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Postglacial population expansion drives the evolution of long-distance migration in a songbird.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Nov 2006
Milá Borja, Smith Thomas B, Wayne Robert K
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The evolution of long-distance migratory behavior from sedentary populations is a central problem in studies of animal migration. Three crucial issues that remain unresolved are: (1) the biotic and abiotic factors promoting evolution of migratory behavior, (2) the geographic origin of ancestral sedentary populations, and (3) the time scale over which migration evolves. We test the role of postglacial population...
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