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Conflicting patterns of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA diversity in Phylloscopus warblers.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2006
Bensch Staffan, Irwin Darren E, Irwin Jessica H, Kvist Laura, Akesson Susanne
Abstract excerpt
Molecular variation is often used to infer the demographic history of species, but sometimes the complexity of species history can make such inference difficult. The willow warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus, shows substantially less geographical variation than the chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita, both in morphology and in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) divergence. We therefore predicted that the willow warbler should...
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