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Comparative phylogeography of two endemic birds of the Tibetan plateau, the white-rumped snow finch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii) and the Hume's ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis).
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 May 2009
Qu Yanhua, Lei Fumin
Abstract excerpt
Postglacial colonization has created the main phylogeographical structures in the endemic species of the Tibetan plateau; however, patterns of diversification are species idiosyncratic and indicative of variations in geographic divergence. Here we compare the phylogeographical structures of two endemic birds of the Tibetan plateau, the white-rumped snow finch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii) and the Hume's ground...
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