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Neotropical birds show a humped distribution of within-population genetic diversity along a latitudinal transect.
Ecology letters - 1 May 2010
Miller Matthew J, Bermingham Eldredge, Klicka John, Escalante Patricia, Winker Kevin
Abstract excerpt
The latitudinal gradient in species richness is a nearly universal ecological phenomenon. Similarly, conspecific genetic diversity often increases towards the equator - usually explained as the consequence of post-glacial range expansion or due to the shared response of genetic diversity to proce...
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