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Phylogeography and population genetics of the Amethyst-throated Hummingbird (Lampornis amethystinus).
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Jul 2008
Cortés-Rodríguez Nandadevi, Hernández-Baños Blanca E, Navarro-Sigüenza Adolfo G, Townsend Peterson A, García-Moreno Jaime
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed mitochondrial DNA sequence variation across 69 Amethyst-throated Hummingbirds (Lampornis amethystinus), comparing with samples of related taxa. Although this group shows discrete phenotypic variation in throat color among populations in Oaxaca and Guerrero (Mexico), the only phylogeographic structure observed was between phenotypically similar populations north and south of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec....
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