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Nuclear loci and coalescent methods support ancient hybridization as cause of mitochondrial paraphyly between gadwall and falcated duck (Anas spp.).
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2007
Peters Jeffrey L, Zhuravlev Yuri, Fefelov Igor, Logie Anne, Omland Kevin E
Abstract excerpt
Many species have mitochondrial DNA lineages that are phylogenetically intermixed with other species, but studies have rarely tested the cause of such paraphyly. In this study, we tested two hypotheses that could explain mitochondrial paraphyly of Holarctic gadwalls (Anas strepera) with respect to Asian falcated ducks (A. falcata). First, hybridization could have resulted in falcated duck mitochondrial DNA...
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