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Genetic and morphological evolution following a founder event in the dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis thurberi.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2004
Rasner C A, Yeh P, Eggert L S, Hunt K E, Woodruff D S, Price T D
Abstract excerpt
An isolated population of dark-eyed juncos, Junco hyemalis, became established on the campus of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), probably in the early 1980s. It now numbers about 70 breeding pairs. Populations across the entire natural range of the subspecies J. h. thurberi are weakly differentiated from each other at five microsatellite loci (FST = 0.01). The UCSD population is significantly...
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