Article
Speciation and rapid phenotypic differentiation in the yellow-rumped warbler Dendroica coronata complex.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jan 2007
Milá Borja, Smith Thomas B, Wayne Robert K
Abstract excerpt
The relative importance of the Pleistocene glacial cycles in driving avian speciation remains controversial, partly because species limits in many groups remain poorly understood, and because current taxonomic designations are often based on phenotypic characteristics of uncertain phylogenetic significance. We use mtDNA sequence data to examine patterns of genetic variation, sequence divergence and phylogenetic...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Animal Migration
- Animals
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Speciation
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Songbirds
