to the eastern United States and Hawaiian Islands in historic times. As such, it provides an unusually good opportunity to test the ability of molecular markers to recover recent details of a known population history. To investigate this prospect, genetic variation in 172 individuals from 16 populations in the...
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